Improvements in Braces or Suspenders for Trousers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 21st Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders for Trousers.
We HENRY SEARLE of 10 Neal Street Bradford in the County of York
Commission Agent and JAMES HENRY HOUGHTON of 135 Roundhay Road Leeds
in the County of York Editor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
Our invention refers to improvements in connection with suspenders for trousers,
and has for its object not only to secure a better fit of the braces to the person,
but greater facility and less movement of parts of the braces in accommodating
themselves to the movements of the body.
Our improvements refer to that part of the braces at the back of the wearer,
and consist in attaching the two separate straps of the brace to the part by which
they are attached to the back of the trousers by means of an eye and a pin joint ;
so that each strap can move or be moved independantly about such pin connection.
When the braces are rigidly sewn or otherwise rigidly attached to the piece
connecting them to the trousers, the angle between the two straps cannot be altered
to suit a broader or a narrower wearer, without causing the straps to pucker or
It will be further
buckle up close to the above referred to rigid attachment.
evident, that the angle between the two straps is dependant not only on the width
about the shoulders of the wearer, but also on the length or distance of the said
point of attachment down the back. Now our pin or swivel attachment permits
the straps to accommodate themselves as above described to any width between
the shoulders and any length down the back.
Further we make the straps of non-elastic material, and make the connecting
piece between the said pin joint and the trousers of elastic material, as it is only
in the back portion of the braces that any necessity for a lengthening of the braces
arises. The elastic connecting piece is preferably formed as one short strap passing
to one button at the centre of the back of the trousers, but it may if desired be
formed as a fork strap and attached to two buttons on the back of the trousers;
which are preferably placed nearer together than is now usual. This elastic
connection passing down the spine tends to keep the body erect and the shoulders
back. Similarly we prefer to place the buttons on the front of the trousers nearer
the centre, so that the straps of the braces do not chafe so much about the shoulder
blades, and do not drag the trousers, and the whole arrangement gives perfect
freedom to the hips.
The pin connection is conveniently made by means of a metal eye attached to
each strap and a pin passing through the same and secured directly or by means
of a leather fold or similar indirect means to the aforesaid elastic connecting
peice.
Dated this 28th dex of December 1803
J. CLARK JEFFERSON,
2, East Parade, Leeds, Agent for Applicants.

page_text: We HENRY SEARLE of 10 Neal Street Bradford in the County of York
Commission Agent and JAMES HENRY HOUGHTON of 135 Roundhay Road
Leeds in the County of York Editor 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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Our invention refers to improvements in connection with suspenders for trousers,
and has for its object not only to secure a better fit of the braces to the person,
but greater facility and less movement. of parts of the braces in accommodating
themselves to the movements of the body.
Our improvements refer to that part of the braces at the back of the wearer,
and consist in attaching the two separate straps of the braces to the part by which
they are attached to the back of the trousers by means of an eye and a pin joint;
so that each strap can move or be moved independantly about such pin connection.
When the braces are rigidly sewn or otherwise rigidly attached to the piece
connecting them to the trousers, the angle between the two straps cannot be
altered to suit a broader or narrower wearer without causing the straps to pucker
or buckle up close to the above referred to rigid attachment. It will be further
evident that the angle between the two straps is dependant not only on the width
about the shoulders of the wearer, but also on the length or distance of the said
point of attachment down the back. Now our pin or swivel attachment permits
the straps to accommodate themselves as above described to any width between the
shoulders and any length down the back.
Further we make the straps of non-elastic material, and make the connecting
piece between the said pin joint and the trousers of elastic material; as it is only
in the back portion of the braces that any necessity for a lengthening of the
braces arises. The elastic connecting piece is preferably formed as one short strap,
passing to one button at the centre of the back of the trousers; but it may if
desired be formed as a fork strap, and attached to two buttons on the back of the
trousers; which are preferably placed nearer together than is now usual. This
elastic connection passing down the spine tends to keep the body erect and the
shoulders back. Similarly we prefer to place the buttons on the front of the
trousers nearer the centre, so that the straps of the braces do not chafe so much
about the shoulder blades, and do not drag the trousers, and the whole arrangement
gives perfect freedom to the hips.
The pin connection is conveniently made by means of a metal eye, attached to
each strap, and a pin passing through the same and secured directly or by means
of a leather fold or similar indirect means to the aforesaid elastic connecting
piece.
And in order that our invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed may be more readily and clearly understood, we have annexed hereto a
drawing illustrating the back portion of one of our improved braces or trousers
suspenders.
a a are the non-elastic shoulder straps, and is the elastic connecting piece. The
elastic connecting piece is attached by sewing at each end to two leather pieces or
tags c c. A metal eye or eyelet is fixed near the end in each strap a, and the metal
pin d passes through both eyes or eyelets and holes in the two leather pieces cc,
the pin being formed with a head at one end, and upset or rivetted over a washer
at the opposite end, or secured in any other convenient manner. The leather
pieces cc at the lower end of the clastic connecting piece bare attached in a similar
manner to the two back button straps e e. Instead of providing two button straps
as just described and shewn, the lower end of the elastic connecting piece may be

page_text: sewn or otherwise attached to a single leather tag or piece, having a button hole-
formed therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare, that what we
claim is
1st. Braces or trousers suspenders in which the shoulder straps are connected
together and to a back piece (or the back button straps) by means of a pin or
swivel joint substantially as and for the purpose or purposes herein set forth.
2nd. Braces or trousers suspenders in which the shoulder straps are formed of
non-elastic material and are attached to an elastic connecting back piece, the lower
end of which is provided with a button having a button hole, or is connected to the
back button straps preferably with a pin or swivel joint substantially as and for
the purpose or purposes herein set forth.
3. In braces or trousers suspenders the combination of an elastic connecting
piece such as b, with non elastic shoulder straps a, a, and a pin or swivel joint d,
connecting the same, substantially as and for the purpose or purposes herein set
forth.
4. Our improved braces or trousers suspenders substantially of the construction-
herein set forth or illustrated.
Dated this 19th day of September 1894.
J. CLARK JEFFERSON,
2, East Parade, Leeds, Agent for Applicants.