An Improved Fastener and Clip for Gloves, Boots, Corsets, Braces, Suspenders and other Articles of Wearing Apparel or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
An Improved Fastener and Clip for Gloves, Boots, Corsets, Braces,
Suspenders and other Articles of Wearing Apparel or the like.
I, ALFRED BREESE, 75, Aldermanbury. London, E.C., 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:-
My invention relates to an improved fastener and clip for gloves, boots, corsets,
braces, suspenders and other articles of wearing apparel or the like. The device
according to my invention is simpler and more efficient that the majority of
similar contrivances, it can be used in cases where buttons, hooks and eyes or
equivalents are ordinarily employed and possesses the special advantage that in
its primary application when the two ends or edges of the article to be joined
are fastened by my improved device it not only secures same effectively in position
but by means of an eccentric or "drawing together" movement the act of fasten-
ing serves to more securely join the two articles closer together and so take up
any slackness that otherwise would probably be occasioned. In a modification
and at other times the fastener may be employed only for securing the articles
together.
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In the accompanying drawings illustrative of my said invention Figure 1 Sheet 1
shews separately the two parts to be joined together; Figure 2 the position they
assume when first secured and Figure 3 the resultant position when the fasten-
ing arrangement is "closed home" and the eccentric or drawing together" action
secured by turning the pivotted member of fastener in the direction shewn by the
arrow. Figure 4 is a longitudinal section. Sheet 2 shows a modification in which
Figure 1 illustrates the fastener open, Figure 2 closed, and Figure 3 a longi-
tudinal section.
My improved combined fastener and clip consists primarily of two parts A D
the pivotted or hinged member A of which, as distinguished from the other
fixed member D), is capable of rotary movement about a central axis B, pivot or
ring centre or equivalent through the are or the whole of a circle as seen by the
arrow Figure 2. This hinged free member A locks or engages with an eye,
opening or the like I in the adjacent end or edge of the opposite portion of
the article to be joined, fastened, or secured together and is of special shape and
construction. It is cranked or raised at a or thereabouts so that in addition to
serving to fasten the articles to each other the before referred to eccentric or
wedge action, as indicated more particularly by the relative positions of the parts
shewn by Figures 2 and 3, serves to take up any appreciable slack or looseness
that ordinarily is present with existing fasteners. The pivotted member A is not
confined to the precise shape shewn, it may be varied and the eccentric or
drawing up action secured by eccentrically pivotting same or employing a cam
or equivalent to gain the desired result.
The free end C of the pivotted fastener A is used as a clip, the said outer end
engaging with the base D, and, in some cases this fixed member or base I) may

page_text: be dispensed with and the pivotted member A attached direct to the material of
which the article to be fastened is composed and engage with a corresponding eye E
or equivalent therein, the eye I in the opposite portion to be joined still remaining
the same; or, if desired, the pivotted member A may be reversed, as in Sheet 2,
that is to say, the pivot or axis portion 13 may be transposed to E and the clip
or hooked extremity C somewhat prolonged so as to enter the outer ring portion E
now transposed to B, the said hooked extremity Clocking or clipping and fastening
itself to the ring centre E thus locking the eye I of the opposite or adjacent end
or edge of the material or article to be secured, this modification embodying the
fastening action but not the eccentric movement described with reference to
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 Sheet 1.
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
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First. In a fastener and clip for gloves, boots, corsets, braces, suspenders and
other articles of wearing apparel or the like the employment and combination of
a pivotted fastener A and hooked or bent extremity to serve as a clip C, the said
pivotted fastener A being preferably shaped as shewn at Figures 1 to 4 Sheet 1
of the accompanying drawings or otherwise similarly arranged so that whilst
capable of movement through the arc or the whole of a circle as seen by the
arrow it will possess an eccentric or drawing together action for taking up any
slackness or looseness otherwise present in the two parts or articles to be joined
together substantially as herein set forth and shewn and for the purposes specified.
Second. The improved fastener and clip for gloves, boots corsets braces sus-
penders and other articles of wearing apparel and the like substantially as herein
set forth and as shewn Figures 1 to 3 inclusive Sheet 2 of the accompanying
drawings.
BENJ. T. KING A.Inst. Mech. E.
Registered Patent Agent,
165, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.