Improved Means to serve as the Suspending Attachments to Sword Belts, for Sword Slings, Sabre Taches, Pouches, and other Articles of Accoutrement.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means to serve as the Suspending Attachments to Sword
Belts, for Sword Slings, Sabre Taches, Pouches, and other Articles
of Accoutrement.
I HENRY STANNING, 25 Charles Street, Larcom Street Walworth Road,
London S.E. Army Accoutrement Maker do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
;--
The means hitherto adopted to allow of the detachment from and re-attachment
to sword belts of the suspending slings or taches (and consisting in the employment
of what are known in the accoutrement making trades as D pieces and billets)
involves the somewhat tedious and troublesome operations of studding and un-
studding of said slings, taches, pouches and other articles of accoutrement suspended
from the sword belt.
Now by my invention I entirely dispense with the use of studs, and I employ flat
metal U shaped spring clips one member of each of which is securely attached to
and within the body of the belt, the outer limb or member serving as a spring clip
piece over which the buckle of the sling, tache, pouch or the like is readily intro-
duced and from which it may with equal facility be removed.
Dated 21st dow of Anril 1801
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means to serve as the Suspending Attachments to Sword
Belts, for Sword Slings, Sabre Taches, Pouches, and other Articles
of Accoutrement.
1, HENRY STANNING, of 25 Charles Street, Larcom Street, Walworth Road,
London, S.E. Army Accoutrement Maker, 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 :-
The means hitherto adopted to allow of the detachment from and re-attachment
to sword belts of the suspending slings or sabre-taches, consisted in the employment
of what are known in the accoutrement making trade as D pieces and billets.
These latter involve the somewhat tedious and troublesome operations of studding
and unstudding the said slings, taches, pouches, and other articles of accoutrement
which were suspended from the sword belt.
Now, according to my invention I entirely dispense with the use of studs and I
employ flat metal U shaped spring clips, one member of each of which is securely
attached to and within the body of the belt, the outer limb or member serving as a
spring clip piece over which the link of the sling, tache, pouch or the like is
readily introduced and from which it may be removed with equal facility.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a general view of a portion of my improved belt,
Figure 2 is a cross section through one of the suspending cling

page_text: but folded down when in use. This flap covers a row of U shaped spring clips c,
to which the straps d are suspended by means of links e. The link shown furthest
on the right hand side of the drawing is furnished with a ring to which the
hook g is suspended as usual. The clips are inserted in openings formed in the
lining material of the belt, and are secured therein by stitches, (Figures 1 and 2).
The straps d, are intended to support the sabre-tache, pouch or other similar device
sewn or fixed thereto in any suitable manner.
In the modification illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 the U shaped clips c are furnished
in front with a spring blade h rivetted thereto so that the links passed over the
clips by depressing these plates may be efficiently secured within such clips.
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 belt for suspending sword slinge, sabre-taches, pouches and other
articles of accoutrement arranged and combined substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown.
T
JAMES
STEVENSON,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.