Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 1st May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
I THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works St. Paul's, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in brace tab
connectors or fastenings and fastenings for dress belts garters and other like belts
and bands.
I will describe my invention as applied to a brace tab connector or fastening to
which it is particularly applicable.
On the upper edge of the loop or frame to which the brace tabs are connected I
make a flat case in which two spring bolts with their pushers or releasers work, the
said bolts and pushers having motion in the same line and in opposite directions.
Each bolt and pusher are made in one piece. By means of a coiled spring situated
in a barrel in the bolt case the two bolts are projected outwards. The acting or outer
end of each bolt is rounded. By pressing inwards the pushers by means of the thumb
and finger, the two bolts are simultaneously withdrawn into their case. That part of
the case in which the bolts work is of less width than that part in which the pushers
work.
On the lower edge of the brace buckle is a bolt box for the two bolts on the tab
loop or frame to engage with. This bolt box has a shape and size proper for that
part of the bolt case on the tab loop or frame in which the bolts work to pass into.
The edges of the said bolt box are open but a shoulder is formed at the outer end of
each side of the box for the spring bolts to snap upon or engage with.
In securing the tab connector or fastening to the buckle on the brace, the upper
reduced part of the bolt case on the said tab connector, is passed into the bolt box on
the brace buckle. As the bolt case is pressed into the bolt box the rounded ends of
the spring bolts are forced into their case by coming against the shoulders on the bolt
box and as soon as the said bolts have passed the said shoulders, they are projected

page_text: outwards by the action of the coiled spring and the shoulders on the bolts snap upon
or engage with the shoulders on the bolt box. The tab connector is thereby securely
fastened to the brace buckle. To release the tab connector from the brace buckle
the pushers of the two bolts which pushers are situated outside the bolt box are
simultaneously pressed inwards. The bolts are thereby withdrawn from the shoulders
on the bolt box and the two parts of the connector are unfastened and can be
separated.
In applying my invention to the fastening of the ends of dress belts garters and
other like belts and bands that half of the fastening containing the spring bolts and
pushers is secured to one end of the belt or band and the other half of the fastening
containing the bolt box is secured to the other end of the belt or band and the two
parts of the fastening are connected together and disconnected from one another in
the manner described with respect to a brace tab connector or fastening.
Dated this Eighth day of September 1887.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Brace Tab Connectors or Fastenings, and in
Fastenings for Dress Belts, Garters, and other like Belts and
Bands.
I THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works, St. Pauls, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in brace tab
connectors or fastenings and fastenings for dress belts, garters and other like belts
and bands.
I will describe my invention as applied to a brace tab connector or fastening to
which it is particularly applicable.
On the upper edge of the loop or frame to which the brace tabs are connected I
make a flat case in which two spring bolts with their pushers or releasers work, the
said bolts and pushers having motion in the same line and in opposite directions.
Each bolt and pusher are made in one piece. By means of a coiled spring situated
in a barrel or semi-circular depression in the bolt case the two bolts are projected
outwards. The acting or outer end of each bolt is rounded. By pressing inwards
the pushers by means of the thumb and finger the two bolts are simultaneously with-
drawn into their case. That part of the case in which the bolts work is of less width
than that part in which the pushers work.
On the lower edge of the brace buckle is a bolt box for the two bolts on the tab
loop or frame to engage with. This bolt box has a shape and size proper for that
part of the bolt case on the tab loop or frame in which the bolts work to
pass into.
The edges of the said bolt box are open but a shoulder is formed at the outer
end of each side of the box for the spring bolts to snap upon or engage with.
By pressing the bolt case on the tab frame into the bolt box on the buckle frame
the spring bolts are first forced back and then made to snap upon the shoulders
described and the tab frame is thereby connected to the buckle frame.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation and side
elevation and Figure 2 partly in side elevation and partly in section, a brace tab
connector or fastening drawn to a large scale constructed according to my invention;
Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 2 with the spring bolts in their pushed
back positions for releasing the tab frame from the buckle frame: Figure 4 is a
back elevation of the buckle and tab frames disconnected from one another. Figure 5
represents the bolts and pushers and their spring detached. Figure 6 represents the
tab frame in front elevation and cross section with the covering plate removed and
Figure 7 represents the covering plate separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
a is the buckle frame of the brace provided with a tongue or prongs 6 but my
invention may be applied to buckles in which the brace or web is fixed by a lever
or is otherwise fixed in the frame; c is the loop or frame to which the brace tabs are
connected. On the upper edge of the tab frame c is a flat case d one half of which
is made in one piece with the frame c and the other half is formed of a separate

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d³
covering cap or plate which is secured in its place by closing its edges &³,
upon the edges of the under plate d; ee are the two spring bolts having rounded or
curved heads working in the flat case d of the tab frame. The said bolts have
motions in the same line and in opposite directions and are projected outwards or into
their fastening position when at liberty to move by means of the coiled spring f
between them the said spring being situated in the barrel or depression g in the tab
case d (see Figure 6); ee² are the pushers of the bolts ee each bolt and pusher being
made in one piece. The pushers work through openings in the sides of the flat case d
on the tab frame c. By pressing inwards the pushers e, e between the thumb and
finger the two bolts e e are simultaneously withdrawn into their case as illustrated in
Figure 3.
his the bolt box attached to the lower edge of the buckle frame a for the flat
case d on the tab frame c to take into. The said bolt box is formed of a doubled or
folded strip of sheet metal, a portion of which is folded around the bottom bar of the
buckle frame a but the bolt box h may be made in one piece with the bucklo frame.
The edges of the bolt box are open and a shoulder i is formed at the outer end of
each side of the box for the spring bolts e, e in the flat case d to snap upon or
engage with.
In securing the tab connector or fastening to the buckle a on the brace, the upper
reduced part of the bolt case d on the tab frame or connector c is passed into the bolt
box on the brace buckle a. As the bolt case d is pressed into the bolt box h the
rounded ends of the spring bolts e, e are forced into their case or into the position
represented in Figure 3 by coming against the shoulders ii on the bolt box / and as
soon as the said bolts have passed the said shoulders they are projected outwards by
the action of the coiled spring and the shoulders on the said bolts e e snap upon or
engage with the said shoulders ii on the bolt box h as seen in Figure 2. The tab
connector is thereby securely fastened to the brace buckle. To release the tab con-
nector from the brace buckle the projecting ends of the pushers e², e² of the two bolts
are simultaneously pushed inwards. The bolts are thereby withdrawn from the
shoulders i, i on the bolt box as represented in Figure 3 and the two parts of tho
connector are unfastened and can be separated as represented in Figure 4.
In applying my invention to the fastening of the ends of dress belts garters and
other like belts and bands, that half of the fastening containing the spring bolts and
pushers e e e e² is secured to one end of the belt or band and the other half of the
fastening containing the bolt box h, i is secured to the other end of the belt or band
and the two parts of the fastening are connected together and disconnected from one
another in the manner hereinbefore described and represented with respect to a braco
tab connector or fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in brace tab connectors or fastenings and in fastenings
for dress belts, garters and other like belts and bands."
Making on the upper edge of the tab frame or connector a flat case in which two
spring bolts with their pushers work and making on or attaching to the lower edge
of the brace buckle a bolt box of the kind described and illustrated for the two spring
bolts on the tab frame or connector to snap upon or engage with, the said fastening
parts being constructed, arranged and acting substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; also the adaptation of the fastening
parts described and illustrated to the fastening of the ends of dress belts, garters and
other like belts and bands as herein before described.
Dated this Tanto coxanth day of April 1888