Improvements in Trowsers-suspenders or Braces.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trowsers-suspenders or Braces.
I, ALBERT PHILIPSON, of No. 6 Klareboderne, Copenhagen in the Kingdom
of Denmark, Wholesale Dealer, 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 :-
My invention relates to trowsers-suspenders or braces whereby I avoid the use
of clasps, slides, hooks and rings, of metal or the like (for the purpose of shortening
or lengthening the braces as required) which clasps, slides, hooks and rings are a
source of annoyance to the wearer since they give rise to pressure, and also in
course of time tear the clothes between which the trowsers braces pass, and
furthermore often damage the straps of the trowsers braces themselves.
In carrying out my invention I make the front ends of the braces with a row of
loops, through which are passed the moveable double ended pieces by means of
which the braces are buttoned on to the trowsers.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is an elevation of the front end of part of one of the two straps of a
trowsers-suspender or braces constructed according to my invention, and
Figure 2 is a section on the line A A of Figure 1.
at c, c.
dd are the loops formed upon the straps by doubling over the ends of the latter
and sewing them together at suitable distances apart, the seams being indicated
is the double ended piece by which the braces are fastened to the
trowsers. According to whether the trowsers braces are to be lengthened or
shortened, the double ended piece is inserted through a higher or lower one of
the loops formed by the seams c.
In order that the strips may be able to slide more easily in the loops d, and to
distribute the pressure which the strips & transmit to the straps more equally upon
the latter it will generally be found desirable in practice to give the seams the form
of a curved line as shewn upon the drawing.
It is obvious that the loops may be formed otherwise than by doubling over the
strap a in the manner shewn in the drawing. They can for example be made
separate from the strap and be sewn thereto above one another.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is :-
1. Trowsers-suspenders or braces, having the ends of the straps provided with a
number of loops at different heights, through which the movable double pieces, by
means of which the braces are buttoned onto the trowsers, may be passed and
easily drawn out again in order to regulate the length of the braces, by which
arrangement the employment of clasps, slides, hooks, rings or other metallic parts
is dispensed with substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In trowsers-suspenders or braces of the kind claimed in the preceding claiming
clause the formation of loops by doubling over the ends of the straps and then
connecting the two layers of material so formed by means of a number of seams
arranged at suitable distances from each other, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 3. The improved trowsers-suspenders or braces hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 4th day of April 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.