Improvements in Belt or Waist Band Fittings.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECI CATION.
Improvements in Belt or Waist Band Fittings.
I, THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works, St. Pauls Square, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object principally, to simplify the manufacture of, and to
increase the strength of belt or waist-band fittings, known in commerce as belt
furniture, and which said belt furniture, as ordinarily made consists of two parts; viz. :-
the loop and the slide.
The loop consists of a rectangular or round ended loop, with an independent eye or
circular loop, soldered to the middle, and at right angles to the front bar of the
frame.
The slide consists of a long semi-circular ended frame, with a divisional bar running
longitudinally down its middle, and connected at its ends to the frame by soldering.
According to my invention, I make the said loop and also the slide from single
lengths of wire, fashioned and bent into form, as hereinafter described.
In making the loop according to my invention, I take a suitable length of wire, and
bend or fashion the same first, into an eye or round loop, and then subsequently bend
the remaining length of wire, into a long rectangular shaped loop, with rounded or
square ends. Thus, the eye or circular loop, is directed outwardly from the middle,
and at right angles to the front bar of the frame, constituting the before named long
rectangular loop.
Thus, the loop consists of a frame of two bars, with an eye standing out from the
middle of the front bar, and with the mitred or plain terminal ends of the wire, forming
the said frame, preferably presented to each other.
In the making of a slide, I take a suitable length of wire, and bend or fold the same
into a frame, with the divisional bar running down its middle; that is, I take a
length of wire, and bend the same into twin loops, with rounded or square ends, and
with the wire forming one portion of the middle bar, folded upon itself, and returning
to one side of the loop, whilst the terminal end portions of the wire, form the other
part of the middle bar, by running them side by side from the rounded ends of the
other side of the frame, until they meet the first half bar. Thus, the slide is made
from a single length of wire, with the middle bar divided crosswise about its
middle.
The wire forming the middle bar, may be fashioned half round, so as to give only
the breadth of a single bar, on two wires coming together.
The eye or loop as aforesaid, through which the end of a snake fastener passes,
may be made from the middle of the front bar, like that of a nursery pin joint; or the
junction of the meeting ends of the wire forming the loop, may come at or about the
middle of the eye.
Dated the Nineteenth day of October 18×8
THOMAS WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Belt or Waist-band Fittings.
I, THOMAS WALKER of Brook Street Works, Saint Paul's Square, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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:—
1.
My invention has for its object principally, to simplify the manufacture of, and to

page_text: increase the strength of belt or waist band fittings, known in commer
furniture, and which said belt furniture as ordinarily made, consists of two parts, viz. :-
the loop and the slide.
The loop as ordinarily made, consists essentially of a rectangular or other shaped
ended frame, with an eye soldered at right angles to the front bar of the frame.
The slide as ordinarily made consists of a long semi-circular or other ended frame,
with a divisional bar running longitudinally down its middle, and with the ends of the
said bar connected to the inside tops of the frame by soldering or brazing.
According to my present invention, I make the said parts, vis. -the loop,
and the slide, from single lengths of wire fashioned and bent into the form of the
said parts.
In making a loop according to my invention, I take a suitable length of wire, and
bend the same about its middle into an eye or round loop, and then subsequently bend
the remaining lengths or ends of the wire, into a long rectangular shaped frame,
with rounded or other shaped ends, and with the junctions of the wires united by
a clip.
In making a slide according to my invention, I take a suitable length of wire, and.
bend or fold the same into a frame, with balf divisional bars, which are subsequently
united by a sheet metal clip.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation, a loop made
according to my invention.
a is the frame of the said loop, is an eye disposed at right angles to the
front bar of the frame, c is a sheet metal clip for uniting the ends of the wire
composing the frame.
In making the said loop. I. take a length of wire figure 2, and twist or bend the
same about its middle, into a horizontally directed eye or loop 6, see the side elevation
figure 3, and perspective view figure 4; I then take the said length, and bend its ends
backward into a frame a, with the terminals or ends of the wire presented to each other,
see figure 5, and which ends are subsequently united, and the inner bar prevented from
opening out, by the sheet metal clip c as aforesaid, and which clip is shown separately
in figure 54.
Figure 6 represents the slido made according to my invention, whilst figure 7 repre-
It will be seen that the
sents the blank or wire from which the said slide is made.
said wire is cut away or reduced at parts, in order that the middle bar of the slide
shall remain the same breadth as the outside bars.
d is a frame, with a half length middle bar d², which is made by the folding of the
flats of the half round parts of the blank upon each other, so as to make a complete
round of the same diameter as the outside bars.
The half lengths of the middle bar as aforesaid, are prevented from opening out by
a sheet metal clip e encircling them in the form of a sleeve, as is best seen in the
⚫ transverse section under figure 6.
In making a slide figure 6, I take a blank or length of wire figure 7, and fold or
bend the same into the frame figure 8, and then by means of the trough shaped sheet
metal clip figure 9, the parts of the middle bar are closed, and encircled by it
and by a closing process, as represented in figure 6, and the sectional view as
aforesaid.
Although I have represented that the middle bar of the slide is shown of a breadth
equal to a single thickness of wire, yet if necessary the said middle bar may be of
double thickness.
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
,claim is :-
..
.
First Making the loops of belt furniture as herein-before described, fro
a single piece of wire, or length of metal, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-Uniting the terminal ends of the single wire or length employed i
the formation of loops, as herein described, by a metallic clip c, as set forth.

page_text: Thirdly-Making slides of belt furniture, from a single piece of wire or length of
metal, with or without parts of the wire being cut away, substantially as described
and set forth.
Fourthly-Uniting and closing the parts composing the middle bar of the frame
of a slide, made from a single piece of wire, or length of metal, by an encircling sheet
metal clip e, substantially as set forth.
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THOMAS WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett, Agent for Applicant.
THOMAS WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett, Agent for Applicant.