IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS AND BUCKLES." MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS AND BUCKLES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nehemiah Brough, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS AND BUCKLES."
MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS AND BUCKLES."
Sealed the 29th January 1856, and dated the 31st July 1855.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Nehemiah Brough at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 31st July 1855, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
I, NEHEMIAH BROUGHT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CLASPS AND BUCKLES," and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, (reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon,) that is to say:-
My improvements consist, firstly, in manufacturing a safe and simple
description of clasp for belts, bands, and other similar purposes, in which the
attachment of the two parts of which it is composed can be quickly and easily

page_text: of the corresponding part; (Figure 3) an elevation of these two parts com-
bined; (Figure 4) a cross section of (Figure 3); (Figure 5) an elevation of a
buckle made according to the second part of my improvements; (Figure 6)
a section of same.
pre-
I will now proceed to describe the manufacture and manner of using the
clasp, shewn complete in (Figure 3)-I stamp or strike out or otherwise
pare the two parts of the clasp seen in (Figures 1 and 2); that shewn in
(Figure 1) having a hook or tongue piece (a), and that seen in (Figure 2) an
aperture (b) in a corresponding position. Each of these parts is to be attached
to an end of the belt or band. The part (c), which forms the centre of the
clasp, has also a small flange or fin (d) struck out of the metal at the same
time, and answers a purpose herein-after to be explained. On reference to the
section (Figure 4), it will be seen that the book or tongue piece (a) is turned
back slightly from the line of the front of the clasp, which admits of the hook
or tongue piece (a) taking into the aperture (b), when the parts are combined,
by bringing that portion shewn in (Figure 2) under that seen in (Figure 1);
the flange or fin (d), alluded to as being formed round the centre (c), pre-
venting that part of the clasp from passing through the hoop or ring in
Figure I thus the two parts are securely combined, as seen at (Figures 3
and 4), forming a simple, readily adjusted, and secure clasp.
The relaxing
of the belt or other similar article is also as easily done and by the same motion
as disengaging an ordinary hook and eye.
I will now describe the second part of my improvements, shewn in
(Figures 5 and 6,) which represent a buckle, such as is commonly made of
round metal or wire, and which I make by stamping it out of sheet metal into
the requisite form, and at the same time stamping out the tongue (e) into any
requisite form; the most usual being the form I have shewn at (Figure 6).
Double buckles with more than one loop, and either single or double buckles
with one or more fixed tongue pieces, I produce in the same manner.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be clearly understood that I

page_text: do not confine myself to these precise details; but that which I claim is, the
improvements in the manufacture of clasps and buckles, described and shewn
in Drawings; and also the stamping or striking up from sheet metal the
description of buckle seen in (Figures 5 and 6), whether the same be a single
or double buckle, in manner herein fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nehemiah Brough, have hereunto set
iny hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
NEHEMIAH (L.S.) BROUGH.