Improvements in Braces or Suspenders.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1893—Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders.
I WILLIAM LIGGINS of 12 & 13 White Friars Lane Coventry in the County
of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to use elastic or non-elastic suspenders to prevent
chafing or wearing away and in such a way that if a button comes off the trousers it
will hold them secure with one button without any inconvenience. According to this
invention my improved braces consist of two shoulder straps connected together at
the back to be made of either elastic or non-elastic webbing. At the back they
terminate in a metal loop provided with a metal clasp. Attached to this is a metal
clip which works freely on a rivit, to this clip I secure elastic or non-elastic cord
either single or double at the end I use a clip to form a button hole in the cord. At
the front ends of the shoulder straps I provide a metal lever also loop provided with
a clasp attached to this is a metal clip which works freely on a rivit to this clip I
secure elastic or non-elastic cord either single or double at the end I use a clip to
form a button hole in the cord. This invention gives strength and durability, also
great freedom to every movement of the body.
Dated this 9th day of November 1892.
WILLIAM LIGGINS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders.
WILLIAM LIGGINS 12 & 13 White Friars Lane Coventry, in the County of
Warwick, 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 this invention is to use elastic or nonelastic suspenders, to prevent
chafing or wearing away, and in such a way that if a button comes off the trousers
it will hold them secure with one button without any inconvenience. According to
this invention my improved braces consist of two shoulder straps connected together
at the back to be made of either elastic or nonelastic webbing. At the back they
terminate in a metal loop provided with a metal clasp attached to this is a metal
clip which works freely on a rivet to this clip I secure elastic or nonelastic cord
either single or double. At the end I use a clip to form a button hole in the cord.
At the front ends of the shoulder straps I provide a metal lever, also loop provided
with a clasp attached to this is a metal clip which works freely on a rivet to this
clip secure elastic or nonelastic cord either single or double at the end I use a
clip to form a button hole in the cord. This invention gives strength and durability,
also great freedom to every movement of the body.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying drawing in which
Figures 1. 2 & 3 represent brace or suspender ends constructed according to my
invention.
Same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.
A. is elastic or nonelastic cord single or double.
B. is a metal clip secured to A.
C. is a metal clasp attached to B. by a rivet.

page_text: 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.
Improvements in braces or suspenders consisting of the adaptation of elastic or
nonelastic cord secured by a metal clip which works freely on a rivet attached to a
metal loop by a metal clasp as described to shoulder straps of elastic or nonelastic
material.
WILLIAM LIGGINS.