Improvements in Furniture or Fittings for Braces, Suspenders, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Furniture or Fittings for Braces, Suspenders, and
the like.
I, THOMAS WALKER, of Brook Street Works, St. Pauls Square, in the City
of Birmingham, 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 brace and suspender furniture or fittings, and has for
one of its objects, the locking of the grip which secures the webbing to the buckle;
for another object, the securing of the tab-carrying loop to the buckle frame, and for
another object, the making of the said frames integral with the pant-suspension
loops or hooks.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation, a buckle
with a tab-suspension loop constructed according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a back elevation of the same with the parts separated.
Figure 3 is an edge view of the buckle frame part Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a vertical section, upon an enlarged scale, upon the dotted line x
Figure 1, but with the webbing shown threaded through the buckle frame and
being there held.
Figure 5 shows a like section of the metallic furniture parts as in Figure 4, but.
with the same separated.
The same letter of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 5 of the
drawing.
a is a buckle frame with the central space a', intersected by two horizontal
bars a³, a³, upon which latter is mounted and turns a grip b, whose upper edge is.
serrated and turned outwardly, whilst its back upper part is provided with a lock
or snap 62, which when the grip is closed (as shown in Figure 4) snaps over and
partly embraces the bar a³, thus retaining the grip in its holding position, so that
should the webbing be slacked there is no liability of the grip releasing its hold upon
the fabric as occurs in ordinary grips where the holding of the webbing is entirely
dependent upon the same being kept taut.
a are necked studs, carried upon the lower part a', of the buckle frame which is
cranked or set down at a', whilst its extreme tip a', is turned upwardly into
a lip.
c is a detachable tab-carrying part or loop, having key hole shaped piercings 3,.
for taking upon the studs as, of the other part, and with the extreme tip end c
turned backwardly, so that when the part c, is connected to the part a, the said
tip c', snaps past the shoulder a and by the lip a', coming upon the back of the
plate c³, a snapping action is attained when the said part c, is pulled home over the
connecting studs.
In the enlarged sectional view Figure 4, the fabric is marked d.
Instead of the tab carrying part being in the form of a loop as shown, the same
may carry runner fittings.
In cases where the tab-carriers are required to be made fast to the buckle frame
and have in addition thereto, a pant suspender, I construct a buckle as represented
in elevation in Figure 6, and as shown in cross section and upon an enlarged scale.
in Figure 7, whilst Figure 8 shows the frame separately.
In Figures 6, 7 and 8, a is the buckle frame, at the lower part made integral
with it and with its end a', bent up into a pant-suspension hook. The said lower

page_text: part a', has mounted upon it, a tab-carrying part in the form of a runner c, fitted
onto a bracket plate c', turned around the said part a, of the frame, with the open
top 3, closed by a lever plate c³, brought home by a spring c, turning upon a joint co,
and having a short thumb lever end c.
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 :--
First. In brace or suspender furniture or fittings, securing a swinging grip in its
holding position to a buckle frame by a lock or snap, substantially as described and
set.forth.
Secondly. In brace or suspender furniture or fittings, securing the tab-carrying
part or loop by a snapping action effected by the upper and lower terminations
respectively being turned lip-wise in opposite directions and with one of the said
lips snapping past an incline, shoulder or set-down on the other part, substantially
as described and set forth.
Thirdly. In brace or suspender furniture or fittings, making the buckle frame
and the pant suspender together or from a single length of metal, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 6, 7 and 8.
Fourthly. In brace or suspender furniture or fittings, covering the entrance to
the tab carrier by a plate lever, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 12th d= of Jul. 1800.
THOMAS WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.