US1497349A - Side-strap connection for breechings - Google Patents

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' June 10, 1924.

' E. M. ROBINSON SIDE STRAP CONNECTION FOR BREECNINGS Filed July is. 1923 Patented June 10, 1924.

EARL M. ROBINSON, OF WATERLOO, IOW'A,

ASSIGNOR TO WATERLOO SADDLERY COM- PANY, or WATERLOO, IOWA.

SIDE-STRAP comemoa non nanncnmes.

Application filed m 16,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL M. RoniNsoN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk County, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Strap Connections for Breechings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to'improvements in side-strap connections for harness breechings, and the object of my improvement is to provide a secure yet easily disassembleable connection for said parts, adapted for quick connection, and constructed for both strength and longevity.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of part of a harness breeching with its connections, including one of my improved connections, to side-straps of the harness. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved connecting device with its flexible strap extended. Fig. 3 is a detail view on a larger scale of said connecting device, with parts in longitudinal section, showing the flexible strap thereof connected releasably to both a side-strap and to the base-plate of the device. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of the reversely bent medial hook on the base-plate, and Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of the terminal hook of the device. Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view of the lower looped connecting part of another side-strap shown in said Fig. 1.

8 is a side part of a harness breeching having a rear ring 9 and forward of said ring an n wardly directed loop or D 7, these being use for connection to the lower loops of side- straps 14 and 10 respectively whose upper loops are connected to a ring 12 mounted on an end of a back-band 13.

The rear side-strap 14:, as shown in said Figs. 1 and 6, has the usual terminal-loop connection 16 to the breeching-ring 9, and releasably secured by means of a buckle 15. My improved connecting device is shown in Fig. 1 in use connecting the forward sidestrap. 10 to thebreeching-D or loop 7.

My said connecting device comprises an elongated chafeor base-plate 1 having on its outer face a longitudinally spaced pair of rigid rectangular loops 2, and also having the upper part of a flexible strap 3 se- 1923. Serial K016513 12.

cured longitudinally thereon to traverse both loops 2 and depend therefrom.

The strap 3 has terminal holes, as at 6, to permit it to be buckled by means of a buckle 11 to the lower part of the side-strap. 10, and end-connected to a medial hook 4 on the base-plate 1. It has a hole also, as

shown in Fig. 3, through which may be passed the reversely bent medial hook 4 which is fastened on the outer face of the base-plate, and positioned between the loops 2. A terminal hook 5 is positioned longitudinally upon the strap 3 opposite the lower part of the base-plate 1 and riveted throughboth; This hook 5 is fiat and receives the D 7 on said breeching 8 and serves as a stiff wear-plate for the D inthe loop to be made in the depending middle part of the strap 3.

The side-strap 10 is connected releasably by my connecting device to the breeching 8 as follows. I

The D"? is seated in the terminal hook 5, the strap 3 then is. to be passed upwardly through both loops 2 and connected above them by means of the buckle 11 to the lower end of the side-strap 10. The end part of the strap 3 is then passed downwardly through the uppermost loop 2 abutting upon the outer face of the upper end of itself to receive the medial hook 4 through its terminal hole. The terminal part of the sidestrap 10- is then passed downwardly through both of the loops 2. p g

The chafeor baseplate 1 receives the frictional wear on the inner face of the device, while the rigid hook 5 takes up the considerable frictional wear of the D 7, thus preserving the life of the strap 3 and also of the lower part of the strap 10.

The parts of the device are quickly and easily separable and suited for heavy and continued service.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire 'to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a harness side strap and breeching having a loop, of a chafe-plate having spaced loops, a strap secured at one end to said plate and traversing said loops, a hook fastened to the chafeplate intermediate said loops, and means for releasably engaging said chafe-plate strap to both said side-strap and to said medial hook.

2. The combination with harness sidestrap and breeohing having a loop, of a chafe-plate having spaced loops, a hook fastened to the 'chafe-plate intermediate said loops, a strap secured at one end to said oha'fe-plate to depend therefrom, a fiat open hook fixed upon and secured to both said strap and said chafe-plate at its lower end, and means for securing releasably different parts of said chafeplate strap to said side-strap and to said medial hook respectively W en the chafe-pla-te strap has been looped'about said terminal hook and passed reversely upwardly through the chafe-plate loops.

Signed at WVaterloo, Iowa, this 15th day EARL M. ROBINSON.

.of June, 1923.

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