Improvements in Buckles for Straps and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 29th Apr., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOHN LYON CHASE, of No. 67, Lexington
Avenue, and RUFUS MATHEWSON, of No. 33, West Tupper Street, both in
the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York, United States
of America, Proprietors of The Buffalo Weaving Company.]
Improvements in Buckles for Straps and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in buckles whereby the con-
struction of the buckle is rendered more simple and the strap is more securely
held in place when adjusted, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter
described.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section on or about the line a a, Figure 3.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device complete.
Figure 3 is a top face view of the buckle and its several parts.
1 represents the holding frame, it is provided at one end with a cross bar, 2,
rigidly secured to it, to which the strap, 3, is permanently secured in the usual
way either by bending it around the har, 2, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, and
riveting or sewing it at the points 4 and 4*, or substantially at those points, see
Figures 1 and 2.
At the opposite end of the holding frame is pivoted a roller, 5, having a series
of longitudinal grooves or flutes 6.
This roller is pivoted so as to rotate or turn easily in the frame.
Pivoted within the frame is a contact device, 7, for holding the straps.
This contact device is constructed of sheet metal of sufficient thickness to insure
the necessary strength and cousists of the top flat portion, 7, having front or free
end 8, made to curve slightly downward and of sufficient length to insure its free
end, 8, gripping the strap when in position to do so substantially as shown in the
section, Figure 1.
This contact device is provided with two downwardly extending ears, 9, and 9*,
one on each side, they are located substantially as shown by dotted lines in
Figure 3. One of these ears is shown in Figure 1. A round bar, 10, passes
through the ears, 9 and 9" and is rigidly fastened to the holding frame, 1, so that
the contact device 7, will oscillate easily thereon.
To prevent the contact device, 7, from going down too far a cross-bar stop, 11,
is rigidly secured to the holding frame 1, and at the rear end of the frame 1, is
secured by the strap 3, a retaining frame, 13, into and through which the end, 14,
of the strap 12, is passed when secured by the buckle.
When it is desired to remove the end 14, of the strap 12, from the buckle all
that is necessary to do is to remove it from the retaining frame, 13, and pull upward
with sufficient force to raise the contact device which releases the strap so that it
can be taken out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
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1. In a buckle, a holding frame, a longitudinally fluted or grooved roller
mounted in one end of said frame so as to rotate easily a contact device pivoted
in said frame and adapted to engage with a strap interposed between the free end

page_text: of said contact device and a longitudinal flute or groove in said roller, substantially
as described.
2. In a buckle, a holding frame, a longitudinally fluted or grooved roller
mounted in one end of said frame so as to rotate easily, a contact device pivoted
in said frame so that its free end can be moved toward or from the fluted or grooved
roll and a cross-bar stop for preventing the free end of the contact device from
being moved too far forward, substantially as described.
3. In a buckle a holding frame, a longitudinally fluted or grooved roller mounted
in one end of said frame so as to rotate easily, a retaining frame at the opposite end of
the holding frame secured in place by a strap secured to a bar at the end of the
frame, a contact device pivoted in the holding frame so that its free end can be
moved toward or from the fluted or grooved roller, substantially as described.
4. In a buckle, a holding frame, a longitudinally fluted or grooved roller mounted
in one end of said frame so as to rotate easily, a contact device pivoted in said
frame so that its free end can be moved toward or from the grooved roller, a cross-
bar stop for limiting the movement of the contact device, and a retaining frame at
the opposite end of the holding frame and movably retained in place by a strap
secured to a cross-bar at the end of the frame, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.