US97909A - Improvement in buckles - Google Patents

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l land, gentleman,

` Improvements in Fastenings in thernature of Buck- `WOOD, dollereby declare the nature of the said inshali be capable of lbeing locked upon or into its frame.

p ing manner:

i shall form one piece.

' `which receives the fre-e end of `the tongue, when it is tongue is to be part of the loop, having aV bar, with which the `end of thefstrap,` to which the buckle is secured engages.

said, the intention being `that the strap or other ar- 'and inseparable fromthe lock-buckle itself, and theV i 'as aforesaid, is the-object of the invention, `and this t object may obviously be accomplished by bringing the l tease@ e y FREDERICK FRANCIS cREENWoon'oF HoRNsEY, ENGLAND.

Letters Patent No.' 97,909, datedDeccmber 18,69; patented 'in England, September I6, 1868.

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

To all'to who/nait may concern Beit known that I, FREDnRIoK'IPRANOIs GREEN- WOOD, of Hornsey, in the, county of Middlesex, Engi a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented or discovered new and useful les;,and I, the said FREDERICK FRANCIS GREEN- vention, and in what manner the same is to be per-` formed, to `be particularly described and ascertained luand by the following statement thereof; vthat isto $ay i l 4 v y My invention consists in the constructionof a lockbuckle, that is to` say,',a buckle, the tongue of which This invention I prefer t-owcarry out in the follow- I combine the frame of Aa buckle (or 4three sides of it) with thel frame or box ot' a lock, so that the whole Beyond andraised above` that part of the. buckle closed down, I form a bow-sin pedbar or loop or ring orshoe; or, with the same intention, I make a hole in that part ot' the buckle to receive th tongue at pressure. r i

lhe base oi' the\tongue I hingcfupon the bolt of the lock, or I forint-hebase ot the. tongue and the bolt of the look into a hinge; in other words, the

` boltand is to be discharged and withdrawn with it, or as part ofit.

y Atv the end of the frame, opposite the loop or bow` with which thel tongue engages, I construct a second When the bolt-tongue is discharged from the lock,

I thrust the further or free end of it under the4 bowshaped bar, loop, ring, or shoe, orinto the hole aforeticle, which `the buckle iastens,'shall not be released (except by violenceluntil tho tongue of the buckle is withdraw-n.

Ihe-protrusion and withdrawal of the bolt-tongue may be accomplished either by the use of a separate key, or bymeans `of mechanism appertaining to lock-portion of the arrangement may, as in ordinary locks, work by means of a key, or as. in letter-locks and secret looks, the, lock-bolt may be released, by setting parts'of the lock itself to prearrang'ed positions,

"lhe use of the lock-motion is in all ,cases to iix the bolt-tongue of-the buckle in or uponlthe frame, which,

control of the lock to bea-r uponany part of the bolttongue.

Descriptzfoufof,thaDrawi/ngs. Figure 1 shows a lock-buckle madeaccording to my invention, inwhichthehinge on which thetongue tnrns, forms part of the bolt of the look,so that when the bolt is drawn into the lock-case `by the key," the tongue is stoppedl from turning on its hinge. .The `tongue is thus locked down upon the loop of the frame of the buckle, and the buckle cannot be opened except by protruding thebolt means of the key.

Figure 2 shows a modification of the lock-buckle shown in iig. I.

In.this lock-buckle, the bar which forms the loop at the end ot' the 'f1-ame, instead of being asimple bar, as iniig. 1, is made thicker, and has a -iange on one side, and a hole in the centre of the end, into which the tongure c is shot bythe key, thus securely locking the tongue into the frame oi' the buckle.

To open it, the bolt must be lowered bythe ikey, i

thus clearing the end of the tongue from the hole in which it was confined. Wheuiu this-position, the

tongue .can be turned on its hinge as in the case 'of f ordinary buckles.

Figure 3 shows a buckle in which the tongue does not turn on ahinge at all, but forms .the bolt of the lock, and is shot up bythe key into a hole in the bar formingthe loop atthe'end ofthe buckle.

*Figure 4. shows a buckle `in which the tongue is simply a spring-bolt, moved by vmechanism appertaining to -the lock itself, which lspring-bolt can be locked upon the frame or not, at pleasure.

In each ofthe forms represented iu all the said tigt ures, the frame of the buckle is constructed with a second loop at the end opposite that with which' the strap engages, this second loopv being for the purpose of enabling the buckle to be conveniently secured to the strap. t

. Having thus described the nature of my invention, and themanner ot' performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim, is-

The combination of the lo'ck, the buckle-frame having a loop at one-end for engagement with the tongue, and the movable tongue, in such manner that the lock is fixed to the buckle-frame, and the tongue is held in engagement with the loop` bythe action of thelock, as before represented and described.

Also, the combination ot the buckle-frame, constructed with a loop at one end, for engagement with the tongue,V and a second loop at the other end, for .engagement with the strap, a lock 'fixed to said frame between the said two loops, and a tongue engaging with the iirst of said loops, and controlled by said lock, as before described.

Also, the .combination of the buckle frame, the lock fixed thereto, and the tongue connected with the bolt` of said lock by a hinge, Yso that the said bolt may be turned iiomand toward the loop of the buckle-frame when not ,secured` byV the lock," as before described.

FREDERICK FRANCIS GREENWOOD.

Witnesses: f

G. E. WARREN, Both of No. 17 Gmccclmrch THOS. BROWN, Streeallondon. JOHN HARRISON, Nota/ry Public, Lon-clon.

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