US356444A - Suspender-connection - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

F. B. BROWN.

SUSPENDER CONNECTION.

N0.356,444. I Patented Jan.25,1887.

III in N. PETERS. Pham-Ulhog'rlphar. Wmhingion. D. c.

Nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

F. BARTON BROWN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENDER-CONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,444, dated January 25, 1887. Application filed September 25, 1886. Serial No. 214,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, F. BARTON BROWN, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Suspender-Connections, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification,'like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to suspenders or shoulder-braces, and has for its object to provide a novel and an improved connection between the main straps and end pieces to be buttoned to the trousers.

Figure 1 in elevation shows a sufficient portion of asuspender provided with my improved connection to enable my invention to be understood; Fig. 2, a detail to .be referred to; Fig. 3, a central longitudinal section through one of the spring-connections to show the construction of the same, the spring being omit- I ted; Fig. 4, a section of Fig. 3 on line as w.

The main or shoulder straps A, only one of which is shown, and which may be of any usual web or material, are herein shown as provided with a buckle or slide, a, to which an end piece is attached.

Each end piece is composed of two parts, a a, of web or other usual or suitable material, the said parts being connected with the lower bar of a wire or other loop, B. The loop B is formed of a single wire, 6, bent or twisted to form loops b N, the ends of the said wire being soldered or otherwise united to form the bar over which the parts a a of the end piece are passed, as shown in Fig. 1. Each loop I) b, with its opening substantially atright angles to the opening receiving the parts a a,

- is engaged with a bent wire or rod, b the arms I) b of which are extended through substantially diametrical openings in the head of a cap, plate, or shell, I), and through corresponding openings in the head of a similar cap, plate, or shell, I), inverted, the ends of the said arms being bent over upon or riveted or headed outside the head of the cap, plate, or shell-b to prevent the arms being drawn through said openings.

The arms a c of a second bent rod or wire, 0 of like construction as the wire or rod b is extended through other openings in the head of the cap or shell b and also the cap I),

the said openings being substantially at right over upon or headed or riveted outside the head of the cap or shell I). I

The arms of the rods or wires b c are encircled for the greater part of their length by a spiral spring, (I, one end of which extends into the cap, plate, or shell I) and bears against its head, while the other end extends into and bears against the head of the cap, plate, or shell I), the said spring normally being uncompressed, and keeping the caps, plates, or shells apart. Each wire or rod 0" at its curved or bent part outside the cap 2) is engaged, as herein shown, with an eye, d of a wire or other loop or ring, (2. The wire or other loop (1 is also bent to form a large eye or ring, cl, to enable the said loop to be engaged with a buckle, a, or to be connected in the usual manner to a part secured to the web to extend over the shoulder.

The spiral springs d normally keep the caps,

plates, or shells at their farthest distance apart, but when the suspender is subjected to strain and lengthened, as by pulling upon the end pieces or by a change of position of the body of the wearer, the said caps are made to approach each other, the spring 11 being at such time compressed, but when the force exerted to bring the said caps or shells together is released or relaxed the springs (I tend to again separate the caps or shells-*that is, restore them to their normal position.

As the caps or shells are brought toward each other the cap b slides upon the arms b* b of the wire I), while the cap 1) slides upon the arms a c of the wire 0 By connecting the wires b to the loops 1) and the wires 0 c to the loops (1* and shaping or locating the eyes of the said loops as shown, the said wires are enabled to constitute, as it were, a universal joint.

I do not desire to limit my spring-connection to any particular kind of suspender, as it is equally applicable to all kinds. It is also evident my invention may be used at the back as well as at the front of the suspender;

I have herein shown the end pieces joined to the shoulder-straps by two spring-connections, but it is evident that a single connection may be used; but two connections are preferred.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the employment of wire for the loops or rings B and d, as I might use sheet metal.

I claim- 1. A spring-connection for suspenders, consisting of two sets or pairs of bent wires, and two caps or shells for each set or pair, and through which the bent wires are extended, as described, a wire or rod provided with a loop to connect one wire of each set or pair to the end pieces, and a second wire or rod provided with a loop to connect the other wire of each set or pair to the shoulder-strap, combined with a spring encircling said wires and normally keeping said caps or shells apart, but adapted to be compressed when the caps or shells are made to approach each other as the suspender is lengthened, substantially as described.

2. A spring-connection for suspenders, it consisting of a wire loop having a large eye for the reception of the end pieces, a a, and small eyes b b, a wire loop having small eyes at and an eye for connection with the web to be extended over the shoulder, two sets or pairs of bent wires, 0 b, caps, plates, or shells through holes in which the said wires are extended, as shown, and the springs d,interposed between the said caps, plates, or shells, all substantially as described,whereby strain upon the suspenders to elongate them compresses the said springs, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. BARTON BROWN.

\Vitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, F. CUTTER.

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