Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug.,
1896
CHARLES BRAWN Gentleman Conway Lodge Routh Road Wandsworth
Common County Surrey do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
I use two bars or lengths of wire or other suitable material thirty inches or
more in length. I then take one of the bars and bend both ends to each of which
I fasten a sleeve or piece of tube about six inches long. I then take bar No. 2
and bend the ends to form arms about the same length as the sleeves on No. 1
into which they have to slide. By these means the two bars are connected and
forms the stretcher. By the arms of one bar sliding into the sleeves of the other
the stretchers can be pressed inwards or pulled outwards.
The bars are shaped to approximately fit the opposite sides of the trouser legs,
at the top which the stretchers are inserted. Then by merely pulling them
outwards they may be adjusted to any size or width of trousers the stretchers
being held in the adjusted position by the friction with which the arms of the one
bar slides into the sleeves of the other.
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1, CHARLES BRAWN, of Conway Lodge, Routh Road, Wandsworth Common,
in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to devices for stretching trousers and consists of forming
same of and with pieces or lengths of rods, bars, or tubes each in one or more
pieces, said rods, bars, or tubes being connected together by tubes and extensions
of said rods or the like sliding therein for expanding and contracting purposes.
The drawing hereunto annexed illustrates the mode of construction.
A, A and B, B₁ are metal rods formed each in two lengths and joined near
the middle by sockets or tubes D for convenience of packing and carriage. These
rods which however may be made each in or of one piece, are shaped as shown at
their upper and lower extremities to form handles E and also to enter into an
upper and lower expansion and contraction tube C. The rods A, A' and B, B¹
can, by means of the handles E, be drawn asunder or pushed together in the
tubes before and after insertion in the trousers; by means of such tubes and the
slight action allowed by the form of the handle E and by friction of the parts
the said rods are kept in the desired extended or contracted position. The rods
may be curved as shown to fit the shape of the leg. The sockets D may be
made to screw on the side rode which may be fashioned to receive them or
otherwise made.
In some cases I may dispense with the handles E and extend the rods or the
like A, A and B, B' direct into the tubes C C.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A trouser stretcher consisting of rods, bars, or tubes A, A¹ B, B¹ each in one
or more parts connected by sockets, said rods, bars, or tubes carrying extensions
engaging and adapted to slide in tubes such as CC whereby said rods bars or
tubes may be displaced to and from each other, substantially as illustrated and
described and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.