Improvements in Strap Buckles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
TROYIDIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Strap Buckles.
1, CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK of 66 St. Ann's Hill Wandsworth Surrey,
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In place of the ordinary tongue I use a wedge with or without a serrated surface.
I make the frame of the buckle either of wire or of stamped metal. In the former
case I so bend the wire that it forms both a support to the wedge & a cross bar
abutment for the loose end of the strap to be pressed against. The wedge is so
formed with grooved wings as to slide along the frame between the support and the
abutment, thus pressing the strap, when inserted between the wedge and the
abutment, against the abutment and so fixing it, and as the movement of the wedge
for tightening is in the direction of the pull of the strap the more forcibly the
strap is pulled the tighter it is held. The other end of the strap is fastened in
the ordinary way to the frame. Instead of wire the frame may be made of
stamped metal with or without a wire cross bar & instead of the wedge sliding
along the frame it may be pivotted to it. The wedge may be operated by a
spring or springs.
Dated this 19th of M.. 1905
I, CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK of 66 St. Ann's Hill Wandsworth Surrey
Gentlewoman, 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 :-
In place of the ordinary tongue for holding the loose end of the strap I use a
wedge with or without a serrated surface. I make the frame of the buckle either
of wire or of stamped metal. In the former case I so bend the wire that it forms
both a support to the wedge and a cross bar abutment for the loose end of the
strap to be pressed against. The wedge is so formed with grooved wings as to
slide along the frame between the support and the abutment thus pressing the
strap when inserted between the wedge and abutment against the latter and fixing
it and as the movement of the wedge for tightening is in the direction of the pull
of the strap the more forcibly it is pulled the tighter it is held. The other end of
the strap is secured to the frame in the ordinary way. Instead of wire the frame
may be made of stamped metal with or without a cross bar of wire and in place of
the wedge sliding along the frame it may be pivotted to it. The wedge may be
operated by a spring or springs.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1. shows a plan of the frame made of wire. Fig. 2 is a section of same
with wedge and strap complete. Fig. 3 is an end view of same with wedge.
Fig. 4 is a plan of wedge alone.
Fig. 5 is a section of buckle complete with frame made of stamped metal with
wire cross bar abutment. Fig. 6 is a plan of same.

page_text: Figs. 7 & 8 are a section and plan of frame made of stamped metal without a
wire cross bar abutment the cross bar being stamped out in one piece with the rest
of the frame.
In Figs. 5 & 6 a spring is shown for operating the wedge.
In all the drawings A is the frame, B is the cross bar abutment, C is the support
for the wedge under the abutment D is the wedge E is the bar of the frame to
which the fixed end of the strap is attached F is the spring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
The wedge D with its support C and cross bar abutment B substantially as
shown and described.
Dated this 19th day of March 1896.
CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK.