US851070A - Shoulder-braces. - Google Patents

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No. 851,070 PATENTED APR- 28, 1907, G. R. GRAW 5; 0. MILLER. SHOULDER BRAGES APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1906.

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GEORGE R. ORAW AND OTTO MILLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS- SHOULDER-BRACES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed July 12, 1906. Serial No- 325,829.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. CRAW I and Orro MILLER, both citizens of the United States, and residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoulder-Braces, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to shoulder braces and particularly to those that are provided with suspender ends and used as a garment supporter, and perform in addition to the correction of abnormal physical conditions, the same function as ordinary suspenders.

It is the object of our invention to provide a brace in which all local strains are transmitted to a central point and from thence distributed equally throughout the straps and ends, and will readily yield and. adjust itself to different positions and movements This we accomplish by the means hereinafter fully described and as more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rear of one of our improved braces. Fig. 2 is a detail view, drawn to a larger scale, showing the manner of coupling the ends of the shoulder loops.

Referring to the drawings A, A, represent suitable shoulder-loops, that are preferably made of two sections of elastic webs that are joined together by a suitable soft leather pad a that passes under the arms. The free ends of these webs pass around the shoulders of the wearer, and across the back a short distance and terminate in suitable swiveled guides. Briefly, these guides comprise transversely elongated wire loops h having clips 76 attached to the center of length thereof, and these clips have stirrups B, pivotally connected to them, as shown. Passing through these stirrups B is a suitable endless cord C that connects and draws the suspender ends of the elastic webbing toward one central point. In order to keep the suspender ends and the cord C in proper relation to each other we provide a cross shaped equalizing plate D, that is located. in the space enclosed by this cord, and is, preferably, stamped out of sheet metal, and provided with four radially projecting arms or lobes d, d. The lowermost one of these lobes has secured to a wire loop pivoted to it, a' vertically depending elastic back-strap E,

which latter has a suspender-end e, attached to the stirrup of the wire loop K on its pendent end, by means of which the rear of the garment is supported. The remaining lobes, that is the two side and upper lobes, are each provided with a swiveled or pivoted stirrup F, through which cord C, between the stirrups B of the ends of the webbing forming the shoulder-loops passes and slides. All of these guide-stirrups B, B, and F, F, are made of such size that the cord C will pass freely' through the same, and the arrangement is .such that said cord is provided with a lower horizontal portion that passes in front of the back-strap E of webbing. It will be seen that by the cooperation of these elements, when one or more of the ends a of the shoulder-loops are pulled in one direction or the other, the remaining webs will be drawn toward the equalizing plate D, and the strain of the movement distributed among them.

In order to properly support the garment at equi-distan't points around the belt, suitable pendent webs G are secured to about the center of length of each of the leather pads a,

and are provided at their lower ends with the ordinary suspender end 9 made of cord or narrow webbing.

By the construction hereinbefore described, great freedom of movement is provided for the wearer. The equalizing connections of the rear ends of the suspender-loops, and the relation of the other parts of the brace to each other, is such, that the shoulder blades of the wearer are pressed in and the shoulders straightened and held firmly in their proper and healthful position, and thus, without discomfort, cause the wearer to carry himself erect.

What we claim as new is 1. A shoulder brace comprising substantially continuous shoulder loops, suspender ends depending from said loops mediate their ends, a pendent back strap and equal izing means to which said back strap is directly connected and to which the ends of said loops have a sliding connection independently of each other.

2. A shoulder brace comprising substantially continuous shoulder loops, suspender ends depending from said loops mediate their ends, a pendent back strap, means to which said. back strap is directly connected and an endless equalizing cord surrounding but connected at points throughout its length to said means, and to which the ends of said shoulder loops are connected.

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' 3. A shoulder brace com rising substantially continuous shoulder oops, suspender ends depending from said loops mediate their ends, a pendent backstrap, a crossshaped plate to Which said back-strap is directly connected, an endless equalizing cord surrounding said plate, and slidingly engaging the ends of the three uppermost arms of said plate, and to which cord the ends of said shoulder loops are suitably connected.

4. A shoulder brace comprising substantially continuous shoulder loops, suspender .ends depending from said loops mediate their ends, stirrups pivotally connected to the ends of said loops, a pendent back-strap,

a cross-shaped plate to which said back-strap is directly connected and having stirrups connected to its three upper ,ends, an endless equalizing cord surrounding said plate and slidingly engaging the stirru s mounted on the ends of said plate and t e ends of said i shoulder loops. 1 In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this 29 I day of June, A. D., 1906. 1 GEORGE R. CRAW. g OTTO MILLER. 1 Witnesses l FRANK D. THOMASON,

E. K. LUNDY.

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