Improvements in Buckles, Clips, or the like Devices for Fastening Belts, Bands, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles, Clips, or the like Devices for Fastening
Belts, Bands, or the like.
I, DAVID PASZTOR, of 93 Alte Jacobstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Merchant, 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 has for its object to enable belts bands or the like to be adjusted
in any desired manner and the two ends buckled or fastened together without
having to make or provide holes in said belts etc. and it differs from existing
devices in an advantageous manner because it obviates the drawbacks resulting
from the belt being seriously injured by reason of numerous perforations and avoids
rendering the belt unsightly in appearance as heretofore has usually or frequently
been the case.
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This invention consists of a belt fastener clip or buckle (which for the sake of
brevity I shall hereinafter refer to as a clip") arranged constructed and acting
as follows:-
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 shows my "clip" in cross section partly opened.
Fig. 2 in cross section, closed.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the clip.
Fig. 4 shows a modification-and is a sectional edge view (like Fig. 1) in the
opened condition.
Fig. 5 is a similar section (of same clip as Fig. 4) closed.
Fig. 6 is an underside view.
The clip consists essentially (1) of a plate a with the slots or apertures b c d
therein and having a stamped-up part or swelling e, (2) of the plates 1 and 2 which
are inserted lever fashion in a and (3) of the wire traverse f fixed to a and to which
one end of the belt is fastened.
The plates 1 and 2 are bent at one end (i.e. the end inserted in plate a see Fig. 1)
as shown and are respectively slotted for the passage therethrough of the belt x.
The other or free end of the plate 1 is bent over in the form of a hook as shown
(or in other equivalent manner) and enters when depressed into the slot d in plate a
in order to receive thereon the hook which is sewn or otherwise suitably secured to
the other or free end of the belt.
The plate 2 terminates at its free end in a straight portion and is carried down
by plate 1 when the latter is closed down in order to grip the belt.
The action of the grip is as follows:-
Assuming that one end of the belt is fastened at fand that the plates 1 and 2
are inserted in the slots b and c then the free end of the belt is drawn through the
slot in the bent end of the plate 2 and also through the slot in 1 so that a loop is
formed between fand the bent end of plate 2 until the desired adjustment is
obtained that is the required length of belt etc. is determined. Then the plate 1
is pressed and caused to enter the slot d of a whereupon the bent ends of 1 and 2
grip the belt between them and the ridge or swelling e while the hook on the
other end of the belt is engaged in the hook-like bent end of the plate 1 in slot d
thus the length of the belt can be easily adjusted and the ends joined and firmly
secured.
In the modification illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 the plate a is formed with a
bend in the direction of its length between e and c. A plate 2 inserted lever
fashion in the slot c fits into said bend whilst the plate 1 which is inserted in a
similar manner in the slot 6 covers the bottom plate a and the middle plate 2 and is

page_text: firmly locked and held in the closed position by reason of the engagement of the
swelling (Figs. 4 and 5) in the slot d.
As in the preceding described arrangement the belt a is also in this case
fastened at one end around f by sewing and the belt is passed through the slots
similarly to the preceding arrangement. The belt a passes out at h a slot in the
plate 2.
When the clip is in the closed condition the belt is gripped and firmly fixed in
any desired position between the bend m and the swelling or projection k and also
by the similar gripping action between the bend n and the projection o.
This arrangement avoids the necessity of adjusting the clip whilst the belt is in
its use-usually a very inconvenient operation-as the belt or band cannot slip
because the belt can be firmly fixed and held according to my present invention
before placing same in position and it will remain securely gripped and of the
determined length when I is closed according to either arrangement shown.
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
1. A clip or connecting device for belts or the like which also enables varying the
length of such belt etc. consisting of the arrangement and construction of the
plate a in combination and acting in conjunction with two plates such as 1 and 2
(arranged to act lever fashion in the plate a) to grip the belt etc. between the said
plates and the swelling e, when the plates 1 and 2 are forced down into the plane
of the plate a all arranged constructed combined and acting substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3
of the drawings hereunto annexed.
2. As a modification of the clip or device claimed above-the plates a 1 and 2
stamped or formed respectively into the shapes such as shown in Figs. 4 to 6 the
bends m and n the swellings lk and o and the slots d b and c all arranged
constructed combined and acting substantially in the manner and for the purposes
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figs. 4 to 6 of the drawings hereunto
annexed.
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.