Improvements in Strap Buckles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Lelt, 9th June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Strap Buckles.
1, DANIEL KEMP WEST of 23 St. Mary Axe in the City of London, Engineer..
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me from abroad
by Robert Pitman Gill of Guntur Madras Presidency, India, Merchant) to be as
follows :-
The object of this invention is to greatly simplify the construction and manu-
facture and to decrease the cost of strap buckles. The buckle is made open at two.
opposite sides, that is to say, on one side where the strap end can be entered
laterally and then the tooth on the middle har passed through one of the holes in
the strap, and at the opposite side where the strap end can thereupon be laterally
entered. The other end of the strap is fastened to the middle bar in the usual
manner.
The buckle may be made of approximately S shape and may suitably be formed'
of steel wire bent or pressed into the required shape by suitable machinery. The
wire may for the sake of strength be of oval section having the longest axis in the
direction of the strain. The ends of the wire are by preference bent slightly
laterally so as to hold the strap in place sideways and for the sake of a neater
appearance. In a modified form only one side entrance is provided viz. for the
lateral entry of the strap end after the tooth on the middle bar has been passed
through its hole; this form is stronger but does not offer quite the same facility
for quickly fastening.
Dated this 9th day of Sentember 1895.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
Improvements in Strap Buckles.
I, DANIEL KEMP WEST, of 23 St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad
by Robert Pitman Gill, of Guntur, Madras Presidency, India, Merchant, and
in what manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of this invention is to greatly simplify the construction and manu-
facture and to decrease the cost of strap buckles. The buckle is made open at two
opposite sides that is to say on one side where the strap end can be entered laterally
and then the tooth on the middle bar passed through one of the holes in the strap,
and at the opposite side where the strap end can thereupon be laterally entered.
The other end of the strap is fastened to the middle bar in the usual manner.
The buckle may be made of approximately S shape and may suitably be formed
of steel wire bent or pressed into the required shape by suitable machinery.
Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings represents in plan one form of
buckle.

page_text: Figure 2 is a longitudinal transverse section thereof showing straps applied.
Figure 3 is a plan of a modified form of buckle and
Figure 4 is a similar view of another modification.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2 the wire a may for the sake of strength be of oval
section having the longest axis in the direction of the strain.
Referring to Figure 3 the ends of the wire a are by preference at b and c bent
slightly laterally so as to hold the strap in place sideways and for the sake of a
neater appearance.
In a modified form shown in Figure 4 only one side entrance is provided viz. :—
for the lateral entry of the strap end after the tooth d on the middle bar has been
passed through its hole in the strap. This form is stronger but does not afford
quite the same facility for quickly fastening.
It is evident that as the greatest strain on the buckles comes at the bends e and f
these parts may be thickened or otherwise strengthened if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
1. The S form of buckle in which the one end of a strap is secured on the
middle bar and the other or open end of the strap or of another strap is slipped
into place through one of the lateral openings when it is tightened and then into
the opposite lateral opening so that the two outside bars are each above the strap
and serve to keep it in place substantially as described.
2. The modified form of buckle where there is only one lateral opening for the
entry of the strap substantially as described with reference to Figure 4.
Dated this 9th day of June 1896.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.