Improvements in the Production of Covered Buckles, Rings, and other like Articles, and in Means and Tools employed therefor.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Covered Buckles, Rings, and
other like Articles, and in Means and Tools employed therefor.
I, JAMES BAILEY, of Walsingham Works, Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Buckle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
.
The ordinary process of covering the metal frames of leather covered buckles, is by
hand, which is tedious and uncertain in its operation, as the frames covered, are not
uniform, in respect of the leather covering following, or being true to the boundary
line of the frame.
Thus, a metal frame, is covered by a strip of inside pasted leather, applied to the
inside boundary of the said frame, and then pinched and drawn to the outer side, by
pliers, taking hold of the double edges of the material, and stretching it forward, by
a successive series of pinches.
My invention has for its object the covering of the said metal frames, by tools
instead of by hand.
In carrying out the process of covering a buckle according to my invention, I take
an inside pasted strip of leather, of sufficient length and breadth to cover the metal
frame, which may of a D or other shape. I then place the longitudinal middle part,
of the said leather length to the inside boundary edge of the frame, and by press
tools, or by top and bottom dies, of the exact counterpart or configuration of a
covered buckle. I stretch and mould the said leather, forward over the said frame,
from its inner edge to its outer boundary edge, leaving a web, of the two thicknesses
of the covering material, that is to say, the web, which is an extension of leather
beyond the buckle, is made by the opposite sides of the material coming together
which are connected by stitching, as hereinafter described.
The meeting edges of the leather, of this uniformly covered frame, are then sewn
close up to the outer boundary edge, when by means of clipping, or shaping tools,
the superfluous web, or covering material, up to the stitching is removed, thus
completing the covered buckle.
..Buckles covered by dies, and pressure, and clipped by cutting out tools, are
perfectly uniform, and true in. their covering, whilst a perfectly shaped covered
buckle is produced, which is unattainable when covered by hand.
If necessary the covered buckle, may be further finished between dies, after the
clipping and stitching, or a perfect shape may be given to the said frame, by dies
combined with the clipping tools.
Other covering material, may, if necessary, be substituted for leather.
The covering material may be united at the inner boundary edge of the buckle
frame, instead of at the outer boundary edge.
The gathering of the covering material around the metal frame, may be performed,
if necessary, by two or more processes, instead of by one.
It may be observed, that the frame part, carrying the tongue, or prong is left
naked.
The application of my invention, to the covering of rings, loops, frames, and
other articles of a like manufacture, differs in no essential respect to its application to
that of a buckle, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 5th day of December 1889.
DITY BUY

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Production of Covered Buckles, Rings, and
other like Articles, and in Means and Tools employed therefor.
I, JAMES BAILEY, of Walsingham Works, Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Buckle Manufacturers, 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 covering materials, of covered buckles, are ordinarily applied, by hand,
which is both tedious and expensive, and further, the success of the operation of
covering, depends entirely upon the skill of the operator.
By my improvements this covering is performed, by tools, or by dies and pressure,
in lieu of hand work.
In carrying out the process of covering a buckle according to my invention, I take
an inside pasted strip of softened loather, of sufficient length and breadth to cover or
partly cover the buckle frame, which is of metal; this length of material is then
placed longitudinally on the inside boundary edge of the frame, and then drawn and
moulded into shape, by tools and pressure.
The tools consist of upper and lower dies, with their acting faces of the contour of
the outside shape of a covered buckle.
If necessary, the covered buckle may be further finished between dies, after clipping
and stitching, or a further shape may be given to the said frame by dies combined
with the clipping tools.
Buckles covered according to my improvements, are of perfect shape, and the
process of covering is conducted, at much less cost, than when the said process, is
carried out by hand.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a leather
covered buckle, enveloped, or partially enveloped, according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a cross section of Figure 1, upon the dotted lines A B, and
Figure 3 is a leather covered buckle, provided with a tongue.
It will be thus seen, that the said buckle, consists of a metal frame, encased or
covered with leather, at all points other than the middle of the tongue bar, which is
left naked, or partially naked, for the free working of the tongue, and the attachment
of the buckle to a strap end, or filament.
Figure 4 represents a front elevation of the metal frame to be covered, and
Figure 5 a cross-section of it.
Figure 6.represents a length of leather, suitable for the covering of a buckle as in
Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Figure 7 represents the initial enclosing of the leather around, or about the metal
frame, prior to the perfect shaping of the same, by tools and pressure as hereinafter
described.
Figure 8 represents an edge view of Figure 7, and Figure 9 is a cross section,
upon the dotted lines CD of the said Figure 7.
Figure 10 represents the buckle as it leaves the die, after shaping.
Figure 11 is a transverse section of the same, on the dotted lines Figure 10.
Figure 12 is a buckle Figure 10, stitched, after which the superfluous out-
standing web or leather, is removed by a clipping or cutting tool or tools.
Figure 13 represents the tools employed in the process of covering and shaping.
Figure 14 is an underside plan of the upper tool, and Figure 15 a top side plan
of the lower tool or die.
Figure 16 represents a like view a Figure 15, but with the buckle Figure 10,
shown within the said lower die.
Figure 17 represents the dies brought together, with the buckle between them,
thus exhibiting how the dies draw and shape the leather in a distending manner
around the buckle frame, whereby a perfectly shaped covered buckle is produced.

page_text: OPERATION OF COVERING.
Take the metal frame a, Figures 4 and 5, and dispose the strip of covering
leather b, which is pasted on its inner side, roughly around the said frame, from the
inside boundary edges of it, as represented in Figures 7, 8, and 9. The opposite
sides of the leather, come in juxta position, alike unto a web, whilst the middle part,
envelopes the frame, other than with respect to the middle part of its bar, which is
left naked.
The covering material of this roughly formed covered buckle, which is applied
when in a soft state, is then placed within the lower die c, of the pair of dies
Figure 13, when the upper die d, is brought down upon the top side of the said
buckle being operated upon, when on pressure being applied, the leather covering is
shaped between the dies, which gives to the buckle, or the buckle frame, a perfect
figure, by drawing and distending the leather covering, uniformly over the metal
frame, as illustrated in Figures 10, 11, 16 and 17.
The covered buckles are then dried, and the same stitched, or colored and
stitched, as in Figure 12, when the superfluous edges 62, beyond the stitching are
removed by clipping or cutting tools, thus producing a covered buckle frame, or a
covered buckle, as in Figures 1 and 2.
The tongue is then fitted to the bar, when the said buckle is complete.
I may add, that after coloring and clipping away the superfluous leather, the
edges may be burnished or finished.
The upper die, of the pair of dies, consists essentially of a body part d¹, middle
recessed part d², and an entrance bevel d³, with face d¹.
The lower die, consists of a hub c¹, table c², inclined face c³, and annular channel 4,
which is of the exact contour of the covered buckle to be produced or shaped.
The upper die may be worked by a fly or other press.
Instead of leather, other covering material may be employed.
The covering material may be united at the inner boundary edge of the buckle
frame, instead of at the outer boundary edge.
The gathering of the covering material, around the metal frame, may be performed
if necessary, by two or more processes instead of one.
The application of my invention to the covering of rings, loops, runners, frames,
and other articles of a like manufacture, differs in no essential respect, from its
application to that of a buckle, as herein described and set forth, other than the
employment of different shaped tools, according to the article to be operated upon.
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: The process of covering, or applying the covering material or materials,
of covered buckles, and other articles of a like manufacture, as set forth, by dies
and pressure.
Secondly Applying the covering materials, of covered buckles, to the metallic
frames thereof, by tools, as described and set forth in Figures 13, 14, 15, 16,
and 17.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1890.