Means for Attaching Buckles to Leggings, Gaiters, Boots and Shoes, Bags, or the like
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means for Attaching Buckles to Leggings, Gaiters, Boots and Shoes,
Bags, or the like.
THOMAS LAYCOCK Boot Upper Manufacturer Bengeworth Wellingborough do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of straps or holders
for buckles used in leggings boots shoes, gaiters, bags &c., whereby the leather
strap or holder generally used to fix the buckle to the legging &c. is dispensed
with, and the improvement consists in substituting a piece of metal or other suitable
material.
In carrying out my invention I employ a piece of metal or other suitable material,
punched with a hole sufficient to allow the tongue of the buckle free play, and also
with holes for the purpose of fixing to the leggings &c. with rivets or the like and
also moulded or shaped ready for usc.
By the adoption of my improved method of using metal straps or holders, and
fastenings for buckles, not only will there be much freer play for the tongue of the
buckle and consequently easier to buckle with the strap, but also being fastened
with rivets or the like, they will be more quickly attached, and be much more
permanent than the present method of using leather, and stitching on the same to
the leggings &c.
It is well known that the leather straps or holders are often torn or broken, but
by my method this will be entirely obviated.
My. improved metal buckle strap or holder can be perforated so as to be sewn
on in the usual way if necessary.
It is also obvious that my improved strap or holders can be supplied separate
from the buckle or can be made as part of the buckle and also the strap or holder
can be made self fastening.
Dated this 5th day of December 1801
THOMAS LAYCOCK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means for Attaching Buckles to Leggings, Gaiters, Boots and Shoes,
Bags, or the like.
I, THOMAS LAYCOCK, of Bengeworth, Wellingborough, in the County of
Northampton, Boot Upper 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 method of attaching buckles to leggings, gaiters, boots,
shoes, bags or the like and to holders therefor.
Heretofore it has generally been the practice to attach buckles to such articles
by first fixing them to a short leather strap or holder and then sewing the latter to
the material of which the article is made.
This method of attachment involves considerable trouble and time besides which
the leather straps are liable to become torn or broken.
The object of my invention is to obviate these objections and for this purpose I
dispense with the use of the usual leather holder and employ instead thereof a
holder of sheet metal or wire (which I call a buckle holder) stamped and bent or
otherwise formed into the required shape to embrace the tongue-bar of the buckle
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page_text: and allow free play for the tongue, the said holder being also provided with holes,
clips or the like to allow of the buckle being attached direct to the legging or
other article as hereinafter more particularly described.
Further instead of stitching the leather straps which engage with the buckles, to
the legging or other article, I find it advantageous to connect them thereto by
meaus of a holder consisting of a bar of metal or other suitable rigid material of
such a length as to project beyond the edges of the strap. This bar is provided
with a hole or holes or clips similar to those hereinbefore described for the buckle
holder whereby it is similarly secured to the leather strap. A slit or slot is
provided in the legging or other article of a size which will allow of the passage
of the strap but not of the bar which thus forms a stop therefor.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan, and
Figure 2 is a side view of my improved buckle holder or attachment when made
from sheet metal.
Figure 3 is a plan of a blank from which the holder is formed.
Figure 4 is a plan of a buckle provided with its holder.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figure 5 but shewing the buckle attached to a 1
piece of material.
Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 3 of a slightly modified form of blank.
Figures 8 and 9 are views similar to Figures 3 and 5 of a further modification of
holder.
Figures 10 and 11 are views similar to Figures 3 and 5 but shewing what I call
my self fastening holder.
Figure 12 is a rear elevation of the self fastening holder, and
Figure 13 is a similar view shewing the buckle attached to a piece of material.
Figures 13 and 13³ are a plan and an edge view of one of my buckle holders
made from wire.
Figure 14 is a plan of my holder for connecting to leggings and other articles the
leather straps which engage with the buckles.
Figure 15 is an edge view of the same.
Figure 16 is a plan shewing the holder secured to a strap.
Figure 17 is a plan, and
Figure 18 an edge view (partly in section) illustrating the manner in which the
strap is connected to the legging or other article.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar or corresponding parts.
I will first describe my buckle holder by reference to Figures 1 to 6.
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My improved holder shewn in Figures 1 and 2 is made from a blank of sheet metal 4
stamped or otherwise formed as shewn in Figure 3 with a hole or slot a to give
passage and allow free play to the tongue b, Figures 4, 5 and 6, of an ordinary
buckle c, and with a hole d to admit of a rivet e being passed through the holder f
and material g to secure them together as shewn in Figure 6. The piece of metal
of the shape shewn in Figure 3 is doubled over where indicated by the dotted 4
line A A and formed into the shape shewn in Figure 2 and is then passed over the
tongue-bar of the buckle e so as to embrace the same as shewn in Figures 4, 5
and 6 and is then attached to the material g by a rivet e as above stated.
The forms of holder illustrated by Figure 7 and by Figures 8 and 9 are similar
to that herein before described with reference to Figures 1 to 6 and will be 5
understood without description.
My self fastening holder illustrated in Figures 10 to 13 is made from a piece of
metal of a similar shape to that shewn in Figure 7 except that instead of being
provided with a hole à to receive the attaching rivet, it is made with lugs or
prongs i, i, i having depressions or teeth j, j, j thus forming clips.
To attach the holder to a legging or other article the clips i, i, i are first turned
down at right angles as shewn in Figures 11 and 12 and then passed through the
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page_text: material g and turned inwards as shewn in Figure 13, when the teeth j, j, j enter the
material g and securely connect the holder thereto.
When I form my buckle holder of wire I bend the wire into the shape shewn in
Figures 13 and 13 the fastening passing through the loop d; or instead of a loop
such as d, the holder may be fixed by prongs as in the bolder described by reference
to Figure 10.
By the use of my improved buckle holder not only is the tongue of the buckle
allowed free play and the buckling with the strap consequently rendered easier than
with the usual method of attachment, but the buckle can be more quickly attached
and the attachment will be more permanent.
Referring now to Figures 14 to 18, k is the holder which I find it advantageous
to employ for connecting the leather strap engaging with the buckle to the
legging or other article, the said holder consisting as clearly shewn in Figure 16,
of a bar of such a length as to project beyond the edges of the strap l. m Figure 14
indicates the hole for receiving a rivet n whereby the bar is secured to the strap
(or it can obviously be secured by means of clips such as those shewn at i, i, i in
Figure 10). o Figures 17 and 18 is the slit or slot in the material of the legging
or other article such slit being of a length which will allow the strap to be passed
through it but not the holder or bark which latter thus forms a stop preventing
the strap from being drawn right out of the slit.
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It will be obvious that, if required, my buckle and strap holders can be provided
with a number of perforations or eyes to allow of their being sewn to the material
and strap respectively instead of being connected thereto by rivets or clips as
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved method of attaching buckles to leggings, gaiters, boots, shoes,
bags or the like by the use of the improved holders herein before described and
illustrated in Figures 1 to 13B of the accompanying drawing.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved holders for attaching buckles to
leggings, gaiters, boots, shoes, bags or the like hereinbefore described with
reference to Figures 1 to 13B of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 6th day of September 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.