AN IMPROVED SUSPENDER FOR COATS AND OTHER GARMENTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN HAIGH of 37 Oxford Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Tailor do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED SUSPENDER
FOR COATS AND OTHER GARMENTS to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a more durable substitute for the loop
or band of tape usually sewn to the inside of the collar of a coat or the waistband
of a pair of trowsers or other convenient part of other garments for the purpose of
hanging or suspending them when not in use.
The invention consists principally of a piece of narrow spring steel tape about
four and a half inches long. This piece of steel tape is by preference rounded at
the ends and is perforated at or near the ends.
It is curved slightly to the requisite segment of a circle to fit the collar or other
part to which it is to be attached and is so tempered that when straightened it will
on being released immediately resume its curved form.
It is attached to the garment by means of two screw studs passed through the
perforations near the ends and fastened by two small screwed nuts or heads screwed
on to the ends of the shanks of the studs, which latter pass through the collar or
other part of the garment and attach the steel tape firmly thereto.
The name and address of the maker of the garment can be permanently printed
or painted on or otherwise fixed thereto, and the suspender will be found to be
more durable both as a suspender and also as an advertisement than the woven
tapes hitherto in use. And at the same time the curved form and the elasticity of
the spring will tend to keep the collar in shape and thus improve the set of the
garment.
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I JOHN HAIGH of 37 Oxford Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Tailor do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED SUSPENDER
FOR COATS AND OTHER GARMENTS 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 a more durable substitute for the loop
or band of tape usually sewn to the inside of the collar of a coat or the waistband

page_text: of a pair of trousers or other convenient part of other garments for the purpose of
hanging or suspending them when not in use.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention I will now proceed to
describe the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practical effect and in order that the same may be clearly understood I have
annexed hereunto a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have marked the
same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof.
The invention consists principally of a piece of narrow spring steel tape about
four and a half inches long. This piece of steel tape is by preference rounded at
the ends and is perforated at or near the ends.
It is curved slightly to the requisite segment of a circle to fit the collar or other
part to which it is to be attached as shown at a, a in Fig. 1. on the drawings
(which is an edge view) and is so tempered that when straightened it will on being
released immediately resume its curved form.
It is attached to the coat or other garment by means of two screw studs b, b (see
also Fig. 2) passed through the perforations near the ends of the steel tape and
fastened by two small screwed nuts or heads c, c screwed onto the ends of the
shanks of the studs b, b which latter pass through the collar-stand or other part of
the garment and attach the curved steel tape thereto (see Fig. 2 inside view of
collar with suspender attached).
I may here remark that I do not wish to confine myself to this particular means
of attaching the suspender to the garment although I find it most convenient, but
they may be attached by cyclets or other means if preferred.
The name and address of the maker or owner of the garment or both can be
permanently printed or painted thereon or otherwise fixed thereto, and the
"suspender" will be found to be more durable both as a suspender and also as an
advertisement than the woven tapes hitherto in use, and at the same time the
curved form and the elasticity of the spring will tend to keep the collar in shape
and thus improve the set of the garment.
Figs 3 and 4 show the position which the "suspender" assumes when passed
over a hook d, d to support the coat or other garment but it returns to its original
position (as seen at Fig 2) by its own elasticity when the garment is removed from
the hook or peg and opened out for putting on.
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 the improved suspender for coats and other garments consisting of a
curved tempered steel tape perforated near the ends and constructed and applied
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated the 30th day of September 1884.
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.