US5166A - Harness-buckle - Google Patents

Description

ABEL E. BUELL, or wEs'rMoRELAND, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,166, dated June 19, 1847.

' To all lwhom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ABEL B. BUELL, of the town of Westmoreland, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Harness- Buckle; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed vvdrawings of the same making part of this specilication.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure l is a plan of the buckle showing the frame, or forward portion, and the jointed lever tongue, or rear portion, in connection with each other, and in connection with thestrap fastened to the hame and to the trace, the latter being shown by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of ditto.

The nature of my invention and improvement consists in combining with the metallic frame, attached to the llame, a jointed lever tongue in such a manner that as the draft is applied to the trace, it presses against a cross bar of the jointed tongue and causes the rear end to move inward and the forward end to move outward and to act as a lever in regard to the position of tongue so as to hold it rmly in position in the aperture of the trace, the tongue being susceptible of disengagement from the trace in an instant by simply reversing the movement of the rear end of the lever, in order to shorten or lengthen the traces; or alter the position of whatever article it is applied to. I construct my buckle of any suitable metal, wrought or cast, in two partsa forward and a rear-the forward part called the frame, and the rear part called the jointed lever tongue, the latter being jointed to the former by two pivots, or journals, on which it vibrates. V

A is the frame cast or composed oftwo parallel side bars, an end bar, and a raised cross bar, attached to the hame by the strap represented by dotted lines, said frame being provided, if necessary, with loops and other appendages at the sides and ends. A A are the two side bars. A is the end bar. A2 is the raised cross bar projected a convenientl distance beyond the surface of said raised portion and the'base of the tongue, said cross bar A2 being cast with the side bars in the kmanner represented in the drawings, or in any more convenient way. The rear ends of the side barsare not united, and are pierced kwith round openings to Vadmit the'pivots, or knobs, on the sidesy Of the triangular turning lever to which the tongue is attached.

The triangular jointed frame, or lever B, to which the inclined tongue B is attached,

for connecting the trace with the before described frame, is made or cast in a form the side bars to receive the trace between resembling the letter A, the inclined tongue A B being formed on or connected vwith the lever at the apex thereof, and the trunnions, or knobs, or pivots B2 B2, on which it turns (in disengaging or engaging the tongue) on the twoinclined sides of the lever and the cross bar B3, against which the power is applied by the draft on the trace T for driving, the tongue B through the trace and holding it lfirmly against the raised cross bar A2 of the forward frame is cast near the lrear ends of the inclined side bars B B,

which ends are turned upward and united by a raised cross bar B4, there being another cross bar B5 near the middle running parallel with the two bars just named and on a line with the pivots, and being thus arranged for the purpose of strengthening the said pivots.

A straight line drawn from the base of the tongue B to the end of the swingle-tree, or bar to which the trace is attached will come inside the second cross bar B3 aforesaid; therefore when the trace is carried fro-m said tongue B outside the second cross bar B3 to the swingle tree and drawn taut so end of the buckle in suehrlnanner with reference to the position of the tonguelas Will hold the tongue rmly in position by the 10 leverage of said rear end, theparts being constructed and arranged in the manner described. V

Y Y ABEL B; BUELL.

` Witnesses: Y

A. ITIALHECK,r EDWIN KELLOGG.

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