US279677A - Geoege walkee - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

G. WALK-ER.

I ROSBTTE FOR BRIDLES. No. 279,677. Patented June 19,1883.

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GEORGE WALKER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ROSETTE FOR BRIDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,677, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed October 30, 1882. (No model.)

such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to increase the beauty and effectiveness of bridle-rosettes; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and. finally embodied in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1. illustrates a portion of a bridle to which my improved rosette has been applied. Fig. 2 illustrates in detail the several parts, mostly in section, which go to make up the said rosette; and Fig. 3 illustrates a loop-piece in combination with the front and crown straps, the outer portion of the rosette being removed.

In said drawings, a represents the crownstrap, and b the front strap, of a bridle, which engage with one another in the usual manner. f indicates a loop-piece, which lies in the slit in the strap a and through which the loop in the ends of the front b passes, as will be understood upon reference to Fig. 3. The looppiece f is provided with a projecting screwshank, g, which receives atl1umbnut, c, preferably of an ornamental design. Between said loop-piece f and nut c is secured a metallic plate, e, recessed to receive a thin sheet of celluloid, d, the said parts being held together by the nut being screwed upon the shank. Several different styles of plates 6 may be sold with the bridle and changes be madeas circumstances or inclination may dictate; or the plate d may likewise be substituted for a different color or design, so that a few duplicates of portions d and e of various designs will be capable of producing a large number of combinations and effects. I prefer that the plate e be recessed, so that a projecting margin will cover and protect the edge of the plate (1.

It is evident that the shank 9 may be formed upon the nut in reverse order to that shown without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent,

As an improved'article of manufacture, a

GEORGE WALKER.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, CHARLES H. PELL.

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