Improvements in or in the Manufacture of the Fastener Parts of the Metallic Fittings of Waist Belts and Articles of a Kindred Nature.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in the Manufacture of the Fastener Parts of
the Metallic Fittings of Waist Belts and Articles of a Kindred
Nature.
I, ALFRED LOVEKIN, Managing Director of Adie and Lovekin Limited, of
Regent Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing Jewellers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in, or in the manufacture of, the fastener
parts of the metallic fittings of waist belts, garters, bands, suspenders and other
articles of a kindred nature, and has for its object primarily, the reduction of the
cost of producing the said fastener parts.
Heretofore belt clasps and other metallic fittings of the tongue and loop type have
been usually provided with independent connections that is to say, one end of the
webbing has been connected to a webbing loop placed upon the back and outward
edge of the clasp and the tongue (which is in the form of a hook for engaging with
an eye at the other end of the webbing) is placed at the back of the other side of
the clasp.
Now by these said parts being attachedly connected by soldering or otherwise
to the back of the clasp, considerable cost is involved in the manufacture.
Now according to my improvement, the said webbing loop and tongue or hook
are made integral or cut out from a single blank of metal or cast in one piece, so
that its attachment to the back of the clasp is effected by one operation only.
Thus cut out from a blank of thin sheet metal, a long loop made up of two
parallel bars, joined together at their ends and with a tongue piece directed from
the middle of one side of it. This tongue piece is necked or side gapped at a
swelled middle part of the inner bar, over which the ends of a U-shaped elip or
cleat, attached to the back of the clasp, are turned, and whereby the combined hook
and webbing loop is fixedly connected to the back of the clasp.
Instead of the cleats or clips being secured by soldering, rivetting or by other
means to the back of the clasp, the same may be cut out from the metal of the sail
clasp, the piercings being preferably made to form part of the ornament.
As a modification, I may make the cleats pass through holes or piercings in the
tongue of the combined attachment and be there clenched instead of being turned
over the edges of the neck.
Instead of combining a tongue or book with the webbing loop as described,
I may combine therewith an eye for engaging with a hook carried on the end of
the webbing.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the particular form or
types of fastenings as described as the same may be varied without departing from
the nature of my invention, neither do I confine myself to the particular means of
fastening described.
Dated this 27th day of February 1896.
ALFRED LOVEKIN,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in the Manufacture of the Fastener Parts of
the Metallic Fittings of Waist Belts and Articles of a Kindred
Nature.
I, ALFRED LOVERIN, Managing Director of Adie and Lovekin Limited, of
Regent Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing Jewellers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in, or in the manufacture of, the fastener
parts of the metallic fittings of waist belts, garters, bands, suspenders and other
articles of a kindred nature, and has for its object primarily, the reduction of the
cost of producing the said fastener parts.
Heretofore belt clasps and other metallic fittings of the tongue or hook and loop
type have been usually provided with independent connections, that is to say, one
end of the webbing has been connected to a webbing loop plazed upon the back
and outward edge of the clasp and the tongue (which is in the form of a hook for
engaging with an eye at the other end of the webbing) is placed at the back of the
other side of the clasp.
Now by these said parts being attachedly connected by soldering or otherwise to
the hack of the clasp, considerable cost is involved in the manufacture.
According to my improvement, the said webbing locp and tongue or hook are
made integral or cut out from a single blank of metal or cast in one piece, so that
its attachment to the back of the clasp is elected by one operation only.
Thus cut out from a blank of thin sheet metal, a long loop made up of two
parallel bars, jointed together at their ends and with a tongue piece directed from
the middle of one side of it. This tongue piece is necked or side gapped at a
swelled middle part of the inner bar, over which neck the ends of a U-shaped clip
or clent, attached to the back of the clasp, are turned, and whereby the combined
hook and webbing Inop is fixelly connected to the back of the clasp.
Figure 1 of the necompanying drawings represents in elevation, the back of the
clasp of a dress belt provided or fitted with an integral webbing loop and connecting
hook or tongue in accordance with one form of my improvements.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of Figure I upon the dotted liner.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the back of a belt clasp and its integral webbing loop
and connection hook separately.
Figure 4 is a section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line, looking towards the
webbing loop and showing the clip by which the combined loop and hook is attached
to the clasp and Figure 5 is an edge view of Figure 3.
Figure 6 is an elevation of the back of the clasp and the securing clip, and
Figure 7 is an edge view thereof.
Figure 8 is a plan and an edge view of the clip separately, and
Figure 9 shows the blank from which the said clip is made.
Figure 10 is an elevation and an end view of the combined hook and loop
separately, and
Figure 11 shows like views as Figure 10, but before the tongue that is formed
integral or in a piece with the webbing loop is turned up into a book.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 11.
a is the clasp of a waist belt, and is a combined webbing loop and fastening
hook, consisting of a loop part &, to the back bar of which one end c' of the length
of webbing c, constituting the band is connected, whilst the middle of the other
bar, is provided with a tongue &, which is bent up or turned over upon itself into

page_text: a hook, whilst its sides are opposite gapped at 6, forming a neck, over which the
ears or wings d of the clip d, soldered or otherwise secured to the back of the clasp,
are turned or bent thereby rigidly connecting the combined loop and hook to the
clasp expeditiously and economically without soldering or the like.
The other end c, of the belt is connected to the back bar of a loop e, with a
recess e', in which the hook &, of the other part of the fastener engages.
As a modification, I may make the cleats pass through holes or piercings in the
tongue of the combined attachment and be there clenched instead of being turned
over the edges of the neck, as in the preceding arrangement.
Figure 12 represents an edge view of a clasp, to which the combined attachment
is so connected, the loop, hook and clips been shewn in section, and Figure 13 is a
view of the attachment separately, the lip of the hook being broken off in order to
show the holes or piercings in the tongue.
a is the clasp and the combined attachment, consisting of loop and hook,
the tongue of which latter is pierced with a pair of holes 6, through which the
ears d', of the clip pass and are then clenched over onto the top of the said
tongue.
Instead of the cleats or clips being secured by soldering, rivetting or by other
means to the back of the clasp, the same may be cut out from the metal of the said
clasp, the piercings being preferably made to form part of the ornament, as
represented partly in elevation and partly in section in Figure 14 and in section on
the dotted line in Figure 15.
a is the clasp and d' are the ears of the clip, which are cut from out of the metal
of the said clasp.
Instead of combining a tongue or hook with its webbing loop as described, I may
combine therewith an eye for engaging with a hook carried on the end of the
webbing, as represented in Figure 16, in which a is the clasp, and the combined
attachment consisting of a webbing loop and an eye, formed integral therewith
and secured to the clasp by a clip d.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the particular form or
types of fastenings as described as the same may be varied without departing from
the nature of my invention, neither do I confine myself to the particular means
herein described of fastening or securing the combined attachment to the clasp or
other like fitting.
The application of my invention to garters, bands, suspenders, braces and other
articles of a kindred nature differs in no essential respect from its application to a
waist belt as herein described.
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:-
First. In the fastener parts of the metallic fittings of waist belts and articles of
a kindred nature making both the webbing loop or its equivalent and a hook or an
eye integral or as a single combined attachment, substantially as described and set
forth.
Secondly. In the fastener parts of the metallic fittings of waist belts and articles
of a kindred nature, securing the combined webbing loop and hook or the combined
webbing loop and eye, (of the kind referred to in the preceding claim) in position,
by a clip or cleat attached to or formed from out of the metal of, the clasp or
other metallic fitting of a waist belt or the like, substantially as described and set
forth.
Dated this 13th day of March 1896.
ALF
By Henry Skerrett,
N,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.