Improvements in Buckles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles.
I, HAY DOWNIE of Corstorphine in the County of Midlothian, Saddler do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to overcome some of the disadvantages attending the
use of buckles of ordinary construction and more especially of carriage trace and
shaft loop buckles and it consists (1) in making the tongues of buckles longer than
heretofore and bending them near their front ends at or nearly at right angles to
the direction of tension of or on the leather or other flexible straps used therewith
and (2) in forming the rear end of the tongue of a buckle open that is provided
with a fork or gap to be passed on to the rear bar of the buckle when it is being
put in action instead of the loop or hinge of the tongue usually bent and sometimes
forged round the rear bar of the buckle to prevent their separation. To meet the
rectangular bend in the tongues of buckles constructed according to my improve-
ments, the two side bars of the buckle are also bent up near the front bar on which
the end of the tongue rests. By the open gap in the rear end of the tongue, the
tongue can be readily disengaged and with it the leather strap from the buckle thus
admitting of great facility not only of engaging but of disengaging the buckle a
matter of much importance for harness buckles particularly should a horse or
horses have fallen. By having the tongue bent at right angles or nearly so to the
line of tension of or on the leather or flexible strap the tendency of cracking
heretofore so common will be completely prevented and economy among other
advantages obtained.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of June 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buckles.
I, HAY DOWNIE, of Corstorphine, in the County of Midlothian, Saddler, 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 is designed to overcome some of the disadvantages attending the
use of buckles of ordinary construction and more especially of carriage trace and
shaft loop buckles and as represented in plan and side elevation at Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings, it consists (1) in making the tongue A of the
buckle longer than heretofore and bending it near its front end at a, at, or nearly
at, right angles to the direction of tension of or on the leather or other flexible
strap C, used therewith, and, (2), in forming the rear end of the tongue A. of a
buckle open, that is provided with a fork or gap a' to be passed on to the rear bar b
of the buckle when it is being put in action instead of the loop or hinge of the
tongue usually bent and sometimes forged round the rear bar of the buckle to
prevent their separation.
To meet the rectangular bend in the tongues of buckles, constructed according to.
my improvements, the two side bars B, B, of the buckle are also bent up at near
the front bar B on which the end of the tongue A rests. By the open gap a¹ in
the rear end of the tongue A the tongue can be readily disengaged and with it, the
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page_text: leather strap C, from the buckle, thus admitting of great facility, not only of
engaging, but of disengaging the buckle, a matter of much importance for harness
buckles particularly should a horse or horses have fallen. By having the tongue
bent at right angles or nearly so, to the line of tension, of or on the leather or
flexible strap the tendency of cracking heretofore so common, will be completely
prevented and economy, among other advantages obtained.
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 1
claim is
1. A buckle constructed substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A buckle having a tongue bent at the front end and formed with a gap at its
rear end substantially as described.
Dated this Seventh day of Sontember 1801
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.