Improvements in Buckles and other Fastenings for Harnessing and other Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1391
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles and other Fastenings for Harnessing and
other Purposes.
I, GUSTAVE MORAND of 95, Boulevard Beaumarchais Paris, in the Republic
of France, Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved form of buckle adapted for instantaneous
disconnection and capable of being applied to all parts of the harnessing; also to
various arrangements calculated to assist the attainment of the object in view.
The main object is to do away with projections in the spring-controlled unhooking
devices, so that the buckles cannot get loose and slip off in consequence of a shock.
sustained while the horse is in motion.
The buckles may slightly differ in construction according to the parts of the
harnessing to which they are applied.
In one arrangement a serrated piece is turned down so as not to project on the
side of the buckle or be liable to cause the accidental loosening of the buckle
through a shock. The same arrangement may be applied to an oval buckle.
The device as applied to a whiffle-tree is divided into two parts one of which is
secured to the trace and is provided with a wedge which enters a recess or opening
provided for the purpose in other part which carries a spring acting upon a plate
terminating in a catch. By pressing a stud the plate is caused to swing round and
the catch leaves the upper edge of the wedge, whereby the trace may readily be
disconnected from the whiffle-tree.
The same arrangement applies to the collar swivel.
In the buckle attached to the shaft carrier the operating pin or stud is arranged
at the top, upon the extension of tongue.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles and other Fastenings for Harnessing and
other Purposes.
I, GUSTAVE MORAND, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris in the Republic of
France, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved form of buckle adapted for instantaneous
disconnection and capable of being applied to all parts of the harnessing; also to
various arrangements calculated to assist the attainment of the object in view.
The main object is to do away with projections in the spring controlled unhooking
devices so that the buckles cannot get loose and slip off in consequence of a shock
sustained while the horse is in motion.
The accompanying drawings show a number of buckles slightly differing in
construction according to the parts of the harnessing to which they are applied.
Fig. 1 shows a buckle provided with the improved fastening device.
Fig. 2 is an oval buckle adapted for instantaneous detachment, and
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 represent respectively collar, whiffle-tree and shaft swivels
allowing of rapid harnessing and unharnessing.

page_text: As shown in Fig. 1 the roughened piece C is turned down so as not to project
on the side of the buckle or be liable to cause the accidental loosening of the
buckle through a shock. The same arrangement may be applied to the oval
buckle Fig. 2.
The device as applied to. a whiffle-tree Eig. 3 is divided into two parts, the
part A which is secured to the trace is provided with a wedge which enters a
recess or opening G provided for the purpose in the piece M. This piece carries
a spring acting upon a plate D terminating in a catch N. By pressing a stud E
the plate D is caused to turn upon its pivot and the catch N leaves the upper edge
of the wedge whereby the trace may readily be disconnected from the whiffle-tree.
The same arrangement applies to the collar swivel as shown in Fig. 4 and this
description will render clear the const:uction and working of the arrangements
shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
In the buckle attached to the shaft carrier as shown in Fig. 5 the operating pin
or stud is arranged at the top upon the extension of the tongue.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described buckle or fastening adapted for prompt disconnection
and specially characterized by the employment of a spring-controlled part capable
of opening in such a manner as to allow the tongue to slip out this movable portion
not projecting beyond the body of the buckle so that the buckle may not open
through a shock substantially as described.
2. The various devices substantially as herein described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings and adapted for rapid unharnessing..
Dated this 25th day of September 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.