Improvements in Buckles and Clasps for Dress Belts.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1890-Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles and Clasps for Dress Belts.
I, THOMAS BENT WILKINS of Great Charles Street in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to connections or fastenings for dress belts, as hereinafter
described.
The fasteners of dress belts. as ordinarily made, consist of a snake or clasp con-
nection, with band loops, or with a band loop and clasp, arranged on the opposite
sides of the said snake or clasp.
The snake connection is in the same plane as the band loops, whilst the eyes are at
right angles to the said loops.
My invention consists in making the connection, by means of a hook-and-eye
type of fastener.
In carrying out my invention, I will first describe it in connection with a buckle
fastener.
To the middle of the inside bar of one of the aforesaid band loops, is an eye loop,
disposed in the same plane as the said band loop, and standing outwardly from it, in
manner that it forms the fastening connection means of the one part.
The middle of the inside bar of the other band loop, carries an open hook shaped
tongue, alike unto the bill of the hook of an ordinary hook-and-eye dress fastener.
This hook is made from a semi-circular loop, bent or folded back nearly upon itself,
thus constituting an open tongue or loop, which when in use, engages with the eye of
the other part.
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The two parts may if necessary, be made or fashioned from a single length of
wire.
Another form of my invention, consists in providing both band loops, with elongated
eye loops, and jointing to one of them, a flat link, with its outer end turned back into
a hook, which is adapted to engage with the loop eye of the other part.
In applying my invention to a clasp, I attachedly or rigidly connect to the front
face of the link, an ornament, such as a shield, rectangular shaped plate, or other
clasp front.
The link may be made from wire, or cut out sheet metal.
As a modification, the said link may be made rigid with one of the band loops,
instead of being jointed to it.
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THOMAS BENT WILKINS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPEcification.
Improvements in Buckles and Clasps for Dress Belts.
I, THOMAS BENT WILKINS of Great Charles Street, 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 connections, or fastenings, for dress belts, as herein after
described.
Dress belt fastenings, as ordinarily made, consist generally of a snake or clasp
connection, with loops, arranged on the opposite sides of the said snake or clasp.
The fastening ends of the snake connection, is in the same plane, as the loops,
whilst the eyes are at right angles thereto.

page_text: By my invention, the connection is made, by means of a hook-and-eye form of
fastener.
To the middle of the inside bar of one of the aforesaid loops, is an eye-loop,
disposed in the same plane as the said band loop, and standing outwardly from it, in
manner, that it forms the fastening connection means of the one part.
The middle of the inside bar of the other loop, carries an open hook-shaped tongue,
which engages with the eye loop of the other part.
Another form of my invention, consists in making the said parts, from wire,
fashioned into, shape, as hereinafter described.
In applying my invention to a clasp, I attachedly or rigidly connect to the front
face of the link, an ornament, such as a shield, plate, disc, circlet, or like front.
The link may be made from wire, or cut-out sheet metal.
As a modification, the said link may be made rigid with one of the band loops,
instead of being jointed to it.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a three part
belt fastener, made according to my invention.
It will be seen, that the terminal ends of the band constituting the belt, are con-
nected to the outer burs of elongated loops, whose inner edges are provided with
smaller loops or eyes, to one of which, the joint end of the book ended link fastener,
connected, and to the other, the hook.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the same, through the dotted
lines A B.
Figure 3 is a back elevation of the same, showing the joint connection, and the free
end of the hook, which is preferably made yielding, so that on being united, the same
keeps fastened.
The one part of the fastener, consists of an elongated band loop a, from the fact of
the band b, passing through it, and taking around the end bar a² of it, whilst the
inner bar a³, carries an eye loop e, to the bar 3, of which, the inner and jointed
end of the link fastener d, is connected. This link fastener, has an hooked end d³,
which takes around the bar e², of the eye loop e, of the elongated band loop f, of
the second part.
The other end of the band, takes around the bar f2 of the said loop f
Thus the fastener consists of the one part, in providing the elongated band loops,
with elongated eye loops, and jointed to one of them, a flat link, with its free end,
turned back into a hook, which is adapted to engage with the eye loop, of the
other part.
Figure 4 represents the fastener, figure 1, with the link connection of it, provided
with an attached ornament g, and by such addition, the said fastener constitutes
a clasp.
Figure 5 represents a vertical section of figure 4, which has its ornament or
front, attached by soldering, and figure 6 represents the same, with the ornament
attached by a rivet.
Figure 7 represents another form of my invention made from wire.
Figure 8 is a section of the same, on the dotted lines C D.
In this said form of my invention, figures 7 and 8, the one part consists of a frame
loop a, around the bar a of which, an end b, of the band passes, whilst the inside
bar a³, carries an elongated eye loop c. with an outer bar c.
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The other part consists of a frame loop f, outer bar f2, around which the end
the band passes, and with the inner bar provided with an elongated hook loop é,
which is folded inwardly, nearly upon itself; and which said inward part, constitutes
a loop shaped hook e² adapted to take around the bar e² of the eye loop c.
Figure 9 represents a back elevation of one of the frame loops, and the booking
link, made in one piece from sheet metal, and according to another form of my
invention.
Figure 10 represents a section of the same, enlarged on the dotted lines E F.
is the frame loop, and d, d the hooked link, made from one piece of metal,
"with the loop f. Thus the combined part fastener, is produced, from a single blank,

page_text: with a looped part first troughed, and then the outer edges closed, so as to form the
same cylindrical or tubular.
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
1 claim is
First A belt fastener, consisting of frame or band loops, with elongated eye
shaped loops upon their inner bars, to one of which, a link loop is jointed, and to the
other the said link loop is connected, by a hooked end, substantially as described and
set forth in figures 1, 2, and 3.
Secondly A belt fastener, consisting of frame or band loops, connected together
by a hook ended link, to which a clasp, or other ornament is secured, as set forth
in figures 4, 5, and 6.
Thirdly A belt fastener, consisting of a frame or band loop, provided upon its
inner bar, or inner side, with an elongated eye loop, of the one part, and a frame or
band loop, with a hook fastener, directed from its inner side, of the other part; and
which said parts, are made from wire, or from cut out sheet metal, substantially as
described and set forth in figures 7 and 8.
Fourthly: -A belt fastener, making the frame loops, with eyes or link connections,
from sheet metal, in manner, as set forth in figures 9 and 10.
Dated this 30th day of June 1890.
THOMAS BENT WILKINS.
By Henry Sherrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.