An Improved Method of and Means for Suspending Trousers about the Waist of the Wearer.
Year: 1886

page_text: An Improved Method of and Means for Suspending Trousers
about the Waist of the Wearer.
I, CHARLES STEER, of Portland Place, Clifton, in the city and county of Bristol,
outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
straps or bands for conveniently
It is intended to be applied to
This invention consists in an arrangement of
supporting trousers about the waist of the wearer.
trousers worn without braces. At the middle of the back and towards the top of the
garment is a short band which is sewn or otherwise secured to the exterior thereof,
the ends being free. The free ends of this band are passed through metallic eyes and
are then buttoned or otherwise connected together. Instead of the short band above
described, a pair of tabs may be employed. Through each of the said eyes and free to
run therein is passed a separate band, one end of which is attached to the garment at
or near the top of the side seam, and the other end is, after being inserted in the
material of the garment, carried forward to the fly. A convenient place for the
attachment of the fixed ends of the said bands, which may conveniently be called the front
bands, is the upper part of the side pockets, and the free ends of these front bands
may, instead of being inserted, as above described, in the material, be passed through
the said pockets at the upper part thereof. When the free ends of the front bands are
drawn towards one another to secure the garment firmly on the body of the wearer,
the part of the garment which is taken in by the strain is that which at each side lies
between the point of attachment of the back band and the fixed ends of the front
bands.
Thus the garment is taken in equally on each side over the hips of the wearer instead
of, as heretofore, being gathered in a bunch at the back. The free ends of the front
bands are connected across the fly by a chain or other suitable fastening. The back
band being secured to the garment, and one end of each of the front bands being
passed through the pockets or inserted in the material of the trousers, the latter cannot
slip below the bands.
.
The front bands may be readily detached from the back band when desired.
Instead of bands, cords may, if desired, be used, or a combination of bands and cords.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Method of and Means for Suspending Trousers
about the Waist of the Wearer.
I, CHARLES STEER, of Portland Place, Clifton, in the city and county of Bristol,
outfitter, 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 :-
This invention consists in the use of straps or bands specially arranged for
conveniently supporting trousers about the waist of the wearer and is designed to be
applied to trousers worn without braces.
Under one arrangement, there is at the middle of the back of the garment a short
band which is sewn or otherwise secured to the exterior thereof, the ends being free.
The free ends of this band are passed through metallic links or eyes and are then
folded back outwards and buckled or buttoned together.
In lieu of the short band above mentioned a pair of tabs or loops may be employed
carrying the links or eyes aforesaid.
Through each of these links or eyes, carried either by the tabs or loops, or by the
short band above mentioned, is passed a separate band each free to run in its respective
link or eye.
One end of one of these separate bands is attached to the garment at or near the top
of one of the side seams thereof, and the other end is, after having been either inserted in
the material of the garment, or passed through the pocket at that side where the said
seam is situated, extended forward to the front. The other separate band is similarly
arranged on the opposite side of the garment and those ends of both bands which are
brought round to the front are buckled or otherwise suitably connected together.
When being drawn together to secure the garment firmly on the body of the wearer,
the part which is "taken in by the strain is that between the points of attachment
of the back band or of the tabs or loops and the fixed ends of the running bands, that
is to say the part which at each side is above the hips of the wearer.
Referring to the accompanying drawing the figure shewn represents a side elevation
of the upper part of a pair of trousers- fitted with an arrangement of waist bands
according to one method comprised in this invention.
At the back, and at a suitable distance from the middle, is secured the tab or
loop a to the free end of which is attached the link or eye b. It will be understood
that a similar tab or loop furnished with a similar link or eye is attached to the other
side of the garment at an approximately equal distance from the middle of the back
with the tab or loop a.
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Through the link or eye bis passed a band e which is sewn buttoned or otherwise
secured at one end to the garment at or near the top of the side seam d. A convenient
point for the attachment is the top of the pocket, and in the drawing the attachment
is represented as made at that point by the button c. The free end of the hand e is

page_text: carried through the pocket and issues at the front thereof for connection with a button,
buckle or other suitable fastening to the free end of a similar band meeting it from the
other side of the garment.
"
By the strain exerted to obtain the required degree of tightness, the garment is
"taken in equally at each side at those parts which are between the points of attach-
ment of the tabs or loops to the garment and the points of attachment of the fixed ends
of the running bands, that is to say, over the hips of the wearer, instead of being, as
heretofore, gathered in folds or in a bunch at the middle of the back.
By passing the long ends of the running bands through the pockets or through the
material of the garment the latter is prevented from slipping below the bands.
Instead of separate tabs or loops such as a, a short band may be employed attached
at the middle of the back to the trousers and fitted with links or eyes such as b
to receive the running bands, the links or eyes being kept in place by folding the
said short band outwards and backwards and then buckling or otherwise connecting
together the free ends of such short band.
Instead of bands, cords or their equivalents may be used or a combination
thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
In a pair of trousers the use for suspending and securing the same about the waist
of the wearer of separate bands, or their equivalents, passed through and free to run
in links or eyes such as b, connected to the back of the garment and attached at one
end to the sides of the garment, and carried at the other through the side pockets or
through the material of which the garment is composed for connection at the front,
whereby the garment is "taken in" equally over the hips of the wearer when securing
the same in place, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
appended sheet of drawings.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.