A Belt for Preventing Children or others Falling from Perambulators, Beds, Windows, or other Places.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
A Belt for Preventing Children or others Falling from
Perambulators, Beds, Windows, or other Places.
We MAX HOLZE and EMIL HOLZE both of 11 Langendorfer Strasse,
Weissenfels, Germany, Shoemakers 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 is intended to prevent children from falling out of their beds or
perambulators, and also to save people from a fall in cleaning windows.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 shews the belt arranged to prevent children from falling out of their
beds or perambulators,
Figure 2 shews the belt arranged to save people from a fall in cleaning
windows.
The belt consists of a broad band a, to the ends of which two narrow ribbons b b¹
are fastened. Between one of these ribbons and the central band a a ring e is
introduced, through which the end of the other ribbon can be drawn. The two
ribbons have at the ends a number of holes by means of which they can
be attached to the outside of perambulators, beds or window sills, the central
band a being put round the body of the person who it is to be protected from
a fall.
If a child is to be protected against falling, when in its perambulator. or bed, the
central band a is put round the back of the child, the ring c resting in front of the
body and the two ends of the ribbons are fastened to the perambulator or to
the bed. In case a person is to be protected against a fall from windows, the broad
central piece a is put round the body in such a way that the ring e rests on the
back and the ends of the ribbons are attached to the sides of the window sill. The
belt may be secured to the bed, perambulator, or window, in convenient
manner, as by passing the holes in the ribbons b b² over hooks or studs, or by
nailing them to the perambulator, bed, or other place.
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In order to prevent, in the first arrangement the tightening of the belt round the
childs body, through its movements, a pin d is passed under the ring a through one
of the holes in the ribbon b which has been drawn through the ring, thus the belt
surrounds the child but loosely, giving it full liberty to move about.
When the child bends over the bed or perambulator, exposing itself to the
danger of falling over, its body still remains in a reclining position, though leaning
on one side of the broad band a, and this protects the child, making a fall as
impossible as it is to twist the body out of the belt. Such a twisting out of the
body could however, easily occur if a person fell from a window, and therefore the
belt ought to tighten itself round the body in case of such a fall; for this reason
the pin d must then be passed over the ring cas shewn in Figure 2.
The pin d is fastened to the belt with a ribbon e, and can be kept, when not
required, in a sheath which is attached to the belt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A safety-belt in which a ring c, is introduced into the belt, and a pin d'is passed
into a hole in one of the belt-ends b which is drawn through the ring, the said pin
being passed either over or under the ring, according as the centre part of the

page_text: belt a is put over the back, as in the first described arrangement or round the body,
as in the last described arrangement for safe guarding a person against a fall,
substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 16th day of Mov 1801
For the Applicant,
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Fels. Chartered Inst. Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Associate Agents.