AN IMPROVED BUCKLE
Year: 1861

page_text: Sealed the 5th July 1861, and dated the 9th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William, Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th January 1861.
I; WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11,
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE,"
communicated to me from abroad by Jean Tissinier, of Toulouse (Haute
Garonne), France, to be as follows:-
This improved buckle is intended to be used for trousers, waistcoats, and
similar articles, and will consist of a square piece of metal with one or two
square or slightly circular openings, in one of which will be two small teeth
intended to retain one of the straps firmly in its place. The straps will
invariably have a single or a double button, a clasp, or eyelet-hole.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Mau, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED BUCKLE," (communicated to me from abroad by
Jean Tissinier, of Toulouse (Haute Garonne), France), upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby declare
the nature of the said 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 consists in the suppression of prongs or tongues in buckles,
and this improved buckle is composed of a square of any metal, with one
or two square or slightly circular openings. (The metal may be polished,
lackered, plated, or in the rough.) In one of the openings are two small
teeth intended to hold one of the straps in a fixed position; these straps
may be made of any woven fabric combined or not with caoutchouc or other
similar material, and are fastened to the buckle by sewing by single or double
buttons, by clasps, or by substituting eyelet-holes in lieu of button holes.

page_text: Supposing this improved buckle to be used for tightening a waistcoat, the
loose end of one of the usual bands or straps on the back of the waistcoat will
be passed through the square or other shaped opening lapped over the bar, on
which are the teeth, and thus sewn in a loop. To tighten the waistcoat the
loose end of the opposite band or strap will be passed through the opening
and drawn over the opposite bar of the buckle until the waistcoat is sufficiently
tightened; this end being then lapped down on the other part of the same
band or strap, is fastened thereto by a stud passing through one of several
button holes in the part lapped over and in that on which it is lapped;
or it may be thus secured by a single button or otherwise, as above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)