AN IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING
Year: 1857

page_text: Sealed the 18th September 1857, and dated the 23rd March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick John Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd March 1857.
I, FREDERICK JOHN JONES, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Ware-
houseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING," to be as follows:-
I form the lower bar of a buckle in the shape of an apron or flap, and make
a vertical slot therein to receive a metal connecting piece formed of a head
with neck, which neck is made to terminate in a loop, and on the bottom bar
of the loop I fix a friction roller. To or through this loop is or are connected
or passed brace ends or other straps, bands or cords, to be united to the strap
or other article to which the buckle proper is attached. The head of the
metal loop is turned sideways to be inserted in the slot in the buckle flap, and
after being so inserted and turned round flat the fastening becomes complete.
The head of the loop is capable of great play in the slot in the flap without
the liability of the parts becoming detached.

page_text: 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 23rd September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, FREDERICK
JOHN JONES, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Warehouseman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Frederick John Jones, Her special licence that I, the said
Frederick John Jones, my executors, 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 "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE OR FASTENING," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick John Jones, my executors,
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick John Jones, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
I form the lower bar of a buckle in the shape of an apron or flap, and
make a slot therein to receive a metal connecting piece formed of a head with
neck, which neck is made to terminate in a loop or other like opening or
in a flap, according to the uses to which it is to be applied. To or through
this loop or aperture is or are connected or passed brace ends or other straps,
bands, or cords, to be united to the strap or other like article to which the
buckle proper is attached. The head of the metal loop is turned to be in-
serted in the slot in the buckle flap, and after being so inserted and turned
round flat the fastening becomes complete. The head of the loop is capable

page_text: of great play in the slot in the flap without the liability of the parts becoming
detached.
The accompanying Drawings shew the manner in which I carry my Inven-
tion into effect. Figure 1 represents my improved buckle or fastening com-
plete, and Figures 2 and 3 shew the parts of the same detached. Similar
letters refer to similar parts. A is the buckle proper, the bar B of which is
flap-shaped as at C; D is a slot formed in the flap, through which the head E
of the connecting piece F is passed. This connecting piece, shewn in edge
view at Figure 4, may terminate at bottom in a loop G to allow of the passing
through it of straps, bands or cords, which are to be united to the strap brace
or other like article to which the buckle proper may be attached. To unite
the flap to the connecting piece, the head E is passed through the slot D edge-
wise, and afterwards turned until the two portions of the fastening lie in the
same plane, when the head will be in a position across the slot. While play
is afforded by this means of fastening, the parts cannot become accidentally
separated, and in order to separate them the reverse operation to that just
described must be performed.
In Figure 5 I have shewn a modification of that part of my fastening
represented in Figure 3. Instead of constructing the connecting piece to
terminate in a loop, I make it to terminate in a plate or flap, and punch or
otherwise form holes b, b, of any desired size through it, for the purpose of
affixing to it any required article by sewing, rivetting, or screwing, or by
any other convenient mode of attachment.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner I carry the same into effect, I declare that I claim, the constructing
of buckles or fastenings in two principal parts, one having a flap with a slot
formed therein, and the other carrying a head for being inserted and secured
to the flap in the manner herein-before described, and represented in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick John Jones, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.