Improvements in Buckles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOHN BRAY, of 42, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,
Paris, in the Republic of France.]
Improvements in Buckles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to a buckle specially designed to be adapted to the straps
of trousers, and which may also be applied to any other articles such as for
example belts, gaiters and the like.
According to the present invention buckles of ordinary construction, such as are
for instance employed for the straps of trousers, are provided with a lever fixed to
the cross piece which carries the prongs so that when the said lever is raised with
a finger the prongs are raised at the same time, thereby enabling the free strap to
be taken from the buckle.
The aforesaid lever may either be U-shaped, being made of a bent rod the two
ends of which are secured to the cross piece or constitute simple rod attached to
the latter.
The fixed strap of the trousers is sewed to the buckle as usual, while the free
strap introduced into the buckle engages with the prongs in the same manner as
in the case of other buckles, but it is when the straps of the trousers are to be
loosened that the improved buckle differs from those heretofore employed.
For this purpose it is sufficient to put the band behind the back and lightly pull
the end of the free strap at the same time pushing back the above-mentioned lever
with the finger. By this means the free strap may be very easily detached with
one hand and without liability of the fingers being pricked, because they only
touch the lever.
When use is made of the said U-shaped lever the free strap may either be folded
or passed through an opening in the lever.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 a buckle specially designed to be adapted to the straps
of trousers, and which may also be applied to any other articles such as for
example belts, oniters and the like.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the improved lever buckle.
Figure 2 is an horizontal section of the same adapted to the belt straps of
rousers, one of these straps being folded below the lever.
Figure 3 is a similar view with the flaps arranged as in ordinary buckles.
Figure 4 represents another buckle constructed on the same principle as that
shown in Figure 1 but simplified.
Figure 5 is an horizontal section of this buckle adapted to the belt flaps of
trousers.
According to the present invention buckles B, of ordinary construction, such as
are for instance employed for the straps of trousers, are provided with a lever L
fixed to the cross piece T which carries the prongs, so that when the said lever L
is raised with a finger the prongs are raised at the same time, thereby enabling the
free strap to be taken from the buckle.
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The aforesaid lever L may either be U-shaped, as in Figure 1, that is to say
made of a bent rod the two ends of which are secured to the cross piece T, or con-
stitute a simple rod I attached to the latter, as in Figure 2.
The fixed strap F of the trousers is sewed to the buckle as usual, while the free
strap M introduced into the buckle B engages with the prongs in the same manner
as in the case of other buckles, but it is when the straps of the trousers are to be
loosened that the improved buckle differs from those heretofore employed.
For this purpose it is sufficient to put the hand behind the back and lightly pull
the end m of the free strap M, at the same time pushing back the above-mentioned
lever with the finger L which lever with the prongs will then occupy the position
indicated by dotted lines in Figure 2. By this means the free strap M may be
very easily detached with one hand and without liability of the fingers being
pricked, because they only touch the lever L.
When use is made of the said U-shaped lever as shown in Figure 1 the free
strap M may either be folded as shown in Figure 2 or passed through an opening
in the lever, as in Figure 3.
With the form of the lever represented in Figure 4 the strap M is arranged as
in the case of ordinary buckles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A buckle for flaps of trousers, girths, gaiters and the like, specially characterized
by a lever which, being fixed upon the axis of the tongues, enables the movable
flap to be detached by raising the said lever with the finger without the possibility
of pricking the fingers.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.