IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TAB CONNECTORS OF BRACES FOR SUSPENDING TROUSERS AND DRAWERS."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Walker, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TAB
CONNECTORS OF BRACES FOR SUSPENDING TROUSERS AND DRAWERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Walker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th March 1881.
THOMAS WALKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TAB CONNECTORS OF BRACES FOR SUSPENDING TROUSERS
AND DRAWERS."
My Invention consists in constructing the tab connectors of braces for suspending
trousers and drawers in the manner herein after described.
In making a tab connector according to my Invention I take a blank of sheet
metal having disc shaped ends, and fold or double the said blank at its middle so
as to form two parallel arms, the fold having a tubular figure given to it for the
purpose herein after explained. One of the said arms is cranked or bent so as to
keep the disc carried by it a short distance from the other disc.
A spring clip is thus formed, the disc ends of the arms of the clip being parallel
and separated a short distance from each other. Projecting from the inner face of
the unbent disc end of the clip, and in the middle thereof, is a conical eyelet or
tubular shank. This eyeletted disc end of the clip has an external covering disc
fixed to it. The bent or cranked disc end of the clip is perforated at its middle
with a hole of a size proper for the end of the eyelet or shank on the other disc
end to pass through. A metallic connector for the tabs or ends of braces is thus
formed.
In connecting the tabs or ends of the brace to the metallic connector the spring
arms of the said connector are separated a short distance, and the perforated ends
of the tabs are passed onto the eyelet or tubular stem. The arms of the connector
are then closed upon one another, and the end of the eyelet or tubular stem on one
of the disc ends made to enter the hole in the other disc end. By now rivetting or
expanding the projecting end of the eyelet or stem upon the outer face of the
cranked disc end the two arms of the connector are secured together, and the tabs
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page_text: fixed between them, the said tabs being capable of turning upon the eyelet or
tubular stem as a centre.
When the metallic tab connector is to be applied to the front tabs of the brace
the upper part of the said connector is secured to the lower bar of the frame of
the brace buckle or brace fastener, the said lower bar of the frame being situated
in the tubular part or eye at the junction of the two folded parts or arms of the
connector. When the metallic tab connector is to be applied to the back tabs of
the brace a metallic loop is inserted in the tubular part or eye described, to which
loop the webs of the brace are connected,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Walker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
September 1881.
THOMAS WALKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TAB CONNECTORS OF BRACES FOR SUSPENDING TROUSERS
AND DRAWERS.”
My Invention consists in constructing the tab conductors of braces for suspending
trousers and drawers in the manner herein after described.
In making a tab connector according to my Invention I take a blank of sheet
metal having disc shaped ends, and fold or double the said blank at its middle so
as to form two parallel arms, the fold having a tubular figure given to it for the
purpose herein after explained. One of the said arms is cranked or bent so as to
keep the disc carried by it a short distance from the other disc.
A spring clip is thus formed, the disc ends of the arms of the clip being parallel
and separated a short distance from each other. Projecting from the inner face of
the unbent disc end of the clip and in the middle thereof is a conical eyelet or
tubular shank. This eyeletted disc end of the clip has an external covering disc
fixed to it. The bent or cranked disc end of the clip is perforated at its middle
with a hole of a size proper for the end of the eyelet or shank on the other disc
end to pass through. A metallic connector for the tabs or ends of braces is thus
formed.
In connecting the tabs or ends of the brace to the metallic connector the spring
arms of the said connector are separated a short distance, and the perforated ends
of the tabs are passed onto the eyelet or tubular stem. The arms of the connector
are then closed upon one another, and the end of the eyelet or tubular stem on
one of the disc ends made to enter the hole in the other disc end. By now
rivetting or expanding the projecting end of the eyelet or stem upon the outer face
of the cranked disc end, the two arms of the connector are secured together, and
the tabs fixed between them, the said tabs being capable of turning upon the eyelet
or tubular stem as a centre.

page_text: When the metallic tab connector is to be applied to the front tabs of the brace
the upper part of the said connector is secured to the lower bar of the frame of
the brace buckle or brace fastener, the said lower bar of the frame being situated.
in the tubular part or eye at the junction of the two folded parts or arms of the
connector. When the metallic tab connector is to be applied to the back tabs of
the brace a metallic loop is inserted in the tubular part or eye described, to which
loop the webs of the brace are connected.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing
the manner in which my Invention is to be performed :-
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, Figure 2 in vertical section, and Figure 3
in edge view a tab connector for the front tabs of a brace constructed according to
my Invention; Figure 4 represents a front elevation of a tab connector for the
back tabs of a brace constructed according to my Invention.
a, b, are the parallel arms constituting the spring clip of the connector, between
which arms the upper ends of the brace tabs o, c, are secured; d² is the bent or
cranked part of the arm 6 for the purpose of keeping the disc of the arm 6 carried
by it a short distance from the other disc a; f is the conical eyelet or tubular
shank made from the disc of the front arm a; g is the separate cupped disc by
which the eyeletted disc of the clip is covered. The conical eyelet or tubular
shank projects through a perforation at e in the disc of the back arm b, and the
extreme end of the said eyelet is rivetted or expanded upon the outer face of the
back disc, as seen in the section, and the two arms a, b, thereby secured together.
The perforated ends of the tabs c, c, which have previously been passed onto the
eyelet fare thus confined between the arms a, b, of the clip, the said tabs being
capable of turning upon the eyelet or tubular stem fas a centre, as will be under-
stood by an examination of Figure 2. The fold or double of the plate from which
the spring clip is made constitutes a tubular part or long eye h in which the lower
bar of the brace buckle frame i or other brace fastener is placed before the two
arms a, b, are fixed together by rivetting the eyelet or stem f.
In the tab connector, Figure 4, for the back tabs of the brace a loop k is
substituted for the buckle frame i, to which loop k the webs of the brace are
connected as usual.
In making the tab connector I proceed as follows:-I cut out from sheet metal
a blank of the kind represented in Figure 5, the said blank having disc shaped
ends a, b. From the middle of the disc a² I make by a series of shaping or
raising processes effected by dies and tools in the ordinary way a conical eyelet or
tubular stem, and pierce or cut out the bottom of the said eyelet or stem, as seen in
side elevation, front elevation, and section in Figure 6, and marked f. The extreme
end of the eyelet f is of less diameter than the other part, the reduced part being
used for rivetting the eyelet to the clip, as before described, the shoulder formed
between the parts of different diameters acting as a stop. The eyeletted disc end a³
of the partly made clip is covered at front by an external cupped disc g represented
separately in Figure 7, and fixed in its place on the disc a² in Figure 8 by closing
the edge of the said cupped disc around the edge of the disc a³ as represented.
The disc end 6 is perforated with a hole e, suitable to receive the end of the
eyelet f, and the blank is operated upon so as to bend the part 7 out of the plane
of the parts above and below it, as seen in Figure 8.
The partly made connector is next doubled or folded at the shoulder d, so as to
bring the arms a², 63, of the connector nearly parallel to one another, as illustrated
in Figure 9. The bending or folding last described produces at the upper end of
the connector a tubular part or long eye h, as illustrated in Figure 9, made from the
cranked part d, the other cranked part ds being unoperated upon, and forming
the shoulder in the finished connector by which the two arms of the clip are kept
at the required distance apart (see Figure 2). While the clip is in the stage,
Figure 9, the bottom bar of the buckle or other fastening frame i is passed into the
eye h, as illustrated in front elevation in Figure 10, and side elevation in Figure 11.
The connector thus made is now ready to receive the perforated ends of the

page_text: tabs c, c, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. The spring arms of the clip being separated a short
'distance from one another, the perforated ends of the 'tabs are passed onto the
eyelet or tubular stem f, and the arms of the connector being closed upon one
another, the perforated end of the arm 62 passes onto the extreme end of the
eyelet f, on the other arm abutting against the shoulder or stop on the said eyelet,
and by a rivetting process the projecting end of the eyelet is rivetted or expanded
outside the disc end of the arm 63, and upon the depression around the hole in the
'said disc end of the arm b. The two arms of the connector are thus secured
together, and the tabs fixed between them as before described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Instead of making the conical eyelet or tubular stem f by a shaping or raising
process from the disc end a² of the blank from which the metallic clip is made; as
represented in Figure 6; the conical eyelet or tubular stem may be made separately
and be connected to the clip plate or blank by a closing process, but I prefer to
carry my Invention into effect in the manner herein before described and illustrated;
in the accompanying: Drawing.
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Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention,-
.
The improvements in the tab connectors of braces for suspending trousers and (
drawers herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that
is to say, a tab connector consisting of a folded or doubled piece or blank of sheet
metal, having disc shaped ends constituting a spring clip, one of the disc shaped
arms of the clip being furnished with an eyelet or tubular stem, and the other
disc shaped arm with a hole for receiving the end of the eyelet or stem, the disc;
shaped arms of the clip being secured together after the perforated ends of the tabs
have been passed onto the eyelet or stem by closing the said arms of the clip and
rivetting or expanding the end of the eyelet on one disc shaped arm upon the outer
face of the other disc shaped arm, so as to secure the tabs between them, and
.permit of the tabs turning upon the eyelet or stem as a centre, the several parts
being constructed and combined substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Walker, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
37, Temple Street,.
Birmingham.
THOMAS WALKER. (L.S.)