US1316611A - Haejstess-bttckle - Google Patents

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CARL HARTMAN, OF ROSEMONT, NEBRASKA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

Application filed. September 5, 1918. Serial No. 252,739.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL HARTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rosemont, in the county of Webster and the State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness- Buckles, of which the following is a speci- Iication.

This invention relates to a harness buckle which can be employed in a number of different ways on various portions of a harness, and which, wherever used, will not present protruding prongs or points to catch a fly net. Many nets are torn by the buckles in ordinary use, and accidents have occurred from the entangling of the lines in the nets, and in any event more or less trouble is caused by the necessity of disengaging a buckle caught in the meshes of the net.

The invention also consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed` out in the claim, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the buckle, in use.

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view.

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are longitudinal sectional views through thebuckle and straps, showing various waysof using the buckle, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. l.

In constructing the buckle I employ a flat frame comprising side members 1 connected adjacent their ends by cross bars 2, which bars lie flush with the upper face of the buckle, and connected midway their ends by a cross bar 3, which lies in a plane sub stantially midway the upper and lower edges of the side bars. From the lower edges of the side bars project inwardly prongs 4, which act as retaining, but not Copies o! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the penetrating, prongs for the straps. These prongs are in alinement with Jthe bars 2.

The bar 3 carries on its upper face a centrally arranged upwardly extending pin 5, the length of such pin being approximately equal to the average thickness of two straps such as are usually employed in the making of harness.

To illustrate the use of the buckle and the manner in which the straps are run I have shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3 its employment for the purpose of connecting the end portions or two straps, A, and B.

In Fig. 4f a strap C is run through the buckle and a cross line is run under it and over the bar 3, and then looped back and its end portion riveted to the strap.

In Fig. 5 only one strap E is used, as in the case of a bridle ring, the strap being merely run through and looped back on itself, the pin 5 passing through each layer of the strap, and no sewing or riveting being necessary. In all cases the straps pass between the prongs and the bars 2, and over the center bar 3 and are engaged by the pin 5.

The advantages of a buckle of this type and its freedom from outwardly projecting tongues and points will be obvious.

What I claim is A buckle comprising side members, cross bars adjacent the ends of the side members and flush with their upper edges, projecting pins carried by the lower edges of the side members, and in alinement with the cross bars, and extending inwardly, a centrally arranged cross bar connecting the side members midway their upper and lower edges, and a pin carried by the upper face of the said bar and at a right angle thereto.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CARL I-I. HARTMAN.

Gommissoner of Patents,

Washington, D. c.

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