IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Sterne, of 9, Victoria Chambers, in the
City of Westminster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS."
Sealed the 4th August 1874, and dated the 5th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Sterne at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th June 1874.
I, LOUIS STERNE, of 9, Victoria Chambers, in the City of Westminster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists in fitting in the frame of the buckle a slotted
bar which is free to slide in the frame in a line with the points. At
each end of its travel the points are covered or protected by one side or
the other of the said bar. The free end of the strap or band to be
buckled or fastened is passed through the slot of the bar, and as this end.
is pulled in a direction from the points it causes the bar to slide so as to
leave the slot clear of the points; and as soon as the strap has been.
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page_text: pulled to the desired degree of tightness, and is let go, the slotted bar
slides up the points, carrying the strap with it, so that the points pass
through and hold the strap securely.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Sterne in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
STERNE, of 9, Victoria Chambers, in the City of Westminster, Engineer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Louis Sterne, Her special licence that I,
the said Louis Sterne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Louis Sterne, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR.
FASTENINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Sterne, 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 I, the said Louis Sterne, 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 thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say:

page_text: My Invention consists in fitting in the frame of the buckle a slotted
bar which is free to slide in the frame in a line with the points. At
each end of its travel the points are covered or protected by one side or
the other of the said bar. The free end of the strap or band to be
buckled or fastened is passed through the slot of the bar, and as this end
is pulled in a direction from the points it causes the bar to slide so as to
leave the slot clear of the points; and as soon as the strap has been
pulled to the desired degree of tightness, and is let go, the slotted bar
slides up the points, carrying the strap with it, so that the points pass
through and hold the strap securely.
My improved buckle will be fully understood on reference to the
annexed Drawings, Figure 1 of which shows the buckle closed, while
Figure 2 shows it open.
a is the frame of the buckle; and 6, 6, are the points affixed to the
cross bar c; d is a bar with a slot e and free to slide in a line with the
points b, to an extent limited at one end by the cross bar c, and at the
other by the stops f,f. The bar & has apertures, as indicated by dotted
lines, at each side of the slot to receive. the points b, b. One end of the
strap or band being permanently attached in the ordinary manner to the
buckle the free end is passed through the slot e while the same is clear
of the points b, b, as in Figure 2, and as soon as the strap has been
pulled to the desired degree of tightness and is let go, the elasticity or
stress of the strap causes the bar d to slide up the points 6 to the position
seen in Figure 1, carrying the strap with it so that the points pass
through the strap and hold it securely.
Figure 3 represents a double buckle provided with two of my sliding
bars, to be used for fastening together the ends of two straps, or the two
ends of one strap when neither of them is permanently attached to the
buckle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Sterne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.