Means for Indicating the Adjustment of Trouser Suspenders.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 13th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means for Indicating the Adjustment of Trouser Suspenders.
I, THEODOR FRANZ, of 23 and 24 Gr. Markerstrasse, Halle a/S, in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant and Factory Owner, 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 which is illustrated in the annexed drawing comprises a device
for giving an indication from which the correct adjustment of the trouser
suspenders for the particular pair of trousers bearing that indication may be readily
ascertained.'
The means for carrying out this object may be provided in different ways, but
they essentially consist of a number of signs on the inside of the trouser waist band
or other suitable place of the trousers which are made to correspond with
similar signs on the inextensible trouser suspender bands. usually termed braces
and means for distinguishing any one sign from the others for the respective
pair of trousers in order that the braces may be immediately adjusted to the
corresponding sign on them and will thus be adjusted for the respective pair of
trousers without further trial.
The signs on the waist band of the trousers may consist of strips a distinguished
from each other by numbers, letters, or diverse colors, and a tongue A may be
provided for insertion under the respective strip a as shown in Fig. 4 so as to
distinguish such strip after it shall have been ascertained by a trial with the
Correspondingly marked braces Fig. 1, which number on the latter corresponds
to the adjustment of the respective trousers which is deemed most suitable by the
wearer.
Such number having been found, for instance "3" the tongue A is passed under
the trip a correspondingly marked and its end is hooked or otherwise fastened
so that it cannot come undone. The sign on the respective strip a then remains
visible to the exclusion of the others on the waist band, and so forms an indication
by which the braces may be at any future time readily set for suspending the
respective trousers at the proper height.
I do not confine myself to the particular method herein shown of providing the
trousers and braces with distinguishable signs but:--
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The means or method for providing indications where from trouser suspenders
may be readily adjusted correctly for various pairs of the trousers comprising
indications on the suspenders for their adjustment and corresponding indications
in the form of strips a or equivalent devices on the waist band or other part of the
trousers wherefrom any one may be distinguished from the others by means of a
tongue A passed there under or by other suitable means in order to afford a

page_text: permanent indication in or on the trousers for the corresponding adjustment of
the trousers suspenders substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 4th day of October 1897
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agents to Applicant.