Improvements in Military Accoutrements.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Military Accoutrements.
I, CHARLES WALSHAW HOBSON, of Lexington Street, Golden Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Military Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in military accoutrements and is more
especially applicable to great coat and mess tin straps and its object is to provide.
a simple attachment to the waist belt whereby it can be securely and readily
fastened thereto.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same aided by the accompanying
drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents part of a waist belt with my invention attached and in the
position to receive a great coat or mess tin.
Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew in perspective detached part of the attachment with the coat
strap fastened and unfastened.
The waist belt a is provided with the coat straps 6 which instead of having a
fixed loop permanently attached thereto and being slid over the buckles to the
desired position as is the practice at present in use. I form a loop which can be
instantly released and it consists in rivetting or otherwise securing in any suitable
position on the coat strap ba short length of strap d having at its upper end a
metal loop e this short strap d passes under the waist belt a and the end 6' of the
coat strap bis passed through thus securing the coat strap to the waist belt in a
kind of slip knot.
It will be seen that the invention is not only applicable to military coat and
mess tin straps but to various other purposes.
Dated this 5th day of January 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Military Accoutrements.
I, CHARLES WALSHAW HOBSON, of Lexington Street, Golden Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Military Outfitter, 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 :—
This invention relates to improvements in military accoutrements and is more
especially applicable to great coat and mess tin straps and its object is to provide
a simple attachment to the waist belt whereby it can be securely and readily
fastened thereto.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same aided by the drawings accom-
panying my Provisional Specification in which Fig. 1 represents part of a waist
belt with my invention attached and in the position to receive a great coat or
mess tin.
Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.
Fig. 3 & 4 shew in perspective detached part of the attachment with the coat
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page_text: Reference is also had to the accompanying drawing in which Figs. 5, 6 & 7
represent similar views of a slight modification similar letters indicate like parts
throughout the drawings.
The waist belt a is provided with the coat straps 6 which instead of having a
fixed loop permanently attached thereto and being slid over the belt and buckles
to the desired position as is the practice at present in use I form a loop which can
be instantly released and it consists in rivetting or otherwise securing in any suitable
position on the coat strap & a short length of strap d having at its upper end a
metal loop e this short strap passes under or over the waist belt a and the
end 6¹ of the coat strap bis passed through thus securing the coat strap to the
waist belt in a kind of slip knot.
It will be seen in the modification represented by Figs. 5, 6 and 7 that the
metal loop e is provided with a cross bar e which serves to prevent the coat straps
slipping.
It will be seen that the invention is not only applicable to military coat and
mess tin straps but to various other purposes.
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 :-
A coat or other strap provided with means for rapidly and easily attaching or
detaching the same from the waist or other belt and constructed and arranged
substantially as herein described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of January 1891.
CHARLES WALSHAW HOBSON.