Split Leather Loops.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1892-Accepted. 31st Dec., 1892
UUMI LEIE DIECIFICATION.
Endless Split Leather Loops.
I FRIEND JOHNSON BRINGHAM Dealer in Harness and Carriage Equipments of
Oroville in the County of Butte and State of California United States of America
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 :-
My invention relates to a novel method of manufacturing leather loops for
harness, saddles, bridles, etc., the object of my invention being to produce such
loops from a single piece of leather without sewing or otherwise securing together
the loose ends of the piece of leather forming the loop, and without cutting such
piece of leather upon curved lines to be afterwards made straight by stretching and
cramping. My invention also resides in the new and useful article of manufacture
resulting from the above-described method.
My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. is a perspective view of a section or block of leather as first cut off to form
the loop therefrom,
Figs. 2, 3 and 4 show the same at successive stages of the operation, and
Figs. 5, 6 and 7 show various forms of the finished product.
In my newly invented method of making leather loops, I first cut a block A of
leather of suitable size as shown in Figure 1. This block is then split centrally
edgewise leaving at each end of the split an unsplit margin of sufficient thickness
to form afterwards, by blocking or pressure, sides of uniform thickness with the top
and bottom of the loop. The second step of the process is illustrated in Figure 2
which shows the slit B. through the center of the block A.
The next step of my improved process is to enlarge and shape by pressure
outwards, the slit B so formed. This may be accomplished by any suitable
means. In Fig. 3 I have shown a wedge C which is driven into the loop for
this purpose.
After the loop has been enlarged to the required size, it is
finished by trimming and creasing and presents the appearance shown in Figure 4.
D and E in Figs. 5 and 6 are other forms of loops, and F in Figure 7 is a loop
made by the same method upon the end of a strap.
My newly invented method of making leather loops is applicable to loops of all
sizes, and possesses the advantages over the old methods of manufacturing such
loops of being economical both as regards material and labor, and also as
producing a loop superior in point of neatness and in durability to those previously
manufactured.
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:
1. The art of making leather loops which consists in piercing a block of leather
by a slit between and approximately parallel to two opposing surfaces of the block,
and afterwards enlarging and shaping by pressure outwards the aperture so formed,
substantially as described.
2. An endless split-leather loop without seam or other juncture, substantially as
described.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1892