Improvements in Belts.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1890-Accepted 17th May, 1890
PROVISIONAI. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belts.
I ALEXANDER NICOL of 4 Meadow Hill Road, Grove Hill Road Tunbridge Wells
in the County of Kent no occupation do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention for Improvements in belts has for its object to provide an improved
substitute for braces which will allow the wearer more freedom than the ordinary
braces and will serve to develope the body; and consists essentially in providing a
belt with a roughened surface and edge which will offer such a resistance that the belt
will be prevented from slipping down.
In making a belt according to my invention the leather or other suitable material
has its edge serrated or cut to any regular or irregular shape that will give a number
of projections and recesses and the surface of the belt is roughened in various ways by
means of embossments of any suitable shapes and sizes. The material of the belt may
be cut more or less round the embossments and the said cuts may have their edges
serrated or otherwise suitably shaped. The projections may be kept in position by
means of wire either threaded through holes in the material or passed under soine of
the larger projections.
The material to form the surface of the belt may be cut into sections of various
shapes and attached to a band or belt of a more pliable character in any convenient
manner. When the belt is fastened round the body in a suitable way such as by a
buckle the rough edge and projecting parts offer such a resistance that it is prevented
slipping down. When the belt is employed with trousers it is preferably placed inside
so that it is not visible and may be fixed by sewing or in any convenient way to the
inside.
Dated this 14th day of June 1880
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
156, Strand, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belts.
1, ALEXANDER NIOOL, late of 4 Meadow Hill Road, Grove Hill Road Tunbridge
Wells in the County of Kent but now of 96 Shardeloes Road, Lewisham High Road
New Cross in the County of Kent, gentleman, 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 for improvements in belts has for its object to provide an improved
substitute for braces which will allow the wearer more freedom than the ordinary
braces and will serve to develope the body and consists essentially in providing a belt
with a roughened surface and edge which will offer such a resistance that the belt will
be prevented from slipping down.
In making a belt according to my invention the leather or other suitable material
has its edge serrated or cut to any regular or irregular shape that will give a number
of projections and recesses and the surface of the belt is roughened in various ways by
means of embossinents of any suitable shapes and sizes.
The material of the belt may be cut more or less round the embossments and the
said cuts may have their edges serrated or otherwise suitably shaped. The projections
may be kept in position by means of wire either threaded through holes in the material
or passed under some of the larger projections.
The material to form the surface of the belt may be cut into sections of various
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page_text: shapes and attached to a hand or belt of a more pliable character in any convenient
manner. When the belt is fastened round the body in a suitable way such as by a
buckle, the rough edge and projecting parts offer such a resistance that it is prevented
slipping down. When the belt is employed with trousers it is preferably placed inside,
so that it is not visible and may be fixed by sewing or in any convenient way to the
inside.
The accompanying drawing shews one form of belt constructed according to my
invention. The lower edge of the belt has its edge serrated as clearly shown forming
a number of projections a and recesses b. A series of tongues c are cut in the belt
some of which are shown as kept raised above the surface of the belt by wires d
passing through perforations in the belt and under the tongues. The projections a
and tongues c may have their edges serrated. Clasps e may be fixed to the upper
edge of the belt.
The belt may be fixed inside the trousers, the clasps e passing over the top edge
and down on the outside so as to firmly hold the belt.
Or the belt may pass
through loops sown inside the trousers. The belt may be made in sections either
transversely or longitudinally and secured to a band of a more pliable character.
The line shows one way of dividing the belt. The belt is fastened by any suitable
forin of clasp g and loop h.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is:
1. A belt having its surface roughened by means of projections or embossements
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
2. A belt having its lower edge serrated substantially as described and for the
purpose set forth.
3. A belt consisting of a body of pliable material on which are secured sections
provided either with projections or embossments, or with serrated edges or with both
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
4. A belt constructed substantially as described with reference to the drawings for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 12th day of April 1890
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.