Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
1, FAUL WOLFSOHN of 1 Boulevard St. Denis, Paris, France, Brace Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to make braces or trouser supports in such manner
that only two buttons will be required on the waistband of the trousers. These two
buttons are situated one at each side near the hip. The braces are connected to them
by metal or other tabs which are attached to rings or spring hooks that carry loops.
The strap or brace proper at the left side starts from a regulating or adjusting buckle,
passes down to and through the left loop, then up to and over the left shoulder, next
diagonally through a pivoted guide piece or turning buckle at the back and finally
round the right side to the ring of the right brace to which it is attached; or it may
be attached by a spring hook to the right tab. The strap or brace at the right side.
follows a corresponding course, crossing the left brace at the back buckle. This
buckle may be of octagonal, rectangular or other suitable form; or instead of this
turning buckle the braces may be united where they cross by stitching either to each
other or to a ring. In lieu of the loop with ring or spring "hook as above described
the front portions of the braces may terminate in a buckle and ring formed in onc
piece.
All the usual accessories of braces can be used with my improved braces.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Trouser Supports.
I, PAUL WOLFSOHN, of 1 Boulevard St. Denis, Paris, France, Brace Manufacturer 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
The object of my invention is to make braces or trouser supports in such manner
that only two buttons will be required on the waistband of the trousers.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings represents a pair of the improved braces or
trouser supports in position as worn, the body of the wearer being indicated by dots.
Figure 2 represents a slightly modified form of brace. Figures 3 to 13 are detail
views. aa are the two buttons; they are situated one at each side of the trousers
near the hip. The braces are connected to them by metal or other tabs (shown
separately on a larger scale in Figures 9 and 10) which are attached to rings il',
Figure 1, that carry loops d or to spring rings & Figures 2, 9 and 10. The strap or
brace proper at the left side starts from a regulating or adjusting buckle, passes
down to and through the left loop & Figure 1, then up to and over the left shoulder,
next diagonally through a pivoted guide piece or turning buckle at the back and
finally round the right side to the ring of the right brace to which it is sewn or as
seen in Figure 2 it may be attached by a spring hook k to the right tab. The strap
or brace at the right side follows a corresponding course, crossing the left brace.at
the pivoted guide piece or back buckle h. This buckle may be of octagonal,
rectangular or other suitable form. Figures 3, 4 and 5 represent one suitable formi
and Figures 6, 7 and another. Or instead of this turning.buckle the braces may:
be united where they cross by stitching either to each other or to a ring / as seen in
i
Figure 13. In lieu of the loop with ring or spring hook as above described the front
portions of the braces may terminate as seen in Figures 11 and 12 in a buckle in and
ring a formed in one piece. And in lieu of the spring hooks e Figure, 2 split rings
as seen at Figure 10" may be employed, each split ring connecting the loops dd of
the two braces.
All the usual accessories of braces can be used with my improved braces.
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 :-
Braces or trouser supports made or arranged substantially as hereinbefore described
so as to require only two buttons on the waistband of the trousers.
J. C. MEWBURN,
169, Fleet Street, London,
Agent.