Improvements in Fastenings for Straps, Girths, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by HENRY MERRILL TILESTON, of Kansas City,
in the County of Jackson and State of Missouri, United States of America,
Broker.]
Improvements in Fastenings for Straps, Girths, and the like.
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 :—
My invention relates to means for securing girths, bands or cinches, or other
strap devices, and consists of the improved strap fastener hereinafter described.
Heretofore many girths, cinches or straps, have been secured by means of
buckles having a movable tongue, or by rings and straps, or by knots, or a series
of interlacing of straps; but in most of these cases it requires the unbuckling,
untying, or unlacing of the securing devices, to retighten or adjust the girths,
cinches or straps, and in the event of saddle animals the dismounting of the rider
to adjust the device.
In the accompanying drawings-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a two-part band fastener embodying my
invention showing integral lugs projecting from the face of one of said parts to
receive and form a guide for the slide or other part.
Figure 2 is a modification showing lugs projecting from the opposite ends of one
of the parts and adapted to be bent in opposite directions to form the keeper or
guide for the other part.
Figure 3, represents the same fastener with lugs projecting from both sides of
one of the parts of the fastener.
Figure 4, shows a ring with integral parallel bars provided with lugs on opposite
sides.
Figure 5, is a plan view showing one of the parts of the fastener provided with
lugs at its ends and depressions or noses at its sides.
Figure 6 is
ends.
girth, cinch or band having a modified form of fastener at both
Figure 7 is a perspective view of the fastener shown in Figure 6.
Figure 8 shows the application of my invention to a riding saddle and showing
the free end of an attaching strap attachable to the saddle within easy reach of
the rider's hand.
The several forms illustrated in the drawing relate to the same device and
their shape and configuration are modified simply to suit the various uses of the
fastener.
When using my invention as a fastening for girths, bands, or cinches, I prefer
to use the forms shown in Figures 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8; for belts the form shown in
Figures 1 and 2 and for ropes, fall and tackle, fire-escapes, tents, awnings and the
like the form shown in Figure 5, but in each case the fastener is provided with the
same means for permitting one of the parts to slide freely upon and be retained in
position on the other.
For belts for the use of the military or for other like purposes I may use
what is known as the "Shield U.S." style of pad shield or wear plate A (see
Figure 1) in which case the plate cast or otherwise formed near two of its sides
with lugs a projecting from one of its faces, and also with lugs b projecting from
said face near the centre and in a plane slightly to one side of the plane of the
lugs a to form a guideway or channel for the reception of the plate or loop B
which I term the slidable portion of my fastener. The lugs a are adapted to be

page_text: bent inwardly at their upper ends over the top portions of the sides of the plate or
loop B, and the lugs bare designed to be bent outwardly over said sides of the
plate or loop B, whereby the lugs a and b partially or wholly encircle the upper
sides of the plate or loop B to confine the latter to the plate or disk A and form
a guide or keeper within which the plate or loop may freely slide; it being
understood that the wear plate, shield or disk A is secured to the belt or hand in
the usual manner, and that the end of the usual securing strap is passed around
and between the bars c and d of the plates A and B as shown so that these end
bars pinch or cramp the bight of the strap to form a secure and automatic lock.
C
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The lugs are preferably formed of malleable metal, and the loop B is placed in
position and the lugs bent over its side bars to secure it, the securing strap passing
under the end bars c and has its free end attached in any desired manner.
plate or shield A may be solid or of open work and will be secured to the belt in
any well-known and suitable manner.
When using my invention for belts for personal wear I may adopt the form
shown in Figure 2 where the plate A2 has the lugs e projecting inwardly from the
end, and the lugs e¹ outwardly from the middle portion of said ends; these lugs
being bent upwardly and over the contiguous bar of the slide to form the guide or
keeper, whose construction and operation is identical with those of the preceding
forms.
In Figure 3 show a rectangular plate or shield A with lugs e² projecting
inwardly and outwardly from opposite sides, and in Figure 4 I disclose a combined
ring and rectangle A³ the rectangle being formed by the bars from whose
opposite sides the lugs i project. The lugs in these last two instances being bent
over to embrace the slide, and form the keeper or guide therefor as before
explained.
The form of device shown in Figures 3 and 4 is well adapted for saddles and
harness, girths, bands and cinches.
In many instances I use my invention as a fastening for ropes, in mines, on ship
board, for fall and tackle, fire-escapes, tents, awnings and the like and then prefer to
employ the form of device shown in Figure 5. In this case the plate or shield A
has the lugs cast or formed with and adapted to be bent over and embrace the
slide B¹ as before described, but the said plate or shield A and slide B are formed
with depressions, "noses or offsets m turned either upwardly or downwardly and
adapted to receive the rope whose end is passed between the portions whereby the
latter cramps or pinches the bight of the rope and thereby forms a secure guy rope
or other like securing device.
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In the form of device shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8 I dispense with the integral
lugs, and in order that the two plates, rings or loops C, C may be held in slidable
contact I employ a keeper E¹ which may consist of a transverse leather or metal
bar secured to the girth, cinch or band, and having bearings at r. to enable the.
plates, rings or loops to slide longitudinally within the bearing or guide thus
formed.
The attaching strap D in any of the form of device shown may represent any
strap. In Figure 8 I illustrate this strap as having one end secured to a riding
saddle, and with its free end passed under the cross bars of the plates, rings or loops
and is then carried around the said cross bar of the plate, ring or loop C¹ and under
the cross bar of the plate, ring or loop C and finally attached to the saddle within
easy reach of the rider's hand, whereby it may be readily operated to tighten,
loosen or adjust the girth, cinch or band without difficulty and without the rider
dismounting.
It will be understood that when it is desired to adjust or tighten the girth, cinch
or band, the free end of the strap D is pulled upon, which movement causes the
plate, ring or loop C¹ to be drawn in the direction of the pull until it cramps or
binds the bight end of the strap tightly between the cross bars of the two plates,
rings or loops, and to be maintained in this locked position until re-adjusted or
loosened.

page_text: When so locked the greater the strain upon the girth, cinch or band, the greater
will be the cramping action of the bight end of the securing strap D.
The plates, rings or loops may be composed of any desired metal or material, and
they may be of the same length or one may be shorter than the other, without
affecting their successful operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my 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 ;-
First A fastening device consisting of a plate or shield having lugs on its outer
opposite sides, near the ends, and other lugs on its inner sides at points between
said outer lugs, and a second plate seated on the first named plate or shield, said
lugs being reversely bent over the superposed plate to embrace the same and form
a keeper and guide therefor.
Second: A fastening device consisting of two parts seated one on the other, one
of said parts having its outer side portions near the ends provided with projecting
inwardly curved lugs, and its inner side portion between said lugs having projecting
outwardly curved lugs, said inwardly and outwardly curved lugs embracing the
superposed part to form a keeper and guide therefor and a connection adapted to
be passed between the end walls of said parts so that it may be cramped or pinched
between them, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Third: The combination with a girth, cinch or band of a strap fastening com-
prising two rings or loops one or both of which may be attached to a strap, and a
transverse keeper secured to said girth, cinch or band and adapted to hold the loops
together and permit them to slide one upon the other to pinch a strap between them,
substantially as herein described.
Fourth-The combination with a girth, cinch or band having the loops B, of a
fastening consisting of two plates rings, or loops, a keeper passed transversely across
the plates, rings or loops for connecting them with the girth, and providing for their
free longitudinal sliding movement one on the other, and a securing strap or
connection adapted to have its bight passed around the free ends of the plates,
rings or loops whereby said strap is cramped or pinched between the latter,
substantially as herein described.
Dated this 13th day of October 1892
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.