Improved Suspender for Medical and other Bandages, Pads, and other like Appliances.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th. Aug., 1898-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Suspender for Medical and other Bandages, Pads, and
other like Appliances.
I, LEONORA LOUISE STAUDER, of 14, Heathcote Street, Mecklenburgh Square, in
the County of London, 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:-
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My invention has for its object a suspender for supporting medical and other
bandages, pads, and other like appliances in position, and for other analogous
purposes, and which may be worn with greater comfort than the devices heretofore
generally employed.
Such suspender I construct of a pair of shoulder straps of elastic or other material,
having attached thereto continuation pieces provided with means at their free ends
whereby the ends of the bandage, or the like to be supported may be attached
to them.
In conjunction with such arrangement a waist belt may be employed, and where
used, such belt may be either detachably or permanently connected to either the
shoulder pieces or continuation pieces, or form a medium for connecting together
such shoulder pieces and continuation pieces.
The accompanying drawings illustrate suspenders constructed according to my
invention, and by the aid of such drawings I will fully describe the same.
As shewn in Fig. 1 of these drawings, my suspender consists essentially of
two shoulder straps A adjustable in length by the aid of buttons and button
holes B, or equivalent means, and connected together at their ends at such angle
that when the straps are placed on the shoulders, one pair of ends will occupy a
central position at the back of the body, and the other pair a similar position at
the front of the body.
To each pair of ends of these straps is secured one end of a continuation piece C.
preferably of elastic material, and provided at its free end with tapes 1), or.
equivalent means for securing one end of the said bandage, pad, or other appliance
thereto.
For use where no stays are worn, or at night, these may also be attached to the
jointed ends of the straps A, or a short distance below, a belt E, which when the
suspender is in use, is secured round the waist, and so retains the ends of said
straps A in their central position.
The suspender shown in Fig. 2 varies somewhat from that above described with
reference to Fig. 1, as in this case the ends of the shoulder straps A instead of
being connected together, are attached separately and with a space between them,
to the waist belt E, and so that said straps cross either at the front, or back, or
both, of the wearer.
The front, or both front and back continuation pieces C may be made of a single
strip as shown in Fig. 1 or may both or either one or the other be formed of two pieces
connected to the waist belt at one end at a distance from one another, and at

page_text: their opposite ends connected together, thus forming a V-shaped continuation,
which may be found to better correspond with greater comfort to the shape of the
wearer's body.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) A suspender for medical and other bandages, pads, and other like appliances
consisting of two shoulder straps A carrying two continuations C, substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings Fig. 1.
(2) A suspender for medical and other bandages, pads, and other like appliances
consisting of two shoulder straps A, a belt E, continuations C substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings Figs. 1 and 2.
(3) A suspender for medical and other bandages, pads, and other like appliances
substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of July 1898.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.