Improvements in or connected with Carriage Harness, and in the Furniture Used therewith.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 18th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Carriage Harness, and in the
Furniture Used therewith.
I, CHARLES HUGHES BURGESS of 16 Priory Road, Kew, in the County of
Surrey, Saddler and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to cheapen the cost of production of harness traces
and to enable such traces when made according to this invention to transmit the
pull or tractive force of the animal from the collar to the whipple trees and splinter
bar in a straight line.
Harness traces as at present constructed and more especially those used in
connection with pair horse harness are made in two pieces viz. the trace proper and
the "tug" which is a short piece of several thicknesses of leather to which a buckle
is attached at one end the other end of the "tag" being secured to a clip which is
passed through a hole in the draft of the hames thus securing the "tug" thereto.
Now according to this invention as applied to pair horse harness I dispense with
the tug altogether and I attach the trace to a snap hook or a combined snap hook,
and D clip which engages with the draft of the hames.
In place of the ordinary buckle I use a sliding buckle to which may be secured
the pad end straps and belly band straps.
The other end of the trace is pierced with holes to engage with the fixed tongue
of a buckle to which buckle is secured a short piece of trace attached to a D or
square of the usual construction but with a loop or eye added thereto.
The short piece of trace forms with the D the usual loop which encircles the
roller bolt on the splinter bar in the usual way the end of the trace proper being
passed through the loop or eye formed in the D to prevent it from flapping about.
Or as an alternative the trace may be made in one piece one end being secured
to the snap hook and the other end after passing through the buckle with the fixed
tongue is doubled back and secured to the said buckle a runner being placed over
the two thicknesses of trace which may be pushed up to the splinter bar to prevent
the trace becoming detached from the roller bolt.
The snap hook I prefer to use is in shape somewhat like the figure ∞ with the
movable tongue at the bottom and the draft of the hames is made with an aperture
to receive the said hook in such a manner that the pull may be transmitted in
a straight line.
For four-in-hand and unicorn harness the construction of the traces is the same
as for pair horse herein before described but the fixed tongue buckle may be used for
pole harness and single horse hame tugs or any other portion of carriage harness
where buckles are required.
Dated thi 101 L
T. E. HALFORD,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Carriage Harness, and in the
Furniture Used therewith.
1, CHARLES HUGHES BURGESS of 16 Priory Road Kew in the County of
Surrey Saddler and Harness Maker 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 :-
The object of this invention is to cheapen the cost of harness traces and to enable
such traces when made according to this invention to transmit the pull or tractive
force of the animal from the collar to the whipple-trees and splinter bar in a
straight line.
"
Harness traces as at present constructed and more especially those used in
connection with pair-horse harness are made in two pieces namely the trace proper
and the "tug
which is a short piece of several thicknesses of leather. A buckle
is attached to one end of the "tug" and the other end of the "g" is secured
to a clip which is passed through a hole in the draft of the hames thus securing
the tugtheretu.
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Now according to this invention as applied to pair-horse harness I dispense with
the "tug" altogether and I attach the trace to a snap hook or eye which engages
with the draft of the hames.
In place of the ordinary buckles I use sliding buckles to which may be secured
the pad end straps and belly-band straps. The opposite end of the trace from
the hames is pierced with holes to engage with the fixed tongue of a buckle to
which buckle is secured a short piece of trace attached to a D or square of the
usual construction but with a loop or eye added thereto.
The short piece of trace forms with the D or square the usual loop which
encircles the roller bolt on the splinter bar in the usual way the end of the trace
proper being passed through the loop or eye forined in the D or square to prevent
it from flapping about,
Or as an alternative the trace may be made in one piece one end being secured
to the snap hook or eye by which it is attached to the hames and the other end after
passing through the buckle with the fixed tongue is doubled back and secured to
the said buckle a runner being placed over the two thickness of the trace which
runner may be pushed up to the splinter bar to prevent the trace becoming detached
froin the roller bolt.
For four-in-hand and unicorn harness the construction of the traces is the same
as hereinbefore described.
Buckles with fixed tongues constructed according to this invention may be used
for pole-harness hame tugs or any other portion of carriage harness where buckles
are required.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to explain
the same with reference to the necompanying drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 represents elevation of a trace constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2 represents plan of game.
Fig. 3 represents elevation of a trace also constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 4 is elevation of sliding buckle.
Fig. 5 is plan of same.
Fig. 6 is plan and
Fig. 7 is elevation of a square constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 8 is elevation of buckle.
Fig. 9 shews splinter bar end of a trace in which a loop and metal trace end is
used instead of the buckle.
Fig. 10 is side view of the trace end.

page_text: Fig. 12 elevation of the loop.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is the trace b the eye by which it is secured to the draft of the hames the hole
in the draft through which the eye passes being vertical instead of horizontal as
usual c is the sliding buckle having eyes or loops d d formed thereon to receive the
pad end straps and belly band straps. The said buckle has also two bars e e at the
back thereof between which and the buckle e the trace is passed. The eye is
secured in the trace by rivetting, stitching or by any other suitable means.
f is a buckle formed with two bars y at the back thereof.
h
Attached to or forming part of the bar is a fixed tongue g which passes
through holes in the trace a to enable the length of the same to be adjusted as
required.
To the bar is attached a short piece of trace a¹ to which is also attached
a square having a loop or eye formed therein. The short piece of trace is bent
round as shown at Fig. 2 to encircle the roller bolt or splinter bar and the end of
the trace a is passed through the loop and is prevented from flapping about.
In the trace shewn at Fig. 3 the piece al is dispensed with and the trace made in
one length the splinter bar end of the trace being passed through a runner & bent
round passed again through the runner k and attached to the bar h of the buckle f
thus forming a loop which is passed over the roller bolt and the runner & pushed
up as close as possible to the splinter bar to prevent the trace from becoming
detached from the roller bolt.
Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12, shew an alternative arrangement especially suitable for
heavy traces which are very difficult to buckle and unbuckle.
7 is a piece of metal sewn or otherwise fastened into the end of the trace m is
a metal loop or runner having tapped holes therein to receive a screw.
The trace is passed through the loop m, through the runner k twice as shewn
at Fig. 9, and the metal end placed in the loop a screw passing through the
loop m metal and the trace a secures the whole. The length of the trace may be
varied by moving the loop m nearer to or further from the splinter bar.
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 1
claim is :-
1. Constructing the traces of carriage harness in two portions whereof one
portion is secured to the draft of the lames and the other portion to a buckle
having a fixed tongue and a square having a loop or eye thereon substantially
as herein before specified and shewn at Figs. 1 & 2 of the accompanying drawings.
2. Constructing the traces of carriage harness in one length the splinter bar end
of the trace being passed through a runner and brought back to a buckle or its
equivalent so as to form a loop substantially as herein before specified and shewn
at Figs. 3 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The buckle having a fixed tongue substantially as described.
4. The square having a loop or eye formed therein substantially as described
and for the purpose stated.
5. The trace end I and loop or runner in substantially as described.
6. The sliding buckle e substantially as described and shewn at Figs. 4 & 5 of
the accompanying drawings.
7. The construction of traces for carriage harness and the furniture used
therewith substantially as herein before specified and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
T. E. HALFORD,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.