AN IMPROVED BUCKLE
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti, of 39, Rue
de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, & 4, South Street,
Finsbury London for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE"
Sealed the 6th February 1857, and dated the 3rd September 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Simon Ghidiglia and
Louis Turletti at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 3rd September 1856.
We, SIMON GHIDIGLIA and LOUIS TURLETTI, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier,
Paris, in the Empire of France, & 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, do.
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention of "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE,"
to be as follows, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in an improved construction of buckle, in which we
dispense with the tongue-piece which forms part of those at present in use.
We replace this tongue by a piece of metal, which fastens the strap,
cord, &c. without piercing it, the fastening being effected by simply drawing

page_text: the strap, &c. which it is intended to secure. The buckle is made in two
parts, as shewn in the annexed Drawing.
Figure 1 represents a front view, and Figure 2 a side view of the buckle,
A being the upper, and B the lower piece; C is an opening in which the
strap to be secured is passed, which strap is stitched to the buckle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd March 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SIMON
GHIDIGLIA and LOUIS TURLETTI, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the
Empire of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti, Her special license that we, the said
Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti, our execu-
tors, 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 ex-
pressed, 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," upon the condition, amongst
others, that we, the said Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, or under the band and seal of oue of us,

page_text: should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be 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 we, the said Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say:
Our Invention consists in an improved construction of buckle, in which we
dispense with the forked tongue, which forms part of those at present in usc.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan of the improved
buckle; Figure 2, the same, uniting two straps; Figure 3, side view of the
buckle; Figure 4, view showing the mode of using the buckle with a strap
or band; Figure 5, view of the moveable frame of the buckle half open
without the strap; Figure 6, edge view of the same with the strap; Figure 7,
side view of the buckle with the moveable frame entirely open; Figure 8, a
view of the same with a band or strap; Figure 9 is a modification of the
buckle; Figure 10, edge view of the same. The same letters refer to
the same parts of the Drawing.
A is the body of the buckle, which may be more or less curved, with the
exception of the extremity B, to which is fixed the strap C. The other
extremity D is curved upwards, so that by raising the body of the buckle the
band or strap may be withdrawn. E is a tongue-piece, projecting below the
body of the buckle at an angle of at least forty-five degrees, and which piece
presses against the strap F when it is brought in contact by the moveable
frame G, around which the strap is passed.
Figures 1 and 2 shew the method of forming the tongue-piece out of the
buckle. After having been cut out on three sides, it is bent down, as shewn
in the other Figures, so as to form an angle of sufficient acuteness to hold the
band, but not so sharp as to prevent the latter from sliding when the move-
able frame is moved to the position shewn in Figures 5 and 6. The edge of
this tongue-piece, which rests on the band, may be slightly rounded off, if
necessary. H, H, are pivots on the body A of the buckle for the moveable
frame to work upon. The surface i of the curved extremity J of the frame
being flat, its action cannot injure the strap. The straps F and C upon being

page_text: pulled in opposite directions produce the effect of a lever, which secures the
strap or band more firmly the tighter it is drawn.
In Figures 9 and 10 the tongue-piece E is dispensed with, by forming the
end D of the buckle with a curve having a sharp edge; in other respects it
is similar to the one before described.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we would have it understood that what
we claim is, the improved construction of a buckle for securing straps or
bands, as herein-before described, and represented in the annexed Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Simon Ghidiglia and Louis Turletti,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-eighth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
SIMON GHIDIGLIA. (L.S.)
L. TURLETTI.
(L.S.)
SIMON GHIDIGLIA. (L.S.)
L. TURLETTI.
(L.S.)