An Improved Buckle.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Buckle.
1 JOSEPH GROOMBRIDGE of 50 High Street Hastings in the county of Sussex
Saddler do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A great evil is experienced in and with all or nearly all buckles of all descriptions
in that if for any cause it is desired to remove or replace the buckle the sewing or
other fastenings of the part to which the buckle is or is to be attached have to be
destroyed or undone or renewed. A further and a greater evil is also experienced
especially in and with harness buckles in that if for any cause such for example as
the horse or other animal falling down it is desired to disconnect another part from
the buckle it is almost if not quite impossible so to do. Now the object of this
invention is to produce a buckle in which these evils shall be entirely obviated and
removed.
To carry out this object the buckle can be made of any required shape and size
but that part thereof on which is mounted the tongue or catch is separate from the rest
of the buckle which therefore is somewhat similar to a shackle on the pin whereof the
tongue or catch is mounted and can turn. This pin is fitted with an handle at one
end close to which handle the pin is enlarged a shoulder being formed therearound
and this pin is passed through a larger hole in one end of this shackle which
fits the aforesaid enlargement and the end of the pin passes into a smaller hole
or recess in the other end of the shackle and is preferably screwed thereinto the
tongue or catch having previously been mounted on this pin. All the parts are so
arranged and formed that when the pin has been so passed home the enlarged
part thereof is in the aforesaid larger hole and the handle can conveniently be in a
recess formed therefor on the outer side of the shackle and the end of the tongue or
catch duly engages the proper part of the shackle and the buckle is complete and
ready for use but when the end of the pin is withdrawn from the smaller hole or
recess the enlarged part of the pin is also drawn out of the larger hole thus allowing
this pin to move away from the top or central part of the shackle and disengaging
the end of the tongue or catch therefrom whereby the buckle is disconnected from
the other part and by drawing the pin entirely out it can also be disconnected from
its own part.
DAL 1
1000
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Buckle.
I JOSEPH GROOMBRIDGE of 50 High Street Hastings in the county of Sussex
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 :-
A great evil is experienced in and with all or nearly all buckles of all descriptions
in that if for any cause it is desired to remove or replace the buckle the sewing or
other fastenings of the part to which the buckle is or is to be attached have to be
destroyed or undone or renewed. A further and perhaps even a greater evil is also
experienced especially in and with barness buckles in that if for any cause such for
example as the horse or other animal falling down it is desired to disconnect another
part from the buckle it is almost if not quite impossible so to do.
Now the object of this my invention is to produce and provide for use a buckle
in which these aforesaid evils shall be entirely obviated and removed

page_text: In the accompanying drawing I have shewn one of the most usual forms of harness
buckles as constructed in accordance with this my invention.
The buckle can be made of any required shape and size but instead of being
formed as is generally customary of two separate parts it is formed of three separate
parts and this my improved buckle is therefore somewhat similar in style and
arrangement to a shackle A on the separate pin B whereof is loosely mounted the
separate tongue or catch C which can turn freely thereon. The pin B is fitted with
an handle D at one end close to which handle D an enlargement E of the pin B
is formed therearound and the pin B can be passed through a larger hole in one
end of the shackle A which larger hole fits this enlargement E of the pin B and
the end of the pin B is passed home into a smaller hole or recess in the other end
of the shackle A which smaller hole or recess fits this end of the pin B and the end
is preferably as shewn in the drawing screwed there-into the tongue or catch C having
previously been mounted on this pin B.
All the aforesaid parts of this buckle are so arranged and proportioned and formed
that when the pin B has been so passed home as herein before described the enlarge-
ment E thereof is in the larger hole in the shackle A and the handle D thereof is
preferably in a recess formed therefor in the outer side of the shackle A as shewn in
the drawing the end of this handle D and the corresponding part of the recess being
also preferably bevelled to provide against any danger of jamming and while the
pin B is in this position the end of the tongue or catch C duly engages the top or
central part of the shackle A in the proper position as is shewn in Figure 1. but
when and immediately as the end of the pin B is withdrawn from the smaller hole
or recess in the shackle A the enlargement E of the pin B also is drawn out of the
larger hole in the shackle A thus allowing this pin B to move or be moved so far
away from the top or central part of the shackle A as to disengage the end of the
tongne or catch C therefrom as is shewn in Figure 2.
It is obvious therefore that when this my improved buckle is in the condition and
the several parts thereof are in the relative positions hereinbefore described and
shewn in Figure 2 or thereabouts the other part of the harness it may be a strap is
immediately disconnected from this buckle as is desired as it slips off the end of the
tongue or catch and when the pin is drawn entirely out this buckle is disconnected
and can be removed from its own part of the harness it may be a strap as also is
desired without destroying or undoing the sewing or other fastenings of this part.
This buckle can also immediately be replaced and reconnected with its own part of
the harness it may be a strap by placing the shackle and the tongue or catch in the
proper positions in respect of this part and passing the pin through the larger hole
in the shackle and through this part and the tongue or catch home into the smaller
hole or recess in the shackle as hereinbefore described and the buckle as is shewn in
Figure 1 is ready for use in the ordinary manner.
In the same manner-I can also fit and construct buckles of other descriptions as I
may desire.
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. In a buckle the combination with the shackle A having two unequal holes and
the tongue or catch C of the pin B having the handle D and the enlargement E
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and declared.
2. The improved buckle substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 20th day of Mouch 1000