The drawing breaks a buckle into frame, tongues and a tubular pivot bar. The patent explicitly assigns Hyde’s invention to West Haven Buckle Company.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. PDF drawing sheet; application filed July 18, 1887. New source, not in existing catalog. Reuse: Public domain in US: published 1887
Source: USPTO patent, hosted by Google Patents
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Silent Grounds Collective, West Haven Buckle Company, SGC-WB-011, ED-L-WB-ADD-001, “James C. Hyde buckle patent: eleven drawing figures.” Source: USPTO patent, hosted by Google Patents. https://patents.google.com/patent/US369526A/en. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.