Improvements in Braces or Suspenders.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders.
I, ARCHIBALD LAWRENCE TIGHE of 4 Melrose Street, Margarets Road
Twickenham, Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 improvements in braces or suspenders, and is designed
with object of dispensing with the employment of buttons in connection with such
braces or suspenders, and to render the latter capable of being readily attached to,
or detached from, trousers or the like, a further object being to provide means
whereby one part of the braces or suspenders can be readily detached from the
other portions, when such trousers or the like are to be removed.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
made reference to same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein :
Fig. 1 is a front view of one of the front portions of a pair of braces or
suspenders, provided with my improvements.
Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 being details of the latter.
Referring to the drawings in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the several figures, a are hooks, preferably of the form shewn
more particularly in Fig. 2, each of which is secured to the respective end of the
front straps 6 of the braces or suspenders, by means of a wire loop a¹ the lower bar
of which passes through the turned-over upper end a² of the hook a, while the
upper bar of said loop a¹ passes through a loop formed at the respective end of the
front strap of the pair of braces or suspenders.
The hooks a at the ends of said front straps 6 are attached to the waist-band d
of a pair of trousers or the like by passing the lower or hooked ends of such hooks a
under the upper bar of pins e similar in construction to safety or nursery-pins,
which pins c are inserted into the said waistband d as shewn by Fig. 1.
The hooks a may however if desirable, be secured to the ends of the straps b in
any other suitable manner, in lieu of by the means before described.
b
The front straps bare supported by loops e' provided at the forward extremities
of the shoulder straps e of the braces or suspenders, such front straps 6 passing
through the said loops e', which in turn are connected with devices for
instantaneously disconnecting the shoulder-straps e aforesaid from the front
straps b, by elliptical rings or loops e; the lower bars of which pass through the
said loops e, while the upper bars of said elliptical rings or loops e³ are connected
to the lower portions of the said releasing devices aforesaid.
This releasing or disconnecting device comprises two parts fand g the former
(shewn in section by Fig. 3) consisting of a bent plate attached by one of its ends f¹
to the respective elliptical ring or loop e, while the end f' is extended somewhat
and given an outward or convex curve (if viewed from the outer side).
A horizontal slot f³ is provided in this curved leg. immediately above the said
curved end for a purpose hereinafter to be explained.
The other portion of the releasing or disconnecting device g (shewn in section
by Fig. 5) consists of an elliptical or flattened tube, into the lower end of which
the upper end of the portion is adapted to enter, a projection g' upon the inner
side of the tube g being adapted to enter and engage with the slot f³ provided for
the purpose in the curved leg of the portion f, which being composed of resilient
material, causes the projection g' to enter the slot f' when the said portion f is
inserted into the flattened tubular portion g.

page_text: The two parts ƒ and g are disconnected by compressing the lower ends of the
portion together, which action causes the projection to be withdrawn from
the slot fas will be readily understood, a slight pull upon the said portion ƒ
then being sufficient to withdraw same from the flattened tubular portion g.
One side of the said portion 9 is extended vertically at the top as shewn more
particularly by g' (Fig. 5), the extremity 9 of which vertical extension is bent
inwardly to a horizontal position, and is serrated or toothed at the horizontal
edge g (Fig. 4) a metal or other elliptical band h being hinged in any suitable
manner to the said vertical extension g³, through which band h the front end of the
respective shoulder-strap e passes, the said strap being normally gripped between
the serrated or toothed edge 9 and the corresponding inner side of the band h
when the braces or suspenders are in actual use, the grip upon such strap e being
released when the band h is turned forward upon its hinge or hinges. By this
means the length of the shoulder-straps e can be regulated at will.
The rear ends of the shoulder-straps e may be provided with similar hooks to
those with which the front straps b are provided, and can be attached to the waist-
band of a pair of trousers or the like in a similar manner to that hereinbefore
described and shown by Fig. 1 of the drawing, or any other suitable means may
be employed for the purpose if desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In braces or suspenders, the means for attaching same to the waist-band of a
pair of trousers or the like, substantially as described and as illustrated.
2. In braces or suspenders, the form of device for connecting the front straps
with the shoulder-straps whereby same can be readily disconnected, substantially
as and for the purpose specified, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. In braces or suspenders, the form of device for allowing the length of
shoulder-strap to be regulated at will, substantially as described and as illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
4. The improvements in braces or suspenders, substantially as and for the purpose
specified, and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of November 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.