A FASTENING TO ATTACH STRAPS TO THE BOTTOMS OF TROWSERS
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SABBERTON, late of Great Poulteney Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, but now of No. 38, Golden Square, aforesaid, Tailor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I did, by Petition, humbly represent unto Her most Excellent
Majesty Queen Victoria, that I had invented "A FASTENING TO ATTACH STRAPS
TO THE BOTTOMS OF TROWSERS," and Her said Majesty being willing to encourage
all useful inventions, did issue Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of March,
in the third year of Her reign, whereby Her said Majesty did, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Sabberton,
Her especial licence that I, the said James Sabberton, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said James Sabberton, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully, might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James
Sabberton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Sabberton, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:―
My Invention of a fastening to attach straps to the bottoms of trowsers
may be said to consist of an improved construction of buckle, which is so
constructed as to open at one end and allow of the two bars of which the
frame of the fastening is composed to open out from each other on a hinge
joint, and thus allow of one of the bars being removed from the trowsers, as
will be hereafter fully explained. And in order to give the best information in
my power I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
The bar A
Figure 1 represents the plan of a strap, having my Invention applied
thereto. Figure 2 shews the lower part of one leg of a pair of trowsers in
section, having a strap applied thereto according to my Invention. Figure 3
shows a fastening complete. Figure 4 shows a side view of the bar, which
enters a loop applied or fixed to the trowsers. Figure 5 is an inside view of
Figure 4. Figure 6 shows a side view, and Figure 7 an inside view of the
bar, to which the strap is attached. In each of these Figures the same
letters indicate similar parts, A being the bar to which the strap is attached
by means of the projecting pointed studs 6, which pass through holes formed
in the end of the strap, and. the studs b are formed on or are affixed to the
bar A, as will readily be understood on examining the Drawing.
is hinged to the bar C at the end D, as is shown, and there is a hole C¹
formed in the bar C, into which one of the studs benters, that stud being
somewhat longer than the other two. In order to enter into the hole Ci the
bar A has a shackle or loop E, attached thereto by a pin joint, and this
shackle or loop is capable of passing on to the end of the bar C, and there
being an indent or recess formed thereon, the shackle or loop E, when
placed thereon, will cause the two bars to be securely held together. ff, 'are
two studs or buttons, the stems of which pass through the bar A, and one of
them forms the axis on which the end D of the bar C moves on the bar A,
and the other stem forms the axis on which the shackle or loop moves on the
bar A, and the buttons f pass through holes formed in the strap, as is clearly

page_text: shown by Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawing. In applying a strap having my
improved fastening thereto to trowsers, there are to be two loops g, g, affixed
to the trowsers of a width equal to the space between the shackle and the
hinge on the bar A. The shackle being forced off the end of the bar C, the
bar C is opened out and passed through one of the loops affixed to the
The bar C is then to be closed towards the bar A, and the shackle
By this means the strap will be
strain there is on the bar A the
The fastening at the other end of
or loop E placed on the end of the bar C.
securely held to the loop, and the more
stronger will it be held up by the shackle.
the strap is then to be applied to the loop on the other side of the trowsers in
like manner.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is the mode of combining the various parts into a
fastening to attach straps to the bottoms of trowsers, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Sabberton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty.