Improvements in Regulating or Adjusting the Length of Straps.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1991
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Regulating or Adjusting the Length of Straps.
I, HENRY PARKER RICHARDS, Commercial Traveller, of 157, Murdock Road,
Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to an improved method of adjusting the length of straps
used for various purposes such as holding rugs, parcels or packages or any purpose
which requires a strap to be tightened to firmly hold any article or articles or to
bind a number of articles together. Where a rug strap is used for rugs or
packages of varying dimensions the loose end left free when the strap is applied to a
small parcel or article is found to be inconvenient and the object of my invention is
to take up this loose end and avoid the inconvenience in a simple and effective
manner. At the same time I am able to adjust a strap made in accordance with my
improvements to firmly hold or bind any desired size of parcel without the necessity
of piercing holes other than those originally provided.
In carrying my invention into effect as applied to leather I arrange my strap in
two halves, two ends being fastened together as usual by a buckle; one of the free
ends I form as a loop or I attach to it a metal or leather loop, through this loop [
pass the other free end to which end I attach a metal hook in any convenient
manner. A number of holes are pierced in the first half of the strap from the loop
herein referred to, to the buckle end and the hook in the second half may be
placed in any of these holes. If the hook be placed in the hole nearest to the said
loop through which the hook end of the strap moves, then the strap is adjusted to
its greatest length; while if the hook be placed in the end furthest from the said
loop the strap is adjusted to its minimum length. Any intermediate length may be
obtained by fixing the hook in an intermediate hole. In this manner when the
strap is pulled up or strained to hold the parcel or article the end fastening into the
buckle is no longer than is required to fasten in the buckle by means of the usual
holes and so long loose ends are entirely avoided. A few holes near the end
fastening into the buckle are also all that are required as the length may be at
once adjusted by shifting the hook.
The pull of the strap holds the hook securely in any hole in which it may be
placed.
My improved strap may be arranged for railway rugs and like parcels in pairs
with a carrying handle between in any well known manner and the invention may
be applied to any purpose for which it is desirable to use a strap of readily variable
length.
It may be applied to belts or to such saddlery articles as girths or in fact to any
belt or strap requiring adjustment.
It will be readily understood that straps may be of any convenient material.
Dated this 19th day of December 1891.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Regulating or Adjusting the Length of Straps.
I, HENRY PARKER RICHARDS, Commercial Traveller, of 157 Murdock Road,
Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved method of adjusting the length of straps
used for various purposes such as holding rugs, parcels or packages or any
purpose which requires a strap to be tightened to firmly hold any article or
articles or to bind a number of articles together. Where a rug strap is used for
rugs or packages of varying dimensions the loose end left free when the strap is
applied to a small parcel or article is found to be inconvenient, and the object of
my invention is to take up this loose end and avoid the inconvenience in a simple
and effective mauner.
At the same time I am able to adjust a strap made in accordance with my
improvements to firmly hold or bind any desired size of parcel without the
necessity of piercing holes other than those originally provided.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings,
Figure 1 is a plan of my arrangement;
Figure 2 is a side elevation corresponding to Figure 1 and
Figure 3 is a plan showing a rug strap containing my invention.
In carrying my invention into effect as applied to leather I arrange my strap in
two halves A and B (Figures 1 and 2) two ends being fastened together as usual
by a buckle; one of the free ends I form as a loop or I attach to it a metal or
leather loop as D; through this loop D I pass the other free end A, to which end
I attach a metal hook C in any convenient manner. A number of holes are pierced
in the first mentioned half B of the strap from the loop D herein referred to, to the
buckle or the buckle end and the hook C in the half A may be placed in any of
these holes. If the hook C be placed in the hole nearest to the said loop D
through which the hook end A of the strap moves, then the strap is adjusted to its
greatest length; while if the hook be placed in the end furthest from the said loop D
the strap is adjusted to its minimum length. Any intermediate length may be
obtained by fixing the hook in an intermediate hole.
In this, manner when the strap is pulled up or strained to hold the parcel or
article, the end fastening into the buckle is no longer than is required to fasten in
the buckle by means of the usual holes and so long loose ends are entirely avoided.
A few holes near the end fastening into the buckle are also all that are required as
the length may be at once adjusted by shifting the hook C.
The pull of the strap holds the hook C securely in any hole in which it may be
placed.
"My improved strap may be arranged for railway rugs and like parcels in pairs
with a carrying handle between in any well known manner as shown at Figure 3
where the handle E unites two straps, and the invention may be applied to any
purpose for which it is desirable to use a strap of readily variable length.
It may be applied to belts or to such saddlery articles as girths, or in fact to any
belt or strap requiring adjustment.
It will be readily understood that straps may be of any convenient material.
In Figure 3 like parts are lettered as in Figures 1 and 2.
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. An adjustable strap in which the strap is made in two parts with adjustable
connection so arranged as to allow the free end proiecting through the buckle to

page_text: be reduced to any desired extent with parcels or saddlery of variable dimensions,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in
the drawings.
2. The construction and arrangement of straps herein before described and shown
in the drawings.
Dated this 20th day of September 1892.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.