Improvements in Tug Buckles, more particularly for Light Harness.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tug Buckles, more particularly for Light Harness.
I, ALEXIS GUÉRINEAU, of No. 18, Rue Nantaise, Cholet, Maine et Loire, in the
Republic of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to improvements in tug buckles, more particu-
larly for light harness such as used for the draught of dog-carts, tilburys and the
like two-wheeled vehicles.
According to my invention the upper part of the buckle which I have designed
is formed as the ordinary tug buckle, that is to say, consisting of a D-shaped or
rectangular or other ordinary shape of frame having a transverse bar carrying
a prong, but the lower end of the buckle is extended so as to form two more
frames preferably rectangular in shape one of which is in true extension and
nearly in alignment with the upper part of the buckle and the other projects
out at about right angles to the same, they having the bottom bar of the ordinary
buckle for their common base. The extension which projects at about right
angles to the upper part of the buckle is preferably provided with an anti-
friction roller and this completes the improved buckle.
With a buckle thus designed, if a strap or band be attached by one end to the
bottom bar of the lower of the two extension frames and the said strap be then
curled upwards and its end passed through the right-angled extension frame so
as to fall outwards over and in contact with the anti-friction roller on the front
bar of the said frame, the loop thus formed by the strap might be used to con-
stitute a tug.
The two portions of this strap which come against each other back to back,
by reason of the end of the strap being doubled backwards against the tug loop
after the said end has passed over the anti-friction roller, may be loosely clamped
together by means of two metal rings or links to prevent lateral movement of
the belly-band.
The tug thus formed can be attached to the bellyband. As a matter of fact
the free end of the said strap is buckled to the outer belly-band whilst the tug
proper is buckled to the back-band, as usual, by means of the prong in the upper
part of the buckle.
According to the purpose to which the tug is put the loop formed by the strap,
as above described, will be more or less tightened round the shaft.
In this way, especially for dog-carts, a loop or tug capable of adjustment as
regards its opening is formed out of the back band and the shaft is able to obtain
the amount of up and down movement which it requires. On the other hand,
it cannot move laterally as the belly-band passes over the tug.. The part of the
strap which forms the tug is double. Between the two thicknesses of leather
the strap may be stiffened by inserting a rigid flat band of metal or by other
appropriate means.

page_text: The object of this rigid band is to support the shaft when "putting to" or
taking out.
Dated the 23rd day of February 1899.
Improvements in Tug Buckles, more particularly for Light Harnes³.
1, ALEXIS GUÉRINEAU, of No. 18, Rue Nantaise, Cholet, Maine et Loire, in the
Republic of France, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in tug buckles, more particu-
larly for light harness such as used for the draught of dog-carts, tilburys and the
like two-wheeled vehicles.
I will now proceed to describe the invention, reference being had to the ac-
companying drawings, in which;-
_Figure I is a perspective view of-the-improved-buckle, detached. -
Figure 2 is a perspective side-view of the buckle shewn attached to a tug-strap
composed of a back-strap.
Figure 3-is-a-sectional-elevation of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a sectional-elevation similar to Figure 3 but shewing the shaft
in the position in the tug-loop and a slight modification in the construction of
the tug.
According to my invention the upper part of the buckle which I have designed
is formed as the ordinary tug buckle, that is to say, consisting of a D-shaped or
rectangular or other ordinary shape of frame i having a transverse bar G carry-
ing a prong T, but the lower end of the buckle is extended so as to form two
more frames preferably rectangular in shape one of which E, F, A, B, is in true
extension and nearly in alignment with the upper part of the buckle and the
other E, F, C, D, projects out at about right-angles to the same; they having
the bottom bar t¹ of the ordinary buckle for their common base. The exten-
sion E, F, C, D, is preferably provided with an anti-friction roller R, and this
completes the improved buckle.
With a buckle thus designed, if a strap or band o be attached by one end to
the bottom bar A, B of the lower of the two extension frames and the said strap
be then curled upwards and its free end passed through the right-angled ex-
tension frame E, F, C, D, so as to fall outwards over and in contact with the
anti-friction roller R on the front bar C D of the said frame, the loop thus formed
by the strap might constitute a tug.
The two portions of this strap which come against each other back to back, by
reason of the end of the strap being doubled backwards against the tug loop
after the said end has passed over the anti-friction roller, may be loosely clamped
together by means of two metal rings P, P, or links to prevent lateral movement
of the belly-band.
The tug thus formed can be attached to the belly-band. As a matter of fact
the free end of the said straps, is buckled to the outer belly-band whilst the tug
proper is buckled to the back-band, as usual, by means of the prong T in the
upper part of the buckle.
According to the purpose to which the tug is put, the loop formed by the strap,
as above described, will be more or less tightened round the shaft B¹.

page_text: In this way, especially for dog-carts, a loop or tug capable of adjustment
as regards its opening is formed out of the back band and the shaft is able to
obtain the amount of up-and-down movement which it requires. On the other
hand, it cannot move laterally as the belly-band presses over the tug. The part
of the strap which forms the tug is double. Between the two thicknesses of
leather q, q¹ the strap may be stiffened by inserting a rigid flat band of metal or
by other appropriate means indicated at U; the object of this rigid band U being
to support the shaft when " putting to or "taking out."
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination with a back-band buckle for harness, of two frames in-
tegral with the lower end thereof one of the said frames extending downwards
in alignment with the upper part of the buckle and the other projecting out
laterally therefrom, as described and illustrated.
2. The combination with a back-band buckle for harness, of two frames in-
tegral with the lower end thereof, one of the said frames extending downwards
in alignment with the upper part of the buckle and the other projecting out
laterally therefrom, and a roller mounted on the front bar of the latter frame, as
described and illustrated.
3. In combination with a back-band of harness, a buckle having two extension
loops or frames integral with its lower end, one of said frames being in alignment
with the upper part and the other projecting out laterally therefrom, an anti-
friction roller on the front bar of the latter frame and binding clips holding the
folded parts of strap together as described and illustrated.
11 041
1000
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
Agents for the Applicant