Year: 1887

page_text: I, CHARLES COLLINS GILMORE, residing at Swanton; in the County of Franklin,
and State of Vermont, in the United States of America, Gentleman; 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
The object of this invention is to provide Braces or Suspenders which will perform
their office with certainty and effectiveness without undue pressure upon the
shoulders and with a ready yielding of the several parts of the device to the
movements of the wearer, and which may also be readily adjusted to the requirements
of the girth of the wearer, as occasion may demand.
My invention comprises certain novel combinations of parts whereby the objects
aforesaid are effectually secured.
A, A, are the back straps of the braces or suspenders, made of non-elastic webbing
or other suitable non-elastic material and provided at their lower ends with button
boles or button-hole devices, a, in the usual or any suitable manner.
B, B, are the upper or shoulder straps, made
elastic material and attached at their lower or
manner to the upper ends of the back straps, A.
they may be provided with the usual fold, c, and
usual or any suitable button hole loops, c.
of elastic webbing or other suitable
rear most ends, b, b, in any suitable
At their forward or opposite ends
adjusting buckles, d, and with the
C, is a horizontal strap, made of elastic webbing or other suitable elastic material
and having its ends attached at or near the junctions of the non-elastic back straps, A,
with the elastic or shoulder straps, B. This elastic strap may be made of two pieces,
in order that its available length may be increased or diminished by a suitable
buckle or it may be made of a single piece of such length that it may be folded
upon itself, with the fold drawn through the buckle to increase or diminish the
available length of the said horizontal strap.
In the term "buckle "I include any of the devices usually known by said term,
or metallic clasps or clamps which serve the same or a cognate purpose. The buckle, f,
represented in the drawing as applied to the horizontal strap, C, is of substantially the
same construction as the buckles, g, shown as employed at the lower ends of the back
straps, A, and which being now well known in the trade need no specific description
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here. By the horizontal strap, C, being of elastic material and of variable available
length, it may be readily so adjusted with reference to the girth of the wearer, and to
ease of motion on the part of the wearer as to relieve the person from undue pressure
even under conditions of activity or exercise. As the button hole devices, a, a, as
well as the button hole loops, e, e, are placed in the loops formed by folding the ends
of the suspender upon themselves and by providing the same with the adjusting
buckles, g, d, the total available length of the suspender may be readily adjusted to
the requirements of the wearer, and in as much as the back straps, A are non-elastic
while the other or shoulder straps, B, are elastic, it follows that the action of the
shoulders in movement, or in work or exercise, being directed upon the said elastic
straps, B, B, the latter yield immediately to the strain upon them without materially
disturbing the non-elastic straps, A, A or that portion of the garment dependent
therefrom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In braces or suspenders, the combination of non-elastic back straps, A, elastic
shoulder straps, B, B, and elastic horizontal strap, C, having its ends attached at or
near the junction of the elastic shoulder straps with the non-elastic back straps, all
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination in braces or suspenders, of non-elastic back straps, A,
provided with adjusting buckles, g, and button hole devices a, elastic shoulder straps, B,
provided with adjusting buckles, d, and button hole loops, e, all substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.