A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS APPLI- CABLE TO THE FASTENING OF WINDOWS, AND ALSO TO THE FASTENING OF BELTS, GARTERS, BRACES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Westbury, of Aston, near Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Accountant Clerk, and Edward Cooke, of
Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Manager of Works, for the Inven-
tion of "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS APPLI-
CABLE TO THE FASTENING OF WINDOWS, AND ALSO TO THE FASTENING OF BELTS,
GARTERS, BRACES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Sealed the 12th September 1861, and dated the 9th April 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION' left by the said William Westbury and
Edward Cooke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 9th April 1861.
We, WILLIAM WESTBURY, of Aston, near Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Accountant Clerk, and EDWARD COOKE, of Smethwick, in the
County of Stafford, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING, WHICH SAID FASTENING IS
APPLICABLE TO THE FASTENING OF WINDOWS, AND ALSO TO THE FASTENING OF BELTS,
GARTERS, BRACES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists essentially of a sliding metallic plate, which is made
to slide and engage under a button or head passed through a slot or opening.
The said button or head is situated on one of the parts to be fastened, and the
slide and slot or opening in the other part.

page_text: In applying our Invention to the fastening of windows, we make an arm on
one part of the window turn over the other part of the window, the said arm
engaging under the head of a button on the latter part of the window. A slide
on the said arm on being advanced until its forked end engages under the said
button secures the said arm, and prevents it from being moved by a knife or
instrument introduced between the two parts of the window.
In applying our Invention to the fastening of belts, garters, braces, and other
articles of dress, we make a stud button or tongue on one part of the belt or
other article pass through an eyelet hole or opening in the other part of the
belt or article, and by means of a slide, of the kind before described, on that
part on which the cyclet hole or opening is situated fix the stud button or
tongue in the said eyelet hole or opening. Two of the fastenings may be
placed side by side where a broad belt or article has to be fastened.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Westbury and Edward Cooke in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th October 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
WESTBURY, of Aston, near Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Accountant
Clerk, and EDWARD COOKE, of Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, Manager
of Works, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said William Westbury and Edward Cooke, Her special licence that we, the
said William Westbury and Edward Cooke, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such. others as we, the said, William Westbury and Edward Cooke,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING,
WHICH SAID FASTENING IS APPLICABLE TO THE FASTENING OF WINDOWS, AND ALSO
TO THE FASTENING OF BELTS, GARTERS, BRACES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Williani Westbury
and Edward Cooke, our executors or administrators; by an instrument in

page_text: writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us.or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW. YE, that we, the said William Westbury and Edward
Cooke, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists essentially of a fastening in which a sliding metallic
plate, or a plate turning on a centre on one part of the said fastening, is made
to engage under a button or stud on the other part of the fastening, or the said
sliding plate be made to engage with an opening or loop in the other part of
the fastening, as herein-after particularly explained and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
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Figure 1 represents in plan a window or casement fastening made according
to our Invention, the two parts of the fastening being disconnected from one:
another, and Figure 2 is an edge view of the same, the two parts of the
fastening being engaged with one another.
a, b, are the two parts of the fastening fixed respectively on the sashes c, d.
The part a consists of an arm e, turning on a joint at f, engaging under the
tongue g on the other part 6 of the fastening. The arme has a metallic sliding
plate h working on it, the end of which plate is fork-shaped, as represented in
Figure 1. On the tongue 9 of the part ba stud or button i is fixed. To
fasten the sashes, the arm é is turned upon its joint and made to engage under
the tongue g, as represented in Figure 2, and the slide h is then advanced by
the thumb plate h², until its forked end engages under the head of the stud or
button i, and thereby secures the two parts of the fastening together. By
sliding the slide h to the position represented in Figure 1, the arm è can be
moved from under the tongue g, and the two sashes disengaged from each
other.
Figure 3 represents in plan another sash or casement fastening made according
to our Invention, the two parts being disconnected from one another. Figure 4
represents the same fastened together, and Figure 5 represents an edge view
of Figure 4. In this fastening the arm of one part of the fastening as well as
the slide working upon it engage with the same button or stud on the other
part of the fastening. k, l, are the two parts of the fastening. The arm m of
the part turns on a pin or centre at n, and has a slot or opening o-made in
one side, as represented. The slide p on the arm m has a forked end, and

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slides between the turned-in edges m² of the arm m. The other part of the
fastening consists simply of a plate having a stud or button 9 secured to it. In
fastening the two parts together the arm m is turned on its centre n, and the
slot or opening o made to engage under the head or button 9. The slide pis
then advanced, and its forked end also made to engage under the head or 5
button q, as represented in Figures 4 and 5; the two parts k, l, are thereby
fastened together.
Figure 6 represents in plan, the two parts being disconnected, another sash
or casement fastening made according to our Invention; Figure 7 represents:
the same, the two parts being engaged with one another; and Figure 8 is a 1
cross section of the same. In this fastening, instead of making the forked. end
of a slide on the arm of one part of the fastening engage with a stud or button.
on the other part of the fastening, wo make the end of a slide engage in a slot.
in the other part of the fastening.
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r, s, are the two parts of the fastening. The arm t on the part r is bent or 1
cranked at u, so that it may work over the fixed barv on the part s, when the
said arm is turned over the two sashes, as best seen in Figure 8. The fixed:
barv has a slot w made in it, in which slot the contracted end of the slide.
x on the arm t is made to engage after the said arm has been brought into the.
position represented in Figures 7 and 8, and thus secure the two parts r, s, of 2
the fastening together.
By constructing sash and casement fastenings according to our Invention,
the arm of the fastening is prevented from being moved by a knife or instrument
introduced between the two sashes or casements.
Figure 9 represents in plan, the two parts of a belt clasp or fastening made 2
according to our Invention, the two parts being separated from one another; .
Figure 10 is an edge view of the same; Figure 11 is the same with the two
parts fastened together, and Figure 12 is a plan of the under side of Figure 11..
y,, are the two parts of the fastening secured by the loops y and to the
ends of the belt or band to be fastened. The part has at its contracted 3
end two studs or buttons 1, 1, and the part y has pierced in it two holes.
or openings 2, 2; 3 is a slide on the part y, which said slide has two openings
4, 4, made in its front edge as represented. In fastening together the two
parts y, z, the part y is placed over the part 2, and the openings 2, 2, made to.
engage under the studs or buttons 1, 1. The part y is then moved till the S
said studs or buttons 1, 1, engage with the contracted parts of the said open-
ings 2, 2. The slide 3 is now advanced, and the slots or openings 4, 4, in
its front engage under the said buttons or studs 1, 1, and thereby fix the.
said buttons or studs in the slots 2, 2. The two parts of the fastening are

page_text: thus fastened together. The tongues or ears 3º, 3º, of the slide 3, bent under.
the part y, have the shape represented in Figure 12 so that on advancing the
said slide to fasten the two parts y,, together, the curved inner edges of
the said cars 3, 3, bear against the curved outer edges of the contracted
end of the part, and thereby make a neat junction of the two parts of
the fastening. In place of fastening the two parts of the belt clasp at:
the middle, and making them equal or nearly equal in size, we make the
junction of the two parts at the end of one of the two parts, the two parts of
the fastening being of unequal size. Figure 13 represents in plan two parts,
of a belt clasp of this kind made according to our Invention, the two parts.
being separated from one another; and Figure 14 is the same with the two.
parts connected together, 5 is one part of the fastening carrying the buttons or.
studs 6, 6, and 7 is the other part of the fastening provided, with the.
slots 8, 8, and slide.10. The slide 10 corresponds in shape to the part 11.
at the opposite end of the part 7, and when the said slide 10 is advanced.
into the position represented in Figure 14, completes the proper configuration:
of the belt clasp. The action of the parts of the clasp, Figures 18 and 14, is
the same as that of the clasp represented in Figures 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Instead of making the plate containing the slots on one part of the fastening
engage with the buttons or studs, on the other part of the fastening by a
sliding motion, the said plate may be made to engage with the buttons or.
studs by a rotatory motion. Figure. 15 represents in plan a clasp or fastening,
made according to this modification, the two parts being unconnected; and.
Figure 16 is the same with the two parts fastened together, 12 is one part of.
the clasp having the pins or buttons 13, 13, fixed on it, 14 is the other part of
the fastening, on the pin or centre 17 of which the slotted plate 15. turns.:
After the pins or buttons 13, 18, on the part 12 have been made to engage in
the narrow ends of the slot 16, 16, in the other part 14 in the manner herein-
before explained, the plate 15 is turned on its centre from the position repre-
sented in Figure 15 to that, represented in Figure 16, and its slots or openings
are thereby made to engage with and fix the pius or buttons 13, 13, in the
slots or openings 16, 16, and secure the two parts of the clasp together.
Figure, 17 represents in plan and edge view another belt clasp, or fastening
made according to our Invention, the two parts being separated from cach
other; and Figure 18 is the same with the two parts fastened together.
In this clasp or fastening the sliding plate 18 of the part 19 has a tongue 18*
at its front, and the said part 19 has a rectangular opening 20 pierced in
it; the other part 21 of the fastening has a raised loop 22. In fastening.
the parts 19 and 21 together, the loop 22 is passed through the slot 20, and,

page_text: the slide 18 advanced until its tongue 18° engages with the loop 22, as repre-
sented in Figure 18; the parts 19 and 21 are thereby fastened together.
Figure 19 represents in plan a crinolino or garter fastening constructed in
the manner described with respect to the belt clasp, Figures 17 and 18;
Figure 20 represents in frout elevation our improved fastening applied as a
brace fastening; Figures 21 and 22 represent parts of the same separately.
In the web 23 of the brace, we fix a series of eyelet holes 24, 24, and to the
part 25 of the brace, which is secured to the button or buttons on the article
of dress we fix a hook-shaped piece of metal 26, having at its top a flat
head or button 27; or, the part 26 may be straight instead of hook-shaped
and have a stud or button on its top. The part 25 of the brace is shown
separately in front and side elevation in Figure 21. On the web 23 is a
sliding plate 28 (shown separately in Figure 22), having a slot or opening 29
in one of its sides. To fasten the part 25 of the brace to the web 23, the
head or button 27 of the tongue 26 is passed through one of the eyelet boles
24, the sliding plate 28 is then drawn down the web until its slot 29 engages
under the head or button 27 when the said head or button 27. can no longer
escape through the eylet hole and the two parts 23 and 25 of the brace are
thus fastened together. In order to disengage the part 25 from the web 23
for the purpose of adjusting the length of the brace, it is only necessary to
slide the plate 28 from the head or button 27 when the said head or button
can be drawn through and removed from the eyelet hole 24 and passed through
any one of the other eyelet holes and the head or button 27 afterwards fastened
in the said eyelet hole by the sliding plate 28.
Although we have only described our new or improved fastening repre-
sented in Figures 9 to 21, both inclusive, of the Drawings as applied to belts,
garters, crinolines, and braces, yet our said fastening is applicable to the
fastening of all articles of dress in which two parts or ends are required to
be connected together.
We make our improved dress fastenings by cutting or stamping them
from sheet metal and raising them in dies, as is practised in the manufacture
of ordinary dress fastenings. Our improved dress fastenings may be orna-
mented in a variety of ways to suit the articles of dress to which they are
to be applied.
. Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not
limit ourselves to the precise details herein described and represented, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of our Invention;
but we claim as our Invention, the new or improved fastening, for fastening

page_text: windows, belts, garters, braces, and other articles of dress, constructed essen-
tially in the manner herein-before explained and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Westbury and Edward Cooke,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM WESTBURY. (L.S.)
EDWARD COOKE.
(L.S.)