Improvements in Waist Belts and their Fastenings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waist Belts and their Fastenings.
JOHN JACKSON, 95, Downham Road, London, N. Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates more particularly to the fastenings or buckles for waist
belts known as metal or rigid belts, and has for its object a secure fastening when in
use, and an adjustable fixing when not in use.
I take a strip of thin metal (or other suitable material) and I round or smooth
its edges by turning them over, and in some cases for the purpose of appearance, I
affix a strip of ribbon, leather, or other preferred material. The whole length of
the strip I indent, or fashion in any suitable design that will fall one part into the
other when the belt is wrapped around the waist and I firmly secure it in this
position by an independent fastening or buckle, which may be previously attached
to the belt, or not as desired.
The front portion of my fastening I form as an oblong square frame (similar to
an ordinary buckle) and at the back portion of the frame I secure (parallel with
its length) one or more prongs so that only a distance the double width of the
material of the indented strip remains between the prongs and the frame. Thus
after the belt is wrapped around the waist, and held to the required adjustment, the
fastening or buckle may be readily pegged (transversely) on the belt, so that the
frame surrounds an indentation and the prongs hold it firmly in position, when there
is no possibility of the belt slipping, or becoming unwrapped.
In some cases two or more prongs may be used instead of the complete frame to
suit the fastening of different indented designs, but in all cases only a distance
apart between the frame or front and back prongs the double width of the material
of the strip.
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JOHN JACKSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Waist Belts and their Fastenings.
I, JOHN JACKSON, of 95 Downham Road, London, N., Engineer, 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 waist belts and their fastenings constructed as I shall
describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 is a section and Fig. 3 is a plan of part of a waist
belt and fastening according to my invention.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fastening, and
Fig. 5 is a perspective view shewing a modified construction of the fastening.
The waist belt is a strip A of thin sheet metal which is corrugated so as to
present transverse ridges and furrows, but, before corrugating it, I fold inwards
the margins a a of the strip so as to give it rounded edges, and I may, if desired,
apply paper, leather fabric or other material as a lining or facing B on the one side
of the belt, this lining or facing being cemented to the metal and having its edges
covered by the turned in margins a a. The fastening shewn in Fig. 4 consists of a
wire bent to present two side prongs band having attached to its base fa middle.
prong c. The ends of the prongs are slightly bent as shewn, so that when one part
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page_text: of the belt is laid over another part, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3, the internal ridges
of the one part engaging in the external furrows of the other, the fastening can
be readily slid transversely to the belt, the two side prongs bb lying in furrows on
the outside and the central prong c lying in a furrow on the inside, and the two
parts of the belt being thus firmly held together. The form of fastening shewn in
Fig. 5 consists of a single wire bent so as to form two side limbs d d and two
intermediate prongs e e.
When this fastening is applied, the base f and limbs d d
are slid across the belt, the limbs dd occupying two external furrows while ce
occupy two adjacent internal furrows. The distance between the prongs b and c
in Fig. 4 or between the limbs d and prongs e in Fig. 5 have to be made suitable to
the gauge of the corrugations of the belt. These corrugations, instead of being
directly transverse, may be more or less inclined, in which case the fastenings
have to be made with their limbs and prongs at corresponding inclination to their
bases.
Having now particularly described and
tion and in what inanner the same is to
claim is :-
ascertained the nature of this inven-
be performed, I declare that what I
1. A waist belt made by folding in the margins of a metal strip aud transversely
or obliquely corrugating the strip.
2. A waist belt made by applying to one side of a metal strip a lining or facing
of paper, leather or other suitable material, folding the margins of the strip
inwards and over the edges of the lining or facing, and transversely or obliquely
corrugating the strip.
3. A fastening for a corrugated waist belt consisting of a wire bent to form a
base with two side prongs and having a middle prong attached to its base,
substantially as described with reference to Fig. 4.
4. A fastening for a corrugated waist belt consisting of a single wire bent to
form a base with two side limbs and two internal prongs, substantially as described
with reference to Fig. 5.
Dated this 25th day of September 1893.
ABEL & IMKAI,
Agents for the Applicant.