A Combined Buckle and Eyelet.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Buckle and Eyelet.
I, JOHN BOULTREE BROOKS the younger of Great Charles Street, in the
City of Birmingham Clerk to J. B. Brooks & Co. do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the combination of a buckle and eyelet, which is
accomplished in the following manner. In place of the plain washer frequently used
at the back of the eyelet, I employ a washer which carries at its one side, a tongue,
which, directed across the eyelet, forms in combination therewith a buckle.
The washer may be prolonged to form a loop as may be requisite for use with the
buckle. The loop may be made separately, and suitably attached to a prolongation of
the washer; in which case the tongue may be mounted upon one edge of the loop or
may be formed in a piece therewith. Instead of the back washer carrying or being
combined with a buckle and the like, the parts described may be forined upon, or
carried by the face of the eyelet.
Dated this 21st day of September 1896.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, JUNIOR.
I, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, the younger, of Great Charles Street, in the
City of Birmingham, Clerk to J. B. Brooks and Company Limited, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved system of buckling or securing straps
or strap ends or their equivalents, and consists in the combination of a buckle with
an eyelet in such a manner that the tongue or prong of the buckle is made to cross
the thoroughfare passage through an eye-letted or equivalent hole, so as to admit of
a strap passing from one side of a bag or article through the eyelet and then being
secured by the tongue, prong or equivalent fastener on the other side.
In one form of my invention, the buckle is carried by a washer plate or frame
which is secured in position by an eyelet. In another form the eyelet
is made in common or integral with the washer part or frame of the buckle.
In a further form, the eyelet constitutes the thoroughfare passage of a strap whilst the
buckle part consists essentially of a tongue or prong laterally crossing the
thoroughfare passage so as to engage with a strap passed through the eyelet from
the opposite side.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an inside elevation of a buckle
combined with an eyelet arranged according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line x.
Figure 3 is an edge view and
Figure 4 a back elevation of Figure 1, showing the tongue crossing the
thoroughfare passage of the eyelet.
Figure 5 shows the combined buckle frame and washer plate separately.
Figure 6 represents a front elevation and a section of the securing eyelet,
separately.
Figure 7 represents this form of my invention applied to a bag.
Figure 8 is a vertical section of the said Figure 7 upon the dotted line a¹.
a is a washer plate, with an elongated hole a', through its middle and being
secured to an article by an eyelet , having an elongated thoroughfare passage,
through it.
c is a jointed tongue laterally crossing the passage b', and having its
end c, jointedly connected at c', to a bar or extension c, of the washer a, which has a
loop c, made therewith, for the end d', of a suspension strap d, to pass through, as
seen in Figures 7 and 8.
In operation a strap is passed from the one side or the outside of a bag or article e,
through the passage b', and is then fastened upon the other or inner side by the
tongue c, and the free or loose end is tucked under the lower bar of the loop or frame ct.
In the case of a bag, the strap is passed from the outside back of a bag to the
inside of the same, wherein the connections are located.
Figure 9 represents a modified form of my invention, in which the eyelet is made
integral with the washer plate which carries the buckle tongue and loop.
Figure 10 represents the same applied to a piece of leather, as when in use.
a, bis the combined washer plate and eyelet, with a thoroughfare hole 1, through
it and carrying the loop ct, upon the top bar c¹, of which, the inner end of the tongue c,
crossing the thoroughfare passage of the eyelet is mounted.
Figure 11 is another modification of my invention, in which the buckle frame or
loop is jointedly connected to the washer plate, through a bar formed at the lower edge
of it, and upon the middle of which the tongue is jointed. In this form, the eyelet
may either be made separately or be formed integral therewith.
a
a is the washer plate, c' the bar formed at the lower edge of it and
thoroughfare passage therethrough, crossed by the tongue c, whose inner end is
mounted upon the middle of bar c¹, whilst ct is a swinging loop mounted on the ends
of the said bar.
Figure 12 represents the inside of a tool bag provided with combined buckles and
eyelets arranged according to a further modification of my invention. The left hand
side fastener shows a strap secured after being passed from the outside through the
eyelets to the inside of the bag, whilst the right hand side shows the fastening
attachment without the strap.
a is a washer plate, secured to inside of the bag e, by a clenched eyelet b, having an
elongated thoroughfare passage b', through it, crossed by a tongue c, carried at its
inner end upon a bar c', carried in knuckles c5, formed from the metal of the lower part
of the said washer. d is a strap and d¹ the free end of the saine, kept in place by a
loop c².
Figure 13 represents a still further inodified form of my invention. The right hand
side of the view shows the securing attachment without a strap, and the left hand
side shows it with the strap.
bis an eyelet, with an, elongated thoroughfare passage 1, through it and c¹ is a
buckle frame, carried by a tab f, attached to the bag e, (or other article) and with
the tongue c, mounted on the bar c', of the frame crossing the thoroughfare passage b¹,
of the eyelet wherethrough the strap d, passes.
Figure 14 represents still another modification of my invention as applied to a
cycle tool bag, the right hand side showing the attachment without a strap and the
left-hand side with a strap.
b is the eyelet, b' the thoroughfare passage therethrough, c is the tongue, mounted

page_text: upon or carried by the joint cl, secured in the free end f, of a tab f, which is made
fast at its lower end to bag e, and has a loop f, wherethrough the loose end of
strap d, is passed.
My invention is applicable for use in attaching letter cases and the like to
portmanteaus, and other bags, also for fastening down the division flaps of
portinanteaus and a variety of other purposes in which a strap is passed from one side
through a piece of material to the other side and is there fastened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. The combination of a buckle or like fastener with an eyelet or equivalent,
with the tongue of the said buckle laterally crossing the thoroughfare passage and
adapted to engage with a strap or equivalent passed from one side and through the
material to the other side, on which latter the said buckle or like fastener is
located.
Secondly. A combined buckle and eyelet, in which the buckle frame or a washer
extension thereof is secured in position by a loose eyelet, substantially as and for
the purpose described and set forth.
Thirdly. A combined buckle and eyelet, in which the buckle frame or an
extension thereof is secured in position by an integral washer, substantially as and for
the purpose described and set forth.
Dated this 18th day of June 1897.
JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, JUNIOR,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.