Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1900
I, THOMAS EVANS WILLIAMS, of The Lawns, Aylestone Hill, Hereford, Gentle-
man, in the County of Hereford, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object improvements in buckles which will be found
very effective and cheap to manufacture.
In carrying my invention into practice I make my buckle with the usual frame
and in one form across this frame near one end 1 fix or form a thin flat metal
bar standing or raised slightly above the surface of the frame. In another form
the thin flat bar may be fixed or formed centrally in the frame and an anchor or
tail piece may be fixed to the frame at one end for attaching the buckles to a
strap or other articles. In another method I form my buckle frame with one side
slightly thicker or broader than the other and at each end on either side pro-
jections or stop pieces are formed. Fitted onto the frame is a sliding bar pre-
ferably made of wire with flatened ends which over lap the frame. The stop
pieces or projections prevent the bar from sliding off the frame. In some cases
instead of a single sliding bar I may fit an inside sliding frame either sliding
upon the outer frame or in grooves formed in the outer frame. Or instead of a
sliding frame I may use a flat sliding bar having a curl or nose piece on one side
for operating it.
Dated 10.1 1
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1000
T, THOMAS EVANS WILLIAMS,. of The Lawns, Aylestone Hill, Hereford, in the
County of Hereford, Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in buckles which will be found
very effective and cheap to manufacture.
In carrying my invention into practice I make my buckle with the usual frame
and in one form across this frame near one end I fix or form a thin flat metal
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bar standing or raised slightly above the surface of the frame. In another form
the thin flat bar may be fixed or formed centrally in the frame and an anchor
or tail piece may be fixed to the frame at one end for attaching the buckles
to a strap or other articles. In another method I form my buckle frame with one
side slightly thicker or broader than the other and at each end on either side
projections or stop pieces are formed. Fitted onto the frame is a sliding bar pre-
ferably made of wire with flattened ends which overlap the ends of the frame.
The stop pieces or projections prevent the bar from sliding off the frame. In some
cases instead of a single sliding bar I may fit an inside sliding frame either
sliding upon the outer frame or in grooves formed in the outer frame. Or
instead of a sliding frame I may use a flat sliding bar having a curl or nose
piece at one side for operating it.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which I have illustrated examples of my buckles..
Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my buckles shewing a portion of a strap
fixed in position.
Figure 2 is a side view of the buckle and strap as shewn at Figure 1. .
Figure 3 is a part sectional view of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a plan view of another form of my buckle.
Figure 5 is a sectional edge view of Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a plan view of a modified form of my buckle with a sliding centre
bar.
Figure 6 is an end view of Figure 6.
Figure 7 is a plan view of a buckle similar to that shewn at Figure 6 but the
loose centre bar bears on the inner edge of the ends only.
Figure 8 is an edge view of Figure 7.
Figure S is an end view of Figures 7 and 8.
Figure 9 is a plan view of a buckle with a centre sliding frame.
Figure 10 is a plan view of a buckle with a flat sliding bar provided with a
curled nose piece.
Figure 11 is an end view of Figure 10.
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In carrying my invention into practice I make my buckle as shewn at
Figures 1, 2 and 3 with the usual frame A which is slightly arched, the ends
being thickened at a¹. Fixed near the thickened portion of these ends is the
thin flat bar which stands slightly above or is flush with the upper surface
of the frame as clearly shewn at Figure 3. It will thus be seen when the
strap S or the like one end of which is fixed to the side a of the buckle, is
threaded between the side a3 and the bar a2 then over the bar and between
the bar a and the side a that it will firmly be held in position as the side at
bears upon the straps and prevents it from slipping or moving as clearly shewn.
In the method as shewn at Figures 4 and 5 form or fix the thin flat bar a³
which is slightly broader centrally in the frame A and form the anchor or tail
piece as at one side so that the buckle can be attached to the strap or other
article by means of this anchor instead of by one of the sides of the frame.
At Figures 6, 6a 7, 8 82 I have shewn by buckle with the loose sliding bar b
In the method as shewn at Figures 6 and C I form the side 2 of the frame B
slightly thicker and broader than the other side and each of the ends of the
frame may be provided with the projections or stop pieces b. The sliding
bar bis preferably made of wire with the ends & flattened and bent around or
lapped over the ends of the frame so as to be capable of sliding thereon. The
stop pieces when used helping to limit the traverse of or preventing the bar
from sliding off. In the method as shewn at Figures 7, 8 and 8ª instead of
lapping the ends of the sliding bar around the ends of the frame I round off
these Hattened ends so as to fit against or partially embrace the inner surface
of the ends of the frames thus dispensing with the stop pieces as the sides
of the frame limit the traverse of the bar . In some cases instead of the single

page_text: sliding bar I may use the inside sliding frame which may be made to slide
in grooves formed in the ends of the frame B as shewn at Figure 9 or the ends
of the frame b may slid upon the ends of the frame B. Or instead of the
sliding frame 5 I may use the broad flat sliding bar 66 provided with the curl
or nose piece 67 on one side for operating or moving it in the frame B as clearly
shewn at Figures 10 and 11. This broad flat sliding bar 66 may slide in grooves
formed in the ends of the frame B as shewn or the ends of the bar 66 slide upon
the ends of the frame B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
CLAIMS.
First: The improvements in buckles consisting essentially in forming the
bar a flat and thinner than the sides of the frame and which may be either
central or otherwise and either flush with or slightly above the level of the upper
surface of the frame substantially as herein set forth and as shewn upon the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Second: In buckles forming the bar a² so that the under surface_stands
above the under surface of the frame and either with or without a tail piece
or anchor in the manner substantially as herein set forth and as shown by
Figures 1, 2 3, 4 and 5.
Third: In buckles making the bars such as 61 and 6 so as to be capable of
sliding or moving in the frame B in the manner substantially as herein set
forth and as shewn by Figures 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11.
Fourth In buckles the sliding bar such as 6 and 6 or the sliding frame
such as 65 substantially as herein set forth and as shewn by Figures 6 to 11
inclusive.
Thatod h 01
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1000
THOMAS EVANS WILLIAMS
By George Barker,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.