Improvements in Buckles for Garters, Belts, Suspenders, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles for Garters, Belts, Suspenders, and
the like.
I, PAUL BAILLY of Rue Béranger, Paris, France, Manufacturer, 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 object to effect a saving of labour and expense in the pro-
duction and render easier and more convenient the fastening of garters belts and like
articles which are now generally fastened by means of buckles provided with a
tongue which takes into eyelet holes in the web or band.
In the drawing
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively a front and back view of the buckle of this
invention with the front or lever plate closed.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the middle of the same with the front or
lever plate in the position in which it springs or snaps down into the closed
position.
Fig. 4 is a similar view but shewing the front or lever plate opened wider and
the said plate mounted more towards the middle of the height of the back plate.
a is the back plate stamped out in one piece of resilient or spring metal such as
thin sheet brass, iron or steel and doubled together upon itself with its two ends
fastened together by clinching one end over the other the bent over end being
preferably formed for this purpose with tongues b which may be thinned down so
as only to stand very slightly above the surface against which they are clinched.
In addition to clinching, these tongues or the bent over end of the plate may if
considered desirable be further secured by soldering or brazing. c is a curved or
semicircular recess and d is a perforation in the back plate. e is a metal loop of
the usual kind carried in an eye in the back plate and to which one end of the
garter or belt is permanently attached or in the case of suspenders the tab or tabs.
y is the front or lever plate or clasp having a cross bar h by which said front plate
is mounted to turn in the recess or bearings c, the front plate stamped out in one
piece having the cross bar inserted between the two leaves of the back plate before
this is fastened together at the ends and the cross bar being bent to an angle with
the other portion of the front plate somewhat in the mauner shewn, and so that
when in the position shewn in Fig. 3 or in a corresponding backward position the
frent plate will, by reason of the tendency of the two leaves of the back plate to
spring towards each other thereby pressing the cross bar h, be sprung into the
closed or into a more open position. i is an aperture in the front plate and ja
prong. The free end of the article to be fastened is passed through said aperture
when the front plate has been drawn back into a sufficiently open position, such for
instance as is shewn in Fig. 4, and the front plate is at the desired point in the length
of the web or band shut down to engage the same between the two plates partly by
the prong which may pass into the perforation d and partly by the pressure
thereon of the front plate which pressure is obtained by the action of the spring
back plate upon the cross bar h.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
In a buckle for the purposes referred to, the general construction, arrangement

page_text: and combination of the front lever plate and the back plate, substantially as
described and shewn.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1895.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.