Improvements in Furniture or Fittings for Belts and Bands for Personal Wear.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left. 7th Mar.. 1900-Accepted. 14th Apr. 1900
Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left. 7th Mar. 1900-Accented. 14th Apr. 1900
Improvements in Furniture or Fittings for Belts and Bands
for Personal Wear.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond Turner and Son,
of Snow Hill, in the City Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declcre the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the furniture or fittings of waist belts and bands
for personal wear, and principally to that class of fitting known as clasps, in
which the two separate parts of a fastener fitting are secured together by a hook
and eye or equivalent connection. My said invention has for one of its objects,
to provide means for releasing or disconnecting the two parts of the fitting,
and for another object, an improved method of forming the hook.
In one form of my improved fastener fitting, each part may consist of a curved
plate, hinged or swivelly connected to one bar of a loop, to whose other bar,
an end of the webbing or band is connected, so that besides the plates conform-
ing to the curvature of a waist, the outermost plate is capable of being turned
outwards, by its hook working within the eye of the inner or under plate as a
fulcrum. Thus the said underplate of the clasp has a slit, eye or opening
near its outer edge, whilst the back of the outer plate, near to its inner or
pivot edge, is provided with a hook which is adapted to engage with the eye
slit of the other part, and may be made in the form of a backwardly raking loop.
Thus the flap part of the outer plate extends a considerable distance beyond the
hook itself, and forms, as it were, a levering arm by which its hook may be
lifted out of engagement with the eye of the other part.
The hook may be of any construction, and so also may the eye, but I prefer
to make the hook by bending backwards upon itself, a metal extension proceed-
ing from that edge of the plate which forms the sleeve or knuckle of the hinge
connection with the band loop, and the inner end of the said extension or pro-
longation is turned backwards into a lip, thus forming the hook in one piece
with the plate, and obviating the use of solder.
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Improvements in Furniture or Fittings for Belts and Bands
for Personal Wear.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond Turner and Son,
f Snow Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
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page_text: the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to the furniture or fittings of waist belts and bands
for personal wear, and principally to that class of fitting known as clasps, in
which the two separate parts of a fastener fitting are secured together by a
hook and eye or equivalent connection. My said invention has for one of its
objects, to provide means for releasing or disconnecting the two parts of the
fitting, and for another object, an improved method of forming the hook.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a front elevation of a
two-part clasp or belt fastener constructed according to one form of my
invention.
Figure 2 represents a back elevation of the said clasp, showing the hook of
the one part engaging with a slot or gap constituting the eye of the other part.
Figure 3 is another back elevation, but represents the two parts' separated.
Figure 4 is an edge view of the clasp with the two parts connected.
Figure 5 represents a longitudinal section of Figure 1, upon the dotted
line x.
Figure 7 represents an edge view of a complete belt fitted with my improved
clasp or fastening, showing how the disconnection of the hooked part from the
slotted or eyed part is effected by a levering action of the former.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several
figures of the drawings.
In carrying out this form of my improved fastener fitting, each part a, b,
consists of a curved plate a, b, hinged or swivelly connected to the adjacent
bar c¹ of a loop c, to whose other bar and end d', of the webbing or band d, is
connected. The underplate 1 of the clasp has a slit, eye or opening 62 near
its outer edge 63, whilst the back of the outer plate a¹ near to its inner or
pivot edge a³, is provided with a hook 2, which rakes towards the said inner
edge and is adapted to engage with the eye slit of the other part, and may be
made in the forin of a backwardly raking loop. Thus the flap part of the outer
plate extends a considerable distance beyond the hook itself, and forms, as it
were, a levering arm by which its hook may be lifted out of engagement with
the eye of the other part when the said front plate is turned outwards upon its
inner edge as a fulcrum.
The hook may be of any construction, whilst instead of employing a slotted
inner plate for the hook of the levering flap to engage with, I may use any
suitable form of eye or eqivalent fitting for the hook to take into.
To produce a levering flap with an integral hook and thereby entirely dis-
pense with soldering in making up the clasp, the hook may (as represented
in elevation in Figure 7 and in longitudinal section in Figure 8) be made by
bending backwards a metal extension a, proceeding from the inner edge a³
of the plate a¹, adjacent to the sleeve or knuckle which forms the hinge con-
nection of the said plate or levering plate with the band loop, and the inner
end of the said extension or prolongation (which may be gapped as represented)
is turned backwards into a lip a, thus forming the hook in one piece with the
plate and obviating the use of solder.
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:
First: A separable two-part clasp or fastener for belts and bands, compris-
ing a levering flap jointed to a fitting attached to one end of a belt or band and
provided at the back with a hook disposed near and raking towards or being
presented to the joint, which said hook is adapted to engage with a slotted
plate, eye or equivalent carried by the other end of the belt and to be disengaged

page_text: therefrom when the flap is turned outwards, substantially as herein described
and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly-A clasp or fastening for belts and bands, comprising a pair of
plates jointed respectively to loops or fittings attached to the opposite ends of
the belt, and with the outermost plate carrying, near its joint, a hook, adapted
to engage with a slot or eye in the undermost plate, and to be disengaged
therefrom when the said hook-plate is turned outwards, substantially as herein
described and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly: In clasps or fastenings for the belts as referred to in the preced-
ing claims, making the hook integral with the levering flap, substantially as
herein described and also as set forth in Figures 7 and 8 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 6th dox of March 1900
GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.