Improvements in Harness and Saddlery.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1896
Comviete Specification Left. 18th Dec., 1896--Accepted. 6ll: Mar.. 1897
Improvements in Harness and Saddlery.
I GEORGE BRAZENOR Bristol Rond Northfield Worcestershire Harness
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
First. In the shape and construction of certain improerd appliances for buckles
to harness and saddlery herein called respectively savers, tabs and clips.
Second. In the application of steel, iron and other metal to be used in lieu of
leather for making the said appliances and for making certain parts of harness and
saddlery such as (feeding) or nosebags for horses, cart crupper bodies and such
other parts of light and heavy harness that do not require to be buckled and
unbuckled. In addition to the articals named in my Provisional Specification
dated 1st July 1895 and numbered 12643, the said articals named being saddles-
carriage and other pads for light and heavy harness-also winkers fronts and
rosets for bridles, also outsides of collars for light and heavy harness and housings
and cart saddle housings.
Third. In the application of enamel as a new method of coating and covering
such articals made of steel and other metals and such other articals to correspond
with and match the same, as buckles and metal loops for harness and saddlery.
In addition to the articals heretofore named and specified in my Provisional
Specification dated 1st July 1895 and numbered 12643 such articals to be made of
steel and iron in lieu of leather to be coated and covered (if desired) with enamel
as preferable to japaning, silver plateing or nickel plateing the same.
The shape and construction of improved appliances for buckles consists in savers
of tempered steel, and other metals made to the width of the strap, backband or
trace for which they are used.
By one method, one longitudinal slot is cut in the center of the saver in lieu of
the punch hole for the tongue of the buckle.
By the second method a number of short slots are cut in lieu of the punch holes
for the buckle tongue to work in.
Upon the upper end of the saver a loop (or runer) of metal or of leather is
placed, through which the strap backband or trace passes and which holds the
saver in possition. This loop I attach to the saver by several new methods.
1ST METHOD.
The saver is held to the loop by a screw which passes through the saver and the
loop. Thus the saver can be taken from the strap without removing the loop or
runer. The head of the screw may be a plate or button nearly the size of the
face of the loop and may be plain or ornamental.
The use of the screw may be twofold, that is to hold the saver to the loop and to
tighten the loop in its desired position.
2ND METHOD.
A turn plate or button can be secured to the face of the metal or leather loope.
By turning this plate or button parallel with the saver the slot on the end of the
metal saver will allow the plate or button to pass through it and by reversing the

page_text: plate or button (that is turning it transverse to the saver) it will hold the saver
in position.
3RD METHOD.
The saver can be attached to the metal or leather loop by rivets or eyelets.
4TH METHOD.
Short transverse or parallel slots may be cut in the end of the saver to allow a
leather loop to be sewn to it.
When in use the saver lies under the front of the buckle-upon the strap or
leather work the point of the saver passing under the loop of the buckle.
The tab, herein refered to, to be made of tempered steel or other metal in lieu
of leather is the part in harness-shaped to and secured on the underside of
buckles through which the trace, backband or strap passes as it enters the buckle,
it is frequently applied to hame and shaft tug buckles for best light harness and
to britchband tug buckles for gears (heavy harness) heretofore they have been
made of leather.
The metal clip is a substitute for inside leather arround the bar of buckles and
for filling in tugs, it is placed inside or outside the bar of buckles to tugs or inside
. and outside as the case requires.
The novelty of metal clips for buckles refers to their application to tugs of
various kinds used in light and heavy harness.
The object of metal savers, tabs and clips is to prevent friction, equalize the
strain upon the leather work, increase the strength and also improve the appearance
at a reduction in cost.
My application of enamel in colours is an improved and new method of coating
and covering articals made of steel or other metal used in harness and saddlery,
such as buckles, metal loops, steel saddles, collars, winkers, fronts and rosets for
bridles, metal savers and tabs.
The use of rivets and of eyelets in addition to sewing will be found valuable in
the manufactury of harness and saddlery made upon my methods and in applying
my improvements.
Dated this 17th day of March 1896.
GEORGE BRAZENOR.
emen
Harness
Saddlery.
I, GEORGE BRAZENOR Bristol Road Northfield Worcestershire Harness
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 :-
This invention consists-
First. In the shapes and modes of constructing certain improved appliances
for buckles to harness and saddlery, herein called (respectively) savers, tabs and
clips.
Second. In the application of steel, iron and other metal-in the stead of and
to be used in lieu of leather for making certain parts of harness and saddlery,
such as (feeding) or nosebags for horses the upper part of the same being
perforated. Also for cart crupper bodies, and such other parts of light and heavy
harness that do not require to be buckled and unbuckled-to wit, breast collars,
cart britchband, and cart bellyband ends, and such like. In addition to the

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made of leather, their shapes are various to suit the artical (see Fig. E, Sheet 2nd)
and to the shape of the buckle to be used with them.
They may be edged by beeding, or by inserting leather at the edge between two
thicknesses of steel. Or the tab may be embeded, coated or cased in aluminium, to
give substance to the edge of the tab.
The tab can be secured to the work by rivets or eyelets (see Fig. A-at O and
Fig. B. O.) or sewn through piercings in the tab, they may be enameled, japaned
or plated.
THE METAL CLIP.
The metal clip is a substitute for inside leather around the bar of buckles, and
for filling-in tugs of various kinds.
The clip is placed inside or outside the bar of buckles to tugs (as shown in
drawing, Fig. 1, Sheet 3rd, an inside clip-and Fig. 11, an outside clip), or inside
and outside when required, Fig. I, fitting into Fig. II, the bar of the buckle being
between them.
The metal clip forms an important and an essential part of this invention as a
cheap, quick and new method of attaching buckles and loops to each other and
buckles and loopes to all kinds of saddlery and harness.
They are equaly advantageous in making new and in repairing saddlery and
harness.
The shapes and forms will vary according to the articals for which the clip will
be used they can be made of steel, iron and other metals.
The clip (in saddlery, when made of leather is called a chape) it is cut to the
width (inside width) of the buckle for which it is intended. A slot for the tong
of the buckle is cut in the clip (otherwise the chape).
The clip is placed around the bar of the buckle (see drawing 4th Sheet
Fig. I, A. A, the blocks). Clips made with intersection blocks, see Fig. II,
marked 12345 between the dark spaces-showing the blocks-the numbered
spaces will hold and secure metal or leather loops-or a pipe in position to the
buckle. Fig. III, shows a pipe.
A groove or grooves formed in the metal clip (see Fig. VII, with doted lines to
show the groove for metal or leather loops) will hold and secure them in position
to the buckle.
The metal clip may be used with or without leather as a covering to them as the
case may require-the clip may be continued to any distance from the buckle.
Clips may be double or single-see drawing 3rd Sheet Fig. III, and IV.
Fig. IV, fits into Fig. 111, and is then a double clip. Fig. III the outside clip
must be joined at one or other of the rivet holes-marked R, to allow the buckle
tong to be put through the slot, and the bar of the buckle within the clip.
Fig. 1V, can be used without Fig. 111, and with Fig. II, and would then be a
single clip-in either case they will be double so far as the loop or loops, or pipe
extend.
Metal clips may be riveted eyeleted or sewn to the leather work through
piercings in the clips.
The subjoined drawings give but a limeted idea of the multiplicity of patterns
and designs for working out the same methods as herein described.
Sheet 1st-metal savers Fig. 1, R, is a groove or indent formed across the saver
to the shape of the underside of the front of the buckle that will lie upon it when
in use.
Fig. 11, B B B may be thus shaped under the buckle front.
Sheet 2nd Fig. A, shows a tab for hame tug, C, the cavity through which the

page_text: trace passes to the buckle. The tag Fig. A, if extended to the doted lines shows
full length tab for a hame or shoulder tug-0 the punch holes through which it is
riveted or eyeleted to the tug.
Fig. B, is a tab for tug of cart britchband O, the punch holes through which to
secure by rivets or eyelets the clip and tab together."
The doted line on the edge of the tab may be piercings through which to secure
lenther on the underside to form a pad.
Fig. E. A tab for face drop of bridle can also be applied for loin strap, breast
plate or trace carriers for pair horse harness.
Sheet 3rd, drawings of clips for shaft tugs, Fig. III, outside of all round shaft
tug. Fig. IV, inside clip for Fig. III, the dark spaces on Fig. IV, represent the
blocks between the inside lap of the loop 3 loops being provided for on the figure.
The blocks should not be more than three sixteenths of an inch from the edge-
towards the center of the clip (being cast upon them) to extend them across the
clip from edge to edge would render them needlessly heavy. Metal or leather
loops can be used with them. Leather loops will be sewn slightly together end to
end (as in making comon runers, then placed on the clip and into the grooves or
indents. On all the figuers Sheet the 3rd, S, shews the punch holes for riveting
or eyeleting the tug together.
Sheet the 4th of drawings Fig. I a metal clip for buckle and one loop.
Fig. II, a clip for britchband tug of light harness-the clip shows blocks and
intersections for 5 loops the place of the loops shown by doted lines, P, the punch
holes to rivet or eyelet the work together. Fig. III shows a pipe either of metal
or of leather for the tug. Fig. III, L the inside lap of the pipe. S the slots on
the inside lap.
The blocks on the clip Fig. II, fit into the slots-so when the clip is closed aud
riveted or eyeleted-the tug is complete. The blocks on the clip must be the
same thickness as the loops or pipe, the loops or pipe to fill in the intersections
Hush with the blocks.
The same method of construction (with slight variation in shape) will apply to
hame and shaft tugs and to bridle cheeks of all sorts for saddlery and harness.
Fig. IV, a clip for backle and one loop. Fig. V, shows the same clip laid open
with inside view--the space marked H should be beveled off from the doted
marks to the edge of the slot to allow room for the thick part of the tong of the
buckle to work when made up.
Fig. VI, a flat clip for hilet end of rein for one loop in front and two behind the
buckle.
Fig. VII, a metal clip formed with grooves (in lieu of blocks) for the loops-
the doted lines shew the grooves or indents, into which the loops will fit, Z, the
punch holes.
For saddlery and harness generally and for military accoutrements metal clips
are invaluable. For comon use they will best be made of malleable iron.
The novelty of metal clips for buckles refers chiefly to their application to tugs
of various kinds used in light and heavy harness.
And as described in this specification they are by reason of their shape and
adaptation to secure together the buckle and loop-or buckle and loops-or buckle
and pipe novel for all purposes where buckles are used.
Where the metal clip is not to be covered with leather it may be enameled,
japanned, plated or nickel-plated.
The object of savers, tabs and clips is to prevent friction, equalize the strain
upon the leather work increase the strength and also improve the appearance at
a reduction in cost.
My application of enamel in colours is an improved-and new method of coating
and covering articals made of steel and other metals, used in harness and saddlery
-such as buckles, metal loops, steel saddles, collars, winkers fronts and rosets,
metal savers and tabs.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
⚫claim is
1st. The shapes and methods of constructing such goods as those described in
this specification-whether made of metal of any kind, or of leather, and put
together with rivets or with eylets.
2nd. The application and use of steel or other metals in the stead and in lieu of
leather. For the purpose of making the parts of saddlery & harness named in
this specification, such goods being heretofore made of leather.
3rd. The mode of coating and covering such articals and goods as those named
in this specification and used in saddlery and harness, by enamelling the same in
colours.
4th. The method of attaching buckles and loops together (whether the loops be
of leather or of metal) by a metal clip (or chape) such as herein described.
5th. The method of attaching buckles and loops to saddlery and harness and to
all kinds of straps by means of a metal clip or chape in lieu of leather.
Dated this 17th day of December 1896.
GEORGE BRAZENOR.