IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Harvic, of the Firm of Bosville, Mills, and
Company, of Nichol Square, in the City of London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Harvie at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th October 1878.
WILLIAM HARVIE, of the Firm of Bosville, Mills, and Company, of Nichol Square,
in the City of London. IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES."
"
My Invention relates to braces which are connected together at the back, and it
has for its object to relieve the strain to which this connection is subject by the
movements of the wearer while retaining the connection between them.
According to my Invention the leather straps forming the tabs used for
attaching the braces to the back of the trousers are extended along the webbing to
the point where the two parts of the brace are connected together, and are there
rivetted or stitched to the webbing, the said extensions forming loops by which the
parts are interlocked, and are at same time enabled to slide one on the other to
accommodate the braces to the movements of the wearers, and relieve them from
strain at the point of connection.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Harvie in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th April
1879.
WILLIAM HARVIE, of the Firm of Bosville, Mills, and Company, of Nichol Square,
in the City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRACES."
My Invention relates to braces which are connected together at the back, and
it has for its object to avoid the strain to which this connection is subject by the
movements of the wearer, and give as much freedom as is obtained by two separate
braces wholly unconnected, while retaining a sufficient but loose connection.
between them to ensure their proper relative position when in wear.
According to my Invention the braces are connected at the back by means of
loops formed on or attached to the leather or other tabs; the one brace or its tab
passing through the loop of the other, which loop is embraced by the loop of the
first so that the two are crossed and interlocked or permanently connected, and are
at same time perfectly free to slide independently one on the other.
In the annexed Drawing Figures 1 and 2 show two ways of carrying out my
Invention as applied to braces made of webbing with leather tabs. In Figure 1,
A, A', are the webs of the pair of braces, and B, B¹ are the back tabs ; C, C¹, are
strips of leather stitched or rivetted by their ends only to the tabs B, B³, forming
long loops through one of which C' (ie., between the tab B' and strip C), the tab
B of the other brace passes whilst the said strip or loop C₁ passes through the
loop C, i.c., between B and C.
In Figure 2 the loops C, C', are in one piece with the tabs B, B1, of which they
form extensions carried up along the webbing A, A¹, and stitched or rivetted
thereto at their upper ends. In this case the webbing A passes through the loop C¹,
and the latter through loop C as before.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing the
same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
Connecting a pair of braces by means of loops, substantially as and for the
.purpose herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Harvie, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
WILLIAM HARVIE. (L.S.)