Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 20th Apr., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd May, 1887
We, EDWARD GEORGE SIM, and ROBERT HODGES BISHOP, both of 4 Bull & Mouth
Street, in the City of London, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-—
This invention rolates more particularly to the means for securing the brace ends to
the buckles of braces, and the invention consists in a novel application of a cup
and ball.
In carrying out our invention, we secure to the lower edge of the buckle, a small
ball, and to the brace ends we adapt a cup in which the ball will be secured in some
suitable and convenient manner.
The brace ends which we prefer to use are pieces of cord or round leather which
are passed round a pulley, to the frame of which the cup is attached.
We prefer however to form the cup in one with the pulley frame, and this we
effect by stamping or cutting from a piece of thin metal a blank for the pulley frame,
with a semi-spherical recess at either end.
This blank will be bent forward upon itself, so as to bring the two semispheres in
juxtaposition, and when placed round the ball, the two ends will be rivetted or other-
wise secured together with the pulley in its proper position.
Instead of adapting the ball to the buckle, we may in some cases prefer to adapt
the cup to the buckle, and secure the ball to the pulley frame.
In like manner, although we prefer to employ the pulley, we may, if desired,
dispense with the pulley, passing the brace ends through a simple metal loop, to which
will be adapted or secured the cup or ball, as may be desired.
In some cases, it may be desirable to place a spring between the buckle and the ball
or cup, to give a greater amount of play.
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NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We EDWARD GEORGE SIM and ROBERT HODGES BISHOP both of 4 Bull & Mouth
Street in the City of London, Manufacturers, 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 :-
In Braces or Trouser Suspenders as hitherto constructed, there has been no pro-
vision for untwisting the shoulder straps of the braces, which may, through
inadvertence have become twisted by the wearer in putting them
unbuttoning the brace ends.
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without
According to the present invention, we obviate this defect by providing a universal
joint at or near the brace buckle, which provision also renders the braces more easy
to the wearer, by allowing a slight lateral motion independent of the brace ends.
In carrying our invention into effect, we secure to the lower edge of each brace
buckle a small ball, which is received within a cup or socket attached to the brace
ends. The brace ends which we prefer to use are made of cord or round leather passing
round a pulley, to the frame of which the socket above mentioned is attached, but the
socket may also be attached to the flat leather brace ends of the ordinary type, if
desired.
In the accompanying drawing, we have shown the ball and socket joint adapted to
both kinds of attachment,-
Fig. 1 being a front view shewing the cord, and
Fig. 2 a similar view of the flat leather arrangement.
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Figs. 3 and 4 are side views of Figs. 1 and 2, without the ends, and
Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the blanks for forming the socket &c.
A is the brace buckle, to the lower edge of which is attached a ball formed by
folding sheet metal or by casting. The cup or socket B for receiving this ball is
made, in the case of Fig. 1, in one with the frame of the pulley wheel C, in the
following manner :-
A piece of sheet metal is taken and stamped out into the form shewn at Fig. 5,
having hemispherical depressions at either end. The blank is then folded upon
itself, so that the hemispheres are in juxtaposition, and embrace the ball a between
them as they come together, but room is left at the lower part for the pulley
wheel C (see Fig. 2). One end of the blank being wider than the other, the edges of
the wide part are turned over and pressed down on to the narrow part, and the socket
is complete.
Where no pulley wheel is required as in Fig. 2, the blank for the socket B is
stamped out in the form shewn at Fig. 6, and doubled over the ring of the brace

page_text: ends (see Figs. 2 & 4), so as to embrace the ball attached to the brace buckle. The
socket is secured by the overlapping of the edge of the blank, as before.
In this way we obtain a universal joint, cheap in construction, and very efficient.
It may however be remarked that the arrangement of the joint may in some cases
be reversed, that is to say, the socket may be attached to the buckle, and the ball to
the brace ends, without departing from the character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :—
The application to Brace or Trouser Suspenders of a ball and socket joint constructed
and arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.