IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maurice Vogl, of Sambrook Court, Basinghall Street,
in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
Sealed the 17th March 1863, and dated the 22nd September 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maurice Vogl at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd September 1862.
I, MAURICE VOGL, of Sambrook Court, Basinghall Street, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING
APPAREL," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing fastenings as follows:-I construct
an improved fastening, of which one portion or member is a pin, hook, stud,
or piece formed with a curved end or limb, or an end or a limb at an angle to
its stem, shank, or body, or a head or part broader than or projecting from its
stem, shank, or body. This pin, hook, stud, or piece is capable of turning
wholly or partially round. The other member or portion of the fastening is a
slot or opening preferably edged or protected by a metal eyelet or rim. To
effect the fastening the pin, hook, stud, or turning piece is introduced into the
slot or opening, and turned sufficiently to bring its outer end, hook, limb, or
head at an angle to the length of the opening, or over the edge or side of the
opening, in which position the members of the fastening are engaged. To
disengage them the turning piece is turned, so as to bring its end, head, or

page_text: limb in such position with regard to the slot or opening that it can be slipt
through the same. Or instead of the pin, stud, hook, or turning piece, I use
a spring or springs of such shape and arrangement, that when compressed it
or they may be passed through the slot or opening, but when released or
allowed to expand or return to its or their previous form, the arms or sides of
the spring or the springs project or extend over the sides or edges of the slot
or opening, and effect the fastening action. This spring may also if desired
be capable of turning wholly or partially round.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Maurice Vogl in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MAURICE
VOGL, of Sambrook Court, Basinghall Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Maurice Vogl, Her special licence that I, the
said Maurice Vogl, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Maurice Vogl, my exécutors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING
APPAREL," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Maurice Vogl,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, 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 I, the said Maurice Vogl, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following

page_text: statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing fastenings as follows:-According to
my first arrangement I construct a fastening, of which one portion or member
is a pin, stud, or piece having a head, outer end, limb, or part broader than or
projecting from its stem, shank, or body. This pin, stud, or piece is capable
of turning wholly or partly round. The other member or portion of the
fastening is a slot or opening, preferably edged or protected by a metal eyelet
or rim. To effect the fastening the pin or turning piece is introduced into the
slot or opening, and turned sufficiently to bring its head, outer end, or pro-
jecting limb at an angle to the length of the opening, or over its edge or sidė,'
in which position the members of the fastening are engaged. To disengage"
them, the pin or turning piece is turned so as to bring its end, head, or limb
in such position with regard to the slot or opening that it can be slipped
through the same. Or, in a second arrangement, I use instead of the pin,"
stud, or turning piece a spring or springs, of such shape and arrangement that
when compressed it or they may be passed through the slot or opening, but
when released, or allowed to extend or return to its or their previous form, the
arms or sides of the spring will project or extend over the sides or edges of
the slot or opening, and effect the fastening. The spring may, if desired, be
capable of turning wholly or partially round.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify the manner of performing. my
Invention.
Figures 1 to 5, inclusively, relate to the first arrangement. Figure 1 shews
the fastening applied by way of example to a portion of a legging A. It may
be applied in like manner to other articles of apparel. Figure 2 is an
elevation of the fastening closed; Figure 3 is a transverse section of Figure 1,
shewing the fastening closed; and Figure 4, a transverse section shewing it
unfastened; Figure 5 shews the parts separately.
a is the pin or turning piece, and a¹ its head; the pin is capable of being
turned round in the legging. In the best mode of fitting it for the purpose,
the pin is formed with a collar or shoulder a³, and is passed through the
leather or material of the legging and through an inner steel plate a³, and a
disc a' is fastened on its inner end; the pin is fitted near one edge of the
legging; b is a slot formed in the legging near the other edge, and surrounded
by a metal eyelet 6', this slot is of sufficient length to admit the pin head a¹
when the latter is turned in the direction of the slot's length, but the slot is
too narrow for the pin head a¹ to pass through when turned transversely,
diagonally, or at an angle to the slot's length. Thus the fastening can be

page_text: opened and closed by turning the pin a. To close the fastening, the pin
head a¹ having first been brought lengthwise of the slot, is passed through it,
and is then turned across it, as shewn in Figures 1, 2, and 3. To open the
fastening the pin head a¹ is brought lengthwise of the slot, as shewn in
Figure 4, and the slot can then be readily withdrawn from the pin. For
leggings I prefer to use three or more fastenings, their slots 6 being so formed
that the direction of each shall be at a right angle to that of the next.
Figures 6 to 10, inclusively, refer to the second arrangement of fastening, in
which a spring is used instead of a pin a, a'; b is the slot, and 6', eyelet, as
before; c, c, are two springs, consisting, as in the section, Figure 9, of bent
wires, or as in the section Figure 6, and elevation Figure 7, of cup-shaped or
hollow hemispherical pieces of steel or springy metal attached to stems c
soldered at their inner ends, and attached to the legging, but kept oblique by
a projection c. 6, Figure 8, is the slot for the springs, Figure 6; 6, Figure 10,
is the slot for springs Figure 9. When the slot 6 passes over the springs it
will compress them, and when the springs are through they will be released,
and extend to their previous form, and thus close the fastening, as shewn in
Figure 7; the fastening is opened by withdrawing the slot from the springs.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim as the Invention secured
to me by the said Letters Patent,―
First, a fastening having its parts arranged and combined according to the
first arrangement, herein-before described.
Second, a fastening having its parts arranged and combined according to
the second arrangement, herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Maurice Vogl, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
M. HENRY, Patent Agent,
84, Fleet Street, London.
MAURICE VOGL. (L.S.)