US181407A - Improvement in buckles - Google Patents

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TTEE STATES PETER BURNS, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,407, dated August 22, 1876; application led August 11, 1876.

' finds support upon the end or loop bar of the frame ot' the buckle, so that the point of the tongue projects above the frame, or protrudes from it, and is thus liable to catch into anything passed over the buckle. This feature is found to be quite annoying When the buckle' is used on harness, from the fact that the horses tail will continually catch on the protruding points of the buckle-tongues. My improvement is intended to overcome this objection 5 and to that end consists in shortening the tongue so that its free end only reaches to about the inner edge ot' the end or loop bar of the frame, and providing the frame with an extra cross-bar under the tongue, for affording the necessary support thereto againstthe pull of the strap, this extra cross-bar being so arranged that the point ot' the tongue will be flush with, or slightly below, the outer surface of the loopbar, when the tongue rests 011 such extra cross-bar.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a perspective of my improved buckle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, showing a strap locked in the buckle.

The same letters of reference are used in both figures in the designation of identical parts.

The buckle shown is of the simplest form', consisting of a rectangular frame, to the end bar A of which the tongue O is pivoted. The tongue, When turned toward the other end bar or loop-bar B, reaches close to the inner edge of such loop-bar, but docs not come in contact therewith. On the contrary, instead ot' finding support on such loop-bar with its point, it swings t'ree of it, and is stopped only by a cross-bar, D, formed on the frame, below it, and as near to the loop-bar and the point of the tongue as practicable, due consideration being given in the locating ot' the cross-bar D to the size of the strap, so that said cross-bar may not interfere with the convenient inscrtion of such strap.

My invention may be adapted to all buckles of the kind alluded to, Whether of the simple form shown or of a more complex design.

I do not claim, broadly, a cross-bar arranged so as to give support to the tongue against the pull ot' the strap; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure byW Letters Patent, is-

A buckle, substantially such as described, in which the tongue swings free of the bar B, and the frame has a depressed cross-bar under the tongue.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in the presence of tvvo subscribing Witnesses.

PETER BURNS.

Witnesses: Y

W. S. HUNTINGTON, W. B. BURNS.

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