Improvements in Buckles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct.,
1899
Improvements in Buckles.
I, DELMAR GLENDOWER HURD, of 27, Beech Street, City of Lowell, in the
County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the United
States of America, Undertaker's Assistant, 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 and consists in the devices and combinations
hereinafter described and claimed, the object of said invention being to furnish
a cheap, easily operated and reliable buckle which will not mar or cut the strap
to which it is applied and will not require such strap to be perforated for the
reception of a pointed tongue.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved buckle, attached
to a strap or belt and connecting the ends of the same, the middle portion of
the strap or belt being omitted; Fig. 2, a plan of said buckle detached; Figs.
and 4, vertical, central longitudinal sections of the outer frame on the line 3 3
in Fig. 2, the binder or inner frame being in side elevation, the buckle being
closed in Fig. 3 and open in Fig. 4; Figs. 5 and 6, vertical, transverse sections
on the lines 5 5 and 6 6, respectively, in Fig. 2; Fig. 7, a side elevation of the
buckle and strap shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 8, a central, vertical section on the line 8 8
in Fig. 1; Fig. 9, a section similar to Fig. 5, but showing a modification of
the means of pivoting the parts of the buckle to each other.
My improved buckle consists of an outer frame A, preferably rectangular,
within which is arranged a binder B which may be a plate or block but for light-
ness and economy of material is preferably a frame or skeleton, the side bars b
of which are pivoted at c c¹ to the side-bars a a¹ of the outer frame, in such a
manner that the binder B may rock in said outer frame.
The rocking motion of the binder B is limited (Figs. 1-4 and 8) in one direc-
tion, by a transverse ledge a³ on the inner face of the front bar a² of the frame A,
said front bar a² being arranged below the front end or bar of said binder
and, in the other direction, by the keeper or rear bar 63 of said binder striking
upon inclined shoulders at a with which the inner faces of the side bars a a¹
are provided.
The binder B is thus allowed to rock only enough to allow the unattached end
of the strap D to be passed freely through the buckle between said binder and
the front bar of the outer frame A.
-The-side-bars-b-6 of the binder are represented in Figs. 1-4 and 8 as being
offset outwardly near their rear ends at band turned upward into slots a6 a7,
the rear inclined sides of which form the shoulders a' a above mentioned.
The nose or front edge of the front bar 62 of the binder is slightly bevelled to
prevent cutting the strap D.
In use, one end of the strap D is attached by any usual means as by sewing
or by a rivet E (Figs. 7 and 8) to the rear bar as of the frame and the other
end of the strap is passed up between the front bar of the binder and the front

page_text: bar of the frame A and under the rear bar 63 which serves as a keeper for the
unattached end of the strap, the space between the offset portions 64 65 of the
side-bars being wide enough to receive any strap which can pass between
the side-bars of the frame A at the ledge a³.
The bending of the strap over the ledge a³ in one direction and over the nose
of the binder in the other direction causes those parts to hold the strap and the
upward pressure of the strap against the under side of the bar 63 holds the front
end of the binder more firmly down upon the strap and forces said strap against
the front bar of the frame A and prevents the strap from slipping in the buckle.
In Fig. 9, the binder is represented with ears 23 made integral therewith
and laid in slots a ao in the frame A and said frame is shown with projec
tions a which may be made to reach above the tops of said slots and may be
bent down into said slots over said ears to retain said ears therein, the
projection a being represented as already bent into place while the projection a¹2
is unbent.
The parts of the buckle may be cast, as of malleable iron, and used without
machining.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The combination of a frame having a front bar, provided with a transverse
ledge on its inner face, and having a rear transverse bar for the attachment of
a strap, and a binder pivoted in said frame between the ends thereof and having
its nose or front edge arranged above said ledge and having its rear end in
front of said rear transverse bar outwardly offset to receive the free end of said
strap above said frame.
2. The combination of a frame having a front bar, provided with a transverse
ledge on its inner face, and a binder, consisting of a skeleton pivoted in said frame
between the ends thereof and having its nose or front edge arranged above said
ledge and having its rear end outwardly offset and bent upward to receive a strap
of the full width of said nose, the upward pressure of said strap on the rear
end of said binder holding said nose down upon the portion of said strap passing
between said nose and said ledge.
Dated this 19th day of September A D 1800
DELMAR GLENDOWER HURD.
By Herbert Haddan & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.