An Improved Buckle, specially adapted for Use with Traces.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Buckle, specially adapted for Use with Traces.
We, WILLIAM SILVER, of Tamworth, in the Colony of New South Wales,
Engineer, and SIGMUND SINAUER, of the Firm of H. Nathan & Co., of 102,
Fore Street, in the City of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved buckle primarily intended for use in
attaching traces to horse-collars, and whilst being perfectly secure as a buckle
affording facilities for enabling the trace to be released whilst under tension.
In carrying out this invention, we pivot on the clasp a movable stop for
supporting the end of the tougue employed for holding the trace; the same being
pivoted to the clasp and passing through a hole in the trace or other strap to which
the invention is applied. When the stop is moved upwards out of the path of the
tongue, the outer extremity of the latter becomes free to move downwards, thereby
releasing the trace or other strap.
We prefer to make the stop on a subsidiary clasp jointed to the forward end of
the main clasp, the end of the trace passing through both clasps and through a loop
of the ordinary kind on the strap near the rear end of the buckle. Under these
circumstances, it is impossible for the tongue to be accidentally freed while the
buckle is in working condition; it being necessary to pull the end of the trace out
of the loop before the subsidiary clasp can be lifted far enough to rotate the stop
out of the path of the tongue.
The improved buckle enables a fallen horse to be immediately released from the
traces by pulling the ends of the traces out of the loops and raising the subsidiary
clasps, an operation which can be effected with case, owing to the leverage
available.
An Improved Buckle, specially adapted for Use with Traces.
We, WILLIAM SILVER, of Tamworth, in the Colony of New South Wales,
Engineer, and SIGMUND SINAUER, of the Firm of H. Nathan & Co., of 102,
Fore Street, in the City of London, Merchants, 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 buckle primarily intended for use in
attaching traces to horse-collars, and, whilst being perfectly secure as a buckle,
affording facilities for enabling the trace to be released whilst under tension.

page_text: in the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing a buckle constructed in accordance with
our invention; the buckle being closed and in engagement with the end of a
trace.
In Fig. 2, the buckle is partly open; the tongue which holds the end of the trace
being on the point of release.
In Fig. 3, which is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section,
the tongue has been released and the end of the trace set free.
Fig. 4 is a plan corresponding with Fig. 1.
In carrying out this invention, we pivot on the clasp A A¹ a movable stop B for
supporting the free end C of the tongue C C' employed for holding the trace D.
The end is pivoted to the clasp A; the end C passing through a hole in the
trace D or other strap to which the invention is applied. When the stop B is
moved upwards, as represented in Fig. 2, and out of the path of the tongue, as
shown in Fig. 3, the outer extremity C of the latter becomes free to move
downwards, as illustrated in Fig. 3, thereby releasing the trace
..strap.
or other
We prefer to make the stop B on a subsidiary clasp B B¹ jointed to the forward
end A of the main clasp A. A', the end of the trace D passing through both clasps
and through a loop E of the ordinary kind on the strap F near the rear end of the
buckle. Under these circumstances, it is impossible for the tongue C C¹ to be
accidentally liberated while the buckle is in working condition; it being necessary
to pull the end of the trace out of the loop E before the subsidiary clasp B B¹ can
be lifted far enough to rotate the stop B out of the path of the free end C of the
tongue C C
The improved buckle enables a fallen horse to be immediately released from the
traces by pulling the ends of the traces out of the loops and raising the subsidiary
clasps, an operation which can be effected with case owing to the leverage
.available.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. For use with traces or other straps, the improved buckle constructed or
operating substantially as described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a buckle for use with traces or other straps, rendering the stop whereon
the free end of the tongue takes its bearing capable of removal out of the path of
the said tongue-end, for the purpose set forth.
3. In a buckle for use with traces or other straps, arranging the free end of the
tongue to take its bearing upon a stop which is mounted on the clasp and is
capable of being rotated out of the path of the tongue-end, substantially as herein
.described.
4. In a buckle for use with traces or other straps, a subsidiary clasp pivoted to
the main clasp and having a stop for supporting the tongue-end and a loop through
which the strap passes and whereby the buckle is held closed.
5. In a buckle for use with traces or other straps, the combination, with a main
clasp A A¹ and a tongue C C', of a subsidiary clasp B B¹, substantially as and for
the purpose herein set forth.
the purpose herein set forth.
Dated the 29th day of September 1894.
For the Applicants,
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.