US545576A

US545576A - Hame-tug

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Publication number: US545576A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-09-03
Anticipated expiration: 1912-09-03

Description

(No Model.)

I. J. BRINGHAM. HAME TUG.

No. 545,576.. Patented Sept. 3, 1895.

UNITED? STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEND J. BRINGHAM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE SEAMLESS LEATHER COMPANY, OF ILLINOIS.

HAM E-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 54=5,576 dated September 3, 1895.

Application filed January 9,1895. Serial No. 534,395. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEND J. BRINGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box I-Iame-Tugs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawmgs.

My invention is designed to produce a box hams-tug or similar part of a leather harness Without stitching.

The invention consists, mainly, in forming the box of the strap by splitting a wider part of the leather and forming thebox out of the upper part so split, all as hereinafter set forth. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents in perspective the completed hame-tug. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 represents the leather-blank out of whichthe tug is formed. Fig. 4: shows a modification.

The blank shown in Fig. 3 is cut out of a suitable piece or strip of thick leather. The rounded right-hand end of the blank is cut out to form a tongue at, which leaves a skeleton buckle-chafe b, on which the buckle c rests. The tongue a, cut out as above de-' scribed, is perforated to receive the buckletongue d, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the buckle is in place the tongue is turned back to form a loop for the buckle. A holdingloop E for the tongue or turned-back portion is split from the blank and. shaped by a suitable former, and the other end Z of the strap is split in similar manner to form a passage, for the turned -back end or its extension. The box f is formed by splitting the rectangular enlarged part 9 of the blank from end to end and laterally near to the edges. The split is made parallel with the sides of the leather, preferably leaving the under part thicker and the part raised and shaped to form the box thinner. The thinner part is then raised to form the box and is pressed into suitable shape. The projecting parts 00 y a: y of the blank form the sides h of the boxloop, the junction of the leather at the edges being pressed into the same plane, as shown in Fig. 1. If desired to increase the stifiening of the box, a reinforcement may be inserted. For the purpose of increasing the longitudinal strength of the boxIrivet to the tongue at a strap 1', the rivet being located un- 55 der the loop E, 'where it is covered or concealed. The strap iis extended through the box and through a slitted passage made through from the box to the end of the tugstrap', as shown at i. If preferred, the end l of the tug may be split open from side to side to lap over and under the clip of the harne, and the end of the strap i'is secured with the split ends of the tug. This construction forms a very complete and strong box hametug, and it is without stitching or other connections of the leather parts, excepting at the rivet connecting the strap t' to the tongue. The box is formed in part out of the upper part of the blank and in part by the extended 7,0

sides. The same construction of the box-loop may be used with the turned-back end of the strap, instead of the turned-back end of the tongue cut from the chafe, as shown in Fig.

4, in which the end a, of the strap is wholly 7 3 turned back and passed under the integral loop E to the other end. The strap is enlarged laterally to form the loop and is split throughout its entire length. The other or unsplit end-2', which is turned back, passes 8o through the integral loop or split end 1'. In this form, which is adapted to be used as a breeching-tug and for other purposes, the end .t'" extends beyond the end of Z and is turned back and adapted to re-enter split end of Z,

in which it is held by a rivet or in any suitable way, this looped end having a ring or any other desired connection.

I claim 1. The method of making box tugs oonsist- 9o ing in cutting out a blank with end portions of less width than the center, splitting said central portion longitudinally from end to end leaving uncut margins and then expand- .ing the split center to form sides approximately in line withthe sides of the strap ends, substantially as described.

2. A box tug, formed out of a split blank having lateral extensions, consisting of an expanded box and integral strap ends, the top of said box being formed by the upper thick .ness of the strap and the sides of the box by the split lateral extensions, substantially as In testimony whereof I ai fix my signature described. in presence of two witnesses.

3. The strap, the box integral therewith, the 100p E and the buckle, the end of the strap F. J. BRINGI-IAM. 5 being doubled to inclose the buckle bar and. Witnesses:

being passed under the loop E, substantially HENRY E. COOPER,

as described. J AMES M. SPEAR.