Improvements in the Construction of Buckle Frames and Fittings for Braces and Suspenders.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Buckle Frames and Fittings
for Braces and Suspenders.
I, THOMAS WALKER, of Brook Street Works, St. Paul's Square, 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 buckles, having cantab runner frames in connection
with them, and consists in attaching or connecting the said frames, which are made
separate from the buckle frames, to the said buckle frames, by means of a tubular
attachment of the cantab frame part, embracing the lower bar of the buckle frame
part, hence the making of the connection strong, at the junction of the one part
with the other.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a buckle,
with the cantab frame, secured to the buckle frame, according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section, upon the dotted lines A. B.
Figure 3 is an underside plan.
Figure 4 is a transverse section, on the dotted lines C D, and
Figure 5 is a back elevation of Figure 1, showing how the attachment of the
cantab frame to the buckle frame, made, and how the junction of one with the
other, is rendered strong, by the upper part of the former, closing round the loop
frame of the latter, in the form of a tubular attachment.
Figure 6 represents a front elevation of the buckle frame, separately.
Figure 7 shows the cantab frame, before the back edges are tubularly closed.
Figure 8 is an end elevation of Figure 7, and
Figure 9 is a cross section, on the dotted lines E F, showing the channel
character of the said frame Figure 7.
Figure 10 represents the two parts of the buckle and cantab frames together,
before the raised boundary edgings of the latter, are closed or turned over.
Figure 11 is a front and edge view of the blank of the cantab frame.
Figure 12 shows the first raising of the same, and
Figure 13 is a cross section of the said Figure 12.
a is the buckle frame proper, with a supplementary loop frame a', and with upper,
middle, and lower bars a², a³, a' and a°, and around the two latter, and the nides a³,
of the supplementary frame, the tubular attachment part 62, 63, 64, of the hollow
cantab framing part b, is closed, leaving the lower part of the said frame b, depending
below the loop frame a' as aforesaid, hence the connecting of the said cautab frame
part, to the buckle frame part, or the supplementary loop part of the latter, and
by such connection the junctions of the one with the other are made strong, and
not liable to get broken, as is common with this class of buckles or buckle frames.
The closing of the upper part of the tubular attachment cantab frame around
the supplementary loop framing of the buckle frame, is more clearly shown in the
back elevation, Figure 5, and from which view it is clearly seen how the joints of
the said tubular part, meet and close circumferentially around the bars and sides
embracing the said supplementary loop a¹.
Although I have described and represented my invention as applied to a buckle
for the front of a brace, yet I wish it to be understood, that my invention is
equally applicable to cantab runner frames for the backs of braces and like
suspenders. In these said back fittings, the prong bars and prongs are dispensed
vith, and suitable joint connections substituted therefor.
Figure 14 represents the said cantab attachment in connection with a back loop
or back fitting of a brace.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what i
claim is
First In a combined. buckle and cantab, frame, or cantab frame fittings, for
braces and suspenders, making the said buckle and frame or the fittings, in two
parts, with the upper part of the frame of the cantab runner part, closing around
and being connected to the bars of the loop frame, including the lower bar of the
buckle frame, whereby the junction of the one part with the other, is made strong,
substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-The combination with the buckle. a, having a loop supplementary.
frame a at its lower part, of a runner cantab frame part , made tubular or hollow,
and connected to the said supplementary loop part a', or to the bar a', and sides a
of the buckle frame part, by closing, substantially as described and set forth.
Dand .:.
M1 1001
THOMAS WALKER.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.