IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES to be as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: I FREDERICK TEW of 7* Edmund Place Jewin Street in the City of London
Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRACES to be as follows:-
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in braces.
In my improved braces the shoulder straps in front are connected by means of
buckles or any other convenient manner with a cord having loops at its ends to
button on to the front and side brace buttons.
The connection between the shoulder strap and this cord is about midway of the
length of the cord and is made in such a manner that the cord is held fast at this
point.
At the back the two shoulder straps are connected together into a single end, the
two extremities of a short cord are attached to this end, and the same cord
also passes through a leather loop on the end immediately below the point of
attachment.
The cord serves to carry two pulleys one on either side, in such a manner as to
admit of some automatic adjustment in the position of the pulleys, partly by the
cord passing through the loop, according as the strain is greater on the one side or
the other, and partly by the movement of the pulley along the cord.
The back buttons of the trousers receive tabs to each of which a small pulley is
attached, and a cord passes from the side or intermediate button on the trousers
over the pulley upon the short cord already referred to, down beneath the pulley
carried by the tab on the back button and up through a second loop, which is also
provided upon the single end of the shoulder straps. The cord passes on by a
similar course beneath the pulley on the other tab to the intermediate button upon
the trousers on the other side.
The cords meeting at the intermediate button may be in one piece, the cord being
doubled and clipped together to receive the button at this part.
Sometimes in place of the arrangement described I provide a loop of cord upon
the front end of each shoulder strap and this loop buttons on to the front button of
the trousers, it is with this front button alone that the front end of the shoulder
strap is connected.

page_text: At the back of the braces the arrangement is as already described, but the cord
passing forward to the middle button is quite disconnected from the front end of
the shoulder strap. Sometimes I simplify the arrangement at the back by
suppressing the endless cord upon which the pulleys run, and mounting these
pulleys directly upon the end of the shoulder straps. The cord may then be traced
from the middle button of the trousers, over one of these pulleys, beneath the
pulley on one of the back tabs, up through the loop upon the single end of the
shoulder strap and so on by a similar course to the trouser button on the other
side..
Doted thia 21ot day of February 1884

page_text: I FREDERICK TEW of 7* Edmund Place Jewin Street in the City of London,
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRACES" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following Statement :-
In my improved braces or suspenders the two shoulder straps are at the back
connected together into a single end-this end I make to carry two pulleys side by
side at a short distance apart from one another and also a loop of fabric to pass a
short distance downwards along the middle of the back and carry a third pulley at
a distance below the other two pulleys.
A cord having loops at its ends to button on to the two side brace buttons is led
over one of the two pulleys. which are side by side then over a pulley carried by a
tab which is to be buttoned on to one of the back buttons then over the third.
pulley carried by the loop then over a pulley carried by a tab which is to be
buttoned on to the other back button and lastly over the other of the two pulleys
which are side by side.
At the front the shoulder straps may be connected by means of buckles or by
other suitable means with a cord having loops at its ends to button on to the front
and side buttons-these cords may be in one piece with the cord which passes over
the pulleys above mentioned..
In this case where the cord has to be buttoned on to the side buttons the cord is
doubled and clipped together to form an eye to button on to the button..
Figure 1 of the drawing shews my improved braces or suspenders as they appear
when spread out upon a table. Figures 2 and 3 shew separately a plan and edge
view of the metallic attachment which I use for carrying the two pulleys which
are side by side at the back ends of the shoulder straps..
A A are the shoulder straps both sewn at their back ends to a loop of fabric B.
C is an oblong ring of wire one side of which passes through the loop B.
The other side of the wire ring passes through an eye formed in a metallic piece D
which carries two pulleys E E side by side.
The piece D is made from a piece of sheet metal cut to the form shown.-It is
bent or doubled over in the middle and where so doubled over is made to form an
eye to embrace one side of the oblong ring C.-The ends of the piece D tend to
spring outwards away from one another but are held at the required distance apart
by two rivet pins-these form the axes upon which the pullies E are free to
revolve.
F is a loop of fabric passing through the ring C and carrying a third pulley G.
HH are the two pulleys which are carried by short tabs H* that are to button
on to the two back buttons on the band of the trousers.
I is the cord which is to be buttoned on to the two side buttons on the band
of the trousers and which is conducted over the several pulleys in the way above
stated. J Jare prolongations of this cord which at their extremity are formed with
an eye to button on to the two front buttons on the band of the trousers. At their
centre these prolongations J are formed into an eye as shown and these are by a
spring hook coupled to rings on buckles K which buckle on to the front ends of the
shoulder straps.
In place of the cord I being formed with prolongations J it might be formed
without these prolongations and each buckle K then have coupled to it a short
cord J with an eye at its end to button on to the front buttons.

page_text: The several eyes formed in the cord may be made in it in any ordinary way-in
the drawing the two parts of the cord which have to be bound together to form an
eye are so bound together by a bent strip of metal which is made to clamp and
embrace them.
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 shoulder straps A attached together at their
'back ends and carrying pullies E E and G with pulleys H-carried by short tabs H*
to be buttoned on to the back buttons on the band of trousers and with a cord I
led over the several pulleys and provided with an eye at each end to button on to
the side buttons on the band of trousers substantially as described.
Second. The combination of the shoulder straps A attached together at their
back ends and carrying pullies E E and G with pulleys H carried by short tabs H*
to be buttoned on the back buttons on the band of trousers and formed with
prolongations J which extend to the front buttons on the trouser band and are also
connected to the front ends of the shoulder straps substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1884.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.