Improved Fastening and Buckle for All Kinds of Leather Strapping.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Loft 18th Anr 1896 Accented 23rd May 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fastening and Buckle for All Kinds of Leather Strapping.
We, JAMES EDWARD BUTLER, and FREDERICK RATIBONE, both of 74, Park
Street, Walsall, Manufacturers of Saddlery and Harness, and WILLIAM MINER
of 31, Newhall Street, Walsall, Clerk, both in the County of Stafford, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to do away with the present mode of stitching
leather strapping together and, at the same time, effect a stronger, much more
durable, and compact fastening by providing the pieces of strapping which are to
be fastened together with a small metal band or loop in combination, when found
necessary, with a metal buckle, and by providing this metal band or loop with the
necessary mechanical means for holding the strapping securely in the aforesaid
metal band or loop.
We make our metal band of any suitable shape, size, and material, and we cast
or form this metal band in one with the buckle, thereby producing a durable,
compact, and neat combination of the metal band and buckle."
In the one side of this metal band there is provided a hole or holes through
which passes a small screw or screws, or a rivet or rivets; this screw or rivet passes
through the leather strapping to be fastened together and its end steps into a
suitable dpression formed for it on the interior of the opposite side of the metal
baud.
Birmingham October 11th 1895
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improved Fastening and Buckle for All Kinds of Leather Strapping.
We, JAMES EDWARD BUTLER, and FREDERICK RATHBONE, both of 74, Park
Street, Walsall, Manufacturers of Saddlery and Harness, and WILLIAM MINER
of 31, Newhall Street, Walsall, Clerk, both in the County of Stafford, 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 :-
This invention relates to fastening means for connecting together all kinds of
strapping, and also for the attachment thereto of such articles as buckles, clasps,
runner loops, and the like, and the object of the invention is a fastening means
constructed, arranged, and designed, in a manner that when such parts and articles,
as aforesaid, are connected or attached, all stitchings or sewings will be dispensed
with whilst, at the same time, the connection or attachment is rendered considerably
stronger, much more durable, aud can be easily disconnected or taken apart, the
length or lengths of the strap or straps adjusted, and a connection or attachment
again made without any disfiguration whatsoever to the said strapping.
Our improved fastening means consists essentially of a loop or band provided
and fitted with a cross pin, or its equivalent, adapted to fit onto and connect or join
up the loose ends of the strapping to which the fastening is to be connected.

page_text: This said loop or band is preferably made of inetal, and may be used either inde-
pendently of or in combination with a buckle, clasp, runner-loop, or analogous
article, in which latter casc would be made in one piece with the said article, or
rigidly attached thereto by rivettings or brazing.
The accompanying sheet of drawings represents in Fig. 1 n top side plan of n
buckle for leather work constructed and fitted with a connection band or loop
according to our invention; in Fig. 2 the reverse or underside of the same; in
Fig. 3 a side elevation of Figs. 1 and 2; in Fig. 4 a longitudinal vertical section on
the chain line X, Fig. 1; in Fig. 5 an end view looking from the near side of Fig. 4,
and in Fig. Ga like section as Fig. 4, with the strapping or straps shown connected
or attached thereto. Fig. 7 illustrates a section of a connection, band, or loop,
used independently of a buckle or clasp, whilst. Fig. 8 is a plan view of Fig. 7.
Modifications of the strap connection, loop, or band, are set forth in Figs. 9 and 10,
and in all the figures of the sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts.
In Figs. 1 to 6 a is a rectangular shaped buckle frame made up of side bars a
and end bars a³, and provided at its middle with a set back top bar or plate_a',
and depending or outstanding side extensions or checks a a, connected together
at their lower extremities by a cross bar a', the whole of the said parts being cast
in one piece, as shown in the drawings. The depth of the side extensions or
checks, as aforesaid, is such that, in conjunction with the top bar a and the
battoin bar a', a rectangular shaped eye is formed, of a breadth equal to the
strapping to be connected, and wherethrough the same are threaded, as shown in
Fig. 6.
The set back top bar or plate a and the lower bar a of the connection, band, or
loop, c, are respectively fashioned about their middles and in a vertical direction
into a screw box d, and a counter-sunk setting, the one being coincident with the
other, and adapted to receive an affixing screwed pine, provided with a head e,
and a slit for the operation of the same. The top bar a is also extended at a into
a prong bar a, upon which is mounted a prong or tongue f, for the purpose of
buckling up the strapping. is a loose end of the strap, having a piercing innde
there through at g, whilst is one of the free ends of another strap h, and is
also provided with a hole or piercing, and when the free ends of the straps are
threaded through the eye of the band or loop c, and the holes g, h, brought
coincident, the pin e is screwed home into the top bar a', and a rigid attachment
or connection of the straps to the loop or band of the buckle is effected.
In Fige. 7 and 8 the band or loop c is made up of ends and sides a', a, a, a²,
and is provided with an affixing pine, substantially the same as in Figs. 1 to 6, and
the free ends of the strappings are attached or connected thereby.
In Fig. 9 instead of overlapping the free ends of the straps, as in Figs. 7 and 8,
we make the band or loop a little broader, and provide two affixing pins e, i,
which respectively and independently connect the free ends of the strappings g and h
to the band or loop c.
This connection loop is preferable in some cases, as the same is only half as
thick as the one in which the straps overlap each other.
In Fig. 10 a modification is shown wherein we dispense with the screw pine and
employ a plain one, the same being kept in its position by a closure sliding plate c',
made to tightly fit within a V shaped recess constructed to receive it. This
attachment loop is constructed and fitted with a removable cross pin e, so that the
loop or the combined loop and buckle, as the case may be, can be easily and
quickly removed from the free ends of the strapping for cleaning purposes without
the aid of any tool or implement, and is distinctly applicable to harness work where
the metal fittings require to be kept in a polished state.
We may, in some cases, employ a rivet instead of a screw pin, and alter the
arrangement of the eye or loop as any particular kind of strapping work may
require and, if necessary, we may jointedly connect the said loop to a buckle,
clasp, or like article.

page_text: Having now particularly described the nature of this said invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
First. A buckle, clasp, or like fastening, provided with or having upon its side
an eye, band, or loop, fitted with an affixing pin or pins whereby strappings are
connected thereto, substantially as described and set forth.
Second. A fastening, attachment, or joining up means, consisting of an eye,
band, or loop, provided with an affixing pin or pins, substantially as described and
set forth in Figs. 7, 8, and 9.
Third. A fastening, attachment, or joining up eye, band, or loop, provided and
fitted with a plain affixing pin or pins and a closure shutter, substantially as
described and set forth in Fig. 10.
Fourth. The general arrangement and combination of the parts constituting our
invention as set forth.
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1 1900
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.