An Improvement in Waist Belts.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1890-Accepted, 2nd Aug... 1890.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Waist Belts.
I AUBREY MILLS of 17 Cheapside London E.C. Buyer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to waist belts such as are worn by players at tennis and other
games or exercises calling for bodily exertion. Such belts especially when worn by
men for the purpose of supporting the lower garments are necessarily drawn tightly
around the waist and in order to avoid excessive local pressure of the belt it is usual
to make the latter of considerable breadth. The ends of such broad belts have hitherto
been connected by correspondingly broad fastenings which impede freedom of motion
and sometimes cause injury to result from the sudden flexure of the player's body.
The object of my invention is to provide such broad belts with fastenings which
whilst dividing the tension of the belt over its whole breadth permit of the necessary
suppleness of the belt in the direction of its width at the point where the fastenings
are situated.
The invention consists in providing the belt with two or more fastenings of any
ordinary kind but of a width suited to a narrow belt, such fastenings being so applied
to a broad belt as to take the strain on one portion only of the width of the belt. The
fastenings may be of the ordinary hook or clasp form and may be secured by stitching
or otherwise directly to the material of the helt or to short elastic or non elastic tabs
which are in turn secured to the belt.
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Dated this 28th day of September 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Waist Belts.
I, AUBREY MILLS of 17, Cheapside London, E.C. Buyer, 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 :-
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My Invention relates to waist belts such as are worn by players at tennis and other
games or exercises calling for bodily exertion. Such belts, especially when worn by
men for the purpose of supporting the trousers, are necessarily drawn tightly around
the waist and in order to avoid excessive local pressure of the belt it is usual to make
the latter of considerable breadth. The ends of such broad belts have hitherto been
connected by correspondingly-broad fastenings which impede freedom of motion and
sometimes cause internal injury to result from the sudden stooping or bending
forward of the player's body.
The object of my invention is to provide such broad belts with fastenings, which
whilst dividing the tension of the belt over its whole breadth permit of the necessary
suppleness of the belt in the direction of its width at the point where the fastenings
are situated.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specifica-
tion, wherein I have illustrated a perspective view of a belt provided with my
improvement.
The Invention consists in providing the belt A with two or more fastenings B B of
any ordinary kind but of a width suited to a narrow belt, such fastenings being so
applied to a broad belt A as to be parallel so to speak or side by side in the width of
the belt so that each takes the strain on one portion only of the width of the belt. The

page_text: fastenings may be of the ordinary hook or clasp form, as shewn, and the respective
parts of said fastenings may be secured by stitching or otherwise directly to the
inaterial of the belt or to short elastic or non elastic straps C which are in turn secured
to the belt by stitching their ends between a transverse fold of the belt, as shewn in
the drawing, the fold or pleat being indicated by the cross lines of stitching. The
metal loops or runners D by which the length of the belt is adjusted, are the full
width of the belt as usual since being situated at the back of the body they are not
liable to cause inconvenience.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;
The combination, with the ends of a broad belt, of two or more sets of narrow
fastenings respectively adapted to support the strain on a part only of the width of the
belt, substantially as, and for the purpose, specified.
Dated this 28th day of June 1890
A. MILLS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.