AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF BUCKLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Eyland, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
IN CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF BUCKLES."
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Sealed the 9th August 1858, and dated the 4th March 1858.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Charles Eyland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declara-
tion, on the 4th March 1858, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
I, CHARLES EYLAND, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT.
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN DESCRIPTIONS OF BUCKLES," and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawings.
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:
The Invention refers to the class of buckles used upon or in connection
with articles of wearing apparel, and which description of buckle is usually
termed a band buckle, and is employed commonly upon waistcoat or trowser
backs; and these improvements consist in peculiarly shaping or bending
certain parts of these buckles so that the band to which one of such buckles may
be attached can be readily tightened or slackened with one hand only, without.

page_text: requiring that the buckle be held and the chapes inserted or withdrawn as the
case may be by one hand, whilst the other tightens the strap or band. In
other words, by using this improved form of buckle one operation suffices for
two, the buckle being partly self-acting.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one of my improved buckles; Figure 2, a
side view; Figure 3, a front view of the chape piece detached; Figure 4,
side view of the same, shewing the peculiar bend of this part; Figure 5 shews
a buckle of the form I term a fast anchor buckle, made according to my
improvements, and applicable to washing garments, being readily detached;
Figure 6 shews a modification of the buckle seen in the first four Figures.
(A) is the loop, to which the fixed end of the band is secured; (B), the
chape piece, formed in one piece with the loop or anchor piece, making a
slight angle with the loop or anchor piece, as seen in the Drawing; (C) is
the ring, through which the loose end of the band passes, the ends (d, d,) of
which ring are passed over the loop and chape piece or anchor piece and chape
piece, and form eyes or bearings in which the chape piece turns, or they may
be connected by pins or rivets, as is well known. Passing the loose end of
the strap or band through the ring, and pressing it against the chapes will
securely fasten the band with the use of one hand only, as by the peculiar
bend of the loop or anchor piece and chape piece the chapes are prevented
from running away from the band when the latter is passed against them, as
is the case with the ordinary description of such buckles, and which, con-
sequently, require the employment of both hands in securing the band.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I claim the bending of the chape piece or loop
or anchor piece and chape piece of band buckles, so that they can be securely
fastened with one hand, or the attachment of the chape piece to the buckle
in similar manner, and answering the same purpose as herein more fully set
forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Eyland, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
CHAS EYLAND. (L.S.)