Improvements in Buckles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept.,.1899-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles.
1
I, EDITH EVELYN BEEGLEMYER, Tailoress, of 145, Oxford Street, W., in the
County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in buckles. Buckles as hitherto made
are apt, if the strap to which the same are attached is rather narrow and is
pulled tight, to slip aside so that the whole width of the strap is crowded into
one corner of the buckle and this is apt to prove uncomfortable to the wearer
and to impair the fit of the garment of which the strap and buckle form a part.
According to this invention I so construct the buckle that if properly attached
to a strap of fabric or other soft material it will not permit the strap to slip on
the rear portion of the buckle frame thereby obviating the disadvantage herein-
above referred to.
According to this invention the tongue of the buckle and the bar upon which
the tongue rests are made in the usual manner, the rear part of the frame to
which the strap is attached is made with eyelets or lugs (preferably two) having
holes in them and when the strap is attached to the buckle the sewing is made
to pass through the eyelets or perforated lugs in addition to the stitching usually
applied. In this manner the strap and buckle are united not only by placing the
buckle into a fold of the strap as it were, but the sewing through the eyelets
holds the buckle and strap together against any pull tending to displace them
laterally. In some cases a single eyelet or lug at the centre of the bottom part
of the buckle frame will be sufficient. Instead of providing the holes for stitch-
ing the buckle so as to prevent its lateral motion in the lugs or eyelets on the
rearmost bar of the buckle, the said rearmost bar may be perforated for the same.
In some cases I dispense with the lugs and do not perforate the bar, but make
the bar with one or more notches or recesses in its edge so that the stitches
being made to enter these, may hold the buckle and strap together in the manner
above explained, or I may provide on said rear-bar extensions parallell or approxi-
mately parallell with the tongue and the stitching passes round these extensions
for the purpose aforesaid, the object being in all cases to prevent the buckle
shifting across the strap.
Dated this 11th dov f Dann
1000

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in buckles. Buckles as hitherto made
are apt, if the strap to which the same are attached is rather narrow and is
pulled tight, to slip aside, so that the whole width of the strap is crowded in to
one corner of the buckle and this is apt to prove uncomfortable to the wearer
and to impair the fit of the garment of which the strap and buckle form a part.
According to this invention I so construct the buckle that if properly attached
to a strap of fabric or other soft material it will not permit the strap to slip on
the rear portion of the buckle frame thereby obviating the disadvantage herein-
above referred to.
According to this invention the tongue of the buckle and the bar upon which
the tongue rests are made in the usual manner, the rear part of the frame to
which the strap is attached is made with eyelets or lugs (preferably two) having
holes in them and when the strap is attached to the buckle the sewing is made
to pass through the eyelets or perforated lugs in addition to the stitching usually
applied. In this manner the strap and buckle are united not only by placing the
buckle into a fold of the strap as it were, but the sewing through the eyelets
holds the buckle and strap together against any pull tending to displace them
laterally. In some cases a single eyelet or lug at the centre of the bottom part
of the buckle frame will be sufficient. Instead of providing the holes for stitch-
ing the buckle so as to prevent its lateral motion in lugs or eyelets on the
rearmost bar of the buckle, the said rearmost bar may be perforated for the same.
In some cases I dispense with the lugs and do not perforate the bar, but make
the bar with one or more notches or recesses in its edge so that the stitching
being made to enter these, may hold the buckle and strap together in the manner
above explained, or I may provide on said rear-bar parallell or approxi-
mately parallell with the tongue and the stitching passes round these extensions
for the purpose aforesaid, the object being in all cases to prevent the buckle
shifting across the strap.
The accompanying drawings illustrate several forms of buckle embodying this
invention.
In Fig. 1 the buckle is provided with eyelets aa for the stitching to pass
through. In Fig. 2, holes bb serve this purpose. As illustrated in Fig. 3, the bar
is made with notches e e reducing its width and the notches so formed receive the
stitching. In Fig. 4, the bar is shown curved so as to form two recesses d d.
In Fig. 5, it is shown fitted with extensions e e and Fig. 6 shows the bar with
a single bend f.
The diversity of form and construction shown by the several figures illustrates
that this invention is applicable to buckles of various kinds and serving for
various purposes. Its essential feature being that the buckle is held against
lateral displacement by stitching which passes through one, or more holes, or
eyelets or into one, or more notches, curves, or the like, or round one, or more
extensions, suitably placed for the purpose.
Having now, particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in hat manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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A buckle having one or more holes, eyelets, notches, curves, or extensions,
through, into, or round, which stitching passes so as to secure the buckle against
lateral displacement.
September
BERNHARD DUKES,
Agent for the Applicant, 226, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
BERNHARD DUKES,
Agent for the Applicant, 226, High Holborn, London, W.C.,