An Improved Combination of Strap and Spring Fastening for Dog Lead and Collar Combined and for other Suitable Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1889-Accepted, 17th Aug., 1889
TROYINIUNAL DI BOLETATION
An Improved Combination of Strap and Spring Fastening for Dog
Lead and Collar Combined and for other Suitable Purposes.
I WILLIAM GEORGE ASHFORD (of the Firm of Ashford and Winder) of Essex
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers of Saddlery and
Whips, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in attaching to a strap at a certain distance from the end
a spring hook or catch, running down this strap is a metal slide having a tongue
attached to a bar in the centre so that when the slide is allowed to run down the
strap it is arrested by the spring book or catch the end of the strap is buckled into
the slide thus enabling the end beyond the spring hook or catch to be lengthened
or shortened at will.
In the case of Dog leads & collars the portion buckled in forms the collar and
the portion from the spring hook or catch onward forms the lead.
Duted this 31st day of August 1888.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
7, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination of Strap and Spring Fastening for Dog
Lead and Collar Combined and for other Suitable Purposes.
WILLIAM GEORGE ASHFORD (of the Firm of Ashford and Winder), of Essex
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers of Saddlery and
Whips, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to
the letters and figures marked thereon :-
This invention consists in attaching to a strap at a certain distance from the end
a spring hook or catch.
Running down this strap is a metal slide having a Tongue attached to a bar in
the centre so that when the slide is allowed to run down the strap it is arrested by
the spring hook or catch, the end of the strap is buckled into the slide, thus
enabling the end beyond the spring hook or catch to be lengthened or shortened
at will,
In the case of Dog Leads and Collars the portion buckled in forms the Collar
and the portion from the spring hook or catch onwards forms the lead.
Referring to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference
relate to similar parts.
Figs. 1. 2 3 and 4 are respectively top and side views of my improved combina-
tion. Bog lead, (A) is the strap upon which the spring hook or catch (B) is fastened;
this spring hook may be of any suitable shape; at the collar end of the strap (A), is
the metal slide or buckle (C) which travels up and down the strap (A) when released
from the spring hook or catch (B) this slide or buckle (C) may be of any suitable
description for the purpose the one shewn has a tongue attached to a bar in its
centre as at (D) which buckles into the end of the strap as at (E), the other part
of the slide or buckle catching into the spring hook as shewn, and thus forming the
collar the size of which may be regulated from this end, the other end of this strap
forms the lead.
It will be seen in side view Fig. 4 that the buckle or slide rests upon the top of

page_text: the tongue of the spring hook instead of being underneath it by which arrangement
less play is allowed the buckle as the tongue is of sufficient strength to resist any
slight back pressure.
I have described and illustrated my Invention as applied to a Dog lead and collar,
but I wish it to be understood that I can apply it to other suitable purposes.
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
The improved combination of strap and spring fastening for Dog Lead and collar
combined and for other suitable purposes, substantially as herein set forth and
described.
Dated this 12th day of ML... 1900
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.