US255709A

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Publication number: US255709A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-03-28
Anticipated expiration: 1899-03-28

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(N0 ModeL) J. WATTERS.

METALLIC HARNESS AND BRIDLB LOOP. No. 255,709. 4 Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W'ATTERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

M ETALLIC HARNESS AND BRIDLE LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,709, dated March 28, 1882.

i Application filed December 29, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN WATTERs, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Metallic Harness and Bridle Loop, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a face view of the bottom plate of myimproved harnessloop. Fig. 2 is acrossscction of the same; Fig. 3, a side view of a portion thereof; Fig. 4, a top view of the boxloop that is attached to said bottom plate; Fig. 5, a cross-section 0t said box-loop; Fig. 6, a top view of the complete harness-loop; Fig. 7, a cross-section. thereof; and Fig. S,'a side view, partly in section, of'the same.

The object of this invention is to produce a harnessloop which shall be readily attachable to harness and bridle, and which is to be put togetherwhen partiallythstened on the harness; and tothisend theinvention consistsincombining with a bottom plate that is stitched or otherwise fastened to the harness, and that has upwardly and inwardly projecting flanges, an upper box-loop which has outwardly-projecting flanges at its lower end that are adapted to slide into the grooves formed by the flanges of the bottom plate, and thereby, held tirm against up and down and lateral displacement. The-bottom plate is made slightly longer than the box-loop, so that when the latter has been placed in position the flanges at the ends of the bottom plate are slightly depressed to lock the box-loop thereto.

1n the accompanying drawings, the letter A represents the bottom plate, and B the upper box-loop, of my improved harness-loop. The bottom plate, A, is provided with small holes a a, through which the thread that is used to stitch it to the harness or strapO can be passed; but instead of fastening the said plate Ato the strap or harness by stitches, it may be fastened by rivets projecting from it or by lugs or the like. The plate A has at its long edges up- -wardlyand inwardly projecting flanges 1), forming longitudinal grooves c, that are open at the placed with reference to the grooves c as'to fit in them when the box-loop is slid longitudinally over the bottom plate, A, as shown in Fig. 7. In this position (showoin Fig. 7) the box-loop is by the flanges b prevented from being displaced vertically and laterally, but not longitudinally. To insure the final connection ot' the parts A and B, I make the bottom plate, A, slightly longer than the boX-loop B, as is indicated in Figs. 6 and 8. When the box-loop has been slid in place on the bottom plate, A, so that the latter projects beyond both ends of the former, I crush or bend the ends of the flanges b downward, as indicated at e in Figs.6 and 8, and thereby form obstructions against the ends of the flanges 01, thus preventing the longitudinal displacement in either direction of the loop B on the plate A.

Buckles may be fastened to the ends of the plate A, in which case the obstructing parts 6 on said plate are not required.

I do not broadly claim joining the upper partof a box-loop to the lower plate by interlocking flanges, but

I do claim- 1. The combination of the box-loop B, having outwardly-projecting flanges d, with the bottom plate, A, having flanges b, forming grooves 0, adapted to receive the flanges d, said bottom plate being made longer than the loop B to allow the flanges I) to be crushed andbent down and form obstructions eagainst the ends of the flanges at, substantially as specified.

2. The plate A, having holes a and grooved flanges lnin combination with the loop B, having ontwnrdly-projecting ungroovcd flanges d, as set forth.

This specification of my invention signed by me this 28th day of December, 1881.

t J OHN WATT'ERS.

Witnesses WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ,

WILLIAM H. 0. SMITH.