US89689A - Improvement in buckles - Google Patents

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waited tui-re F. C. BICI-IER, OF GILMER, TEXAS.

Letters Patent No. 89,689, dated May 4, 1869.

IIWPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

` The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom 'it may conce/rn.'

Be it known that I, F. C. HIGHER, of Gilmer, Upshur county, Texas, have invented av new and improved Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the art to make' and use the same, reference being had tothe aecompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my im'- proved buckle.

Figures 2, 3, and 4, are vertical longitudinal sections of the same.,

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This iiivention relates to a new buckle, which does not require to be sewed to either of the straps which it is to connect, and which will securely fasten and hold the said lstraps or bands in any desired position.

vThe invention consists, first, in the use of a buckle which has four transverse slots, with teeth ou the inner cross-bars; and, secondly, in providing a buckle with slotted end-bars, that is to say, with horizontal apertures through the ends, through which the strap to be held is passed, as hereinafter more fully described. 4 A, inthe drawing, represents a buckle, made of sheet-metal, or other suitable material, and provided with four transverse slots or apertures, a a', b b', so that it has, consequently, five cross-bars, c c', (l d', e, and two side-bars, ff.

-v The cross-bars d d have teeth, g, projecting into the apertures b b', as shown, and may also have teeth ou their outer edges, if desired. A

The strap to be fastened is passed through the apv erture b, and around the bar d, back through the aperture a, and under the end-bar c, as indicated in tig.

3. The teeth g, piercing it, hold it lirmly in place. The other strap is, in a similar manner, fitted through the aperture b', around lthe bar d', and out through a. The straps will thus be firmly held in place.

The end-bars c c may be made quite thick, so as to admit the formation of horizontal apertures, h h', througlrtheln, as shown in fig. 2. In this case, the straps to be fastened are fitted through these apertures h. 71', over the bars d d', and back again through the same' apertures h h', as in iig. 2. They are thus still more securely held, and the ends of the straps are held down out of the way.

This latter improvement, of perforating the endbars horizontally, may be applied to all kinds of buckles, whether the saine have one or more vertical apertures. The end-bars cc may, in this case, be straight, as

shown, or rounded, iu suitable manner.

'The apertures h h', through the end-bars c c', can be formed by cutting transverse incisions through them, and by forcing the bars fi t', formed by these incisions, down, to form the apertures between the pressed-down parts and the body of the buckle, as in iig. 4.

Having thus described my invention,

WhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A self-fastening buckle, consisting of four transverse slots and five cross-bars, of which two are provided With teeth, substantially as hereinshown and described.

2. A self-fastening buckle, whose ends, c c', are horizontally perforated, to admit the straps through them, substantially as herein shown and described.

' F. C. RIOHEB..

Witnesses:

FRANK BLOGKLEY, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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