AN IMPROVED COUPLING OR BUCKLE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bewicke Blackburn, of Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COUPLING OR
BUCKLE."
Sealed the 3rd May 1864, and dated the 5th November 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bewicke Blackburn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
November 1863.
I, BEWICKE BLACKBURN, of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
COUPLING OR BUCKLE," to be as follows:-
This improved coupling or buckle consists of a lever hook, to the long arm
of which a cord or strap is fixed. The short arm, after being passed through
a fixed loop, is turned and bent round to prevent its becoming detached from
the loop. The loop being attached to one side of any article to be coupled,
say, for instance, to one side of the top of a glove, the cord or strap is passed
through an eye, loop, or aperture in the other side. To form the coupling,
draw the cord over and beyond the fixed loop; to uncouple, draw the cord in
the reverse direction, and the parts become separated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Bewicke Blackburn in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 5th May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BEWICKE
BLACKBURN, of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Bewicke Blackburn, Her special licence that I, the said Bewicke Black-
burn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Bewicke Blackburn, 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 "AN IMPROVED COUPLING
OR BUCKLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Bewicke Black-
burn, 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 per-
formed, 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 Bewicke Blackburn, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
This improved coupling or buckle consists of a lever hook, to the long arm
of which a cord or strap is fixed. The short arm, after being passed through
a fixed loop, is turned and bent round to prevent its becoming detached from
the loop. The loop being attached to one side of any article to be coupled,
say, for instance, to one side of the top of a glove, the cord or strap is passed
through an eye, loop, or aperture in the other side. To form the coupling,
draw the cord over and beyond the fixed loop; to uncouple, draw the cord in
the reverse direction, and the parts become separated.
The accompanying Drawings shew my improved coupling or buckle applied
to a left-hand glove.

page_text: Figure 1 shews the buckle closed or coupled, and Figure 2 uncoupled.
a, b, is a lever hook, to the long arm a of which a strap c is fixed; the short
arm 6 is passed through a loop d fixed to one side of the glove, and is turned
and bent round as shewn to prevent its becoming detached from the loop..
The strap c is passed through an aperture e in the other side of the glove, and
has a button attached to the end thereof. To bring and secure the two sides
of the glove together, draw the strap c to the left, when the lever hook a, b,
will assume the position seen in Figure 1. To uncouple or detach the sides
of the glove draw the strap c to the right, and the parts will become
separated.
Although I have only shewn my coupling or buckle as applied to a glove,
yet it is applicable to various other articles which require coupling.
I prefer to fix the cord or strap to the long arm of the hook by passing it
through two holes made at a short distance from the end thereof, as shewn in
the Drawings.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim constructing
couplings or buckles of a lever hook to the long arm of which a cord or strap
is fixed, and the short arm of which, after being passed through a fixed loop,
is turned and bent round to prevent its becoming detached from the loop, the
coupling and uncoupling being effected substantially in manner herein-before
described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bewicke Blackburn, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
DEWICIE DLACKDUDN
BEWICKE BLACKBURN. (..)