New or Improved Looped, Pocketed, and like Leather Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ELLIS SPEAR and FRANK LEANDER
MIDDLETON, both of 1,003 F Street, Washington, United States of
America, Patent Attorneys.]
New or Improved Looped, Pocketed, and like Leather Articles.
1, ERNEST RIChard Royston, of 15 Water Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, C.E., Fel. Chart. Inst. P.A., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The present invention relates to the manufacture of leather articles of various
kinds, and is intended to economise leather by splitting the same to form loops and
pockets, and to make articles out of a single piece of leather in this way where it
has been necessary heretofore to use two or more pieces.
In order to illustrate fully how far the invention may be carried out, we have
shewn a variety of articles in which the invention has been embodied to a greater
or less degree, but these articles are only intended to be representative of their
class, and it must be clearly understood that there are many articles to which the
invention can be extended with very slight modifications and which will still be
within the scope and spirit of this invention.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 represents a bridle provided with a front piece A, a nose band B, a
check strap C, and a splice D, each of these parts embodying one or more of the
features of the invention.
Figures 14 and 18 shew details of the splice.
Figure 2 is a detailed view of the bridle front.
Figure 2 is a modification of the same adapted for use as a cartridge belt, or
for other purposes.
Figure 3 is a detail of the nose band, and
Figure 3 a modification showing the same idea applied to a shawl strap.
Figure 4 is a sectional view of the cheek strap, showing it in detail.
Figure 4B is a perspective view of the same.
Figure 4 shows a side elevation and a section of a bridle blind; the lower part
a cross sectional elevation of the blind.
being
Figure 5 shows a further extension of the invention as applied to a collar or
saddle pad.
Figure 5 shows a modification of this idea as applied to a pocket case.
Figure 6 shows a shaft tug or tug loop made according to this invention.
Figure 6 is a modification of the same.
Figure 7 shows the invention applied to a hame tug.
Figure 7 is a detail sectional view of a part of this tug.
Figure 8 shows the invention applied to a buckle chafe.
Figure 9 is a box hame tug made of one piece, according to this invention.
Figure 10 shows a trace carrier for the skirt of a double harness.
Figure 11 shows a spectacle case made according to this invention.
Figure 12 a sheath case, and
Figure 13 a cartridge belt.
Figure 13 being a plan view of the latter figure.

page_text: It will be seen that the invention broadly considered consists in making the
various articles, to which reference has been made, by taking a block or piece of
leather, slitting it to form a passage or a pocket and utilizing the passage or pocket
as a holding means for another piece of leather, or to receive a stiffening piece
which shall either strengthen the piece of leather as in the case of a bridle blind or
form a head or raise as in the case of a nose band, or a simple pocket may be made to
form a spectacle or other case or a series of pockets to form a cartridge or a like
belt, and it will be perfectly apparent that the invention may be extended to a
great variety of articles upon the lines herein indicated with great advantage in
construction and with economy in the manufacture.
Referring particularly to the drawings, it will be seen that the bridle front is
formed, as one means of carrying out the invention, by making à series of incisions a,
and slitting alternate sections as b, between these incisions making loops integral
with the front and then drawing through the loops, thus formed, a strip of differently
colored leather as at c, or this may be a piece of metal or other suitable material
to make an ornamental front. The ends of the bridle front may be slitted and
expanded to form loops as shown at d in Figure 1, to receive the parts d' of the
bridle.
This same idea may be extended to a cartridge belt as shewn at Figure 24, where
the inserted strip c¹ is looped to form pockets for the support of the cartridge or
like article.
In a nose band or like article it is desirable to have a beaded or raised surface
on the front, and as shewn in Figure 3, (and Figure 1) a passage e is made through
the strap from near one end to near the other, by slitting the bottom face of the
strap and then extending the channel longitudinally, inserting the filling, and then
turning back the ends of the strap. When the strip of leather or other suitable
material is passed through the passage e, the band is pressed, with the result that a
beaded surface or raised portion is made along the front of the band, and this may
be made in any desired form according to the character of the filling, and the cut
of the strap. This band is preferably provided with seamless loops at each
end as at d² (see Figure 1) for attachment to the cheek or side straps of the
bridle.
This general idea of forming a raise on the face of leather straps or the like, is
capable of very wide application, and in Figure 34 is shewn a shawl strap having
its handle provided with such a channel and a filling therein and with side
straps g, passing through loops formed in the ends of the said shawl strap handle
as shewn at h.
The bridle in Figure 1, is provided with a cheek or side strap i, and in the detail
Figures 4 and 4B, a very convenient means of attachment is illustrated, capable of
use in many other situations.
A strap is split longitudinally for a short distance at one end to form a seamless
loop, and a strap has its lower end pierced with an opening to receive the
tongue of the buckle, and this end is then doubled around the cross bar of the
buckle and riveted if desired, and slipped into the seamless loop 1, where it is held
securely.
A
The ends of the bridle reins are united by a splice joint which forms a convenient
mode of fastening strap ends for any purpose; as shown in Figures 14 and 1.
pocket is formed in the strap or reins a short distance from the end, one in the
upper face of one strap and the other in the under face of the other strap as at 4
and 5. The ends of the straps are reduced in width and preferably thinned down
or tapered and these ends are fitted to the pockets and secured by rivets or
otherwise, making a neat joint and having no projecting ends. A like joint may
be made on a single strap end Figure 1B, where the end of the strap is tapered and
reduced in width and may be turned back and inserted into the pocket 6 where
it is secured.
In Figure 4a bridle blind is shown made of a single piece of leather litted
from one edge to form a pocket with the other edges seamless and into this pocket

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is inserted a stiffening piece, which may be of leather or metal, this being shown
This construction renders unnecessary any stitching and by making the slit
at the attaching edge when the blind is secured in place, the pocket is closed at
the same time. Suitable pressure may be applied to the blind to give it proper .
shape.
In Figure 5, a saddle or harness pad is very simply made by taking the soft
part of the leather, making a central incision as at n, and then splitting the leather
in each direction from the central slit as shown by dotted lines, thus forming two.
pockets and into these pockets, a padding piece is placed and this piece cannot
drop out and does not require any fastening as the opening. is centrally located in
relation thereto.
It will be seen that this same idea can be extended to a pocket case, as shown
in Figure 54, this being also made in one piece.
In Figure 6 is shown the invention as applied to a shaft loop or tug, and here
the tug loop proper is made of a single piece, the main portion o of which is
provided with a channel formed in it by slitting, while the supplemental portion o
is doubled about the cross bar of the buckle, passed through an opening pl, in the
main portion o, it being understood that the supplemental portion is reduced in
width, and after passing through a seamless loop 7 to hold it in place, this reduced
end o¹ is passed through the pocket or channel in the tug o, making a complete
circle and engaging the tongue of the buckle, with its free end extending down
through the loop A modification of this form is shown in Figure 6*, where the
reduced portion o¹ is turned over the buckle bar to the front, passed through the
loop 2, made integral with the portion o, through a second loop 3, also made
integral with the portion o and then through the channel as before described.
.
In Figure 7 is shown a tug connection for use where the tug or trace is
adjustably connected with the breast plate of the harness. In the present instance
a single piece of leather is used as shown at having a reduced end which is
turned back to include a buckle and thence passes through a series of loops s,
made integral with the strap r but with spaces between them to receive seamless
loops t, which are made independent of the strap r, but are held securely in place
by the extension which passes through them as shown clearly in the detail
sectional view, Figure 7.
In Figure 8 the invention is shown as applied to a buckle chafe where the
buckle is protected and prevented from coming in contact with the surface on
which it is placed. The chafe is shown at e² and is made of a single piece of
leather adapted to form a bearing for the buckle, slown at 2 and the buckle and
strap are very simply secured to the chafe by first taking a strap g, doubling the
end of it around the cross bar of the buckle with the tongue extending through an
opening 2, and then the end of the strap is passed through a pocket or channel
formed from the point 2 through to the end of the chafe, the doubled end of the
strap carrying the buckle being wedged in to the upper end of the pocket referred
to. In case it is desired to secure the end of the strap which may be used. in
connection with the buckle 2, a recess may be cut in the face of the chafe piece
and a seamless loop 2 inserted, and this loop may be held in place by the strap g
as it is passed through the pocket. Thus a very simple form of connection is
provided and no stitching of any kind is necessary, the buckle being securely held
to its strap and the strap to the chafe piece.
It is desirable in some classes of harness to provide hame tugs with a heavy box,
these tugs being known as box hame tugs and in applying the invention to this
class of tugs a piece of leather of the proper length is taken and each end reduced,
leaving an enlarged central portion between the ends and this central portion is
split centrally and to near each margin, and then expanded to form the box 8.
The buckle is held to one end of the piece of leather by cutting out a tongue 9
and turning it back over the cross bar of the buckle while the edge which is left,
shown at 10, serves as a buckle chafe. The other end of the leather piece may be
secured in any suitable way to the connecting parts of the harness.

page_text: In a double harness it is customary to use a trace bearer stitched to the skirt
and in applying this invention to this part of the harness, the necessity for stitching
is avoided, and it is possible to attain the same end in a much simpler and more
economical manner and to provide a more secure connection by simply slitting the
lower end of the strap 11 to form a flat loop as shown at 12 and slitting the strap
in the same manner above as at 13. The trace bearer 14, has a reduced end with
shoulders, which is drawn snugly into the loop 12 against the end of which the
.shoulders bear. The upper end of the trace bearer is inserted into the upper slit
where it may be held in any suitable manner. The trace may be passed through
the loop 14 thus formed.
In Figure 11-is illustrated a very simple method of utilizing the invention for
the making of pocketed articles such as a spectacle case in which the leather is cut
of the proper form and slit from the upper edge to form a pocket closed except at
the upper end and this is suitably expanded and is then ready to hold the article.
As shown in Figure 12, instead of the simple form of case shown in Figure 11,
other forms of cases may be made as for instance for a sheath knife where the
upper part of the leather is slit to form a loop 15, so as to adapt the case to be
threaded upon a belt or other support.
In Figures 13 and 13 a cartridge belt is shown of a different form from that
shown in Figure 24 as in the present case a piece of leather is taken of sufficient
thickness and a series of slits are made adjacent to each other in the upper edge
and these are afterward expanded to form a series of pockets and these pockets are
kept expanded by filling pieces 16.
I might illustrate a great number of other articles, but I believe this to be
sufficient to show bow extensive this invention is and I wish it to be understood
that I do not limit myself to the application of the invention to the classes
illustrated.
Where a channel or pocket is formed to receive a filling for ornamental purposes,
as in the nose band, Figures 1 and 3, we prefer to make this passage between what
is known as the grain and fibre of the leather, the grain or surface being very thin
and after lifting this grain to form a passage, the filling is inserted and the band
subjected to pressure and the filling forms a raise or bead on the face of the nose
band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what is
claimed in respect of the herein described invention is :-
1. A pocket made of a single seamless piece of leather slitted and expanded as
shown in Figures 11, 12, 5.
2. A seamless leather pocket or channel formed by slitting the leather and a
filling or expanding piece in said pocket or channel as shown in Figures 3, 34, 44,
5, 13 and 13.
3. A seamless leather article having a channel or a series of loops formed therein
by slitting the leather and expanding the slit portion or portions, said channel or
loops receiving a strap which is passed through said channel or loops, the channel
being shown in Figures 4, 4B, 6, 6, 8, 9 and 10 and the loops in
Figures 2, 2 7, 7ª.
Dated the 2nd day of September 1895.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents.