Improved Means for Attaching Buckles to Brace Ends, Belts, Straps or other Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Buckles to Brace Ends, Belts, Straps
or other Articles.
I GEORGE KEw of 3 North Street Miller Street Shudehill Manchester in the
County of Lancaster Brace and Belt Manufacturer 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 :-
In attaching buckles to brace ends, belts straps or other articles it has been
customary to fold or double one end of the leather or fabric round the bar of the
buckle and then to secure the same by stitching or by means of a metal rivet, or a
metal eyelet.
It has also been proposed to secure the fold of the leather by means of a metal
clip one end or side of which was provided with a metal tongue or tongues and the
other end or side with a corresponding slit or slits; and the metal being bent round
the loop of leather the tongue or tongues were passed through holes in the leather
and then through the slit or slits in the opposite end or side of the metal clasp and
bent over so as to secure the same.
The stitching was expensive and also insecure unless a considerable overlap of
the leather end was allowed, and the use of the rivet or eyelet entailed the punching
of a large hole, through the leather which rendered it weak and liable to become
broken, and the metal clasp as previously constructed was heavy and expensive and
otherwise objectionable.
The object of this invention is to construct a metal clip or clasp for this purpose
which shall be perfectly efficient and at the same time inexpensive and light and
ornamental in appearance.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed will be readily understood on reference to the sheet of drawings hereunto
annexed and the following explanation thereof.
According to my invention I make (preferably by punching) a brass or other
metal clasp or clip in the form of an elongated loop as shown at Fig. 1 on the
annexed drawing.
Near one end of the loop are two arms or fangs a and near the other end thereof
are two corresponding depressions or flat parts b, the other part of the loop is
rounded on the face, and correspondingly hollow at the back, which gives it an
appearance of solidity combined with lightness and also causes it to clip closer to
the surface of the leather.
The arms or fangs a are bent backwards at right angles to the loop and the latter
is partly doubled as shown at the edge view Fig. 2. The loop of leather c being
folded over the bar of the buckle d as shown at Fig. 3 (the fangs a passing through
slits in the leather made for that purpose) the loop is closed (the fangs a passing
also through other slits made near the end of the leather) the fangs a are clinched
or clasped over and round the outside of the depressed or flat parts b at the other
end of the metal loop as shown at back view Fig. 4, and thus the whole is firmly
secured together the points of the fangs being bent inwards into the opening of the
loop so that they cannot project and cause injury.
Fig. 5 is a front view of a double brace end attached to a buckle by my improved
clips.
Fig. 6 shows how in attaching an ordinary buckle to a strap by these means the
tongue e of the buckle will pass through the opening between the bars of the loop.

page_text: 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
A device for attaching buckles to brace ends, belts or straps or other articles
consisting of a metal clasp or clip in the form of a long open loop with two arms
or fangs, near to one end thereof and bent at right angles, so that when the loop
is doubled the said arms or fangs may be clasped or clinched round the outside
of the other end of the said loop substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 8th day of September 1801
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.