Av IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of "Av
IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING."-A communication from abroad by Jean
Louis André, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, Manufacturer.
Sealed the 31st October 1862, and dated the 6th May 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
May 1862.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved buckle to be used for all kinds of
straps, belts, garters, harness, but especially applicable for connecting the ends
of machine bands, thereby dispensing with rivets or other fastenings, they also
pass over pullies with great facility.
This improved buckle is formed of a franie in two parts jointed together
of unequal length, having several bridge or tie pieces, over and under which

page_text: the strap passes; one end of said strap is connected to a bridge piece of the
smaller part of the frame, the other end passing through the several bridges of
the other and larger frame. In order to hold and secure the strap, a cross
bar or rocking piece is placed about midway, of the larger part of the frame
of the buckle, which, when tension is exerted on the strap, is caused to bear on
its whole width, and so retain it in the desired position. To unfasten the
strap it is only necessary to raise the longer end of the buckle on its binged
joint when the strap is free to be removed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William Clark, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as J, the said William
Clark, 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 BUCKLE OR FASTENING,"
a communication to me from abroad by Jean Louis André, of 29, Boulevart
St. Martin, Paris, Manufacturer, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Clark, 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 bo 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 William Clark, do hereby declare the

page_text: 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 state-
ment, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed and
to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):
This Invention relates to an improved buckle' to be used for uniting the
ends of all kinds of straps, belts, garters, harness, but especially applicable for
connecting the ends of machine bands, thereby dispensing with rivets or other
fastenings, they also pass over pullies with great facility. This improved buckle
is formed of a frame, in two parts of unequal length jointed together, having
several bridge or tie pieces over and under which the strap passes; one end of
said strap is connected to a bridge piece of the smaller part of the frame, and
the other end passing through the several bridges of the other and longer frame.
In order to hold and secure the strap a cross bar or rocking piece is placed
about midway of the larger part of the frame of the buckle which, when tension
is exerted ou the strap, is caused to bear on it its whole width, and so retain
it in the desired position. To unfasten the strap it is only necessary to raise
the larger end of the buckle on its hinged joint when the strap is free to be
removed. Fig. 1 of the annexed Drawing represents a perspective view of this
improved buckle or fastening. a, buckle jointed at c; b, first bridge piece over
which the free end of the strap passes; c, second bridge piece to which is sewn
or otherwise secured the other end of the strap; d, rocking piece which grips
the strap; f leather loop through which the strap, passes before being gripped
by the rocking piece d, under which it passes & thence over bridge c as seen
in blue. Fig. 2 shows a waist buckle without a jointed end. a is the buckle
properly so called; b, the part for attaching the belt which is hinged to
buckle a, and has a rocking piece c, which grips the belt as it passes under it.
The advantages possessed by this improved buckle may be classed as
follows: 1st, it retains the buckle in any position without holes or eyelets;
2ndly, dispenses with tongues which are so liable to tear the fingers or
clothes; 3rdly, does not ravel or tear the material which it is to secure in
position, being capable of holding ribbons or the thinnest fabrics without
injury; it may also be applied to metallic tissues or india-rubber in an
unwoven state without slipping, which advantage is not possessed by any but
this improved buckle.
Having described the nature of this Invention and the manner of perform-
ing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improved buckle
herein described and represented in the Drawings annexed, which is applicable

page_text: for uniting the ends of driving belts or for articles of clothing such as for
trowser & waistcoat straps, garters, braces, ladies' or other waist belts,
shoe fastenings, and other purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane,.
. London.
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