IMPROVE- MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BANDS, BELTS, STRAPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick John Jones, of Addle Street, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BANDS, BELTS, STRAPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES"
A communication.
Sealed the 30th March 1853, and dated the 4th February 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick John
Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his.
Petition, on the 4th February 1853.
I, FREDERICK JOHN JONES, of Addle Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BANDS, BELTS, STRAPS, AND OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES," communicated to me by a foreigner residing
abroad, to be as follows:-
To the back of a metal plate I affix a metal loop at one side; and
at the other side, and opposite the loop, is a piece of metal bent over
so as to form a hook. I pass one end of a band or belt through
this loop, and then through a separate loop, which I call a "stop
loop," and which is made rather longer than the fixed loop, so that

page_text: it may not pass through such fixed loop; the same end of the belt
is then passed back through the fixed loop. To the other end of the
belt or band another loop is sewn or otherwise fastened, which is
brought round the body and inserted into the hook on the back of
the metal plate. The band can be lengthened or shortened by push-
ing it back in the fixed loon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance, of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Frederick John Jones in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 4th August 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
FREDERICK JOHN JONES, of Addle Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
scesors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick John Jones,
Her special licence that I, the said Frederick John Jones, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick John Jones, my executors, 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 expressed, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR
BANDS, BELTS, STRAPS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," communicated to
me by a foreigner residing abroad, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Frederick John Jones, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick John Jones, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
Drawings annexed, that is to say:
..
The improvements in fastenings for bands, belts, straps, and other
similar articles, which constitute the said Invention, are exhibited in
Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the Drawings annexed, which represent
different views of a fastening constructed with the improvements
applied to a waist or wearing-belt. Figure 1 is a back-view;
Figure 2, a section on the line a, b; and Figure 3, a view of one of
the parts (the stop loop) detached from the belt. A is a metal
plate, the form of which may be varied, and which may also be
ornamented on the front or part exposed to view according to the
taste of the manufacturer; B is a metal loop affixed at one side of
and at the back of the plate; and C, a piece of metal bent over, so
as to form a hook, and affixed at the other side of the plate.
Opposite the loop D is a separate loop of the form shewn in
Figure 3, which I call a "stop loop," and which is made rather
longer than the fixed loop B, so that it may not pass through it
when in use. One end of the belt E is passed through the fixed
loop B, and then through the stop loop D (the part D of which is
made angular to enable it to hold the belt more firmly), and the
same end of the belt is then passed back through the fixed loop, as
seen in Figure 2. The other end of the belt has a loop F sewn or
otherwise fastened to it; and when the belt is to be worn it is passed
round the body, and the loop F slipped over the hook C on the back
of the metal plate. The belt can be lengthened or shortened before
being put on, or adjusted whilst on the wearer, by pushing the
doubled end back in the fixed loop B, and shifting the belt so as to
bring the stop loop nearer to or further from the end, as may
be required. The form of the stop loop may be varied, provided
always it is made of such length as not to pass through the
fixed loop B; and instead of having the hook C attached to the
plate, and the loop F on the end of the belt, the converse arrange-

page_text: ment might be adopted, the hook being attached to the end of the
belt, and a loop similar to B affixed to the plate.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
The employment in fastenings for bands, belts, straps, and other
similar articles, of the stop loop D in manner and for the purpose
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick John Jones, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of August,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
FREDERICK J. JONES. (L.s.)