Improvements in Harness and other Buckles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harness and other Buckles.
We, EDWARD KIPLING, of 2, Langton Street, King's Road, Chelsea, in the
County of Middlesex, Inventor, and CHARLES WILLIAM WALKER, of 122, Swan
Arcade, Bradford, in the County of York, Commission Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in buckles for fastening harness and other
straps and its object is to facilitate unfastening the buckle in cases of emergency or
when the straps are particularly tight.
The said improvements consist in arranging the buckle tongue so that the point
may be disengaged from the front bar of the buckle and pass under or behind the
same for the purpose of disengaging it from the strap.
For this purpose the buckle tongue may be mounted on a crank, eccentric or
equivalent bar or the like so arranged that the tension of the strap tends to keep
the point of the tongue upon the front bar of the buckle and this crank or its
equivalent is provided with an arm or arms projecting therefrom by which it may
be turned to move the tongue longitudinally to disengage it from the front bar of
the buckle. The said arm or arms may be arranged to be normally held down by
the end of the strap or in any other convenient way.
As a modification a knuckle joint may be made in the tongue so arranged that
the tongue may be bent outwards or sideways but not inwards, and to unfasten the
buckle provision is made for bending the tongue for the purpose of shortening it or
drawing its point off the front bar of the buckle.
Dated this 17th day of March 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
Improvements in Harness and other Buckles.
We, EDWARD KIPLING, of 2, Langton Street, King's Road, Chelsca, in the
County of Middlesex, Inventor, and CHARLES WILLIAM WALKER, of 122, Swan
Arcade, Bradford, in the County of York, Commission Agent, 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 improvements in buckles for fastening harness and other
straps, and its object is to facilitate unfastening the buckle in cases of emergency
or when the straps are particularly tight.
'
The said invention consists in arranging the buckle tongue so that the point may
be disengaged from the front bar of the buckle and pass under or behind the same
for the purpose of disengaging it from the strap.
For this purpose the buckle tongue may be mounted on a crank, eccentric or
equivalent bar or the like so arranged that the tension of the strap tends to keep
the point of the tongue upon the front bar of the buckle, and this crank or its

page_text: equivalent is provided with an arm or arms projecting therefrom by which it may
be turned to move the tongue longitudinally to disengage it from the front bar of
the buckle. The said arm or arms may be arranged to be normally held down by
the end of the strap or in any other convenient way.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a full view of our improved buckle.
Figure 2, represents an edge view of the same with a strap attached.
Figure 3, represents a similar view to Figure 2-without the strap but with the
tongue disengaged from the buckle frame.
Figure 4, represents a separate view of the buckle frame, and Figures 5 and 6
represent two views of the tongue and its attachment.
Figures 7 and 8 are views illustrating a modification.
The buckle frame A is provided with a cross pin A³ upon which the piece B is
hinged or pivoted. The tongue C is hinged to the front of the piece B and the
latter is provided with a crossbar B' to which the strap D is attached, and an arm
or extension B³ terminating in an eye B* through which the loose end D' of the
strap is passed.
'To release the strap it is simply necessary to raise the arm B³ to the position
shown in Figure 3 and thereby draw the point of the tongue off the front bar A³
thus leaving it free to pass underneath and release the strap.
In the arrangement shown in Figures 7 and 8 the strap is attached to the back
bar A of the buckle instead of to the piece B. In this case the piece B is modified
in form, but, as in the arrangement shown in Figures 1 to 6, it is pivoted on the
cross pin A and the tongue C is attached to it, however the action is practically
the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A buckle in which the tongue is mounted upon a crank, eccentric, or the like
enabling the tongue to be moved longitudinally, substantially as herein shown and
described, and for the purpose specified.
2. The combination with the buckle frame A, of the piece B hinged to it and
carrying the tongue C, substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination with the buckle frame A, of the piece B hinged to it having
a bar B' for the attachment of the strap and also having the tongue C mounted
upon it, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 17th day of December 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.