AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENER FOR REVERSIBLE BELTS, BANDS, OR STRAPS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Brierley, of Beech Hill Mills, Halifax,
in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CLASP OR
FASTENER FOR REVERSIBLE BELTS, BANDS, OR STRAPS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Brierley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th March 1862...
I, JOHN HENRY BRIERLEY, of Beech Hill Mills, Halifax, in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
CLASP OR FASTENER FOR REVERSIBLE BELTS, BANDS, OR STRAPS," to be as
follows:
I. employ one plate of metal or any other material; of any design or con-
figuration, suitable for a belt clasp, to the centre of which I attach a bar of
suitable width; I further attach two hooks or a double hook; or any other
kind of fastening, in such a position as enables me, by means of a catch
formed out of: metal and attached to one end of the belt, band, or strap, and
the clasp before described to the other end to connect the ends of the belt,
band, or strap, either on the right or on the left of the clasp, so that by con-
necting the belt, band, or strap, on the right of the clasp, one side of the belt,
band, or strap, is seen, and by connecting it on the left the reverse side of
the belt, band, or strap, is seen, and thus produces a reversible belt, band, or
strap, with what is' termed a single clasp.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Henry Brierley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HENRY BRIERLEY, of Beach Hill Mills, Halifax, in the County of York, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Henry Brierley, Her special licence that I, the said
John Henry Brierley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such.
others as I; the said John Henry Brierley, 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 "AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENER, FOR REVERSIBLE BELTS, BANDS,
OR STRAPS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry
Brierley, 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 John Henry Brierley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the samé is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow
ing statement, that is to say:-
I employ one plate of metal or any other material, of any design or con
figuration, suitable for a belt clasp, to the centre of which I attach a bar of
.suitable width; I further attach two hooks or a double hook, or any other
kind of fastening, in such a position as enables me, by means of a catch
formed out of metal and attached to one end of the belt, band, or strap, and
the clasp before described to the other end, to connect the ends of the belt
band, or strap, either. on the right or on the left of the clasp, so that by
connecting the belt, band, or strap, on the right of the clasp one side of the
belt, band, or strap, is seen, and by connecting it on the left the reverse sid

page_text: of the belt, band, or strap, is seen, and thus produces a reversible belt, band,
or strap, with what is termed a single clasp.
In order more fully to explain the nature of my said Invention I will
proceed to describe the Drawings annexed.
No. 1 is a view of the back of the clasp shewing the two hooks and the
bar, which is so attached as to be moveable from one side to the other.
No. 2 is a transverse section of the same. No. 3 is a view of the back of the
clasp shewing the two hooks in another form. No. 4 is a transverse section
of the same. No. 5 is the catch stiched to the contra end of the belt, so as
to connect the belt-round the person. No. 6 is a front view of the clasp as
seen when worn on the person.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would have it under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein shewn and
described so long as the peculiar nature of my Invention is retained; but what
I do claim is,
1st, the employing of two hooks, or two studs, or any two distinct fasten-
ings, attached or otherwise, as is best adapted to the kind or style of clasp
employed.
2nd, the employing of any fastening in conjunction with a moveable, metal
bar, provided only that the fastening is of such a nature or shape that I am
enabled thereby to connect the belt, band, or strap, to the right or to the left
side of the clasp, and thereby produce a reversible belt, band, or strap.
3rd, the separate or combined use of any of the parts before described.
4th, the principle by which the belt, band, or strap, is reversed, viz., the
connecting, by any means, of the belt, band, or strap, to the right or to the
left side of the clasp, at the pleasure of the wearer.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Brierley, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness.
THOS. A. BRIERLEY.
JOHN HY. BRIERLEY. (L.s.)