Improvements in Military Equipments or Accoutrements.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Military Equipments or Accoutrements.
We, JOHN PULLMAN, of 17 Greek Street, Soho Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Leather Dresser, and ARTHUR FIRMIN, of 3 Honeywell Road,
Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements which are more especially applicable to
military equipments or accoutrements of the kind for which a Patent was applied
for on the first day of January 1890 No. 35 by the said Arthur Firmin and Charles
Arthur Jones, but the said improvements are also applicable to other kinds of
equipments or accoutrements.
In the Complete Specification of the aforesaid application for a Patent, is
described and illustrated a carrier or connector of special construction for coupling
In the said Specifi-
together the parts of military equipments or accoutrements.
cation is also described and illustrated an arrangement in which, instead of the
brace straps being crossed at the back, their ends are connected permanently and
without means of adjustment to an elliptic ring. Practical use of the equipment has
shown the desirability of having a ready means of shortening or lengthening the
brace straps at the back as well as at the front, in order to keep the hook or other
device guiding or holding the valise strap on the brace strap, in a proper position
on the shoulder whatever may be the height of the wearer.
The object of the present invention is to provide means for readily effecting the
purpose
said adjustment of the length of the brace straps at the back; and for this
we employ one of the aforesaid carriers or connectors to act as the ring to which
the ends of the brace straps are connected. That is to say, we make the carrier or
connector of elliptic or other suitable.form and with the projections or tongues
placed therein in positions, and at angles corresponding to the brace straps which
are to be connected thereto. The ends of the brace straps are provided with
adjusting holes through which the projections or tongues on the carrier or connector
are passed, and the said ends are then passed through retaining loops in the usual
way. By placing the projections or tongues in the carrier or connector in
appropriate holes in the brace strap ends, the lengths of the rear portions of
such straps may be adjusted as required in the same way as the front portions
whereby the aforesaid hooks or other devices are maintained in a proper position
on the shoulder of the wearer.
The carrier or connector may also be provided with projections or tongues to
allow of the adjustment of the lower parts of the brace straps which connect the
said carrier or connector to the back of the belt.
Dad thin 24th dox of December 1890.

page_text: "COMPÉDIE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Military Equipments or Accoutrements.
We, JOHN PULLMAN of 17 Greek Street, Soho Square in the County of
Middlesex, Leather Dresser, and ARTHUR FIRMIN, of 3 Honeywell Road,
Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey Accoutrement Maker, do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being liad to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the letters and
figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
This invention relates to improvements which are more especially applicable
to military equipments "or accoutrements of the kind for which a Patent was
granted to the said Arthur Firmin and Charles Arthur Jones dated the first "day
of January 1890, No. 35, but the said 'improvements are also applicable to other
kinds of equipments or accoutrements.
In the Complete Specification of the aforesaid Patent is described and illustrated
a carrier or connector of special construction for coupling together the parts of
military equipments or accoutrements. In the said Specification' is also "described
and illustrated' an arrangement'in' which, instead of the brace straps being crossed
at the back, their ends are connected permanently, and without means of adjust-
ment, to an elliptic ring. Practical use of the equipment has shown the desirability
of having a ready means of shortening or lengthening the brace straps at the back
as well as at the front in order to keep the hook or other device guiding or holding
the valise strap on the brace strap in a proper' position on the shoulder, whatever
may be the height-of-the wearer.
The object of the present invention is to provide means for "readily effecting the
said adjustment of the length of the brace straps at the back; and for this purpose
we "employ one of the aforesaid carriers or connectors to act as the ring to which
the ends of the brace straps are connected. That is to say we make tlie carrier or
connector D (sec Figure 1 of the 'drawings) of elliptic or other suitable form, and
with the projections or tongues D2 placed therein in positions and at angles corre-
sponding to the brace straps C which are to be connected thereto. These
projections or tongues' D² may be made-to-project outwards so as to avoid contact
with the "tunic of the wearer. The ends of the brace straps C are provided with
÷ adjusting holes through which the projections or tongues D2 on the carrier or
connector Dare passed, and the said ends are then passed up through retaining
loops Cin the usual way. By placing the projections or tongues D2 of the carrier
or connector 'D' in appropriate holes in the brace strap ends, the lengths of the rear
portions of such straps may be adjusted as required, in the same way as the front
portions, whereby the aforesaid hooks or other devices are maintained in a proper
position on the shoulders of the wearer.
The carrier or connector D' may also be provided with projections or tongues D³,
shown in dotted lines, to allow of the adjustment of the lower parts C*of the
brace straps which connect the said carrier or connector to the back part of the
waist belt.
Figure shows another form of the carrier or connector adapted to be con-
nected to the back part of the waist belt by a single strap passed through the
slot or loop D³.
Similar letters of reference relate to like parts in both figures of the
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
In military equipments or accoutrements, the use of a carrier or connector D'

page_text: having projections or tongues D2 to act as the ring to which the ends of the brace
straps are connected and to enable the length of such brace straps to be adjusted at
the back of the wearer substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in
the drawinga.
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1002
J. PULLMAN.
A. FIRMIN.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.