IMPROVE- MENTS IN BRACES AND SUSPENDERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Harvey Fisk Snow, of 5, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BRACES AND SUSPENDERS."-A communication from abroad by
Benjamin J. Grecly, of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of
America.
Sealed the 16th February 1875, and dated the 17th August 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Harvey Fisk Snow
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th August 1874.
.
I, HARVEY FISK SNOW, of 5, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES AND SUSPENDERS," a communication
from abroad by Benjamin J. Greely, of Boston, Massachusetts, United
States of America, to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making braces and suspenders in such a
way that they may readily be attached to and detached from trousers or
from the waistband of ladies' skirts, and in adapting them to support as

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Harvey Fisk Snow in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 17th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HARVEY 25
FISK SNOW, of 5, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the 30
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-

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cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Harvey Fisk Snow, Her special
licence that I, the said Harvey Fisk Snow, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Harvey Fisk, Snow, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed; should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BRACES AND SUSPENDERS," a communication from abroad by Benjamin
J. Greely, of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Harvey Fisk Snow, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Harvey Fisk Snow, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, that is to say :—
This Invention consists in making braces and suspenders in such a way
that they may readily be attached to and detached from trousers or from
the waistbands of ladies' skirts, and in adapting them to support as
many skirts as are usually worn, and thus meet a want, hitherto
unsupplied, of a useful and efficient suspender for ladies' skirts.
And in order to explain this Invention more fully I will now proceed
to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, reference being had to the Drawing accompanying
these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon, as follows:-

page_text: Figures 6 and 7 are detailed parts herein-after described.
In each of the above Figures similar letters of reference are used to
denote corresponding parts.
a, suspenders, independent or united to each other, made of elastic or
non-elastic material; b, cross straps for united suspenders, one or more
of these straps being used; c, the improved safety pins, which may be
applied to any desired part of the dress for fixing or suspending it;
f, belt having two straps g furnished with pins h serving for special
usages for ladies; i (Figure 5), small catch attached to the fixed
part of the pin, and into which the movable part of the pin is held;
k (Figure 7), shows another mode of constructing my improved safety
pin to enable the brace or suspender to be fixed at any desired length
without the use of the slides j.
Having now described and set forth the nature and object of this
Invention for "Improvements in Braces and Suspenders," I would
remark in conclusion that what I claim as this Invention and desire to
secure by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is the safety
pins c in combination with braces or suspenders generally, substantially
as described and represented,
In witness whereof, I, the said Harvey Fisk Snow, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.