Improved Braces for Trousers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improved Braces for Trousers.
I, JOSEPH GUSINDE, of 4 Wilhelmsufer, Breslau, Germany, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved braces for ensuring perfect freedom to the
wearers chest, and possesses the advantage of passing over those parts of the wearer's
back, which are protected or sustained by the framework of bones, so that pressure
upon the more delicate and sensitive parts of the body is entirely obviated. .
My improved braces, differ from all the forms of the same class of article, that have
been used bitherto, in the particular feature, that the ends of the straps do not, as
heretofore, extend to the front and rear portions of the trouser-waist-band, but reach
down to its sides; with the result that trousers supported by braces made according
to my invention will invariably retain their proper shape and position. These braces,
moreover, meet all sanitary requirements, as they afford the body perfect unrestrained
freedom of motion, and deserve, therefore, to be particularly recommended for the
use of persons who have to display considerable muscular activity. But persons
leading a sedentary life too, will derive material advantage from the employment of
the improved braces which, instead of oppressing or contracting the chest, will assist
its forward expansion and render breathing easier than before.
My improved braces consist of two carrier-straps or bands which, in front, are
adapted to be buttoned to the lateral portions of the waist-band of the trousers, so
that they lie outside the breast nipples; while at the back, they may be connected
either by a sliding cross-piece, or by means of runners, being, in the latter case,
placed one over the other crosswise.
W. D. ROWLINGSON,
7 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, JOSEPH GUSINDE of 4 Wilhelmsufer Breslau, in the Empire of Germany,
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 :-
This invention relates to improved braces which form at the same time means for
holding the figure erect, such braces being moreover suitable for detachment for
various uses.

page_text: These braces can be used also as a double provisional-bandage or tourniquet
especially for injuries of arms and legs, as in Fig. IV, or as part of a carrying device
for persons in a lying and sitting posture as in Fig. V, and finally as girdle or belt
for gymnasts as shown in Fig. VI.
These improved braces leave the chest free across its whole width, they bear with
no weight on the chest, and bear only on the parts of the body intended by Nature for
carrying, that is, the shoulders and the upper part of the back. The trousers hang
on the braces not as hitherto on the belly and back, but advantageously on the hips
and back, and are supported at six places arranged at correct and equal distances;
therefore these improved braces give to the trousers their natural fall and correct
position; consequently any pressure on the stomach or any other interior organ is
completely avoided.
These favourable qualities so extremely important for health and convenience are
obtained by these new braces by means of their new and peculiar arrangement as
hereafter described.
The braces consist of the right and left carrying band a¹ and a, each provided at
one end with a metal hook-buckle and at its other end with an eye-buckle c
by which buckles the braces can be adjusted. Each carrying band extends from
the buckle 6 over the shoulder and the side of the back, passes through the metal-
eye e fixed on the trouser-button d' and also through a second eye e held by the
hook b and ends at the buckle c, in which engages a hook connected with the trouser
button d'. Both carrying bands a¹ and a are connected together on the back by
means of two cross-straps f¹, f, which are adjustable in their length by means of
buckles g. 9, and movable on the carrying bands by using metal-loops h³ ³ h².
On the under cross-strap f2 are fixed the back carrying straps i which carry the back
part of the trousers.
As already mentioned the carrying-buttons are not fixed as hitherto usual on the
front and back part of the trousers but at equal distances on the hips and the back,
and it may here again be mentioned, that in consequence of the suspension-places
thus chosen the trousers receive their natural fall, they cannot be mispulled and
misshaped, and the free mobility of the carrying bands a and a¹ in the eyes e el
regulates automatically the position of the bands and gives to them a natural
adjustment.
Pressure on interior organs is therefore completely avoided.
The effect of the new braces for retaining an errect figure is evident, because by
means of the cross-straps fif they pull the shoulders gently back, whereby the chest
is brought forwards.
Its further use as a provisional bandage or tourniquet can be seen from Fig. IV.
A quick production of such a bandage is often of great importance, with injuries,
especially shot or incised wounds as it is necessary before all to stop bleeding.
For this purpose the braces are divided by loosening the two buckles g g into two
separate parts, the carrying bands a a' which are then wound above and below the
wound, round the injured part are fixed by means of the braces-hooks b and
eyes c.
The use of the braces as a carrying device is shown in Fig. V. By connecting
the four braces-band-ends by means of their hooks and eyes and by using also two
bars (guns, lances, etc.) a carrying litter can be obtained without loss of time for
lying or sitting patients.
These braces can be transformed in an equally convenient and quick manner into
a belt for gynnasts Fig. VI. The gymnast thus does not need to have a separate
belt with him, but takes the braces off and uses one carrying band as a belt, as this
carries on its ends the necessary fixing means, the hook and the eye.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Improved hygienic braces, having two carrying bands a, a', which are connected

page_text: together detachably on the back, by two cross-straps f¹f these carrying bands being
attached to trousers by correspondingly placed foose or removable eyes in such a
manner, that each of the bands having the chest free lies in the form of a loop round
the shoulder and is provided at one end with a hook and at the other end with an eye
buckle c, b, also for the purpose of using the braces as provisional bandage, carrying
litter or belt.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.