IMPROVE- MENTS IN BRACES
Year: 1884

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I FREDERICK TEW of 7 Edmund Place Jewin Street in the City of London
Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BRACES to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object improvements in braces.
My improved braces consist of a pair of shoulder straps fastened together at the
back into a single end which is connected as hereinafter described with a pair of
tabs or loops suited to button on to the ordinary brace buttons on the trousers.
The ends of the shoulder straps in front are also each connected in like manner
with tabs or loops to engage with brace buttons in the ordinary positions.
The way in which this connection is in each case made between the shoulder
straps and the loops or tabs at each extremity is as follows:-
Each loop or tab is attached to a small pullley and a similar pulley is connected
with the shoulder strap or it may be to a buckle thereon, by means of a spring.
A cord attached to the strap or to the buckle passes around the several pulleys; it
descends first from the point where it is fixed to the strap or buckle beneath the
pulley of one of the tabs thence it passes up over the pulley attached to the spring;
it descends again passes beneath and around the other tab pulley and returns to
the point from which it started; here it is made fast to the shoulder strap or to the
buckle thereon in any convenient manner.
Although I prefer to employ pulleys and springs nevertheless these may be
dispensed with mere eyes through which the cords run being substituted for the
pulleys and non elastic connections being substituted for the springs.

page_text: Í, FREDERICK TEW of 7* Edmund Place Jewin Street in the City of London
Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROve-
MENTS IN BRACES" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention has for its object improvements in braces.
My improved braces consist of a pair of shoulder straps fastened together at
the back into a single end which is connected as hereinafter described with a
pair of tabs or loops suited to button on to the ordinary brace buttons on the
trousers.
The ends of the shoulder straps in front are also each connected in like manner
with tabs or loops to engage with brace buttons in the ordinary positions.
The way in which this connection is in each case made between the shoulder
straps and the loops or tabs at each extremity is as follows:-
Each loop or tab is attached to a small pulley, and a similar pulley is connected
with the shoulder strap or it may be to a buckle thereon by means of a spring.
A cord attached to the strap or to the buckle passes around the several pulleys, it
descends first from the point where it is fixed to the strap or buckle beneath the
pulley of one of the tabs, thence it passes up over the pulley attached to the spring;
it descends again, passes beneath and around the other tab pulley, and returns to
the point from which it started; here it is made fast to the shoulder strap or to the
buckle thereon in any convenient manner.
Although I prefer to employ pulleys and springs nevertheless these may be
dispensed with, mere eyes through which the cords run being substituted for the
pulleys, and non-elastic connections being substituted for the springs.
In the drawings annexed Fig. 1 shews my improved braces as they appear when
laid out flat upon a table.
A. A are the shoulder straps connected together at the back into a single
end A*-B is an oblong ring of metal one side of which is secured to this end by
passing the end through the ring then doubling it back and stitching it down so
that one side of the ring is held in a loop formed at the extremity of the end.--
C is a short length of fabric by preference of elastic fabric secured in the same way
at one end to a bar which passes across the ring B and at the other end secured to
a ring which carries a pulley D. The ring B is also formed with a semi-circular
loop of metal projecting from it--this loop is embraced loosely by two metal eyes
which are secured to the two ends of a cord E. F F are pulleys carried by tabs G
which are to be buttoned on to the back buttons on the trouser band. The cord
starting from the ring B passes over one pulley F then over the pulley D then over
the other pulley F before it returns to the ring B.
HH are buckles buckled on to the ends of the shoulder straps. Each buckle
has a bar across it to which one end of a short length of fabric by preference of
elastic fabric is secured. The other end of this length of elastic fabric is secured
to a metal ring carrying a pulley D as shewn. The buckle has also secured to it
the two ends of a cord E and the cord is made to pass over the pulley D and over
pullies F which are carried by two tabs G just in the same way as previously
described. These two tabs I button one on to a button at the side of the trouser
band and the other on to a button at the front.
In place of the tabs G carrying the pullies F being formed in the manner shewn
they might be formed simply of a loop of cord having its ends held together by a
metallic clasp formed with an extension to carry the pulley as shewn in Figures 2
and 3 or in other suitable ways.

page_text: Figure 4 shews a side view of one of the pulleys D. Figure 5 a side view of
one of the pulleys F and Figure 6 a longitudinal section of one of the metal eyes
secured to each end of the cords E.
I would state that I do not restrict myself to so making the braces that they are
secured at the back to buttons on the trouser band just in the same way as they
are secured at the front to the front buttons on the trouser band-the braces
may be formed at the back in the manner above described whilst at the front they
may be provided with other forms of connection for connecting to the front and
side buttons or the front ends only of the shoulder straps might be so made as to be
connected to the buttons on the trouser band as above described whilst at the back
other means of connection may be adopted.
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 :-
First. The combination of the two shoulder straps A attached together at the
back into a single end A*, with a strap C of elastic or inelastic fabric secured to
this end and carrying a pulley D and with a cord E attached at each end to the
end A and led over the pulley D and over pullies F carried by short tabs G to
be buttoned on to buttons on the trouser band and also with similar strips C
pulleys D and cords E at the front end of each shoulder strap substantially as
described.
Second. The construction of braces substantially in the manner herein before
described.