Improvements in Connections for Buckles and other Fasteners for Braces, Suspenders, Belts, and Articles of Dress.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connections for Buckles and other Fasteners for
Braces, Suspenders, Belts, and Articles of Dress.
I, THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to end connections of buckles, and other fastenings, for
braces, suspenders, belts, and articles of dress, as hereinafter described.
In a buckle for braces, the said end connections are sometimes called cast-offs,
from the same being entirely detachable.
The object of my improvements is the automatic releasing of the detachable
part, from its carrier, and which said detachable part, has loop or loops at its
lower end, from whence the tabs, or the tab-cords of tabs, are connected and
suspended.
Thus, the buckle is a two part one, with the lower part, detachably disconnected
from the upper one, by a lateral movement.
In describing my invention in connection with the brace buckle, an ordinary
buckle framing is taken, consisting of top and side bars, with a prong barrel
directed across its middle, and with the lower part of the frame, made box-like,
open at top and bottom with a gap or gaps, directed through its back, wherein and
wherewith, catches of the other part, as hereinafter described, snap and engage.
The other part consists of a frame loop or loops, with a spring tongue directed
from its upper end, in the form of what is known as a necklace-snap, that is, a
spring fastener, made by the folding of the metal nearly upon itself, leaving a free
end or side, which is capable of yielding, in obedience to pressure exerted upon it.
Thus, the tongue has front and back parts; the front part is free and yielding,
whilst the back part remains quiescent, and is provided with side catches, directed
outwardly and coming nearly opposite the end of the front part.
The loop or loops, is or are cranked forwardly, to the plane of the spring
front.
To make a connection of the lower part with the upper part of the two part
buckle as described, pass the spring tongue of the one part, upwardly into the box
of the other part, when the catches of the lower part, snap into the gap or gaps of
the other part, by the opening out of the spring front of the tongue, which was
compressed, on the making of the connection.
The free side of the tongue, is presented to the inside of the front of the box, so
that by applying forward pressure to the loop, the free side of the tongue becomes
compressed thereby, and the catches taken from the gaps, hence the releasing of
the said lower part.
The application of my invention to other suspenders, belts, and other articles of
dress, differs in no essential respect from its application to that of a brace buckle
herein described.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1890.
TTVYD

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connections for Buckles and other Fasteners for
Braces, Suspenders, Belts, and Articles of Dress.
I, THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer do hereby declare 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 end connections of buckles and other fastenings, for
braces suspenders, belts and articles of dress as hereinafter described.
In a buckle for braces, the said end connections, are sometimes called east offs,
from a part of the same being entirely detachable.
The object of my improvements, is the releasing of the detachable part from its
carrier or frame part, and which connection is a two part one, so arranged that the
one part, is released from the other part, by lateral pressure applied through the
intervention of the thumb and finger.
The one part consists of a frame, with a box carrier, open at top and bottom,
and provided with holes or piercings in its back, wherein, and wherewith, catches
or stop cars of the other part, as hereinafter described, snap and engage.
The other part consists of a frame, with a spring tongue bent over from the
metal of its back part, which carries the stop ears as aforesaid.
To make a connection of the one part with the other part, pass the first named
part upwardly into the box, of the other part, when the catches of the said first
named part, snap into the holes or openings of the other part, by the opening out
of the spring tongue or front, hence the connection.
The free side of the tongue, is presented to the inside of the front of the box, so
that by applying forward and lateral pressure to the loop, or body part, the tongue
becomes compressed, and the catches taken from the gaps, hence the releasing of
the said lower part.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a cast-off
brace buckle-connection, constituted and arranged according to my said invention.
The connection is shown applied with brace webbing and a tab length.
Figure 2 represents a lack elevation of the said connection, showing how the
stop cars of the lower and detachable part, normally engage and take within
piercings or recesses of the fixed part or buckle frame.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the said attachment upon
the dotted lines A B Figure 2, while Figure 4 represents a like sectional view as
Figure 3, but with the detachable part in the position which it assumes when
unlocked, and in a state to be disconnected.
Figure 5 represents a back elevation of the two parts of the said connection
separated.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of the separated parts of Figure 5.
Figure 7 is a plan, edge and end view of a blank, from which the carrior or upper
part of the connection, without the frame loop, is made.
Figure 8 is a plan and edge view of a blank, from which the lower or detachable
part of the connection is made.
Figure 9 is my said new or improved cast-off' connection, shown applied as a belt
fastening.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
is the upper part of the two part connection, consisting of a body part b, with a
rolled-over top, taking upon the bar of a loop frame c. is a box shaped lower part,
open at top and bottom, and provided with holes or openings at its back, wherein
car-stops at the back of the attachable and detachable part d, take, on the body
part of the same, which has a spring tongue, passing home into the interior
of the box part 6, of the said other part.

page_text: Thus, the lower part, consists of a rigid back part, and a yielding front part, the
latter made in the form of a spring tongue, which yields in obedience to pressure
exerted upon it; so that as the said lower part is passed into the mouth of the box
part of the upper part, the spring tongue yields, and on the stop ears ', which are
inclined on their fore parts coming coincident with the holes or openings 6* of the
top part, they snap into them, by the expansion of the tongue.
The lower part of the detachable part d, has a loop d', wherethrough a running
tab length e, passes, while the webbing f, forming the brace, passes around the top
bar of the frame loop of the upper part.
To disconnect the cast-off part from the fixed part, apply lateral pressure, by the
thumb or finger, to the loop frame part , when the spring tongue d', is thereby
depressed, and the stop ears &, take from the holes or openings 4, as in Figure 4,
when the said detachable or cast off part can be removed, as in Figures 5 and 6.
In Figure 9 where the said connection is shown applied to a waist belt, the only
difference between the connection described applied to a brace, is that the part
carrying the tongue and stop cars, is provided with as large a connection loop for
the taking of the web or band, as the other part.
The frame proper of the connection may be provided with prong, lever, and
other buckle arrangements, instead of a frame loop as represented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First: A cast-off or detachable brace, suspender or belt connection, consisting
of a frame or carrier, with a pierced and open ended box or casing of the one part,
and a detachable and attachable connection, consisting of a plate of metal, with a
spring tongue upon one side, and raised stop ears or catches on the other side, of
the other part. whereby a connection is made of the said two parts, by the engage-
ment of the said stop ears or catches of the one part, within the holes or openings
of the other part, on the same becoming coincident, and the disconnection of the
said two parts, being effected by a lateral and outward pressure of the outer or
loop end of the tongue carrying part, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly: The combination with the part a, having open ended box or casing b³,
with back piercings b, of the part b, having catches d, and spring tongues d',
substantially as set forth.
VEHIC
THOMAS WALKER.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.