Improvements in Buckles or Clasps.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CHARLES HENRY FARMER, of No. 114, West
23rd Street, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Buckles or Clasps.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the class of buckles and clasps in which the web is
held between two connected parts of the frame which seize it frictionally or by
means of blunt serrations, without penetrating through it, and a hook is provided
for attachment and detachment of a ring connected to the button-hole straps.
The peculiar feature of the present invention is the permanent, pivotal connection
at one point or axis, of the front plate and back frame (which, with their respective
serrations and cross-bar, form the clasp), and the swinging hook which engages the
ring of the button-hole straps. These three essential parts, radiating thus from a
common centre, give to the buckle, when open or unclasped, a Y-form which is
characteristic and distinctive.
The front plate is of thin sheet-metal rolled rearwardly at its lower edge to
form, near each end thereof, bearings for the wire back-frame and midway of such
lower edge bearings for the wire hook, the extremities of the wires of which frame
and hook are formed entering such bearings and occupying therein a coincident,
axial position, the hook trunnions lying between the trunnions of the said frame.
The back-frame is of a generally rectangular form, its end portions being bent
so as to have some elasticity and its side waved to engage with the rearwardly
rolled upper edge of the front plate, opposite the bearings. The back-frame has a
cross-bar and the front plate a series of serrations, preferably integral with and
punctured from such plate, between which and the cross-bar the web is held when
the clasp is engaged.
Dated this 17th dow of Luna 1800
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles or Clasps.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 to the class of buckles and clasps in which the web is held
between two connected parts of the frame, which seize it frictionally, or by means
of blunt serrations, without penetrating through it, and a hook is provided for
attachment and detachment of a ring connected to the button-hole straps.
The peculiar feature of my present invention is the permanent pivotal
connection at one point or axis of the front plate and back frame (which with
their respective serrations and cross-bar, form the clasp) and the swinging hook,
which engages the ring of the button-hole straps. These three essential parts,

page_text: radiating thus from a common centre, give to the buckle when open or unclasped
a Y-form, which is characteristic and distinctive. The front plate is of thin sheet
metal rolled rearwardly at its lower edge to form, near each end thereof, bearings
for the wire back frame and midway of such lower edge bearings for the wire
hook, the extremities of the wires of which such frame and hook are formed
entering such bearings and occupying therein a coincident axial position, the hook
trunnions lying between the trunnions of said frame. The back frame is of a
generally rectangular form, its end portions bent so as to have some elasticity and
its side waved to engage with the rearwardly rolled upper edge of the front plate
opposite the bearings. The back frame has a cross-bar and the front plate a series
of serrations, preferably integral with and punctured from such plate, between
which and the cross-bar the web is held when the clasp is engaged.
In the accompanying drawings,

page_text: teeth in combination with a wire hook and with a spring-wire back frame pivoted
in said bearings, engaging with the upper edge of said plate and having a cross-bar
co-operating with said teeth.
Dated this 17th day of March 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.