IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF HARNESS BACKBAND SHAFT TUGS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John George Shipley, of No. 181, Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF HARNESS BACKBAND SHAFT TUGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John George Shipley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1879.
JOHN GEORGE SHIPLEY, of No. 181, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex,
'IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HARNESS BACKBAND SHAFT TUGS."
My Invention consists of a buckle with three openings or spaces. On the division
between the first and second opening a buckle tongue is placed, and here the back-
band of the harness is buckled on. On the end of the buckle at the back of the
third opening a strap is attached, and a loop is put on this strap. The strap is
then passed into the third opening of the buckle and then through the loop, and is
adjusted to any required size of shafts of all kinds of vehicles, fitting them loosely
or clipping them closely as may be desired, and contracting or expanding the
opening of the tug through which the shaft passed at pleasure, and when thus
adjusted the end of this strap is fastened to the buckle of the ordinary bellyband.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John George Shipley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
April 1880.
JOHN GEORGE SHIPLEY, of No. 181, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HARNESS BACKBAND SHAFT TUGS."
My Invention consists of a buckle with three spaces or openings. On the division
between the first and second openings a buckle tongue is placed, and here the back-
band of the harness is buckled on. On the end of the buckle at the back of the
third opening a strap is attached, and a loop is put on this strap. The strap is
then passed into the third opening of the buckle, then through the loop, thus
forming the shaft tug. In the lower part of the tug thus formed is inserted a
curved piece of metal, having one or more butt hinges. It can then be easily
adjusted to any required size of shaft of any kind of vehicle, fitting them loosely or
clipping them closely as may be desired, and contracting or expanding the opening
of the tug at pleasure in which the shaft is placed, and when thus adjusted the end
of the strap is fastened to the buckle of the ordinary bellyband. And in order that
my said Invention may be properly understood I hereunto append a Sheet of
explanatory Drawings.
Fig. 1 represents the side view. A is the buckle; B is the loop; C is the tug.
Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, D shewing the curved piece of metal; E, the
butt hinges.
Fig. 3 shews the curved piece of metal D which is inserted in the lower part of
the strap which forms the tug. Having thus stated the nature of my Invention
and the manner of performing the same what I claim and wish to secure by Letters
Patent is,―
First. The buckle A with three spaces in combination with the strap C and
the loop B, which strap passing through the third opening of the buckle A and the
loop B forms the tug, as bereinbefore described and delineated in the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings.
Secondly. The curved piece of metal D with the butt hinges E, E, which is
inserted in the interior of the strap which forms the tug, as hereinbefore described.
Witness my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
JOHN G. SHIPLEY. (L.S.)