A New or Improved Fastener for Wearing Apparel, Fackages, Harness and other Articles or things.
Year: 1886

page_text: A New or Improved Fastener for Wearing Apparel, Fackages,
Harness, and other Articles or things.
I LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM of 5 Colville Mansions, Powis Terrace Bayswater,
Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:
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The invention consists in making, shaping or employing two open plates, holed
strips, rings or like articles of metal or other rigid; or semi rigid material, loosely
connected or secured in a loop or sewn on, in or to, the material so that each
appliance has a free motion to accomodate itself to a strain or pull that may
be put upon it by the loose end of the tape, strip or piece after being inserted
into and through the two appliances and then returned through between the two
appliances.
The invention is particularly adapted for belts, straps, bands, garters gloves,.
braces and other articles of wearing apparel, or straps, bands or other flexible
material such as tapes of woven fabric, strips of leather or the like and used for
securing packages, parcels and goods generally, also trunks, boxes, cases, surgical
bandages etc.

page_text: Harness, and other Articles or things.
I, LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM of. 5 Colville Mansions, Powis Terrace, Bayswater,
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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:—
The invention consists in making, shaping, or employing two open plates, holed
strips, rings, or like articles of metal or other rigid or semi-rigid material, loosely
connected or secured in a loop, or sewn on, in, or to, the material, so that each
appliance has a free motion to accomodate itself to a strain or pull that may be
put upon it by the loose end of the tape, strip, or piece after being, inserted into
and through the two appliances and then returned through between the two
appliances..
The invention is particularly adapted for belts, straps, bands, garters, gloves,
braces, and other articles of wearing apparel, or straps, bands, or other flexible
material such as tapes of woven fabric, strips of leather, or the like and used for
securing packages, parcels, and goods generally, also trunks, boxes, cases, surgical
bandages, etc.
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My invention is clearly shown on the annexed drawings, Figure 1 being a view
of a fastener composed of two rectangular open plates or buckle blanks a, b, sewn
*within a loop c at one end of a tape d, the loop is loose so that the two plates have
a free action.
Figure 2 shows a similar fastener but formed from two rings.
Figure 3 represents the fastener with the opposite end e of the tape d passed
through the two rings and returned through between them, the inner or back
ring a being drawn into contact with the loop so that it bites the tape at its bent
portion and makes a rigid fastener. The tapes may be elastic or as an ordinary
web or strap according to the purpose intended.
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Figure 4 shows the invention, forming a garter for personal wear..
Figure 5 indicates two of such fasteners attached to the wrist portion of a glove
for securing same.
These two Figures are shown with the end e provided with a knot or tassel to
prevent the fastener becoming free that would necessitate the end being laced into
the rings at each time of fastening, the fasteners in these two examples being
permanently attached so that by simply drawing or pulling on the end & they are
secured,
To loosen the fastener it is only necessary to lift or draw the ring a outwards to
release the grip whereby the rings can slide upon the end e.
Figure 6 represents a travelling trunk with the leathers, or they may be web,
attachments with the rings applied for fastening the mouth of the trunk.
Figure 7 shows the invention applied to the binding straps of a folding
portmanteau,

page_text: In Figure 8 the rings or buckle blanks of D shape are attached to the straps
securing a travelling rug and in Figure 9 the invention is applied for fastening a
horse-cloth.
The above are a few of the articles to which my invention can be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what.
I claim is
The appliance shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the annexed drawings and
composed of two rings a, b, or their equivalent secured loosely in a loop of a tape,
a band, or a strap its opposite end being passed into through and then between
said rings and constitute the means of fastening said appliance as set forth.
The 12th day of November 1886.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Leopold Beral Bertram.