A NEW OR IMPROVED BUCKLE, OR SUBSTITUTE FOR A BUCKLE
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Alfred Carpenter, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED BUCKLE, OR SUBSTITUTE FOR A BUCKLE." ✓ A communication.
Sealed the 26th January 1855, and dated the 24th November 1854.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his retition, on the
24th November 1854.
I, SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED BUCKLE, OR SUBSTITUTE FOR A BUCKLE," to be as follows:-
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent the said Invention
in transverse section.

page_text: the other portion, as represented. d is a strap or belt to be fastened.
When the parts a, b, are in the relative positions represented in Figure 1,
the strap or belt d may be passed freely between the said parts, and length-
ened or shortened at pleasure. When the length of the strap or belt d
has been adjusted, the part is brought into the position represented in
Figure 2; the said belt or strap d thereby becomes fixed between the parts a
and b, and cannot be lengthened or shortened so long as the parts remain in
the positions represented in Figure 2.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th May 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ALFRED CARPENTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS, Hermost Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel
Alfred Carpenter, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, 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
A NEW OR IMPROVED BUCKLE, OR SUBSTITUTE FOR A BUCKLE," (a communication;
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Samuel Alfred Carpenter, do hereby
declare-the-nature-of-the-said-Inventiou, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a plan of the upper side
of the said Invention; and Figure 2 represents a plan of the under side of the
same; Figures 3 and 4 represent transverse sections of the same. It consists
of two plates of metal a, b, the portion 6 being jointed to the portion a at c;
the part of the plate 6 is turned at right angles to the other part, as repre-
sented. d is the strap or belt to be fastened. When the parts a, b, are in the
relative positions represented in Figure 3, the strap or belt d may be passed freely
between the said parts, and lengthened or shortened at pleasure. When the
length of the strap or belt d has been adjusted, the part 6 is brought into the
position represented in Figure 4; the belt or strap d thereby becomes fixed
between the parts a and b, and cannot be lengthened or shortened so long as the
said parts remain in the positions represented in Figure 4. I sometimes modify
the said Invention in the manner represented in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, that is
to say, instead of bending the end of the piece a first at right angles and then
turning up the part c¹, Figures 2, 3, and 4, and forming the joint in the said
piece c', I simply bend the ends of the piece a, Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, at right
angles, and form the joint therein. I sometimes add a tongue e, Figures 9,
10, and 11, for the purpose of attaching one end of the belt or strap to the
part b. The said Invention is especially applicable to the fastening of braces,
garters, and such belts and straps as are used for fastening articles of dress,
but it may also be used as a fastening for various other purposes.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of the said Invention; but I claim as the said
Invention, a new or improved buckle, or substitute for a buckle, in which the
fastening of straps, bands, or belts is effected by the compression or wedging
of the same between the two parts of which the said buckle or substitute of
a buckle is composed, as herein described, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Alfred Carpenter, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
35 Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
SAMUEL ALFRED CARPENTER. (L.S.)
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