Improved Brace or Suspender Fastenings for Trousers and other Garments.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1897-Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Brace or Suspender Fastenings for Trousers and other
Garments.
I, FRANCIS BEEBY, of Castletown Road, West Kensington, Barrister at Law, 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:-
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This Invention relates to improved brace or suspender fastenings for trousers
and other garments, the objects of the Invention being to produce such fastenings
which will be most conveniently attachable to and detachable from the trousers
or other garment, and the parts of which will be as readily separable from and con-
nectable to each other, and will be very flexible and free from hygienic objections
and will answer all sanitary requirements.
To this end, the Invention consists in the combination in such fastenings of the
devices hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which
represent an extended view of the end parts of a pair of braces or suspenders
adapted with the improved fastenings.
a, represents the brace or suspender, which may be made of
material.
any suitable
In the improved fastening, a spring hook b, is connected to a loop of chain c,
by which it is suspended from a pin or runner d, which is supported by the brace a,
and may be supported either by a clip e, and flattened ring f, or by a clip e, and
buckle g, or in 'any other convenient manner which will permit of the chain mov-
ing freely around said pivot or runner so as to freely accommodate itself to the
movements of the wearer. The spring hook b, is adapted to be opened at b', and
to be readily engaged with and disengaged from a closed ring h, from which depend
separate lengths of chain i, each of which is connected to and serves to suspend
a spring hook, which terminates the fastening and is adapted to be opened at j',
and to be readily engaged with and disengaged from a closed ring k, which is
or may be sewn, eyeletted or otherwise conveniently secured to the upper edge of
the trousers or other garments.
Among the advantages incidental to the improved fastenings, may be mentioned
that they afford both at the points (,) of the connection with the trousers (or other
garment) and at the points (y,) of connection of the part h, i, j, by which the
trousers are directly supported, with the part (b, c,) directly supported by the brace,
a means, (to wit: the spring hooks j, b) by which the required connections and
disconnections can be most conveniently and expeditiously effected, while secur-
ing absolute freedom from such connections becoming accidently separated to the
annoyance and inconvenience of the wearer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a brace or suspender for trousers and other garments, the combination of a

page_text: spring hook b, supporting chain c, connecting the same to the brace a, and spring
hooks j, supporting chains i, connecting the same to a close ring h, the hook b,
being readily separable from and connectable to the ring h, and the hooks j, being
adapted to be readily engaged with and separated from closed rings k, secured to
the garment, as set forth.
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DAY; DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents, 321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.