Improved Device for Attaching Braces to Trousers and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec.. 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Attaching Braces to Trousers and the like.
We, WILHELM STRUCK, of Nr. 34, Friedrichsboderstrasse, Altona, near Ham-
burg, in the German Empire, Carman, and AUGUST MÖLLER, of Nr. 1, Schäfer-
kampsallee, Hamburg, in the German Empire, Horse 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:-
The object of the present invention is to construct a device which enables a
reliable and durable connection between the braces and wearing apparel such
for instance as trousers and which obviates the necessity of having buttons
sewn on to the trousers.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing, in which
Fig. 1 shows a part of the braces fast to the trousers.
Fig. 2 illustrates the connecting or closing device of the braces.
Fig. 3 is a section through the connecting or closing device.
The braces (a) of any desired and convenient construction differ from the
hitherto known and used braces by having, instead of the usual tabs provided
with button holes, a pair of leather tabs (6 c) one of which (b) carries a pin (d)
the other (c), a hollow body (e). The pin (d) is slightly pointed at its front
end and is provided with a circular groove near the pointed end. The hollow
body (e) is situated on a base (f). A thin flexible plate (g) with a hole in the
centre of smaller diameter than the head of the pin (d) and one or more small
cuts starting from the edge around the central hole, is situated and secured at
the inner mouth of the hollow body (e). When closing the device i.e. connecting
the two tabs (bc) the pin (d) is inserted, and slightly pressed, into the hollow
body (e) until the edge around the central hole in the flexible plate (g) engages
the groove (h) in the pin (d) and thus ensures a firm and rigid connection.
The circular groove (h) being angular, or approximately so, in cross section, a
somewhat ball-shaped head (i) is given to the pin (d). When it is desired to
open the connection between the two tabs (bc), pulling the tab (b) away from
the other (c) will cause the edge around the central hole in the flexible plate (g)
to disengage from the groove (h) and thus the pin (d) will be separated from the
hollow body (e). Accidental opening of the device is impossible. The top of
the trousers is provided with suitably attached metal plates (k). An opening
or hole (m) penetrates the centre of this metal plate (k). The fastening of the
braces to the trousers is effected in the following way: The tab (c) is placed
inside the trousers, so that the hollow body (e) projects through the opening
or hole (m) in the centre of the plate (k). By now bringing the tab (b) outside
the trousers opposite to the tab (c) the pin (d) will enter the hollow body (e) of
the tab (c) through a slight pressure being applied to the tab (b) which pressure
will cause the pin to enter the body (e) until the edge around the central hole
in the flexible plate (9) engages the circular groove (h). Opening of the con-
nection is effected by simply pulling one tab away from the other.

page_text: 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 I
claim is:
Improvements in the fastening of braces to trousers characterised by arranging
two tabs (bc) instead of the ordinary one, one of which carries a hollow body (e)
provided with a flexible plate (9), with a small central hole, in its interior, the
other one is provided with a pin (d) with a ball shaped head caused by pointing
the end and providing the shank near the end with a circular groove (h), said
pin (d) adapted to enter the hollow body (e) after the latter has been passed
from inside the trousers through a hole (m) in a metal plate (k) inserted and
fastened in the top of the trousers, and to be secured in the body (e) by the
engagement of the edge around the central hole in the flexible plate (g) with
the circular groove (h) thereby preventing an accidental opening of the connec-
tion between the two tabs (b and c), substantially as described and illustrated
in the annexed drawings.
Thatod thin 0th day of August 1000
B. REICHHOLD,
24, Luisen Strasse, Berlin, N.W., Germany, Agent for the Applicants.