A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION BELTS, BANDS, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Morrison, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Machinist, and Samuel Amphlet, of Birmingham aforesaid,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Morrison and
Samuel Amphlet at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 4th September 1856.
We, JOHN MORRISON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist, and SAMUEL AMPHLET, of Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING
FOR BELTS, BANDS, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of a fastening, constructed in the following manner :-
The said fastening consists of two plates of metal, one of which is attached to
the band or article to which the other end of the band or other article is to be
fastened. The second plate of metal is connected with the first, as follows:-
The said second plate lies flat upon the first two of its edges, being turned
down at right angles over the edges of the first plate; the said second plate
can thus slide on the first in the direction of the band, to which the first plate is
attached. Pins on the edges of the first plate engage in slots in the turned-down
edges of the second plate, and thus secure the second plate to the first and
limit its range of motion. The said slots, however, are not parallel to the
plane in which the plates are situated, but are inclined thereto at a small
angle. When one plate slides on the other in one or other direction the said
plates approach to or recede from one another. When the end of a strap or

page_text: band is inserted between the plates and pulled so as to withdraw it again, it
brings the moveable plate with it, which in its motion approaches the other
plate, and the band becomes grasped between them and firmly secured; in order
to withdraw the band, the two plates are held in the position in which they are
most distant when the band can be withdrawn. Our Invention is applicable
to the fastening of bands, belts, braces, garters, and other such like articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Morrison and Samuel Amphlet in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Jonn
MORRISON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinist, and
SAMUEL AMPHLET, of Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
John Morrison and Samuel Amphlet, Her special licence that we, the
said John Morrison and Samuel Amphlet, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said John Morrison and Samuel Amphlet,
our 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BELTS,
BANDS, AND OTHER BUCH LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said John Morrison and Samuel Amphlet, our executors or
administators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals,
or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 Samuel Amphlet, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: Our Invention consists of a fastening for belts, bands, and other such like
articles, constructed in the manner herein-after particularly described, and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
The said fastening consists of two plates of metal, marked a and b respec-
tively in the several Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Figure 1 represents the
blank or sheet of metal forming one part of the fastening before the said blank
is bent into its proper form. The said blank a has two slots c, d, inclined to
one another, as represented. The ends of the blank, Figure 1, are bent at the
places indicated by dotted lines; the said blank, Figure 1, then assumes the
form indicated in end view in Figure 2. The form of the other part 6 of the
fastening will be understood by reference to the plan, Figure 3, and edge view,
Figure 4. By the said Figure 4 it will be seen that the pins e, f, Figure 3,
are twisted or pressed out of the plane of the plate b, the said pins e, f, having
about the same inclination to the plate 6 as the slots c, d, have to the plate o
when the said plate a is bent, as in Figure 2.
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Figure 5 represents in plan, and Figure 6 in edge view, the two parts of
the fastening connected together, the pins shown at e, f, Figures 3 and 4,
entering the slots shown at c, d, Figure 1. One end of the belt or band g is
fastened to the part b at h; the other end of the belt or band i is inserted
between the plates a and b. By pulling the belt or band i and g asunder, the
plate 6 slides by its pins e, f, in the slots c, d, and approaches in its motion the
plate a. The end of the band or belt i is grasped between the plates a and b,
and thereby fastened. By pressing the plates a, b, so as to bring the pins e, f,
in those parts of the slots c, d, most distant from the plate a, the space between
the said parts a and b is widened, and the strap or band i may be withdrawn.
We sometimes make the slots of the form represented in Figure 7, which said
form is not so much injured by wear as slots of the form represented in
Figures 1 and 2.
The slot Figure 7 prevents a set-off from wearing by the action of the parts,
thereby retarding the motion of the pins e, f.
We sometimes make two slots on each side of the part a, as represented at
d, d', Figure 8, in which case we make two pins on each side of the plate b
instead of the single pins e, f,
the two pins on each side of the plate b
engaging in the two slots on each side of the plate a.
Various ornamental forms may be given to our improved fastening.
Figure 9 represents the blank from which one ornamental form of our
fastening may be made. The slots k, l, are cut in the ears m, n, which are
bent at right angles to the plate from which they are cut, as represented in the
plan, Figure 10, and end view, Figure 11. The other half of the fastening,

page_text: Figure 12, may be cut out and the pins o, p, bent into their proper position at
one operation. Figure 13 represents the part Figure 12 in side elevation.
Figure 14 represents in elevation the two parts, Figures 10 and 12, joined
together; and Figure 15 represents a section of the same, showing the two
ends of a band or belt fastened thereby. As the action of Figure 15 exactly
resembles that of Figure 6, herein before described, we do not think it
necessary to describe the action of the said Figure 15.
In order more effectually to hold the belt or band between the two parts of
the fastening, we sometimes make the upper plate or upper and lower plates
slightly corrugated or indented, as represented in Figures 13, 14, and 15, or
we cement or attach cloth or other rough substance to the upper plate for that
purpose when the fastening is required to hold any very compressible material,
such as elastic brace and belt fabric.
Our Invention is applicable to the fastening of bands, belts, braces, garters,
and other such like articles.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise details herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from
the nature of our said Invention; but we claim as our Invention the new or
improved fastening for belts, bands, and other such like articles, herein-before
described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, a
fastening in which two plates or bars are so engaged together, by pins in the
one engaging in slots in the other, that when moved over one another in one
direction the said plates or bars approach to and grasp the loose end of the
band or fastening situated between them, and when moved in the opposite
direction they separate, and permit of the motion of the loose end of the band
between them.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Amphlet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
SAMUEL AMPHLET. (L.S.)