US476673A - Billet-loop - Google Patents

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T. G. NELSON 8; W. P. GELABERT.

BILLET LOOP.

No. 476,673, Patented June 7, 1892.

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THOMAS G. NELSON AND \VILLIAM P. GELABERT, OF SWEET SPRINGS, MISSOURI.

BlLLET-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,673, dated June 7, 1892.

Application filed February 25, 1892. Serial No. 422,781. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS G. NELSON and WILLIAM P. GELABERT, citizens of the United States, residing at Sweet Springs, in the county of Saline and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Double Loops for Harness- Straps; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates toindependent double or twin loops used in connection with independent buckles on breast, pole, hame, breeching, and other reversible harness, and its object is to simplify the construction of such loops.

Our invention consists in a triangular metal loop constructed independently of the buckle of the strap on which it is used, said loop consistin g of three transverse bars and two bifurcated side jaws, one of said bars being forward of and intermediate or between the others, as will be hereinafter described, and said intermediate bar being adapted to be confined to the buckle-strap contiguous to the buckle by folding the said strap upon it and inserting one or two rivets, and the said other two bars with their side jaws forming with the intermediate bar upper and lower separate loops for receiving and confining the buckle-strap underneath and 011 top or on opposite sides of the buckle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved double loop separated from the harness-strap. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a buckle, harness-strap, and our improved twin or double metallic loop, the loop being shown confined forward of its central bar by a single rivet on account of being near the buckle and the strap as only passed through the lower loop. Fig. 3 is a similar section to Fig. 2, showing the double loop confined by two rivets, one in front and the other in rear of its central bar, because the loop is farther off from the buckle than in Fig. 2, the strap being shown as passed through both of the loops.

A in the drawings designates our double or twin metallic loop, which in its side elevation is approximately triangular and consists of two triangular side jaws to a, each jaw being bifurcated or having two branches a a diverging in opposite directions from one another, and the said jaws being connected by transverse bars a a 0. which in crosssection are in form of flattened ellipses, so as to be broad and thin and slightly rounded on their edges. The bar a is midway between and a considerable distance forward of the bars a a, as shown. This construction of the loop provides two separate loops which form passages 19 b for the end of a bucklestrap B, one passage being on one side and the other on the opposite side of the buckle O, which is attached to said strap, and the construction, shape, and arrangement of the bars are, such as shown, that the buckle end of the strap is allowed freedom to vibrate on the forward bar and thus permit any necessary change without undue friction and strain of the buckle and the portion of the strap to which it is directly attached; also, by having the loop constructed entirely disconnected from the buckle it can be set away from the same as far as circumstances may require.

To apply and use this double or twin loop on harness-straps, the strap is first passed through the passage 1) of the double loop over the bar a through the buckle-frame, and then under the said bar and through the passage b, and its lapping end fastened by a rivet c, as in Fig. 2, or by two rivets c c, as in Fig. 3, accordingly as it is desired to have the loop nearer toorfartherfromthebuckle. Theother end of the strap thus secured is passed through the passage b of the loop, through the buckle,

and through the passage 1), as indicated in I ient for the passage of the strap on account of its form through it forward and back. What we claim as our invention is Aloop forharness,co1nprising two V-shaped side frames, the arms of which are of substantially equal length and are arranged with relation to each other at less than a right angle, and having a flattened cross-bar at the intersection of the angles and connecting crossbars at each pair of the outer ends of the arms :0 of the side frames.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS G. NELSON. XVILLIAM P. GELABERT.

Witnessess O. E. WooDsoN, J. W. BERRY.

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