Improvements in the Means for Connecting Together the Tabs and Buckles of Braces, Applicable also for other similar Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: ate of Application, 28th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means for Connecting Together the Tabs and
Buckles of Braces, Applicable also for other similar Purposes.
A communication from abroad by CHARLES H. CROSSETTE, of Chicago, in the County
of Cook and State of Illinois, United States of America, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engireer, 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 :-
This invention relates more particularly to that type of clasps used for suspenders,
especially such as have detachable button-straps, but the improvements with slight
modifications are capable of application to other uses as will appear from the ensuing
description, in which-
Figure 1 is a front view of a suspender-band and button-strap, united by a clasp
embracing said invention:
and
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section therethrough:
Figure 3 represents a modification for application to suspender band-slides,
Figure 4, a longitudinal section through said modification.
A represents the body of a buckle, of rectangular form as usual, having a central
transverse tongue-bar a upon which are mounted two or more tongues a', not
differing in this respect from tongue-buckles usually employed in suspenders. Below
the rectangular body is an extension of spring sheet-metal A', which is slotted in
substantially the manner shown to afford a spring stop A3, having a re-entering
opening a², of the outline shown, and beneath this stop, and in line with the opening
therein, a socket a³ for the reception of the shank of the button B attached to a
slip-plate or plates b, which carry the button-straps B2, these latter being secured to or
run through the plates in any suitable manner.
Now supposing it is desired to detach the button-straps from the suspender-band,
their carrying-plates with the button thereon are raised up vertically, running the
button up into the opening in the sheet-metal stop which is in the same plane with or
about in the same plane with the rest of the spring sheet depending from the buckle-
frame. As soon as the button is clear from its own sockets and its head resting
entirely upon the spring-stop, the latter may be depressed from the plane of the
surrounding plates by pushing in the button with the plates that carry it, when the
head can easily be drawn down, passing beneath its proper socket, and is thereby
detached from the other member of the clasp.
To re-attach the button-straps, the button is passed beneath the spring-stop and
pushed thereagainst, raising the stop and allowing the button to be drawn into its
socket, when the stop immediately falls behind it and prevents its escape until next
intentionally detached.
In the modification, however, the arrangement thus described is, or may be,
reversed, the plate or plates carrying the slotted stop being secured to the button-
strap, while the plate carrying the button is above and secured to a metal loop C,
over which a suspender-band is bent and carried to the usual slide or friction
buckle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be perforined, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
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page_text: socket-plate having an opening to permit the passage of the button-head and a slot
leading therefrom to receive the button shank, and a stop-plate normally closing the
opening in the socket-plate against the passage of the button-head, but having a slot
in continuation of the slot in the socket-plate, whereby the button may be run up into
the slot in the stop-plate and the latter depressed or raised to release or admit the
head of the button, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of January 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.