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Description

(No Model.)

0. E. KROUSE. BAGK BAND BUCKLE.

Patented Jan. 2, 1894.

THE NATIONAL Lrmosmxmme COMPANY.

WASHINGTON. D c.

UNl-TED STATES PATENT FFICE-e CLEON E. KROUSE, OF VVILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO CHARLES C. KROUSE, OF SAME PLACE.

BACK-BAND BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,038, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed August 15, 1892; Serial No. 443,097. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLEON E. KROUSE, of Villiamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Back-Band Buckle; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in- 4 Figure 1, a View in front elevation of a buckle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, an end view thereof; Fig. 3, a view in vertical section, on the line 6E'-;13 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a detached view of the buckleframe, with the lower end of its hook broken away; Fig. 5, a similar view of the swinginglever.

My invention relates to an improvement in back-band or surcingle buckles, the object being to produce a simple, cheap, strong and convenient article, wholly of sheet-metal.

With these ends in view, myinvention consists in a buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown, the buckle-frame is rectangular in general form, and struck out from a single piece of heavy sheet-metal, and comprises an upper side A, a lower side A, ends B, B, a hook 0, depending, centrally, from the said lower side A, and a presser-bar D, located about mid-way between the upper side A, and the lower side A, with which it is parallel, and having its upper and lower edges d, d, bent forward at a right angle to the plane of the frame, and serrated, the said edges 11, d, being centrally cut away as at d d, to form clearance spaces, the purpose of which will appear hereinafter. The upper side A, of the buckle-frame is not continuous, but consists of two ends which extend toward each other.

By striking out the buckle-frame, including its heavy presser-bar, from a single piece .of metal, I secure a construction of great strength,which is required in buckles of this class, the frame being at-the same time extremely simple, which is also of the utmost importance. Therefore by striking the buckle frame including its presser-bar, from a-single piece of metal, I am enabled to produce a buckle-frame having a smooth inner surface, the plane of the inner surface of thebar being in the plane of the inner surface of the other portions of the frame. This feature is of particular importance in the construction of back-band buckles as it secures a buckle which will not chafe the horse, whereas in buckles of prior construction in which the presser-bar is made independent of and attached to the frame, projections from the innor face of the frame are unavoidable and those projections will chafe the horse. The swinging-lever of the buckle is also struck out from a single piece of heavy sheet-metal, and comprises a body-portion B, two oppositely extending retaining ends E, E, located at the upper end thereof, and extending at a right angle thereto, a long loop Eilooated at the lower end of the said body-portion, and doubly bent, as will be described later on, and a clamping-bar E located between the said retaining-ends and loop, in a position to stand centrally between the forwardly turned edges d, d, of the presser-bar, when the said lever is in its closed position, in which its bodyportion E, occupies the clearance spaces (1, 61, formed in the said edges as before mentioned. The said loop E?, is shaped to form two bends, of which the upper bend e, clears the loop from the lower side A, of the buckle, when the lever is in its closed position, and the lower bend 6', forms a guard against the escape of the ring 6 Indicated by broken lines in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. Furthermore, by bending the loop as described, an inclined face, 6 is formed, which assists in the introduction of the ring into the hook O, of the buckle-frame. The said swinginglever is suspended from the upper side A, of the buckle-frame, by means of a sheet-metal tube F, the ends whereof receive the respective ends forming the upper side of the buckle-frame, and turn upon them as upon trunnions, while its central portion receives the retaining-ends of the swinging-lever,

which is thereby swung from the upper side of the frame.

It will be understood that the webbing passes forward over the presser-bar, then downward in front of the same, and rearward.

below its lower edge, and that the clamping-bar of the swinging lever is shut down upon the outer face of the webbing, a portion of which it forces between the two toothed edges of the presser-bar, whereby the webbing 1s very firmly gripped in the buckle. It may be mentioned also, that the webbing exerts a constant effort to throw the swinging-lever forward as by a spring, whereby the bend e of the loop is maintained in position to prevent the escape of the ring from the hook of the frame.

I am aware that a buckle made of wire and sheet metal and having the same general form as myimproved buckle is old.- In that prior buckle, however, the presser-bar is made independent of and attached to the frame and for the reasons stated would be objectionable as a back-band buckle. I do not broadly, therefore, claim a buckle having the same general form as the buckle shown and described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

V The herein described baokband buckle having a rectangular buckle frame made from a single piece of sheet-metal and comprising an upper side A, a lower side A, ends B. B a hoolfO, depending centrally from the said lower side A, and a presser-bar D, located about midway between the side A. and the lower side A with which it is parallel and having its upper and lower edges 01. d bent forward at a right angle to the plane of the 3 5 frame and serrated, the said edges d. 01 being 'ance spaces and the inner surface of the said presser-bar being located in the plane of the inner surface of the other portions of the frame; a swinging lever made from a single piece of sheet-metal and comprising a body portion E, two oppositely extending retaining ends E. E located at the upper end thereof and extending at a right angle thereto, a long loop E located at the lower end of the said body-portion and doubly bent, and a clamping bar E located between the said retaining ends and loop, in position to stand centrally between the forwardly turned edges (1, d, of the presser-bar D, when the said 1ever is in its closed position; and a sheet-metal tube F, receiving the retaining-ends E, Eof the said lever and swung upon the upper side A, of the buckle-frame, as upon trunnions, substantially as set forth, and whereby the buckle-frame has a smooth inner surface,the inner surface of the presser-bar being located in the plane of the inner surface of the other portions of the frame. r

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

I v OLEON E. KROUSE. Witnesses:

CHARLES C. KROUSE, HARRY S. MEYER.

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