Improvements in or connected with Braces, Belts, and such like Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Braces, Belts, and such like
Articles.
I, THOMAS BARKER of 6 Patmos, Todmorden in the County of York,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to braces, suspenders, belts, garters and such like articles
and consists in improved means for rendering the same elastic or yielding to an
increased pull on or stretch of the same and make them more comfortable for the
wearer, the object of the invention being to effect this in a cheap, durable and
efficient manner.
My invention consists in the combination with the straps or equivalent parts of
said articles of springs and wires in the following way or ways :-
I double or fold over the end of the strap or its equivalent and fasten the end
to the body thereof so as to form a loop. The top or bend of the loop I perforate
with one or more holes according to the width and use of the strap and pass
through each of said holes from the inside of the loop a wire or its equivalent
formed with a head preferably T shaped and surrounded by a helical spring. The
outer end of each wire is attached to the buckle or equivalent part of the strap by
being bent round the same or in any other suitable manner. The springs are
confined between the heads of the wires and the inside of the loop and when the
strap is subjected to an increased pull are compressed and yield to the same.
The number of wires used and their attachment may be varied according to the
nature of the article. In the case of braces I preferably use two wires and springs
for each tab and hook the four wires upon the bottom bar of the buckle or
shackle; for waist belts more of such wires and springs would be used and attached
to the buckle.
Instead of or in addition to this I may form the strap or belt of two or more
parts each formed with a loop at the end and springs inserted thereinto, the wires
passing through the ends or bends of both contiguous loops and having heads or
their equivalents formed on or attached to their ends.
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool, .
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Braces, Belts, and such like
Articles.
I, THOMAS BARKER of 40 formerly of 6 Patmos, Todmorden in the County
of York, Manufacturer 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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This invention relates to braces, suspenders, belts, garters and such like articles

page_text: and consists in improved means for rendering the same elastic or yielding to an
increased pull on or stretch of the same and make them more comfortable for the
wearer, the object of the invention being to effect this in a cheap, durable and
efficient manner.
My invention consists in the combination with the straps or equivalent parts of
said articles of springs and wires in the following way or ways:-1 double or fold
over the end of the strap or its equivalent and fasten the end to the body thereof,
so as to form a loop. The top or bend of the loop I perforate with one or more
holes according to the width and use of the strap and pass through each of said
holes from the inside of the loop a wire or its equivalent formed with a head,
preferably shaped and surrounded by a helical spring.
The outer end of each wire is attached to the buckle or equivalent part of the
strap by being bent round the same or in any other suitable manner. The springs
are confined between the heads of the wires and the inside of the loop and when
the strap is subjected to an increased pull, are compressed and yield to the same.
On the drawing appended hereunto
Fig. 1 shows a front view partly in section and Fig. 2 a side view of a brace
buckle and tabs fitted with my improvement.
The tabs a a are doubled over as shown and the end fastened to the body by a
fastener b of ordinary kind or in any other usual way. They are each perforated
at the bend a with two holes, through which the wires c c are passed formed with
elongated or T shaped heads c¹ at the inner end. A helical spring d is placed
round each wire c between the head and the bend of the tab, and the wires are bent
round the bottom bar of the buckle e. When the pull on the buckle or on either
of the tabs is increased, the springs yield and are compressed, expanding again
when the pull is reduced.
The buckles of belts or straps are attached to these in the same way as the tabs
are attached to the brace buckle more than two wires with springs attached to the
buckle bar being used for broad belts.
Fig. 3 shows a modified arrangement of springs applied to a broader belt at any
suitable part of its length, for instance at the back of a waist belt. The belt is
made in two parts f. f each of them doubled over at the end and sewn to the
body.
Three perforations are formed in each bend and wires passed through them
formed with heads g' or their equivalents at each end. Springs h are inserted round
the wires in each loop of the belt between the heads and the bend of the loop.
The wires may be in one length as shown on the upper part of the figure, with
one of the heads formed or attached after insertion into the belt, or may be in two
parts connected by bending the outer ends into eyelets joined together as shown for
the lower wires on Fig. 3.
The arrangements of springs described are readily applicable and simpler,
cheaper and more durable than other arrangements of springs hitherto applied to
buckles or braces.
The springs and wire ends are covered up by the folded over part of the strap
and are prevented from wearing or injuring the garments of the person using
them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The combination with a buckle of wires moveably attached thereto formed
with heads or their equivalents at the other end and surrounded by helical springs
inserted between said heads and the bend of a folded over strap or its equivalent
through holes in which bend said wires pass substantially as herein before described
with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.

page_text: 2. The use and arrangement of wires and springs for connecting two parts of a
belt or its equivalent hereinbefore described with reference to Figure 3 of the
drawings.
Dated the 14th day of August 1894
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.