Improvements in Metallic Buckles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1894-Accepted, 5th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Buckles.
I JAMES GEORGE SMYTH of Bury Saint Edmund's in the County of Suffolk
Printseller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Whereas in using ordinary metallic buckles for fastening straps bands belts and
similar articles more or less difficulty arises on loosening or unfastening such straps
caused by the teeth or tongue of the buckle remaining closed down obstructing the
free run of the said strap or similar article which it is desired to loosen or unfasten.
My invention is designed to remedy this defect and I therefore construct a buckle
having a bent instead of a flat tongue, or I insert a spring on the tongue or rim or
frame of the buckle and so shape and construct the parts of the buckle that when
the strap is loosened or unfastened the teeth or tongue being let free open or rise
from the rim or frame of the buckle allowing free run of the strap or other similar
article thereby greatly facilitating the loosening or unfastening of the same.
Dated the 30th day of May 1893.
JAMES GEORGE SMYTH.
COMPLETE DIEUITIVATION.
Improvements in Metallic Buckles.
1 JAMES GEORGE SMYTH of Bury Saint Edmunds in the County of Suffolk
Printseller 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 :-
Whereas in using ordinary metallic buckles for fastening straps bands belts and
similar articles more or less difficulty arises on loosening or unfastening such straps
caused by the teeth or tongue of the buckle remaining closed down obstructing the
free run of the said strap or similar article which it is desired to loosen or unfasten.
My invention is designed to remedy this defect and I therefore construct a buckle
having a bent instead of a flat tongue and so shape and construct the parts of the
buckle that when the strap is loosened or unfastened the teeth or tongue being let
free, open or rise from the rim or frame of the buckle allowing free run of the strap
or other similar article thereby greatly facilitating the loosening or unfastening of
the same.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Fig. 1 represents a buckle made of two parts namely A the rim B the tongue,
the rim has two indentations at c. c. and the tongue has two small points at d. d.
the rim is a little narrower from c to c than the points of the tongue are from d to d
so that the rim has to be sprung onto the points d. d. of the tongue which it nips
tightly thereby retaining its position yet allowing the tongue to move as if it were
hinged to the rim where the parts c d and c d fit together, if the tongue of such a
buckle is quite flat as is ordinarily the case; when a strap or band is attached to
the loop formed on the tongue part at e as is the usual method and as shown in the
end elevation drawing Fig. 2 which represents a packet of papers or other articles
held together by passing a strap or band g. g. g. g. attached as aforesaid to the loop
at e and passed round the packet and up under the rim A. at f and tightened, the

page_text: tension on such a buckle would cause the teeth of the tongue part B to press tightly
down on the strap or band about to be fastened, and on being unfastened the teeth
would still remain down as shewn at fand obstruct the run of the strap or band
deterring it from being loosened, but if instead of the tongue piece being made
quite flat as before mentioned the teeth of the tongue part are bent to an angle as
shewn at i in the end elevation drawing of the tongue part Fig. 3 then on tension
being applied to the strap or band as shown in the end elevation drawing Fig. 4
the teeth of the tongue part will no longer lie flat at f but will be raised from the
rim and allow the strap or band to run freely as there represented.
Although I have only described my invention as applied to a buckle of the form
and construction before referred to, other buckles of different forms may be altered
and adapted in the manner I have described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Improvements in Metallic Buckles constructed so that the teeth of the same
rise automatically, on being released from the strap or band in connection with
which they are used, by bending the tongue or teeth of the buckle as herein before
described and referred to in the accompanying drawings or any mere modification
thereof.
Dated this 21st day of February 1894
JAMES GEORGE SMYTH.