Improvements in Buckles or similar Fastenings.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles or similar Fastenings.
I PIERRE JOSEPH NEUVILLE of 1 Sinclair Road, Kensington, Civil Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by
Ernest Jules Neuville, of Calcutta, India, Deputy Examiner of Public Works
Accounts, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to buckles for the attachment of dress and other purposes..
The object of the invention is to dispense with prongs in buckles and to substitute a
frictional method of security. To this end the frame of the buckle is made with
parallel bars over and under which the band or the like to be buckled is alternately.
passed.
The end of the band is carried backward round the last of its series of bars under a
pivoted bar above the frame of the buckle and is thus secured in place. The under
surface of this bar being roughened to hold the band by frictional contact. Each end
of the band or bands to be secured together is similarly attached to or in the buckle so
that slack may be taken up in the band on either side of the buckle and the latter can
also be wholly detached from the band or bands there being no button or other
fastening necessary to secure the buckle on either band.
Dated this 26th day of October 1889.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles or similar Fastenings.
I, PIERRE JOSEPH NEUVILLE of 1 Sinclair Road Kensington, Civil Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by
Ernest Jules Neuville of Calcutta India, Deputy Examiner of Public Works Accounts
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 buckles mainly intended to be used for fastening the back
straps of trousers, vests and other like garment straps, but it is equally applicable to any
straps that present independent ends to be secured by the buckle. It may also with
advantage be equally and efficaciously applicable to harness, saddlery belts and other
articles of leather. The invention more particularly relates to that class of buckles or
clasps which are wholly independent of the straps or ends of the straps they are
designed to unite and which dispense with prongs to effect their engagement with the
straps, and the invention consists in a novel construction of such a buckle substantially
as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifica-
tion in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
Fig. 1 represents a face view of the buckle embodying this invention with certain
pivoted members thrown outward or back.
Fig. 2 is a further face view with the buckle frame partly in section and showing
the buckle as applied to the meeting ends of two straps to unite them and as having its
pivoted members adjusted inward or forward to close upon said straps.
Fig. 3 is a section through the buckle upon the linea in Fig. 2 and showing the
straps as applied and
Fig. 4 is a section in a plane at right angles to Fig. 3 upon the line y y in
Fig. 2.

page_text: upper bar A lower bar B fixed end limbs CC connecting said bars and additional
and intermediate connecting bars D D parallel or thereabouts with the limbs (C
which latter are of reduced thickness and flush on their exteriors or backs with the
rear exterior faces of the bars A and B. In the lower and upper sides respectively of
the bars A and B at the ends thereof are formed recesses holding movable
limbs E E pivoted at their lower rounded ends by rivetted pins cc, within the end
recesses 66 of the lower bar B and catching or fitting at their upper ends when
moved inwards on their pivots within the end recesses 6 in the upper bar A which
latter recesses serve to prevent said limbs E E from moving too far inward when
closed. These limbs E E are also of a reduced thickness so as to be in the same plane
as their interior faces with the front walls or surfaces of the bars A B or thereabouts
and are formed with shouldered ends to fit. within the recesses in the upper and
lower bars A B. When closed, these limbs E E which open outwards as shown in
Fig. 1 face the stationary limbs CC leaving a jamming space in between them and
the limbs CC to receive in close fit the two thicknesses of the doubled over loose end
portions of the straps G G to be united by the buckle. The inner or adjacent faces of
the said stationary and movable limbs C and E are roughened, serrated or file cut
as at ee to prevent the straps from slipping when held in between them.
The buckle is applied and operated as follows. The movable limbs E E are first
swung outward on their pivots c c and then the free end portions of the straps G G
which may be sewed or otherwise permanently secured at their opposite ends to the
garment, are passed over or against the roughened faces of the stationary limbs CC
round the fixed inner bars DD and doubled back over on themselves and past
the stationary end limbs C C after which the movable limbs E E are swung inward
or closed to tightly grip or hold in between them and the stationary limbs (C the
doubled over portions of the straps. To detach the buckle all that is necessary, is to
swing outward the movable limbs E E and then pull away the straps.
A buckle thus constructed presents no objectionable projections and may lie flat, and
is readily capable of being entirely detached from the article of clothing and of being
attached to the latter or its straps when required. No button is needed on the strap.
It has no prongs to puncture or tear the strap into strips. It can be fitted exactly in
the centre between the straps and so that both straps will be equally used and strained
said straps being both of equal length and it will unite the straps in a most secure
In these and other respects it has the advantage over the ordinary pronged
manner.
buckle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. In a buckle substantially as herein described, the combination, with the frame of
the buckle having intermediate cross bars of movable pivoted limbs at the ends of
said frame adapted to engage with the latter and arranged to clamp or bold the straps
or parts to be united between them and the inner faces of the fixed end members of the
frame as set forth.
2. The improved buckle herein described of fixed upper and lower bars or
members A B having recesses b b in their ends fixed end limbs uniting said
members and of less thickness than the latter, the intermediate bars D D uniting
said members A B and the movable pivoted gripping or clamping end limbs E E also
of less thickness than the members A B for operation in relation with the fixed end
limbs CC essentially as specified.
Dated this 15th day of Lul.. 1000
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.