the Invention of CLASPS OR BUCKLES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Paterson, of Wood Street, in the City of
London. Manufacturer, for the Invention of
CLASPS OR BUCKLES."
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN
Scaled the 19th November 1861, and dated the 24th May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Paterson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
May 1861.
1, JOHN PATERSON, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
"AN IMPROVEMENT
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IN CLASPS OR BUCKLES," to be as follows:-
My improvement consists in forming clasps or buckles by fixing at the
back of a solid or openwork dise, shield, or plate two loops, each being free to
move upon a pin or axis. The clasps or buckles are particularly suitable for
belts, neck-ties, garters, and braces.
Supposing the improved clasp applied to a neck-tie, one end of the tie is
passed through the movable loop on one side of the back of the clasp, and
turned back before being placed round the neck of the wearer; the other end
of the tie after being placed round the neck is then passed through the othor
movable loop is turned backward in front of the body of the tie, and after
The movable loops nip the tie
being drawn sufliciently tight is released.
between themselves and the back of the clasp, and the tie is held securely.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Palent, filed
by the said John Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. JOHN
PATERSON, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Paterson, Her special licence that 1, the said John Paterson,
my executors, administrators. and assigns, or such others as 1, the said
John Paterson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVE
MENT IN CLASPS OR BUCKLES." upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Paterson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said John Paterson, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say;-
My improvement consists in forming clasps or buckles by fixing' at the back
of a solid or openwork disc, shield, or plate two loops, each being free to move
upon a pin or axis. The clasps or buckles are particularly suitable for belts,
neck-ties, garters, and braces.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a back view of this clasp showing
the loops in the position they occupy prior to the insertion of the neck-tie, belt,
or other article to be secured; Figure 2 is a similar view, showing the loops
pressed down or back as they appear when the article is secured; Figure 3 is
a side view of the same; and Figure 4 shows a neck-tie fitted to the clasp

page_text: and secured thereby. a, a, are the loops, each free to move on a pin or axis
in the lugs b. b. which are fixed to the shield or plate e; d, d. are bars to
prevent the loops falling in the wrong direction.
Supposing the improved clasp applied to a neck-tic, one end A of the tie is
passed through the movable loop a on one side of the back of the clasp and
turned back before being placed round the neck of the wearer; the other end B
of the tie, after being placed round the neck, is then passed through the other
movable loop a', is turned backward in front of the body of the tie, and after
being drawn sufficiently tight is released; the movable loops a, a¹, nip the
tie between themselves and the back of the clasp, and the tie is held
securely.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my Improve-
ment in Clasps or Buckles," fixing at the back of a solid or openwork disc,
shield, or plate two loops, each being free to move about a pin or axis sub-
stantially in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof. 1, the said John Paterson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
JOHN PATERSON. (L.S.)