IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Paterson, of Wood Street, in the City
of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BUCKLES OR FASTENINGS."-A communication.
Sealed the 8th December 1852, and dated the 8th October 1852.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Paterson, Her special licence that
I, the said John Paterson, my excentors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Paterson, my executors, administra-
tors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES
OR FASTENINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
John Paterson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 John Paterson, 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):
My Invention consists in forming a buckle or fastening by inserting
within a frame a moveable or sliding bar, or by inserting within a frame
two or more bars, one of which is free to slide within the frame, while
the other bars are stationary.
Figure 1, is a front elevation; Figure 2, a section through the line
a, b; and Figure 23, a section through c, d, of a brace buckle con-
structed according to my Invention. A, B, C, D, is a metal frame; the
sides C, and D, are slotted out to allow the moveable bar E, to rise ap
and down therein. One end of the brace is permanently attached to
the top of the frame A. The free end of the tab is introduced from the
back of the buckle between the sliding bar and the top of the frame,

page_text: and is then brought over the sliding bar and passed between it and the
lower part of the frame. As long as there is a strain on the tab it will
be held securely in its place, and the stronger the strain the tighter
will be the hold. In order to lengthen or shorten the brace the sliding
bar must be raised, and more or less of the tab drawn through.
Figures 3, and 4, are respectively front elevation and section of a brace
buckle with a fixed bar inserted within the frame in addition to the
moveable or sliding bar: the action is the same as in the buckle shewn
in Figures 1, and 2. Instead of the brace being permanently attached
to the top of the frame, it is attached to the stationary bar. Figures 5,
6, and 7, are respectively a front and back elevation and section of a
buckle suitable for waist bands and belts. In this modification of the
buckles herein-before described the sliding bar moves to and fro in two
caps c, c, rivetted to the back of the buckle instead of in slots cut out of
the sides of the frame. Figures 8, and 9, are respectively front view
and section of a buckle, in which the ends of the moveable bar are
slotted out, so as to slide up and down on the two end bars of the
buckle.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
improvements in buckles or fastenings,―
First, the manufacturing of buckles or fastenings with a moveable or
sliding bar in the manner herein-before exemplified and described.
And second, the manufacturing of buckles or fastenings with two or
more bars held in a frame, the one being free to move or slide while
the other box or bars is or are stationary.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Paterson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
JOHN PATERSON.
(L.S.)