IMPROVE- MENTS IN BRACES
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAMES CHARLES HENRY of 11 Monkwell Street in the City of London,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BRACES" to be as follows:
This Invention relates to improvements in braces and has for its object to enable
the braces to accomodate themselves more readily to every motion of the wearer's
body and thus avoid straining the trouser buttons and ensure a greater degree of
comfort without the use of the complicated tackle heretofore required to attain the
same end and without its objections of discomfort in wear and difficulty of putting
on and attaching due to the complication of its arrangement.
This Invention consists in applying a short running or compensating tackle at or
near the point of junction of the braces at the back.
This consists of a cord running round a central pulley and which is either
attached to the ends of the brace webs, or passes round pulleys at the ends of the
brace webs and back to the franie in which the central pulley is mounted. In either
case the cord in running round the central pulley lengthens the one brace and
shortens the other to an equal extent so that whether the webs are or are not
Elastic the braces readily accomodate themselves to any extra strain on one or
other of them, and as the raising of one arm or shoulder is generally accompanied
by a corresponding depression of the other shoulder, this compensation answers all
requirements without unduly complicating the braces.
When the three pulleys are used the cord is merely attached to the cross plate
or frame in which such pulley is mounted, and is extended beyond at either side to
form the two ends or loops för attachment to the trouser buttons, but when a single
central pulley is used, these ends or loops are formed of a separate cord passing
over another pulley.
In the former case the plate in which the central pulley is mounted is a piece of
sheet inetal stamped out to shape and doubled or folded to form two cheeks to
embrace the pulley and provided at either side with an ear or clip formed of a
projecting piece of metal bent to a nearly circular form and having inwardly
directed V points which is clenched around the cord as a convenient means of
attaching it to the said plate or frame.
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page_text: on a separate piece of cord running over another pulley h. In this case the frame e
is made of two plates of the form shown rivetted together, one of them being formed
with the ears f which are similar to those before described.
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 The combination with a pair of braces, of the compensating tackle consisting
of the cord b arranged to run round a series of pulleys or round a single pulley,
substantially as shown and described.
2nd The mode of securing the running cord b to the frame e by means of ears f
formed at the sides of the frame and provided with inwardly turned edges which
are clenched upon the cord, substantially as shown and described.
3rd The particular construction of the frame e and the mode of doubly securing
the cord 6 thereto, substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.
Dated this 24th day of July A D 1884