Improvements in Buckles for Garters, Braces, and other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles for Garters, Braces, and other Articles
of Wearing Apparel.
I, HENRY HALLADAY, of Globe Works, Burbury Street, in the City of
Birminghain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object, a self-securing buckle for garters, braces and
other articles of wearing apparel, and relates to that class in which prongs are
employed as the securing means.
My invention consists in directing the prongs obliquely to the plane of the
buckle frame.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with a garter buckle,
I take a rectangular shaped frame having a middle bar, and I provide the inside
boundary edge of the front side of the said frame with obliquely and inwardly
directed prongs, teeth or their equivalents which have set-down points. In
consequence of these prongs or teeth lying obliquely to the plane of the frame, a
band passing over the bar and under the sides of the frame becomes self-secured on
the band being pulled away from the prongs.
Thus, supposing the free end of a band is threaded under the first side over the
frame, over the middle bar and then again under the opposite side of the frame,
the pulling of the band at a part forward of the prongs causes the said band to
force itself over the prongs, hence self-securing.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the location of the
prongs, as the same may be carried by the middle bar or a bar of the frame.
Usually the plain middle bar is employed as the connection for the attached end
of the band, or, in another form of my invention, the attached end of the band
may be secured to the bar without sewing by making the said bar in manner
following
:-
I take an ordinary frame, and the middle bar, which is broader than usual, has a
longitudinal slit or piercing and also a gap upon its side. The free end of the band
to be connected is passed around the bar and is brought back over the gapped edge
and is then inserted through the slit.
The application of my invention to buckles for braces and other articles of
wearing apparel differs in no essential respect from its application to a garter
buckle as herein described.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1894.
HENRY HALLADAI,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles for Garters, Braces, and other Articles
of Wearing Apparel.
I, HENRY HALLADAY, of Globe Works, Burbury Street, in the City of
Birmingham, 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 has for its object, a self-securing buckle for garters, braces
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page_text: and other articles of wearing apparel, and relates to that class in which prongs are
employed as the securing means.
My invention consists in directing the prongs inwardly and obliquely to the
general plane of the buckle frame.
In carrying out one form of my invention in connection with a garter buckle, I
take a rectangular shaped frame having a set-down middle bar, and I provide the
inside boundary edge of the front side of the said frame with obliquely and
inwardly-directed prongs, teeth or their equivalents which have set down points.
In consequence of these prongs or teeth lying obliquely to the plane of the frame,
a band passing over the bar and under the sides of the frame becomes self-secured
on being pulled past the prongs.
Thus, supposing the free end of a band is threaded under the first side of the
frame, over the middle bar and then again under the opposite side of the frame,
the pulling of the band at a part forward of the prongs causes the said band to
force itself onto the set-down points of the inwardly-raking prongs, hence
self-securing.
invention.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the location of the
prongs, as the same may be carried by the middle bar, or a bar of the frame.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of a garter,
provided with a self-securing pronged buckle constructed according to my
Figure 2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, an elevation of the said buckle
separate and Figure 3 is a section of the same upon the dotted lines - Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents, upon the same scale, the said buckle applied to a length of
banding, whilst Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of Figure 4 upon the dotted
lines A A, showing how one end of the said band is attached to the middle bar of
the buckle by sewing.
In Figures 1 to 5, a is the buckle frame, a¹ the middle bar, around which an
end 6', of a band b, passes and is there secured by stitching, whilst the other end 6²,
is threaded through the piercings a², upon the two opposite sides of the bar, and is
engaged with the set-back points of inwardly raking prongs a³, formed on the inner
edge at, of the side a³, of the buckle.
Figure 6 represents a like buckle, with the middle bar slightly modified in form
in order to accommodate the same for use in connection with a suspender.
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Figure 7 is a vertical section of the same.
a is a buckle having inclined and set-back pointed teeth a³, as before, and with,
the bar a', gapped at aº, over the edge of which former aud through the latter, the
suspender band 63, passes and is thereby secured to the principal band b.
Although a plain middle bar is employed as the connection for the attached end.
of the band, yet, according to another form of my invention, the attached end of
the band may be secured to the bar without sewing by making the said bar in
manner following:-
I take an ordinary frame, and the middle bar, having a longitudinal slit or
piercing through it, thus making two bars. The free end of the band to be
connected is passed through the longitudinal slit, and then around one of the bars,
when the slit is closed, and the material of the band is nipped between the metal of
the closed edges.
Figure 8 represents a back elevation of a pronged buckle provided with such a
bar for securing the material of a band to a buckle without sewing, and Figure 9
represents a horizontal section of the same, showing an end of the band passing
through the slit, prior to its being closed.
a is a buckle frame, having a middle bar a¹, separated from the end bars by
gaps a², and which middle bar is longitudinally slit at a³, and one edge turned
slightly out of the piane of the frame. By now passing the band through the slit
as in Figure 9, and around one portion of the bar and then closing or pressing the
turned down edge of the slit back into the plane of the bar, the said material is
nipped or held to the buckle without sewing.

page_text: The application of my invention to buckles for braces and other articles of
wearing apparel differs in no essential respect from its application to a garter or
suspender buckle as herein 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 :-
First. In prong buckles, making the same self-securing by setting back the
points of the prongs, or by directing the prongs obliquely inwards or backwards
from the plane of the buckle frame, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In buckles, securing bands thereto, without sewing, by the means
and in the way substantially as described and set forth in Figures 8 and 9.
Dated this 16th day of October 1894.
HENRY HALLADAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.