Improvements in or relating to Buckles for Straps.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1395-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
Improvements in or relating to Buckles for Straps.
I WILLIAM GRIFFITH HONEY Photographer of 28 Grand Parade, Cork
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the saine is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a device to be used for buckles for straps, and has
for its object to provide an arrangement by means of which the buckle will be
locked and prevented from being opened.
In carrying out my invention 1 employ a small band or arm, secured to one of
the sides of the buckle. This arm is looped around the buckle or otherwise
provided with a hinge enabling it to be turned over on top of the buckle pin or
turned back releasing the pin. To lock the buckle, this arm is turned down on the
pin, and a pad-lock is employed, the bow of which passes through a perforation
near the end of the arm, and also encircles the opposite side of the buckle. The
arm is thus prevented from being turned back, and it is impossible to unfasten
the buckle until the padlock is removed.
A slightly modified arrangement consists in employing two arms hinged to the
sides of the buckle and connected together at the centre by the bow of the padlock,
the result being the same as in the case of the single arm. The separate padlock
may be dispensed with, and the covering arm may be furnished with a lock, the
bolt engaging with the side of the buckle.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is bad to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of the buckle attached to a strap, shewing the arrangement in
locked position, Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, Fig. 3 shews a slightly modified
arrangement, and Fig. 4 another modification.
A is the buckle secured in the usual manner to the strap B to one side a of
which (according to Figs. 1 and 2) the arm C is secured, the arm being capable
of turning over on top of the pin a preventing the pin from being raised and the
strap slipping over it.
The arm is furnished with the perforation at its end, and the bow of the
padlock D passes through the buckle and through the perforation c connecting the
parts together as above described.
According to the arrangement shewn in Fig. 3 two arms C₁ are employed both
furnished with perforations, and connected together by a padlock D, the padlock
in this case preventing the pin C from being raised.
When the padlock is removed, and the arms turned back, the buckle can be
opened in the usual manner. According to Fig. 4 the arm is in the form of a
small lock the bolt being received by the side a of the buckle, which is
preferably formed with a projection furnished with the recess for the bolt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what 1
claim is :-
(1.) Improvements in buckles for straps, consisting in the combination of an
arm hinged to the side of the buckle, and furnished with a perforation secured in
locking position by a padlock and preventing the buckle pin from being raised,
substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

page_text: (2.) Improvements in strap buckles, consisting in an arm hinged to one side of
the buckle, and furnished with a perforation at its end, and a padlock, the bow of
which passes through the perforation and buckle substantially as described and
shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 and for the purposes specified.
(3.) Improvements in strap buckles, consisting in employing two arms hinged
to the sides of the buckle, aud connected together by a padlock preventing, when
locked, the pin of the buckle from rising, substantially as described, and shewn in
Fig. 3, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 15th day of October 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.