IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES OR SUSPENDERS, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Tew, of 28, Falcon Square, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES OR SUSPENDERS,
PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Tew at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th August 1876.
FREDERICK TEW, of 28, Falcon Square, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRACES OR SUSPENDERS, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
The object of this Invention is to make an addition to braces or suspenders
adapting them to support the drawors as well as the trousers.
For this purpose I attach an eye to the braco fabric at a point above the con-
nection with the ordinary ends for supporting the trousers.
I make this attachment by preference with a screw and nut fastening, so that the
eye may be added easily to braces already manufactured, the nut being so formed
as to form a shield to cover the point of the screw.
which descend two ends, or it might be a single end similar to ordinary brace ends,
The eye receives a hook from
and these ends are provided with buckles or similar fastenings, by means of which
the length may be adjusted. In place, however, of terminating in tabs, in which
button holes are made to receive buttons as is usual, they are made to terminate in
clips adapted to take hold of the fabric of the drawers in any part which may be
found convenient.
The clips may be formed in various ways, I however prefer to form each clip from
piece of sheet brass or other elastic metal bent or doubled upon itself so that the
wo ends coine nearly together; in one end a hole is cut, and the other end is
rovided with a lip or flauge bent over to enter the hole; the portion of fabric to
e held is introduced between the two ends, and then a slider which embraces the
iece, and which can be moved along it to and from the ends is slidden down so as
o force the lip or flange into the hole made to receive it, and so the fabric of the
rawers becomes tightly held.
The slider has fixed to it a strip of metal bent into a U form, the two arms of
hich extend forwards from the slider and serve to clip and hold firmly together
he two jaws of the clip.

page_text: When it is desired to release the braces, and detach them from the drawers, the
hook to which these additional ends are attached is lifted out of the eye fixed on to
the main brace fabric.
When it is desired to release the braces, and detach them from the drawo
hook to which these additional ends are attached is lifted out of the eye fixed on to
the main brace fabric.
Other means than those above described may also be adopted for connecting the
additional ends to the main braco fabric.
When it is desired to release the braces, and detach them from the drawers, the
hook to which these additional ends are attached is lifted out of the eye fixed on to
the main brace fabric.
Other means than those above described may also be adopted for connecting the
additional ends to the main braco fabric.
Clips formed in the manner above described may be used for other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent_filed by
the said Frederick Tew in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th February
1877.
FREDERICK TEW, of 28, Falcon Square, in the City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRACES OR SUSPENDERS, PARTIY APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in braces or suspenders partly
applicable for other purposes, and it relates mainly to an addition made to braces
or suspenders adapting them to support the drawers as well as the trowsers.
The Invention also relates to clips adapted to form part of the said addition to
-braces or suspenders, and which are also useful for other purposes.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings shows part of a brace or suspender with an
addition made to it according to my Invention adapting it to support the drawers
as well as the trowsers.
a, a, is the main band or fabric of the brace, and b, b, are ends of the ordinary
description connected with it by a buckle as heretofore. c is an attachment made
by a screw and nut to the band a at a point above the connection with the ordinary
ends b, b.
Figure 3 is a section taken through the attachinent c; & is an end similar to an
ordinary brace end, it descends from the attachment c, and it is provided with
buckles or similar fastenings e, e, by means of which the length may be adjusted.
The end terminates in a clip f, of which a section is shown at Figure 3; it
consists of a piece of sheet brass bent or doubled upon itself so that the two ends
come nearly together. In one end a hole is cut and the other end is provided with
a lip or flange bent over to enter the hole. The two ends of the piece of bent
metal tend to spring apart, but a ring or slider confines them, and the ring or
slider may be so placed as to cause the lip or flange at one extremity to enter the hole
in the other. When the braces or suspenders aro in use a portion of the fabric of
the drawers to be held is introduced between the two ends of the clip, and then the
slider is moved along so as to force the lip or flange with the fabric strained over it
into the hole which receives it as already explained. Other clips may be employed
in connection with these additions to braces or suspenders. The addition may also
be otherwise secured to the brace or suspender, as for example, in the manner
represented in Figure 4, where it is made to pass through an additional eye in the
buckle of the ordinary ends, which however are not shown in the Figure.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim,—
First, the construction of braces or suspenders, with additions adapting them to
support the drawers as well as the trowsers, substantially as described.
Second, the construction of the clip f, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Tew, have hereunto set my hand and
soal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.