Improvements in Devices for Making Holes in Straps or Belts.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Making Holes in Straps or Belts.
I, FRANZ FILLUNGER of Wels, Upper Austria, First Lieutenant of Dragoon
Regiment No. 15, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The devices heretofore employed for making holes in straps or belts, has been
either the clicker or eyelet panch, a tolerably heavy and bulky pair of pincers,
or, the hand punch which require when in use a small anvil.
Both the above mentioned devices for making the required holes in straps or
belts are, it is true, in the ordinary course of business, as in the manufactory, or
workshop, very simple for a man to use, yet in cases of emergency that is to
say, when such apparatus or appliances are required at a moment's notice they
are very inconvenient and not always at hand.
The device forming the subject of the present invention, is so small, light and
compact, that it can be always carried on the person, either secured to the watch
chain, or loose in the pocket, and it permits of the thickest straps, belts or bands
to be met with in ordinary use, such as on saddle fittings, harness, and machine
belts and bands to be provided with the necessary holes for the buckle in a
few seconds without any great effort on the part of the operator.
The device consists of a frame made in the form of a horseshoe, the opening
or inside width or clearance of which is such, that it corresponds to half the
width of the widest strap, band or belt in use. At one end of this horseshoe
frame is a thickened part or boss, which is internally screw-threaded for the
purpose of receiving the screw-threaded punch. The punch which is introduced
into the screw-threaded hole in the boss has a central channel through its
longitudinal axis and is provided at its lower part with a knife edge for cutting
the holes in the material when forced downward by turning a handle. The bored
cone or the cutting part proper of the said punch is made interchangeable
in order to enable this device to be used for boring holes of different sizes, or
use may be made of different punches for this purpose.
Dated this 24th day of July 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Making Holes in Straps or Belts.
I FRANZ FILLUnger of Wels Upper Austria First Lieutenant of Dragoon
Regiment No. 15 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 :-
The devices heretofore employed for making holes in straps or belts has been
either the clicker or eyelet punch a tolerably heavy and bulky pair of pincers,
or, the hand punches which require when in use a small anvil.
Both the above mentioned devices for making the required holes in straps or
belts are, it is true, in the ordinary course of business as in the manufactory
or workshop, very simple for a man to use, yet in cases of emergency, that is
to say when such apparatus or appliances are required at a moment's notice
they are very inconvenient and not always at hand.
The device forming the subject of the present invention is so small, light and

page_text: compact, that it can be always carried on the person, either secured to the
watch chain, or loose in the pocket, and it permits of the thickest straps, belts
or bands which are met with in ordinary use, such as on saddle fittings,
harness, and machine belts and bands being provided with the necessary holes
for the buckle in a few seconds, without any great effort on the part of the
operator.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the improved device.
Figure 2 is a side elevation and
Figure 3 a vertical cross section of the punch detached.
The device consists of a frame a, made in the form of a horseshoe, the
opening or inside width or clearance of which is such, that it corresponds to
half the width of the widest strap, band or belt in use. At one end of this
horseshoe frame is a thickened part or boss which is internally screw threaded
for the purpose of receiving the screw threaded punch b. The punch which is
introduced into the screw threaded hole in the boss has a central channel
through its longitudinal axis and is provided at its lower part with a knife
edge for cutting the holes in the material when forced downward by turning
the handle. The bored cone or the cutuing part proper of the said punch is
made interchangeable in order to enable this device to be used for boring holes
of different sizes, or use may be made of different punches for this purpose.
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.
An instrument for the purpose of making holes in straps, belts or bands,
consisting of a screw threaded horseshoe shaped frame a, with punches or drills
which turn in correspondingly screw threaded holes in the frame substantially as
above described and shown in the drawing.
De
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.