IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS FOR BRACES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Edward Gedge at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
August 1866. A communication from abroad by Charles Alfred Tordery,
of Lyons, France, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS FOR BRACES AND OTHER ARTICLES," (a
communication to me from abroad by Charles Alfred Tordery, of Lyons,
France, Merchant,) to be as follows:-
The buckles, the subject of this Invention, are made without tongued or
pronged bars, and their construction will be best understood by reference to
the annexed Sheet of Drawing forming part of this Provisional Specification,
on which Figure A represents a piece of brass, copper, or other material
stamped hollow at the dotted part to the extent of a little more than the
thickness of half the metal (o) then folded in two, so that No. 1 comes on
No. 2, and that the two hollows coming one above the other leave a space a
little greater than the thickness of the object which is to slide in it. Figure B
represents a small buckle intended to be placed in the space left between
Nos. 1 and 2 of the above, and to slide from bottom to top. The bottom and
top of this buckle (which, if required, may dispense with one of its branches
No. 4) serve to support the brace or fabric which is looped over, as at Figure D
(Nos. 1 and 4). The brace or fabric pressed between the moveable bar No. 1
(Figure D) and the bottom of the buckle No. 2 (Figure D) is so held that it

page_text: cannot give the pressure, being always in proportion to the tension of the
woven fabric, leather, hide, or other material (see Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Figures
D and E). To shorten the brace all that is required is to pull the end No. 4,
and to lengthen or loosen the brace lift the lower part of the buckle No. 2
(Figure D). Figure C shews the general appearance of the buckle when
put together. The sections Nos. 1, 2, and 3 represent side views taken through
the dotted lines corresponding with these numbers. The buckle shewn,
Figures E, F, and G, gives precisely the same results as the preceding, but
there is an essential difference in its make, it having two distinct parts super-
posed and held on one side by compression, on the other by suspension.
The brace or fabric is looped over the small bar No. 1 at the bottom of the
buckle, Figure F, the ends of the fabric (No. 2, Figure E,) passing by the
opening No. 3 of the buckle Figure G to bear against the part No. 2, and
compress the fabric (Nos. 1 and 2); but this can only take place when the
two distinct parts F and G are united together, which is effected by the aid
of the opposite end of the fabric which encloses without pressure the bar
No. 3, Fig. F, and that No. 1, Fig. G, placed directly beneath the pre-
ceding, but a little nearer the upper part No. 2 of F, in order to be able to
lift and give passage to a fabric or material of any kind (No. 5, Figure E,)
between its lower part and the part No. 2 of the buckle G and No. 6. E.
The loop enclosing these two bars should be twice the breadth of one of them.
To open or loosen pull the tug piece No. 3 (Figure E), and to tighten or
shorten pull the ends of the stuff Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Figures E and D.