An Improved Buckle or Fastening.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Buckle or Fastening.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM SQUIER, of 4 Inderwick Road, Hornsey, in the County
of Middlesex, Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved buckle or fastening the distinctive feature
of which is that the tongue does not form part of the buckle in the usual way but
is carried on a bar or plate which may be wholly separate from the buckle or
hinged or otherwise attached to its back end the object of my invention being
mainly to ensure a straight pull on the strap which it secures, instead of the bent
pull of the ordinary buckle, and also to greatly facilitate the release of the strap.
when required.
The buckle may be of any of the ordinary shapes and be attached to the leather
in any convenient manner, the tongue being also secured thereto at a suitable
distance from the point of attachment of the buckle and so that it will stand at a
right angle, or nearly so, to the leather or article to which it is attached. Or, as
above stated, this tongue may be carried by a plate or attachment to the buckle.
To secure a strap in this buckle it is passed through it in the usual way until a
suitable hole in the strap coming over the tongue it is pressed down thereupon, the
buckle is then passed over the tongue and the strap thus securely held thereby.
I may use any suitable means for keeping the buckle over the tongue; for
example, I may curve the tongue to hook over the front bar of the buckle, or I
may use a spring or hook to press the buckle on the tongue, but that to which I
now give preference is to form an eye or a slot on the front bar of the buckle and
to split the top of the tongue, which I make slightly conical, so that it may be
compressed to pass through the eye or slot when the buckle is pressed down and
then expanding prevent the buckle jumping or rising automatically from the
tongue.
I may fix the tongue immovably in position, but in most cases I prefer to set the
tongue loosely on its bar or plate so that when the buckle is taken off the tongue
this latter may be inclined to facilitate the removal of the strap by a straight pull.
My improved buckle or fastening is particularly applicable to traces and other
parts of harness and saddlery but may also be applied with advantage to box
straps and generally where ordinary buckles are used.
Dated this Third day of Anril 1901
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Buckle or Fastening.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM SQUIER, of 4 Inderwick Road, Hornsey, in the
County of Middlesex, Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved buckle or fastening the distinctive feature
of which is that the tongue does not form part of the buckle in the usual way but
is carried on a bar or plate which may be wholly separate from the buckle or
hinged or otherwise attached to its back end or any convenient point; the object
of my invention being mainly to ensure a straight pull on the strap which it secures,
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release of the strap when required.
On the accompanying sheet of drawing
Figure 1. is a side view of my improved buckle.
Figure 2. is a plan of same.
Figure 3. is the tongue of the buckle separate therefrom.
Figure 4. is a side view of a buckle having the tongue secured to a metal plate
or attacliment.
Figure 5. is a plan of the same.
Figure 6. is a side elevation of a buckle as shown on Figures 4 and 5 attached to
an ordinary trace.
Figure 7. is a side elevation similar to Figure 6 shewing the trace in the act of
being released from the buckle.
A. The buckle.
B. Front bar of same.
C. Back bar of same.
D. Centre bar.
E. The tongue.
F. Metal plate or attachment.
G. The trace.
H H. Loops for securing trace.
I. Bar or plate carrying the tongue.
The buckle A may be of any of the ordinary shapes and be attached to the
leather in any convenient manner, the tongue E being also secured thereto at a
suitable distance from the point of attachment of the buckle, separate therefrom,
and so that it will stand at a right angle, or nearly so, to the leather or article to
which it is attached.
Upon reference to Figures 4 and 5 it will be seen that this tongue E is carried
by a plate or attachment F to the buckle.
To secure a strap in this buckle it is passed through it in the usual way until a
suitable hole in the strap coming over the tongue it is pressed down thereupon, the
buckle is then passed over the tongue as at Figure 5 and the strap is thus securely
held thereby.
I may use any suitable means for keeping the buckle over the tongue; for
example, I may curve the tongue to hook over the front bar B of the buckle, or I
may use a spring or hook to press the buckle on the tongue; or I may form an eye
or a slot on the front bar of the buckle and split the top of the tongue, which I
make slightly conical, so that it may be compressed to pass through the eye or slot
when the buckle is pressed down and then expanding prevent the buckle jumping
or rising automatically from the tongue.
Upon reference to Figure 6 it will be seen that the trace G having passed
through the loop H and under the front bar B passes over the centre bar D and
into the loops F, and by this arrangement the stiffness of the trace itself prevents
it from jumping. This bar D may in some cases be dispensed with.
I may fix the tongue E immovably in position, but in most cases I prefer to set
the tongue loosely on its bar I or fixed thereupon and loosely set in the plate F so
that when the buckle is taken off the tongue this latter may be inclined to
facilitate the removal of the strap by a straight pull, as at Figure 7.
My improved buckle or fastening is particularly applicable to traces and other
parts of harness and saddlery but may also be applied with advantage to box straps
and generally where ordinary buckles are used.
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 :-
1. An improved buckle or fastening having a detached tongue substantially as
illustrated Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 2. An improved buckle or fastening consisting of the buckle A B C, and with or
without the bar D, in combination with the plate F carrying the tongue E, the
whole combined and arranged to operate substantially as herein before described.
Dated this Second day of January 1892.
For the Applicant,
W. E. GEDGE,
Agent.