Improvements in Buckles for Braces, Suspenders, and other like Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles for Braces, Suspenders, and other like
Articles.
I, THOMAS WALKER, of the Firm of Thomas Walker and Sons, of Brook Street
Works, St. Pauls Square, in the City of Birmingham, 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:-
This invention relates to metallic buckles for braces, suspenders and other like
articles of that type in which the webbing or material to be held is firmly clamped
between the middle part of a frame and the hinged pressure plate or bar, which is
secured in its gripping position by an extended loop of the said bar taken over the
book of the frame from which the brace ends are connected.
In this form of fastening, the adjustment of the buckle upon the webbing cannot
be effected without the removal of the brace ends from the hook.
By my invention, the said adjustment can be effected without the removal of the
brace ends from the hook, and this I accomplish by fastening the clamping bar to
the frame by a spring catch fastening means independent of the hook or equivalent
connection.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, in front elevation, my improved
buckle applied to the webbing of a brace.
Figure 2 represents an edge view of the said buckle closed and without the brace
end and Figure 3 represents a front clevation of Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a vertical section of the buckle taken upon the dotted
lines - Figure 3.
Figure 5 shows a like section as Figure 4, but with the buckle unfastened.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 5.
a is a rectangular metallic frame, with side and end bars a', a², a³, a, and being
longitudinally intersected by a plate or broad bar a', having outstanding teeth or
serrations a, formed from the metal of the same, and with the upper bar a3, of the
said frame having jointed to it, a clamping lever b, consisting of a hinged upper
sleeve part 1, a skeleton bar b³, and a spring arm having spring sides b', with
swelled parts, adapted to spring over and be secured to a skeleton stud or hook-
like catch a', carried upon the middle of the lower bar at, of the primary frame a,
whilst the said levering arm is terminated by a hook 6, to which the loop c,
carrying the brace tab ends d, is connected.
When an adjustment of the buckle upou the webbing f, is required, forcibly lift
or prize the lever b, upwards and swing the same outwardly upon its joint end 63,
and then adjust the buckle upon the webbing. This done, then again force down
the lever, when the spring part snaps over the catch by the first expansion and then
contraction of the spring sides, hence the securing of the buckle upon the webbing
in its adjusted position.
Instead of employing a hook at the ends of the lever over which an eyed loop
takes, I may make the said end into a D or other shaped loop, as represented in
Figure 6, and connect the brace ends or tabs directed to the lever thereby.
In Figure 6, 6 is the lever, the clamping frame and 62 is the D-shaped looped
to which the brace tab ends d, are secured.
Figure 7 represents a further modified form of buckle, in which b, is the clamping
lever, terminated at its lower end by a barred frame &', through which a continuous
brace tab d. passes.

page_text: Figure 8 represents another modification of buckle, in which the clamping bar b,
carries a pulley or runner b', over which a cord brace-tab d, runs.
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 :-
:-
First. In brace, suspender and like buckles having clamping levers or clamping
bars carried by levers, securing or locking the lever or clamping bar in its nipping
position, or to the frame, by a loop, independent of the brace-end connection, and
having spring sides snapping over the head of a necked stud or hook catch or
equivalent carried by the buckle frame, whereby the brace ends or tabs remain
connected during adjustment, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. The improvements in the general construction, arrangement and
combination of the parts of brace, suspender and like buckles, substantially as and
for the purpose as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 14th day of September 1895.
THOMAS WALKER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.