Improvements in Metal Belts and in Buckles therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Belts and in Buckles therefor.
.
1, ALFRED WILLIAM HORDERN, of Spencer Villa, Avenue Road, Leamington,
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct metal belts in such a manner that
they are both elastic and of great flexibility. I also use an improved buckle for
securing the belt round the waist.
For the purposes of this invention I use a number of helically bent spring wires
of a suitable length and thickness, and these I thread into one another in such a
manner that their helices interlock and they form in combination a flat band the
ends of which I then secure in a suitable metal covering.
On the back of a metal plate forming the buckle of the belt near each corner I
form lugs, to two of which I secure the ends of the covering on one end of the
band.
Between the opposite pair of lugs I pivot eccentrically a metal plate provided
with teeth on its outer edge and with an arm at its upper or lower end, by means
of which it may be turned and caused to grip the free end of the metal band which
is passed between it and the buckle plate when fixing the belt round the waist.
This arm is so secured by passing a link over its free end, said link being held in
the end of a lug on the back of the buckle plate.
Dated this 5th day of June 1893.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office,
54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Belts and in Buckles therefor.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM HORDERN, of Spencer Villa, Avenue Road, Leamington,
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to construct metal belts in such a manner that
they are both elastic and of great flexibility. I also use an improved buckle for
securing the belt round the waist.
For the purposes of this invention I use a number of helically bent spring wires
of a suitable length and thickness, and these I thread into one another in such a
manner that they interlock as shewn at A Figure 1 forming in combination a flat
band the ends of which I then secure in a suitable metal covering B.
In the back of a metal plate B' forming the buckle of the belt near each
corner I form lugs, 263 Figure 2 to two of which I secure the ends of the
covering on one end of the band.
Between the opposite pair of lugs 6 & I pivot eccentrically a metal plate
provided with teeth E on its outer edge and with an arm el at its upper or lower
end by means of which it may be turned and caused to grip the free end a' of
the metal band which is passed between it and the buckle plate when fixing the
belt round the waist. This arm is so secured by passing a link F over its free

page_text: end, said link being held in the end of a lug on the back of the buckle
plate B'.
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 :-
:-
The improvements in metal belts substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 30th da
Uctober
XUX
Letcher IXUX
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.