US540592A - Buckle - Google Patents

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BUCKLE.

Patented June 4, 1895.

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UNITED STATES `PATENT OEETCE.

FRANK F. HEROLD, OF TIFFIN, OHIO.

BUCKLE.

SLEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,592, dated June 4, 189.5. Application filed October 10I 1894. Serial No. 525,490. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Beit known that I, FRANK F. HEROLD, a citizen of the vUnited States, residing at Tiffin, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles; and l dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to Awhi'ch it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to improvements in harness attachments adapted for a variety ot purposes in a set of harness, such as a rein'or line holder to prevent the strap from passing through the terret or for falling and dropping down alongside of the horse, the hip straps, or the shafts, or to forma loop to serve as a hand hold on the line or rein.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive contrivance which can be readily appliedto a strap without detaching it from the harness or vehicle or slipping the deviceover the endv of the strap, and to so construct the device that it will bite or hold firmly on the strap.

WVith these ends in View, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts forming myimproved buckle, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

To enable others to understand my invention,I have illustrated the preferred embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecication, and in which- Figure 1 is a view illustrating a set of harness with my improvement applied to some of the straps thereof. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the attachment or buckle. Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the application of the buckle to a straight line or strap. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the buckle applied to a loop or doubled strap to form a hand-hold for a driving-rein. Fig. 5k is alike View showing the application of the buckle to two straps for the purpose of repairing or joining them together. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the method of applying the buckle to a strap withoutdetaching the latter.

Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the iigures of the drawlngs.

Myattachment consistsofabuckleframe A, a tongue bar B arranged transversely across the buckle frame and the strap to which the device is to be applied, and a retainer-bar O vprojecting beyond one end of the buckle frame and deiected or`carried to one side of the plane of said buckle-frame. The buckle frame and the retainer are cast in a single piece of metal.

The frame A and tongue B of my attachmentare distinguished from thc common type of buckles in that the frame is not formed or provided with a bar, lug, or stud on which to hang or pivot the tongue, so that the frame is an open one, and in that the tongue bar is arranged transversely across the frame, at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the strap to which the attachment is applied, in contradistinction to a buckle in which the tongue is hung on a bar of the buckle frame to eX- tend longitudinally of the frame and pass through an aperture in the strap to hold the strap and buckle together.

The buckle frame A of my attachment is made substantially square in form, although it may be rectangular or of any other shape desired, and one of its side bars, a, is formed with a rounded pintle portion a between the lugs or ears a while the other side bar a3 is provided with a seat 01,4 formed Aby a'cavity or depression in the bar o.s at a point directly opposite to the pintle portion a.

The tongue bar B has one of its ends bent or looped around the pintle portion a so as to be pivotally connected to the buckle frame and is held or confined against sidewise play by the lugs or ears a. tends, when the attachment is in use, across the open frame, from one sidebard to the other side bar 0.3, and the free end of the longitudinal bar is adapted to tit or rest in the seat d4 in said bar a3. The tongue bar can be turned on or thrown back on the bar d so as to eX- pose the'opening in the frame A bounded by and formed between the side and end bars of the frame, in which position of the tongue bar a looped portion of a strap can be thrust into the buckle-frame, after which the tongue bar is returned to its normal position to rest in the seat a4, and the strap then drawn out straight, in which position the strap passes This tongue bar ex- ICO over the tongue bar and beneath the two end bars of the frame, as clearly shown by Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The retainer extension C is curved outward away from the buckle frame and then recurved or bent over as shown more clearly in Fig. 2. The purpose of this retainer is to prevent the line or rein from being pulled, bythe movement ot' the horses head, through the terret ring, or when the attachment is applied to a hip strap, this retainer stands upward and away from the same so that it will catch the rein or line and prevent it from dropping down alongside of the shaft, whereby the reins are held up and prevented from being entangled with the horses feet.

The attachment may be applied to the rein, as at G, to prevent it from being drawn through the terret ring, or it may be applied to the hip strap of the harness as at l-I, in which last named position the retainer C stands upward and away from the hip strap so as to catch the rein when it becomes SlaQk and drops down toward the shaft.

To apply the attachment to a strap, it is not necessary to detach it from any part of the harness or vehicle or to slip the device over the end of the strap, but the attachment is applied by turning the tongue bar B to one side of the frame A, then doubling or folding the strap upon itself, and thrusting the doubled part of the strap through the frame. Then the tongue bar is lowered, and the strap is drawn out so that it passes over the tongue bar and beneath the end bars of the frame A. The strap bearsor bites against the edges of the tongue bar, and against the lower edges of the two end bars of the frame A, whereby the attachment holds itself in place on the strap without puncturing the latter and without fitting the tongue in the puuctures or holds of the strap.

My attachment may also be used to form the hand hold in a driving line or rein. In

this adaptation of the eontrivance, the end of the strap is doubled or folded upon itself to form the loop or hand hold I, and the attachment is adjusted in the manner described over the lapped portions of the rein at a suitable distance from the looped end I thereof.

My device may also be used in cases of emergency or under general conditions to repair broken straps, or to connect the meeting ends of two straps together, or to connect the two ends of the same strap together. The two ends of the strap or straps are passed through the buckle frame, over the tongue bar, and below the end bars of said frame, and the connection is so firm and secure that, under ordinary conditions, the ends of the strap or straps cannot be drawn out of the frame.

I do not limit myself to any particular use ofthe attachment, nor to the precise form and details of the parts herein shown and described as an embodiment of my invention, as I am aware that a skilled mechanic can change the device in minor ways without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article ot manufacture, a harness attachment comprising an open frame A having one of its side bars provided with the lugs a onfopposite sides of the pintle thereof and its other side bar formed with a depression 0.4, producing a seat in line with the pintle across the frame, the tongue-bar B hung on the pntle, between the lugs 0.2, and having its free end adapted to the depressed seat, and a retainer arm C which is integral with one bar of the frame A and is projected in curved lines beyond the frame and to one side of the plane of the bars forming said frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature p in presence of two witnesses.

y FRANK F. IIEROLD. Witnesses:

JOSEPH SMITH,

JOHN BARTELL.

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