IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS IN THE NATURE OF BUCKLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Francis Greenwood, of Hornsey, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "Im.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Francis
Greenwood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 16th September 1868.
I, FREDERICK FRANCIS GREENWOOD, of Hornsey, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS IN THE NATURE OF BUCKLES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the construction of a "lock buckle," that is
to say, a buckle the tongue of which shall be capable of being locked
upon or into its frame. .
This Invention I prefer to carry out in the following manner :-I
combine the frame of a buckle (on three sides of it) with the frame or
box of a lock, so that the whole shall form one piece. Beyond and

page_text: raised above that part of the buckle which receives the free end of the
tongue when it is closed down I form a. bow-shaped bar, or loop, or ring,
or shoe. The base of the tongue I hinge upon the bolt of the lock, or I
form the base of the tongue and the bolt of the lock into a hinge, in
other words, the tongue is to be part of the bolt and is to be discharged
and withdrawn with it or as part of it. When the bolt tongue is
discharged from the lock I thrust the further or free end of it under the
bow-shaped bar, loop, ring, or shoe aforesaid, the intention being that the
strap or other article which the buckle fastens shall not be released
(except by violence) until the tongue of the buckle is withdrawn. The
protrusion and withdrawal of the bolt tongue may be accomplished
either by the use of a separate key or by means of mechanism apper-
taining to and inseparable from the lock buckle itself, that is to say, the
lock portion of the arrangement may, as in ordinary locks, work by
means of a key, or as in letter locks and secret locks the lock bolt
may be released by setting parts of the lock itself to prearranged
positions.
It will be understood that the principle of the Invention is the
causing the motion of a lock bolt to bring the tongue of the buckle up
to a stop which retains it until the bolt is moved in the opposite direction.
Or as is obvious the arrangement might be reversed and the motion of
the lock bolt bring the stop to the tongue of the buckle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Francis Greenwood in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
FRANCIS GREENWOOD, of Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Francis Greenwood, Her
special licence that I, the said Frederick Francis Greenwood, my executors,.

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administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
Francis Greenwood, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS. IN FASTENINGS IN THE NATURE OF BUCKLES,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Francis
Greenwood, 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 Frederick Francis Greenwood, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thercof, that is to say:―
"lock buckle" that
My Invention consists in the construction of a
is to say, a buckle the tongue of which shall be capable of being
locked upon or into its frame.
This Invention I prefer to carry out in the following manner :-I
combine the frame of a buckle (or three sides of it) with the frame
or box of a lock so that the whole shall form one piece. Beyond and
raised above that part of the buckle which receives the free end of
the tongue when it is closed down, I form a bow-shaped bar, or loop,
or ring, or shoc, or with the same intention, I make a hole in that
part of the buckle to receive the tongue at pleasure. The base of the
tongue I hinge upon the bolt of the lock or I form the base of the
tongue and the bolt of the lock into a hinge, in other words the tongue
is to be part of the bolt and is to be discharged and withdrawn with
it or as part of it. When the bolt tongue is discharged from the
lock I thrust the further or free end of it under the bow-shaped bar,
loop, ring, or shoe, or into the hole aforesaid, the intention being that
the strap or other article which the buckle fastens shall not be released
(except by violence) until the tongue of the buckle is withdrawn. The
protrusion and withdrawal of the bolt tongue may be accomplished

page_text: either by the use of a separate key or by means of mechanism apper-
taining to and inseparable from the lock buckle itself and the lock
portion of the arrangement may as in ordinary locks work by means
of a key, or as in letter locks and secret locks the lock bolt may be
released by setting parts of the lock itself to pro-arranged positions. The 5
use of the lock motion is in all cases to fix the bolt tongue of the
buckle in or upon the frame, which as aforesaid is the object of the
Invention. And this object may obviously be accomplished by bringing
the control of the lock to bear upon any part of the bolt tongue.
Several examples of the way in which I propose to use this control 1
are hercafter recited, and are shewn in the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a lock buckle made according to my Invention in
which the hinge on which the tongue turns forms part of the bolt 1
of the lock, so that when the bolt is drawn into the lock case by
the key the tongue is stopped from turning on its hinge. The
tongue is thus locked down upon the frame of the buckle, and the
buckle cannot be opened except by protruding the bolt by means of
the key.
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Figure 2 shows a modification of the lock buckle shewn in Figure 1.
In this lock buckle the end of the frame, instead of being a simple
bar as in Figure 1, is made thicker, and has a flange on one side
and a hole in the centre of the end into which the tongue c is shot
by the key, thus securely locking. the tongue into the frame of the 2
buckle. To open it the bolt must be lowered by the key, thus clearing
the end of the tongue from the hole in which it was confined. When
in this position the tongue can be turned on its hinge as in the case
of ordinary buckles.
Figure 3 shews a buckle in which the tongue does not turn on a 3
hinge at all but forms the bolt of the lock and is shot up by the
key into a hole in the end of the buckle.
Figure 4 shews a buckle in which the tongue is simply a spring
bolt moved by mechanism appertaining to the lock itself, which spring
bolt can be locked upon the frame or not at pleasure.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
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page_text: is, the combination in one piece of a buckle and lock substantially as
lierein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Francis Greenwood, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-
nine.
FREDERICK FRANCIS GREENWOOD. (L.S.)