US156384A

US156384A - Improvement in belt-buckles

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Publication number: US156384A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1891-10-27

Description

.LsPRucEQ Bait-Buckles.

7 N0 156 384, Patented 0ct.27,1874.

THE GRAPHIC COjHOfOlITH-39l4 PARK PLACE N Y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JAMES SPRUCE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BELT-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,384, dated October 27, 1874; application filed July 29, 1.514.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES SPRUCE, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Belt Buckles and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, front View; :Figs. 2 and 3, the two parts detached; and in Figs. 4., 5, and 6, same views of a modification of the buckle.-

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of buckles used to engage the two ends of a belt around the body of a person, theobject being to lock the buckle when closed, so as to prevent its accidental disengagement; and it consists in providing the one part which overlaps the other with a hinged hook, which, when the two parts are set together, will engage a corresponding projection extending from the under part out through the overlapping part, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the one part, and B the other, each pro vided with means for attachment to their respective ends of the belt, in the usual manner, the one part A has a raised central portion,

C, and the other part a similar form, D. When the two parts are set together, as in Fig. 1, the part C overlays the part D, as seen in Fig. 2, the shoulder a serving as a stop for the inner edge of the part D. On the part D is a stud or eye, F, which, when the two parts are set together, passes up through a corresponding perforation, L, in the part C. On the part 0 is hinged a hook, P, constructed to be turned.

to engage the stud F. This stud, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, is grooved, as seen in broken lines, or formed with a head, and the hook slotted at d, to pass onto the stud, as seen in Fig. 1, the hook also forming an ornament on the front center of the buckle.

Instead of the stud, as in Figs. land 3, it may be an eye, as in Figs. 4 and 5. In this case the hook will be provided with a tongue, d, as in Fig. 6.

, I claim- I 1 The herein-described buckle, composed of the two parts A C and B D, one of which has a perforation, L, and provided with a hinged hook, P, the other part constructed with an eye or stud, F, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES SPRUCE. Witnesses:

M. L. SPERRY, E. D. WELTON.