AN IMPROVED LOCKING OR FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL, BLINDS, UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR OBJECTS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex for an
Invention of AN IMPROVED LOCKING OR FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING
APPAREL, BLINDS, UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR OBJECTS a communication to him
from abroad by Hermann Brunner, of Limbach-Kreuzeiche, in the German
Empire
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th May 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "AN IMPROVED LOCKING
OR FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL, BLINDS, UMBRELLAS AND SIMILAR
OBJECTS," a communication to me from abroad by Hermann Brunner, of, Limbach,
Kreuzeiche in the German Empire,
This invention has for its object the construction of a locking or fastening device
chiefly applicable for fastening wearing apparel, such as gloves, but also for
fastening or locking blinds, umbrellas, and other objects.
If this fastening device is applied to gloves, a small oblong plate of sheet metal
cut out in its centre and provided with a tongue or hook, bent down along and
over the said slot is suitably mounted on the wrist end of the glove.
A cord or tape suitably fixed to one half of the glove and passing through an
eyeletted or otherwise strengthened hole in the opposite half is introduced with
the free end under the tongue of the plate, so as to be bent into and across the slot
and to be held by friction.
This arrangement allows of an easy tightening and loosening of the glove.
For fastening a coat or similar wearing apparal such a plate may be similarly
applied in combination with a cord or tape.
If the fastening device is applied to blinds the plate with the hook is mounted
on the window post, and the cord of the blind is fixed by bending, the same under
the tongue of the plate. The plate may be made of two superposed parts bent of
one piece, the lower part being solid and provided with the tongue under which
passes the cord, while the upper part is slotted parallel to the tongue, the cord
being bent into and across the slot of the upper plate.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th November 1883.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "AN IMPROVED LOCKING
SIMILAR
OR FASTENING DEVICE FOR WEARING APPAREL, BLINDS, UMBRELLAS AND
OBJECTS," a communication to me from abroad by Hermann Brunner, of Limbach,
Kreuzeiche, in the German Empire,
This invention has for its object the construction of a locking or fastening
device chiefly for fastening wearing apparel, such as gloves, but also applicable for
fastening or locking blinds, umbrellas, and similar objects.
In describing this invention reference will be made to Figs. 1 to 13 of the
accompanying drawing of which Figs 1 to 4 represent the fastening device as
applied to a glove, Fig. 5 the same device as applied to a coat for the purpose of
making the same tighter or wider. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 represent the fastening device
as applied to blinds, while Figs. 9, 10 and 11 represent a modification of the same.
Figs 12 and 13 are details.
The improved fastener chiefly comprises a cord or tape which, for the purpose
of obtaining the necessary friction, is bent and clipped at one or more places and
thereby fixed. If the device is applied to gloves, a cord, (tape or strip) suitably
attached to one half of the wrist end of the glove is passed through an eyeletted
or stitched button hole in the opposite half of the wrist end, then drawn back
towards the first half (that to which it is attached) and finally introduced with the
free end under the tongue z of the clip k.
The arrangement of the clip k is more clearly shown in Figs 12 and 13 which
represent the same on an enlarged scale. In the small oblong plate 8 is punched
the slot o over and along which is bent down the elastic hook or tongue z the free
end of which is somewhat bent up. The end of the cord or tape to be fixed is
introduced under the tongue and bent and pressed by the same into the slot o,
the width of which slightly exceeds that of the tongue, (see Figs. 12 and 13) so
that it becomes difficult to draw the cord perpendicularly to the centre line of the
tongue, while it may easily be drawn out in the direction of the tongue. The
device represented in Figs. 6, 7, and 8 serves to hold the cord r of a blind. The
cord is bent at an angle round the edge of the tongue 2¹, and slipped under
the tongue ; which presses the cord into the slot o' of the plate 8¹ and holds the
cord by friction, see Figs 7 and 8.
Fig. 5 represents the application of the fastening device to a coat and requires
no further description. In the modification represented by Figs 9, 10 and 11, the
clip is arranged as follows: The slot o is punched in the elastic plate p which
forms part of the plate 8 and is bent at a sharp angle. When the cord f is
introduced (Figs. 9 and 10) the plate p is bent, and owing to its elesticity presses
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page_text: 2. The clips represented by Figs 6 to 13 and adapted to hold the string, tape or
cord by friction between a tongue e and a slotted plate 8, or between a
tongue and an elastic slotted plate p forming part of the base plate 8³,
substantially as described.
In Witness whereof I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 26th day of November A.D. 1883.