US174593A

US174593A - Improvement in trace-buckles

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Publication number: US174593A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1876-03-07
Anticipated expiration: 1893-03-07

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J. THORNTON.

l HAPHER, WASHINGTON D C Unrrnn ST T-Es PATENT JAMES THORNTON, OF WELLSVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONEFOURTH HIS RIGHT TO PRATT & LETOHWORTH, OF- BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRACE-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,593, dated March 7, 1876; application filed December 3, 1875.

- hame-tug is attached, so that said bail or loop is permanently secured to the buckle-frame, the whole forming a buckle which can be more conveniently handled than buckles'made in two detached parts, while at the same time permitting the ready disengagement of the buckle for adjusting the trace, and forming a most reliable connection when in engagement, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved trace-buckle. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional view, showing the buckle disengaged. Fig. 4 is a section in line :0 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 shows the main portion of the buckle applied to a heel-chain trace.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in each of the figures.

A represents the hame-tug, and B the trace. 0 represents the frame or body of the buckle, consisting of a plate fitting against the side of the trace, and provided with two flanges, c c, overlapping the edges of the trace, so as to properly guide the same. d and d are the two loops, formed with the frame 0, for the attachment of the back-pad and bellyband billet, respectively; and e, the projecting loop, to which the side strap is connected. 9

represents the tongue formed on the inner side of the frame G, and engaging in suitable holes in the trace. His the loop or bail, to which the hame-tug is secured. It is pro- "ided with two arms, h h, turning on two fixed pivots, t 45, formed with the frame or body 0 of the buckle, so as to project from the sides thereof, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The bail His constructed of malleable metal, and bent over its pivots in an obvious manner.

The tongue got the buckle being engaged in one of the holes of the trace, and a strain or pull being applied to the same, the frame 0 is drawn backward, thereby swinging the bailH on its pivots into a more inclined position, so as to press it and the hame-tug against the trace, and holding the latter in close contact with the frame 0 and tongue 9, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pressure with which the parts are held together being proportionate to the strain on the trace.

Upon pushing the frame 0 forward, so as to bring the arms h of the bail H into a vertical position, or nearly so, with reference to the frame 0, the latter can be swung outwardly on the pivots i, so as to disengage the-tongue g from the trace, as shown in Fig. 3, when the trace is free to be adjusted forward or backward, as may be desired. The side flanges c c of the frameO serve to guide the trace as it is adjusted.

My improved trace-buckle forms avery reliable fastening, as an increased strain on the trace will only tend to lock the parts more securely together, while at the same time it does not destroy the traces by excessive compression, as trace-buckles doin which a detached sliding or wedging part is our ployed. Furthermore, in my improved tracebuckle the bail or loop H is permanently se cured to the frame of the buckle, forming therewith a single article, which can be more cheaply produced, and is more conveniently handled, both in packing and selling, and when applied to harness, than a buckle composed or two or more detached parts.

The frame 0 of my improved trace-buckle, without the bail H, may be used instead of the so-called D-connection for heel-chain harness, when the frame is secured to the trace by rivets or screw-bolts, as shown in Fig.5,

thereby forming a connection for the ditferent straps, which can be readily adjusted on the trace, as may be required for horses of different sizes, and it is in this respect snpeing arms h h turning on said pivots, and be rim to the D-connection 110W in common use, ing permanently attached to the buckle-framewhich is permanently secured to the trace. substantially as and for the purpose herein,

I claim as my inventionbefore set forth. The combination, with the buckle-frame I JAMES THORNTON. 0, provided with tongue g and fixed pivots Witnesses:

i 13, cast or otherwise formed on the sides LEWIS JONES,

thereof, of the swinging bail 01' 100p H, hav- WHEELER HAKE.