CERTAIN NEW FASTENINGS FOR SHOE, KNEE, BOOT, AND OTHER BUCKLES
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TYLEE, of the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
First day of April, in the thirtieth year of His reign, give and grant unto
me, the said John Tylee, His especial licence, that I, the said James Tylec,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN NEW FASTENINGS FOR SHOE, KNEE, BOOT,
AND OTHER BUCKLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said James Tylee, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Tylee, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Certain New
Fastenings for Shoe, Knee, Boot, and other Buckles, is described in the Plan
and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Tylee, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety.
JAMES TYLEE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of April, in
the year above written, the aforesaid James Tylee came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in that
case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year above mentioned.
In this Specification the fastening for each buckle is drawn in a seperate
column, and marked and referred to in rotation.
No. 1. A, B, is the complete fastening (except the bar); a piece of wrought
or sheet iron cut in this form about the thickness of a halfpenny, with round
holes pierced at the outside of the spikes; two bars are left across each and
equal distance from the center, better than an eighth of an inch wide, with a
small leaf on the outside of each; a space about three-eighths of an inch is
left between them. On each bar is brazed or tenon' a supporter. A piece
of iron bent or filed square, a quarter of an inch in the upright and an eighth
in the level, the upright about the eighth of an inch thick and the level about
the sixteenth, filed bevel to the edge, to fit & slide in the groove of the bar.
The supporters thus fixed will leave a space of the eighth of an inch between
them; a thin spring, with a small ridge on the upper part of it, is placed
under the supporters and rivetted to the frame; the spring must be a little
thicker at the end that is rivetted, and when fixed must press up against the
under side of the supporters, must not be too long or too wide to play in the
clear or space between the bars. A bar about half an inch wide and about
the sixteenth of an inch thick, with two spikes at one end and a hole drilled
in the middle of the other; the end that is drilled must be thick enough to
bear drilling, and must have a hole pierced in it within the part that is drilled,'
for room to rivet the wire or pin that fastens it to the bridge; a ridge must
be raised on the bar about an eighth of an inch high and about a quarter of
an inch wide, and about an inch and a quarter long, must be grooved with a
file on each side deep enough to receive and slide on the level of the sup-
porters; the ridge must be regularly notch'd, and the notches must be cut
upright to that end of the bar that rivets, and regularly sloped to that end
with the spikes, and turn'd a little round at the outsides so as to stop and slide
over the ridge on the spring. The frame of the fastening niust be bent to the
foot C. Dis the frame made fit to receive the supporters: E is the bar;
F, G, the supporters, bent as fixed; II, one supporter not bant; 1, tho upward
side of the spring; K, the under side. This fastening (excopt the spring and
the bar) may be stamped in a die sunk from the Drawing A, B.

page_text: N. 2. A, B, is the perfect fastening (except the bar), and. may all
(except the spring) be stamped in a die sunk to this Drawing. The two bars
that cross the frame must be a little more than a quarter of an inch apart,
must be raised a quarter of an inch above the level of the franie, and cut
across in notches. A thin spring must be fixed in the space between the bars,
and rivetted to the frame; the bar will be best stamped in a die, when a ridge,
about the eighth of an inch high, must be raised across the middle; a hole is
pierced through it close to the bar, of a proper size for the spring to slide in.
This bar may be fastened to the bridge in the same manner as that in N. 1,
or as drawn hero; C is the spring, D is the bar.
N. 3. A, B, is the perfect buckle. The frame of this buckle is sheet or.
wrought iron, as that described in N. 1, and the bar is fixed in the bridge
in the rim in the same manner, but within the spikes that go through the rin
is filed a space fit to receive tho tube at the top of the neck of the frame. The
tube must be brazed under the neck, or if forged must be turn'd downward or
from the bar, that the bridge may work round it.. C is D, a small piece of
sheet iron, with the leavers turned square, and rivetted to the frame by the
two spikes, which partly enclose and cover E, a slope spring rivetted, leaning
to the neck of the frame. F is G, a pyrimidical stud cut in or rivetted to the
bar, and must be always at such a distance that when the buckle is closed it'
falls into the space before the spring, which, by pressing it as it passes, is
fastened to the frame. This frame is bent and fixed in the bar before tho bar.
is fixed in the bridges.
N. 4. A, B, is the perfect buckle, which may be mado plain, fluted, or
pierced, as fancy directs. C, D, is the rim. E, F, is the support which must
be made or stamped about the sixteenth of an inch lower than the rim, and
must be about an inch distance from the rim at one side, and about the eighth
of an inch at the other, may be coloured or polished. G is a spring, a piece.
of thin polished steel, rivetted to the bar H on the upper side, and as near
the middle as possible, which bar must be rivetted under to cach side of the
support, so that the end of the spring may force up against the under part of the
side of the rim, and the bar I must be rivetted under the other side of the support
in an opposite direction. This buckle may be stamped perfect in one die, except
the spring, or may be put in as a frame to spring up under both sides of the rim.
N. 5. A, B, is the perfect buckle. C, D, is the rim which may be fluted,
plain, or pierced, as fancy directs. E is a bar, made, fixed on, or stamped with
the rim, must be about the sixteenth part of an inch lower. F is a thin polished
steel spring, may be rivetted on the upper or under side of the bar, and must
force up against the under side of the rim. These springs can be fixed on bars
and chapes that hang on wires in the common way.

page_text: N. 6. This buckle is stamped perfect in one dic, and only requires the
anchor to be turned a little under the bar. This buckle has no bridges, and
may be wore on the hatt or bosom.
N. 7. A, B, is the cover or outside of this buckle, whether made or
stamped, may be plain or pierced, as the maker thinks proper. C, D, are 5
parts raised to be drilled, and receive the tube on the chape; the cover and
chape must be bent much, and principally along the middle, the anchor of the
the chape turned a little from the cover.
N. 8. A, B, is the rim. C, D, E, are three parts fixed on or raised in the
die to be drilled; C, D, to receive or make a joint with the tubo E, and F to 1
receive turn of the crook G in the fastening; the fastening must be smooth on
the upper side and proportioned to lie in the inside of A, B, the rim. This
fastening may be polished or coloured, and with the rim bent in the samo
manner as that in N. 7.
N. 9. A, B, is a boot buckle, which may be stamped or cut; C is D, a stud 1
about the eighth of an inch high; the cap must project over the pillar liko a
box nail, except in the front, where it must be even and brought to a point,
and must be bent to the leg.
N. 10. A, B, is crook and strap that fasten the buckle to a clog or patten.
This strap can be sewed or fixed to the clog or patten, and may be made of 2
leather, cloth, or silk, or may be made as a tie in tho clog or patten, or the
crook may be fixed on the common tio C. D is the crook; E, the spike, is
turn'd round to the buckle; F is the anchor sewed into the strap; G is a flap '
stitched to the strap.
N. 11. This is a crook. The point A is turn'd. All these fastenings or 2
buckles may be made of gold, silver, copper, iron, steel, or mixed mettle; and
that part of the fastening of Nos. 1 & 2 & 3, that answer the purpose of
chapes, may be made to turn on wires.