An Improved Combined Buckle and Snap Hook.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Buckle and Snap Hook.
We, GEORGE DE BRETON HAYES, Miller, and JAMES HORNBY BUTCHER,
Gentleman, both of Chetek, in the County of Barron, and State of Wisconsin,
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The special object of the invention is to make a combined buckle and snap hook
without spring or other attachments liable to break or get out of order, and which
may be as easily attached or detached as the old snap, while it can be more easily
handled in cold weather by a gloved hand.
In our invention the buckle frame has a cross, loop to receive the strap, the
latter being then passed through the strap buckle and keeper in the usual way.
The buckle frame is also provided with a longitudinal loop separated from the
cross loop by a round cross bar.
An ordinary hook is provided in its shank with a transverse pole or bearing
through which passes the buckle frame cross bar or pivot. In the rear of the
bearing is the buckle tongue which enters one hole only of the strap, while the
buckle frame turns in the bearing with its cross bar.
A finger stud is placed on the outer curve of the hook, by which the latter may
be pressed in one direction while the buckle frame is pressed in an opposite one,
so that the ring or link may be attached to or removed from the hook.
The fold of the leather exerts sufficient force to keep the buckle frame and
tongue together at the rear, and consequently the hook and buckle-frame together
in front, while any strain on the hook only makes the buckle frame hug it more
closely.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1893
F. W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Buckle and Snap Hook.
We, GEORGE DE BRETON HAYES, Miller, and JAMES HORNBY BUTCHER,
Gentleman, both of Chetek, in the County of Barron, and State of Wisconsin,
United States of America, 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:-
The special object of the invention is to make a combined buckle and snap-
hook without spring or other attachments liable to break or get out of order, and
which may be as easily attached or detached as the old snap, while it can be more
easily handled in cold weather by a gloved hand.
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Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of our invention attached to a
strap;
Fig. 2 a detail view of the buckle frame;
Fig. 3, a detail side elevation of the hook and buckle-tongue in one piece.
In the drawings, A represents the buckle-frame, which has the cross-loop a to
receive the strap B, the latter being then passed through the strap-buckle C and
keeper D in the usual way. The buckle-frame is also provided with a longitudinal
loop a', separated from the cross-loop a by the round cross-bar a³.
E is an ordinary hook, which is provided in its shank with the transverse pole

page_text: or bearing eª, through which passes the buckle-frame cross-bar or pivot a³. In
the rear of the bearing e is the buckle-tongue e', which enters one hole only
of the strap B, while the buckle-frame turns in the bearing e' with its cross-
bar a³.
e is the finger-stud on the outer curve of the hook, by which the latter may be
pressed in one direction while the buckle-frame is pressed in an opposite one, so
that the ring or link may be attached to or removed from the hook.
The fold of the leather exerts sufficient force to keep the buckle frame and
tongue together at the rear, and consequently the hook and buckle-frame together
in front, while any strain on the hook only makes the buckle-frame hug it more
closely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A combined snap-hook and buckle consisting of frame A, having cross-loop a,
longitudinal loop a', and cross-bar or pivot a², and the hook E, having the
tongue e and bearing e for the pivot a², the frame and hook being relatively
constructed and arranged to operate together in the manner described.
2. The improvements in combined snap-hook and buckle, substantially as and
for the purposes herein before described, set forth, and illustrated in the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 05th day of August 1892
F. W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent.