Improvements in Braces or Suspenders for Garments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders for Garments.
I, PHILIP EWBANK STATHAM, of 66 David Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The provision hitherto made for holding up pants, drawers, mechanics' overalls,
and the like has been of a very defective and primitive kind.
In some cases, a tape is used for looping on to the braces, while, in the case of
overalls, they are often tightened round the waist to prevent slipping down, or a
waist belt is used. All these devices are quite inadequate and inefficient.
Now this invention has for its object an improved brace or suspender which
shall efficiently hold up not only the trousers but also the overall trousers and the
pants, drawers or the like.
In carrying my invention into effect, the plan I prefer is to buckle an auxiliary
tab on to each ordinary tab of the braces, these auxiliary tabs being adapted to
button or otherwise fasten on to the overall trousers or on to the under garments,
and hold them up at the required height, so that they cannot slip down. These
auxiliary tabs are adjustable on the ordinary tabs, whereby the under or outer
garments can be raised or lowered independently of the trousers.
Instead of buckling the auxiliary tabs on to the ordinary ones, they may be
clipped on, or otherwise secured, the form of fastening depending a good deal on
the price or quality of the article, also more than one auxiliary tab may, if desired,
be employed for each brace tab, whereby several garments may be suspended
simultaneously.
Dated this 24th day of May 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Braces or Suspenders for Garments.
1 PHILIP EWBANK STATHAM, of 66, David Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The provision hitherto made for holding up pants, drawers, mechanics' overalls,
and the like has been of a very defective and primitive kind.
In some cases, a tape is used for looping on to the braces, while, in the case of
overalls, they are often tightened round the waist to prevent slipping down, or a
waist belt is used. All these devices are quite inadequate and inefficient.
Now this invention has for its object an improved brace or suspender which
shall efficiently hold up not only the trousers but also the overall trousers and the
pants, drawers or the like.
The manner in which it is carried into effect will be understood from the
following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in
which,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of my improved brace or suspender;
Figure 2 a side elevation of the same;
Figure 3 a detail view of the auxiliary tab:
;
Figure 4 a front elevation of another form of my brace or suspender ;

page_text: Figure 5 a side elevation thereof, and
Figures 6 and 7 modifications.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the plan there adopted is to buckle the auxiliary
tabs A. onto the ordinary tabs B of the braces, and these auxiliary tabs are buttoned
or are otherwise secured on the overall trousers or onto the under garments and
hold them up at the required height so that they cannot slip down. Though
shown on the drawing located at the back of main tabs B, these auxiliary tabs can
equally well be buckled on the front of the main tabs. Holes a are provided in
the main tabs B to enable the auxiliary tab A and the garments suspended there-
from to be raised or lowered independently of the trousers.
More than one
auxiliary tab may, if desired, be attached to each brace tab and several garments
suspended therefrom simultaneously.
Instead of buckling auxiliary tabs onto the ordinary ones, they may be clipped
on or otherwise secured, the form of fastening depending a good deal on the price
or quality of the article. Such an arrangement is depicted on Figures 4 and 5,
in which B are the main tabs to which auxiliary tabs A are added. Both tabs
pass through independent openings C, in the brace buckle D, and are clipped
together by adjustable spring clasps E or similar device. By this means, the tabs
are held together, and yet are adjustable relatively to each other by means of
the clasps. One set of button hole loops is adapted to hold up the trousers while
the other set of button hole loops is for suspending the under garments, overall
trousers or the like. The outer or under garments can be raised or lowered inde-
pendently of the trousers by adjusting the relative positions of the tabs, and when
such are adjusted clipping the same together by the clasps E.
I have described and shown two ways in which the auxiliary tabs may be applied
to the main tabs, but I wish it to be understood that, once given the general idea,
other ways may be designed for the purpose, for example it is obvious that, instead.
of arranging the tabs as shown in Figures 4 and 5, they may be arranged to fold
over the bars in the buckle as depicted in Figure 6, or the tabs may be attached
to the duplicate tapes or bands arranged as illustrated in Figure 7. The
invention may of course be applied to opposite ends of braces as well as the
front ends.
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 :-
1. The improvement in brace ends, which consists in providing each ordinary
tab with an auxiliary tab, buckled, clasped or otherwise secured thereto, whereby
the brace is adapted to support drawers, overall trousers or other garments at any
required height as well as the trousers themselves substantially as described.
2. The general combined arrangement of parts forming my improved brace ends
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1803
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.