IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TROUSER AND WAISTCOAT FASTENINGS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustavus Adolphus Kino, of 294, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING
TROUSER AND WAISTCOAT FASTENINGS." Partly a communication from abroad
by Charles F. Haider, of Vienna, Austria.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustavus Adolphus Kino.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1877.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS KINO, of 294, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TROUSER AND WAISTCOAT FASTENINGS." Partly
a communication from abroad by Charles F. Haider, of Vienna, Austria.
This Invention has for its object improvements in the arrangement, construction,
and application of self-acting elastic spring fastenings to the waistbands of trousers,
so as to dispense with the use of braces, and also to the backs of waistcoats for
tightening the same. For this purpose according to one form of the improved
fastenings, an elastic endless band of india-rubber (which may be braided or covered)
is mounted in metal clips or holders to which buckles are connected by hinge joints.
Upon the band of the trousers or to the back of a waistcoat, tongues of, woven fabric,
leather, or other suitable material are sewn or attached, to which the buckle at each
end of the spring is applied so as to draw the parts together to the degree of
tightness required.
In place of the elastic endless band a flat elastic band or spring of india-rubber
may be used secured in clips or holders of any suitable construction, and in place of
the buckles, hooks, studs, or other connections may be employed to connect the spring
fastening to the tongues which may have eylets applied thereto for adjusting the
tension of the spring.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Gustavus Adolphus Kino in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
February 1878.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS KINO, of 294, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING TROUSER AND WAISTCOAT FASTENINGS." Partly
a communication from abroad by Charles F. Haider, of Vienna, Austria.
This Invention has for its object improvements in the arrangement, construction,
and application of self-acting elastic spring fastenings to the waistbands of trousers,
so as to dispense with the use of braces, and also to the backs of waistcoats for
tightening the same.
And in order that this Invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice, I will proceed to describe the Drawings annexed, which show two
different arrangements of trouser and waistcoat fastenings constructed in accordance
with these improvements.
According to one form of the improved fastenings, shown by Figure 1, an elastic
endless band or cord a of india-rubber (which may be braided or covered) is mounted
in metal clips b or holders to which buckles c, c, are connected by hinged joints at c¹.
Upon the band of the trousers or to the back of a waistcoat, tongues of woven fabric,
leather, or other suitable material are sewn or attached, to which the buckles c, c, at
each end of the spring are applied so as to draw the parts together to the degree of
tightness required.
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In place of the endless band a the buckles may be connected together by one, two,
or more short lengths of india-rubber cord secured in suitable clips or holders. Or
in place of the elastic endless band a flat elastic band or spring a of india-rubber
may be used, the ends being secured either in clips or holders of any suitable,
construction, or connected together by buckles c, c, or to a slotted bar or plate
d, as shown by Figure 2, and in place of the buckles, hooks, studs, or other
connections may be employed to connect the spring fastening to the tongues which
may have eyelets applied thereto for adjusting the tension of the spring.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention and the manner of performing
or carrying the same into practice, I would remark that I do not claim separately
any of the parts which are well known and in common use, but what I claim is, the
improved arrangement and construction of self-acting trouser and waistcoat fastenings
consisting of two buckles or their equivalents connected together by an elastic band or
bands, substantially in the manner herein-before described and represented in the
Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustavus Adolphus Kino, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
W.C.
G. A. KINO. (LS.)