Improvements in Clothes Suspenders.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes Suspenders.
I, ERNST POTH of Marienstrasse 12, Berlin N.W. in the Empire of Germany,
Machine 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 the present invention is to obviate the inconvenience which is
commonly met with using ordinary clothes suspenders.
All those hitherto in use have the disadvantage that they are fitted for only
one piece of clothing i.e. a coat and probably a vest: the trousers had to be kept
separately from the rest of the suit. In employing the clothes suspender as illustrated
on the annexed drawing it is possible to suspend an entire suit of clothes i.e. coat,
trousers and vest, but said suspender serving at the same time as a trouser stretcher
offers the important advantage, that it will alway prevent the trousers from being
creased.
In the annexed drawing
Fig. 1 represents the method of suspending and fastening a pair of trousers.
Fig. 2 the method of hanging a whole suit of clothes on these improved
suspenders.
Figs. 3 and 4 show side and plan view respectively of the improved suspender.
This clothes suspender substantially consists of two flat iron bars A and A'
lined or covered with plush, said bars being united to each other by two adjusting
screws C.
Each end of the bars thus united is provided with a loop B to receive a hook E.
When it is desired to use the suspender as a trouser stretcher (Fig. 1) the adjusting
screw is turned until the oblong button or head C¹ of said screw assumes a
horizontal position, whereupon the flat iron bar as it is fitted with a corresponding
opening D may be slid over said screw-head or button.
Having then interposed the trousers between the bars A and A' and brought the
latter back to their initial position the screw C is also turned back so that the
button C again assumes its vertical position. Both flat iron bars A and A' are
near their extremities curved so as to form a sort of bow a the object of which is
to prevent pinching the lateral edges of the trousers when the latter are inserted.
It is evident that according as the screws C are longer or shorter, any number of
trousers may be inserted into the apparatus whereby the stretching is sufficiently
accomplished by their own weight. The bows E at the ends of the suspender have
for their object to offer to the coat or vest to be suspended, a broader resting
surface.
The suspender above described renders possible the hanging up of a large number
of suits alongside or above each other as they thus will occupy a comparatively
small space, whereby in wardrobes instead of employing nails or hooks as heretofore,
an ordinary longitudinal rack or strip will answer the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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Clothes suspenders serving to hold a whole suit of clothes, comprising two flat
iron bars A and A' united to each other by means of adjusting screws and covered

page_text: or lined with soft material, said bars holding between them the trousers to be hung
up or stretched, whereby a pinching is prevented by the arrangement of bows a,
said bars being, besides, at their ends provided with loops E serving as resting
surface for coat and vest.
Dated this 5th day of July 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.