IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRACE-ENDS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abraham Smith Taylor at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th October 1880.
ABRAHAM SMITH TAYLOR, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRACE-ENDS."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of the ends of braces (with buckle or
slide attachment) whereby they are fastened to the trowsers, and particularly to
that class of brace ends consisting of two tabs of leather, elastic, web, or other
material, one end of which is passed round the lower bar of the buckle or slide,
the end being doubled over and fastened by a rivet or eyelet.
It has been found in practise that the loop or part where this leather or other
tab is doubled over the bar is liable to become worn through and break owing to
its rubbing against the bar with every motion of the body, and it is to remedy
this defect that the present Invention is designed.
The Invention consists in placing upon the lower bar of the buckle or slide, and
inside each loop of leather or other material, a metallic bush, which entirely
prevents the wearing and breakage of the leather or other loop, and at the same
time gives greater freedom of motion.
This bush may be formed of a plain piece of metal simply bent round the bar in
the form of a tube and not attached to the leather or other material at all, or it
may be in the form of a plate, one end (or the middle) of which is bent round the
bar, and the other (or both ends) made with a hole, so that the rivet or eyelet
which fastens the loop also passes through the plate and holds the bush firmly
inside the leather or other loop.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Abraham Smith Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th April 1881.
ABRAHAM SMITH TAYLOR, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRACE ENDS."
This Invention relates to the manufacture of the ends of braces (with buckle
or slide attachment) whereby they are fastened to the trowsers, and particularly
to that class of brace ends consisting of two tabs of leather, elastic, web, or other
material, one end of which is passed round the lower bar of the buckle or slide,
the end being doubled over and fastened by a rivet or eyelet.
It has been found in practise that the loop or part where this leather or other
tab is doubled over the bar is liable to become worn through and break owing to
its rubbing against the bar with every motion of the body, and it is to remedy
this defect that the present Invention is designed.
Such being the nature and object of iny said Invention I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have
marked the same with Figures and letters of reference corresponding with those
in the following explanation thereof :-
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a section, and Fig. 2 a front view of a brace
end with buckle attachment showing the application of one modification of my
Invention thereto.
The Invention consists in placing upon the lower bar a, a, of the buckle or slide,
and inside each loop of leather or other material b, b, a metallic bush c, c, which
entirely prevents the wearing and breakage of the leather or other loop b, b, and
at the same time gives greater freedom of motion.
This bush may be formed of a plain piece of metal c, c, simply bent round the
bar in the form of a tube and not attached to the leather or other material at all,
as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, or it may be in the form of a plate d, dx (see Figs. 3
and 4) the end d of which is bent round the bar a, a, and the other d* made with
a hole, so that the rivet or eyelet e, e, which fastens the loop b, b, also passes
through the plate d* and holds the bush d firmly inside the leather or other
loop b, b.
In some cases I make the plate longer with a hole at each end (see Fig. 5), and
I bend the middle part round the bar a, a, so that the rivet or eyelet e, e, which
fastens the leather or other loops b, b, passes through both holes (as shown at
Fig. 6) and thus makes a still stronger joint.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the
insertion of a metal bush between the bottom bar of the buckle or slide and the
leather or other loop, whether the same be made of a piece of metal simply bent
round the bar in the shape of a tube, or with one end (or both ends) elongated
and perforated, so that the rivet or eyelet which fastens the leather or other loop
passes also through the end (or ends) of the plate and firmly secures the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abraham Smith Taylor, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord. One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
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ABRAHAM SMITH TAYLOR. (L.S.)