Improvements in Trousers Suspenders or Braces.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trousers Suspenders or Braces.
I, ALFRED ERNEST GOSNELL of 13 Charterhouse Street, in the city of London,
manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 suspenders or braces of that class wherein are used two
distinct shoulder straps which do not cross each other but are united at the back by a
strap and the said invention has special reference to the fittings by which the back
strap is connected to the shoulder straps and to the means provided for adjusting the
effective length of the back strap and for altering its position in relation to the
shoulder straps.
In the accompanying drawings ;-
Fig. 1 is a view of a suspender embodying my present invention and Figs. 2
and 3 are views of the fittings by which the back strap is connected to the shoulder
straps.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In Fig. 1 Ajare the ordinary shoulder straps to the forward end of each of which the
usual button-hole tags A¹ and to the rearward end the button-hole tag A2 are attached
by any of the well-known means. B is the back strap which is permanently fastened
at one end either by stitching, rivetting or other convenient means to the loop C.
D is a buckle or clip to which the loop is rigidly secured or with which it is
formed in part and which may be adjusted vertically (as at Fig. 1) upon one of
the shoulder straps A and secured in any desired position thereon by ineans of the
clip tongue D' Fig. 2 or the equivalent thereof. E is a buckle to which the other
or free end of the back strap B is adjustably secured and D is a buckle or clip similar
to the clip D before referred to for enabling the buckle E to be adjusted vertically (as
at Fig. 1) upon the adjacent shoulder strap A.
When it is desired to adjust the effective length of the strap B this is managed by
releasing it from the buckle E and re-engaging it therewith after the strap B has been
pulled through it in the desired direction and to the required extent. Should it be
desired to adjust the position of the back strap B on the shoulder straps A then the
buckles or clips D D are released from their respective shoulder straps along which
they, carrying along with them the back strap B, are moved until the desired position
be reached in which position the buckles or clips D D are again engaged with their
respective shoulder straps.
It will at once be apparent that instead of the buckles or clip D being of the
construction represented in the accompanying drawings they may be constructed in
the same manner as the buckle E or in any other suitable manner and similarly
the buckle E may be constructed in any suitable manner other than that shown in the
drawings.
Instead of employing one clip D provided with a loop C and another provided with
a buckle E in each suspender, 1 may employ either two clips D each provided with a
buckle E or two clips D each provided with a loop such as C; in the former case the
two shoulder straps may be united by a strap which may be adjusted in either of the
buckles E so employed, while in the latter case they may either be united by a
continuous strap sliding through each loop and having its own ends united by a
buckle, or by a strap in two pieces each permanently fastened to one of the loops C
and adjustably joined to one another by a suitable buckle or the equivalent thereof,
the important feature being that each clip or buckle D for adjustment on one strap is
provided with another buckle or loop for enabling another strap to be adjusted at
practically right angles thereto.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is ;-
1. In a suspender or brace the combination with a buckle or clip such as D of a
loop such as practically at right angles thereto substantially as herein described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a suspender or brace the combination with a buckle or clip such as D of
another buckle or clip such as E practically at right angles thereto substantially as
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In a suspender or brace the fitting substantially as herein described and
illustrated in figure 2 of the accompanying drawings.
4. In a suspender or brace the fitting substantially as herein described and illustrated
in figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
5. In a suspender or brace the complete fitting consisting of the parts DC, DE
and B constructed and operating substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of October 1889
ALFRED E. GOSNELL.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.