Improvements relating to Belts, Braces, and the like, and to a Material or Fabric for use in the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Belts, Braces, and the like, and to a
Material or Fabric for use in the Manufacture thereof.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of The Medical Battery Company, Limited,
52 Oxford Street, in the County of London, Consulting Electrician, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to belts, braces, suspenders and the like, and to a material
or fabric to be used in the manufacture thereof.
The chief object of my said invention is to provide waist-belts, braces and the
like having magnetic properties, for medical or curative purposes.
According to one part of my said invention, I make a strip of material or fabric
suitable for the manufacture of belts, braces and the like, by weaving together in
any convenient manner, textile material such as that ordinarily used for making
waist-belts, braces or suspenders, and wire or ribbon of steel or other magnetic
metal. I magnetize this metal ribbon or wire either before or after the manufacture
of the belts, braces or the like.
I find it advantageous to wind strips or ribbons of the steel or other magnetic
metal around threads of textile material, and then to weave these threads into the
fabric with the threads of ordinary textile material.
The magnetic metal may be so arranged that it covers wholly or partially one
side of the fabric; or, if desired, it may be used on both sides of the fabric; or it
may be woven with the textile material in such a manner that it is covered or
enclosed thereby. I can, moreover, apply the magnetic metal to the belts, braces
or suspenders in other forms and by other convenient methods, instead of by
weaving wire or ribbon with the textile material as above mentioned.
According to another part of my said invention, I make waist-belts, braces,
suspenders or the like with buckles or clasps of steel or other magnetic metal,
and I magnetise the said buckles or clasps.
For instance I can, if desired, make the said belts, braces or the like from the
improved material or fabric above mentioned, and attach to the said fabric any
suitable magnetised buckles or clasps.
Dated this hand dow of Al 1002
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for. the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Belts, Braces, and the like, and to a
Material or Fabric for use in the Manufacture thereof.
I, CORNELIUS BENNETT HARNESS, of 52 Oxford Street, in the County of
London, Consulting Electrician, 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 :—
My invention relates to belts, braces, suspenders, and the like, and to a material
or fabric to be used in the manufacture thereof.
The chief object of my said invention is to provide waist-belts, braces and the
like having magnetic properties, for medical or curative purposes.
In the Specification of former Letters Patent dated 24th June 1884, No. 9369, I
have described the manufacture of belts, pads, wristlets, socks and the like, by weaving
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page_text: copper or other wire together with cotton or other fibrous materials, for the
purpose of facilitating the application of electricity to the human body through or
by means of the said belts or other articles.
I now provide for subjecting the human body to magnetic inflnence by means of
belts, braces or other articles, which, for this purpose, are manufactured as herein-
after described.
According to one part of my present invention, I make a strip of material or
fabric suitable for the manufacture of belts, braces and the like, by weaving together
in any convenient manner textile er fibrous material, such as that ordinarily used
for making waist-belts, braces or suspenders, and wire or ribbon of steel or other
magnetic metal. And I magnetise this metal ribbon or wire either before or after
the manufacture of the woven fabric.
I find it advantageous to wind strips or ribbons of the steel or other magnetic
metal around threads of textile or fibrous material, and then weave these threads
into the fabric with the ordinary threads of textile or fibrous material. I can,
however, weave wire or ribbon of steel or other magnetic metal with the threads of
fibrous material, if desired, without previously winding such wire or ribbon around
threads of the fibrous material.
The magnetised metal may be so arranged that it covers wholly or partially one
side of the fabric; or, if desired, it may be used on both sides of the fabric; or it
may be woven with the cotton or other fibrous material in such a manner that it is
covered or enclosed thereby.
In some instances, I weave the wire with the fibrous material in such a manner
as to provide the fabric with projecting pieces or raised ribs of the metal. This
method of manufacturing the improved fabric is advantageous in cases where it is
desired that the metal should come in contact with the body.
According to another part of my said invention, I make waist-belts, braces,
suspenders or the like with buckles or clasps of steel or other magnetic metal, and 1
magnetise the said buckles or clasps. And I sometimes make belts, braces or the
like from my improved material or fabric above mentioned, and attach to the said
fabric any suitable magnetised buckles or clasps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The improved fabric consisting of fibrous material having magnetised
metal woven therewith, as, and for the purpose, above set forth.
Second. The manufacture of a waist-belt, a pair of braces, or the like, composed
of fibrous material having magnetised metal woven therewith, as, and for the
purpose, above set forth.
Third. A waist-belt, a pair of braces, or the like, provided with buckles or clasps
of magnetised metal, as, and for the purpose, above set forth.
Dated the 10th des of Mar 1902
C. B. HARNESS.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
C. B. HARNESS.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.