Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1887
Complete Left, 18th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
I WILLIAM JAMES WALTERS of Prospect in the County of Oneida, State of New York
United. States of America, Suspender Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new and improved brace buckle which is simple in
construction and holds the web of the brace firmly in place when increasing the pull
on the brace end.
The invention consists of a buckle frame provided with a middle cross bar and of
a clamp sliding on the side bars of the said frame, and pressing the web of the brace
upon the cross bar said clamp being connected with the brace end.
The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same
as will be fully described hereinafter.
The clamp is a wire bent Y shaped the extremities of the oblique limbs terminating
in loops which embrace and slide on the side bars of the frame, the oblique limbs
lying.across and in front of the middle cross bar. The lower part of the clamp passes
through a guiding aperture in the lower cross bar of the frame and is formed into a
hook below said aperture for the attachment of the brace ends.
The guiding aperture in the bottom bar of the frame may be formed by splitting
the bar or by forming a loop in it or by slightly cranking it and fixing a strip of
metal across the cranked portion, the strip being lapped round the bar at either side
of the cranked portion.
The web of the brace passes behind the top cross bar, then in front of the middle
cross bar between it and the clamp and then behind the lower cross bar so that tension
on the brace end draws the clamp downwards and causes the oblique limbs of the clamp
to press the web tightly against the cross bar, the web being nipped more tightly as
the tension increases owing to the looped ends of the clamp approaching more closely
to the cross bar.
Dated this 29th day of November 1887.
W. J. WALTERS.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: 1, WILLIAM JAMES WALTERS, of Prospect, in the County of Oneida, and State of
New York, United States of America, Suspender 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 a new and improved brace buckle, which is simple in
construction and holds the web of the brace firmly in place when increasing the pull
on the brace end.
The Invention consists of a buckle frame provided with a middle cross bar and of a
clamp sliding on the side bars of the said frame and pressing the web of the brace
upon the cross bar said clamp being connected with the brace end.
The Invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same,
as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 is a front elevation of the buckle. Figure 2 is a
sectional side elevation of the same on the line x-x of figure 1, and figure 3 is a
sectional plan view on the line y-y of figure 2.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
the
My improved buckle A comprises the rectangular frame B, having the side
bars B B connected with each other at their lower ends by the cross-bar B² and at
the top by the cross bar B³ preferably provided with a roller throughout its length.
In the middle part of the bottom cross bar B2 is formed an aperture B by securing
a sleeve B³ to the said cross bar and cutting away part of the middle of the front of
.the sleeve B, as illustrated in figure 3. The aperture B4 may also be formed by
splitting the bottom bar B3 in its middle or by forming a loop in the same. Across
the middle of the frame B extends a cross bar C fastened by its ends to the side
bars B. On the latter slides the clamp D made of one piece of wire and having its
ends formed into loops which embrace the side bars B'. From the ends D', the two
limbs D² of the clamp D extend downwards obliquely across and in front of the cross
bar C and towards each other until they meet at the middle of the bottom bar
frame, and pass together through the loop B formed in the bottom cross bar B², after
passing through which the parts D³ are formed into a loop or hook E on which is
held a ring F carrying the brace ends G, of any approved construction. The web H
of the brace is passed behind the top cross bar B³, then in front of the middle cross
bar C and behind the clamp D, and then behind the bottom cross-bar B², and so
that tension on the brace end draws the clamp D downward and causes the oblique
limbs D² of the clamp D to press the web H tightly against the cross bar C, thus
connecting the buckle A securely to the web H. It will be seen that the web will be
nipped more tightly between the clamp D and the cross bar C as the tension increases,
in consequence of the looped ends D₁ of the clamp sliding down more nearly to the
cross bar. The clamp D is guided in this movement by the straight part D³ passing

page_text: through the guiding aperture B* in the bottom cross bar B³, thus preventing the
ends D' binding against the side bars B¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. A buckle consisting of a frame provided with a fixed cross bar and a clamp
sliding on the side bars of the frame and passing down in front of the cross bar,
substantially as shewn and described.
2. A buckle consisting of a frame provided with a cross bar and an apertured
bottom bar and a clamp sliding on the side bars of the frame and projecting down-
ward in front of the cross bar and passing through the aperture in the bottom bar of
the said frame, substantially as shewn and described.
3. The combination with a buckle frame of a cross bar secured to the side bars of
the said frame and a clamp adapted to slide on the said side bars of the frame and
extending in front of the said cross bar and passing through the apertured bottom
bar of the frame, said clamp being provided with a hook on its lower end, substantially
as shewn and described.
4. The combination with the brace buckle A provided with the side bars B¹, tho
top bar B³, and the apertured bottom bar B2, of the cross bar C secured to said side
bars B', the clamp D having the ends D₁ adapted to slide on the said side bars B¹
said clamp being also provided with the bars D2 passing over the cross bar C and
adapted to press the web of the brace against the said cross bars, said clamp being
also provided with a straight piece D³ passing through the aperture in the bottom
bar B and a hook or loop formed at the lower end of said clamp for attachment of the
brace ends, substantially as shewn and described.
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