An Improved Fastening for Belts and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening for Belts and the like.
I, CHARLES FRANCIS BALLY of Schoenenwerd, Switzerland, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention relates to a fastening for belts and the like, in which a hook at
one end of the belt, engages in a hole in a lining or backing secured to the other
end of the belt an encircling piece or band being provided that can be slidden over
both ends of the belt after they have been engaged.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the abutting ends of a belt constructed with a
fastening according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation shewing the ends of the belt fastened together.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the fastening.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view shewing the ends of the belt in position just before
engagement of the hook on the one end with one of the holes in the lining or
backing at the other end.
The belt a is at one end provided with a hook band at the other end, on the side
towards the hook, with a lining or backing d which is provided with a number of
eyeletted holes c. This lining or backing is in the arrangement shewn, connected
by means of an ordinary seam or stitching (d) with the belt, so that there remains
sufficient play within the two seams do do (Fig. 4) to allow the hook to project
through and engage with the under or outer side of the eyelet with which it is to
be engaged. This lining or backing d instead of being made as a separate piece
connected to the one end of the belt by the rows of stitches do, might be formed by
simply bending over the end portion of the belt and sewing the end thus bent over
to that part of the belt over which it laps.
A sliding piece or band capable of being shifted along the belt, serves to
securely hold together the two ends of the belt, after engagement of the hook has
been effected.
In some cases two hooks at a distance apart equal to that of the eyelets, may
be employed instead of a single hook.
Dated this 13th day of Navamhan 1000
C. F. BALLY.
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening for Belts and the like.
I, CHARLES FRANCIS BALLY, of Schoenenwerd, Switzerland, 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 a fastening for belts and the like, in which a hook at
one end of the belt, engages in a hole in a lining or backing secured to the other
end of the belt, an encircling piece or band being provided that can be slidden over
both ends of the belt after they have been engaged.
Referring to the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification :-
:-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the abutting ends of a belt constructed with a
fastening according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation shewing the ends of the belt fastened together.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the fastening.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a perspective view shewing the ends of the belt in position just before
engagement of the hook on the one end with one of the holes in the lining or
backing at the other end.
The belt a is at one end provided with a hook b, and, at the other end, on the
side towards the hook, with a lining or backing & which is provided with a number
of eyeletted holes c. This lining or backing is, in the arrangement shewn, con-
nected by means of an ordinary seam or stitching (d) with the belt, so that there
remains sufficient play within the two seams dodo (Fig. 4) to allow the hook to
project through the desired eyelet or hole and bear against the inner side of the
lining or backing. This lining or backing d instead of being made as a separate
piece connected to the one end of the belt by the rows of stitches do, might be
formed by simply bending over the end portion of the belt and sewing the end thus
bent over to that part of the belt over which it laps.
A sliding piece or band capable of being shifted along the belt, serves to
securely hold together the two ends of the belt, after engagement of the hook has
been effected.
In some cases two hooks at a distance apart equal to that of the eyelets, may
be employed instead of a single hook.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A fastening for belts and the like comprising a hook (or hooks) arranged at
one end of the belt and adapted to engage in eyelets or holes e in a lining, backing
or overlapping part d at the other end of the belt, and an encircling piece or band f
that can be slidden over the overlapping ends of the belt when the same are
fastened together and retain the hook or hooks in position in an eyelet or hole or
eyelets or holes substantially as described.
اسية
1001
C. F. BALLY.
By L. W., per F. B.