An Improved Brace or Suspender Buckle.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1894-Accepted. 8th Dec 1894 **
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brace or Suspender Buckle.
I, JOHANN SEBASTIAN RÖMPLER of Michaelisstrasse, Erfurt, Germany,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to strengthen the lever plate of buckles for braces,
suspenders and the like and render it more susceptible of a fine polish. By lever
plate is meant the top plate which turns down on pivots to secure the brace or
suspender in a fixed position.
The object is attained by case hardening the lever or top plates when of iron and
employing any known hardening process when of steel.
Dated this 18th day of July 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brace or Suspender Buckle.
I, JOHANN SEBASTIAN RÖMPLER of Michaelisstrasse, Erfurt, Germany,
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 :-
As now usually made the lever plate of buckles for braces or suspenders is
constructed of unhardened iron, nickel plated, and owing to a want of rigidity the
lever plate furnished with bearings is liable under a strain on the brace or suspender
to be dragged away from the pivots of the back plate, further the latter is made to
engage by its pivots in the bearings of the lever plate by first placing the back
plate in position and then bending up to a right angle the small lugs on the lever
plate in which the bearings are formed so as to engage the pivots of the back plate,
but in this construction there is a want of strength.
The object of the invention is to strengthen the lever plate and the attachment
between the same and the back plate and further to render the lever plate, which
is more exposed to view than the back plate, susceptible of a finer polish, and this
object is attained by case hardening the lever plate when this is in the finished
form, that is to say, with the bearing lugs already bent up to receive the pivots of
the back plate, in which case, to attach the lever plate to the back plate the latter
is bent to a curve to shorten the distance between its pivots, and to enter these
into the already fixed bearings of the lever plate, which bearings may have the
form of simple holes or may be cup shaped with outer closed ends or of any other
convenient kind.
The invention is not confined to buckles for braces or suspenders of the particular
construction above referred to but embraces the case hardening of the lever plate
of such buckles generally.
By lever plate is meant the top plate which turns down upon a back plate to
secure the brace or suspender in a fixed position between the two plates with the
aid of a serrated edge which may be provided either upon the lever plate or the
back plate.

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 :-
In buckles for braces or suspenders, the provision of a case hardened lever plate,
substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of November 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.