An Improvement applicable to Buckles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Buckles.
I JOHN ROBINSON TATE of 8 Oxford Street Bolton in the County of Lancaster
Saddler and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The principal object of this invention is to meet the requirements of the new
regulations of the Board of Agriculture with regard to dog collars requiring the
name and address of the owner to be conspicuously shown thereon, but the same
can also be used in connection with luggage straps and straps used for rugs,
bags, sample cases, parcels and for other purposes where it is desirable to have
the name and address of the owner permanently attached.
The invention consists in the manufacture of a buckle to be used for dog.
collars and other straps having a metallic plate or label formed of one piece
with the bar or body of the buckle or rivetted soldered or otherwise permanently
attached thereto in such a manner that it cannot be removed without destroying
the buckle. The name and address of the owner is to be stamped punched
engraved or otherwise permanently marked thereon and the buckle applied in
the usual manner to a leather dog-collar or other strap.
Dated this 18th day of December 1890.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Buckles.
I JOHN ROBINSON TATE of 8 Oxford Street Bolton in the County of
Lancaster Saddler and Harness Maker, 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 principal object of this invention is to meet the requirements of the recent
regulations of the Board of Agriculture with regard to dog-collars requiring the
uame and address of the owner to be conspicuously shown thereon, but the same
can also be used in connection with luggage straps, and straps used for rugs,
bags, sample cases, parcels, and for other purposes where it is desirable to have
the name and address of the owner permanently attached.
The nature of my invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the
annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
The invention consists in the manufacture of a buckle to be used for dog-collars
and other straps of a metallic plate or label a either cast or formed of one piece
with the bar or body of the buckle 6 as shown at Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, or
it may be hinged thereto as shown at Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing, or rivetted,
soldered, or otherwise permanently attached thereto in such a maner that it cannot
be removed therefrom without destroying the buckle.
The name and address of the owner is to be stamped, punched engraved or
otherwise permanently marked upon the plate or label a and the buckle applied
in the usual manner to a leather dog-collar or other strap e as shown.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with a buckle to be applied to a dog collar or other strap
of a metal plate or label cast or formed of one piece with or rivetted, hinged,
soldered or otherwise permanently attached to the bar or body of the buckle, substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein before particularly described and illustrated by
the drawings annexed.
Dated this 18th day of September 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.