US11160A - Suspender-end - Google Patents

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

JULIUS HOTCHKISS, OF` WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDERf-END.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,160, dated J' une 27, 1854.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JULIUs HoTcHKrss, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspender- Ends; and I do hereby declare that the fol* t lowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings' and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

j The nature of my invention consists in attaching the straps to each end of the buckle by a `double connection, whereby a self-adjusting action is obtained that adapt-s itself to the position of the body.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

`.In constructing' the suspender strap, I take two pieces of narrow web, half inch wide (but may be of diii'erent width), and of the length necessary for the strap required; these two pieces of web I place side by side, and with needle and thread neatly and firmly sew the selvage edges together from one of the ends, a suiiicient distance to make the unio-n firm and strong; then I leave a space or opening of sufficient length for the button hole or loop required, and then sew the selvage edges of the two pieces of web together again for half an inch or more, thus forming the button hole or loop inone end of the strap, as shown in the accompanying drawing at A, and the buttonhole or loop in the other end of the strap after being attached to the buckle as hereinafter described is formed in the same manner by sewing the other ends of the two pieces of web together as shown in the drawing at B.

In constructing the buckle to which my invention is to be applied, I formthe bar of the buckle with a flat lip behind theV tongues,

ineach end of which I cut out a stri or opening in length equal to the width of the web of the straps, and of suflicient width to receive the web of the straps, and allow it to play easily therein as shown in the drawing at C, C. Y If preferred, instead of the lip on the bar of the buckle with the openings to receive the straps as above described, the bar of the buckle may be formed in the usual manner with wire loops of the required form attached to the bar of the buckle behind the tongues to receive the straps instead of the lip with the openings as above described.

`After the buttonhole or loop is formed in one end of the two pieces of web as shown in the drawing at A, to attach the strap to the buckle I take the left hand strip of web and pass it through the front side of the left hand opening in the bar of the buckle as shown in the drawing at D, andthe right hand strip of web through the back side of the right hand opening in the bar of the buckle as shown in the drawing at E, and then bring the ends of the strips of web together and form the buttonhole or loop, in that end of the strap, by sewing together as in drawing at Bs which completes and forms the suspender end according to my invention, the whole when complete being as JULIUS HOTCHKISS.

Witnesses:

THEoDonE S. BUEL, NORTON J. BUEL.

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