An Improved Fastener or Buckle for Connecting Together Tapes Employed in Driving the Spindles of Spinning and Twisting Frames and other Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener or Buckle for Connecting Together Tapes
Employed in Driving the Spindles of Spinning and Twisting
Frames and other Machines.
I, WALTER DARGUE, of 90, Railway Terrace, Copley, Halifax, in the County
of York, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved fastener or buckle for receiving and
holding the opposite ends of tapes for driving spindles of machinery.
According to my invention the buckle is composed of four horizontal bars, the
outer ones on each side being severed in the middle as shewn at a in Fig. 1 of the
accompanying drawings.
The ends of the driving tapes are inserted into the opening a and gripped or held
fast in the slot b.
By constructing a fastener as shewn in the drawings where the sides c are
unbroken, the fastener is very strong and will securely hold the ends of the tape
whatever tension is put upon it. If necessary I may have one or more teeth d as
shewn at Fig. 2 to grip more firmly hold of the tape.
Dated this 17th day of January 1896.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener or Buckle for Connecting Together Tapes
Employed in Driving the Spindles of Spinning and Twisting
Frames and other Machines.
I, WALTER DARGUE, of 90 Railway Terrace, Copley, Halifax, in the County
of York, Mechanical Draughtsman, 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 new or improved fastener or buckle for receiving and
holding the opposite ends of tapes or straps for driving spindles of machinery and
for other like purposes.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents my improved fastener or buckle which comprises four horizontal
bars a the outer ones being severed in the middle as shewn at b.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of Fig. 1.
In fastening the opposite ends of tapes or straps, the two free ends of the said
tape are passed through the central opening c. The ends of the tape are then
turned back and one half of one tape is passed into one of the side openings bas
shewn at A Fig. 3 after which the tape is doubled up crosswise as at d and pressed
with the thumb or finger under the other side opening as shewn at B Fig. 3. The

page_text: other end of the tape is inserted in the opposite opening in like manner. The
tape is then pulled straight in opposite directions when it will appear as illustrated
in Fig. 4.
By constructing a fastener as shewn in the drawings the opposite ends of the
tapes or straps are securely held in position and made secure.
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 :-
The construction of a tape or strap fastener composed of horizontal bars, the
outer ones being severed as herein described and illustrated in the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 16th day of October 1896
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Patent Agents.