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(No Model.) l

R. lVI. BILLARD.

BUCKLE.

Patented Sept. 15

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UNITED STATES y PMFENTY @Tric-n." f

ROBERT MDILLARD, OE GENEVA, NEBRASKA.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,410l dated September 15, 1885.

Application lilcd February 11l 1885. (No model.)

ertures, e, passed beneath and fitting closely against the rear crossbar, a, the tongue or stud C passing through one of the apertures e therein, as clearly shown.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. l of drawings that by locating the rear and middle crossbars on a plane beneath the plane of the front cross-bar, or out of line therewith,

My invention relates to improvements in the draft orstrain on the hame-tug willbe harness-buckles, and has for its object to protransmitted through the trace in aline drawn vide a buckle which shall be simple and du- I through the centers of said trace and tug, as rablein construction, effective and easyof opindicated by the dotted line in Fig. l; or, in eration, and in which the strain or draft on other words, the draft on the trace and tug the harness-straps is in direct line; and it l will be in the same plane. consists of a buckle having the construction J Another advantage secured by my arrangement of parts is that where the strain comes upon the rear cross-bar said bar will bear againstthe trace and force the front bar firm- In the drawings hereto annexed, which form ly against the front end of the trace, thus cona part of this specification, Figure 1 is a ceusiderably relieving the tongue of a large tral longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 is a plan amount of strain, and thus obviating the dan View, of a harness-buckle embodying my inger of tearing the traces and tug, the Iniddl vention 1n position upon and connecting' the bar acting as a pivot in the latter case. hame-tug and trace ofa harness. Fig. 3 is a de- The transverse bars a a may be corrugated, taohed detail view of the buckle in side eleva` if desired, to give a neat and ornamental finish tion. to the buckle.

Referring to the drawings, in which `like let- ,l I am aware that it is not broadly new to proters of reference denote like parts in all the videa harness-buckle having curved side bars figures, A A designate the side bars of my connected by front and rear cross-bars, and improved harness-buckle, united vat their front hence do not claim such construction.

and rear ends by cross-bars a a, and having l Modifications in details of construction can a middle cross-bar, B, all of said parts constil be made without departing from the principle tuting a single casting. The side bars are or sacrificing' the advantages of my invention. curved rearwardly and downwardly, as at b,

By my construction I am enabled to produce and then extend in approximately a horizontal a light and durable buckle, and one which will plane; but are made wider at their middle, as

be cheap ofmanufacture and easy of operation. shown, and at their extreme rear ends they I have described my invention as applied or are curved abruptly upwardly at b, the rear used as atrace-buckle; butit is obvious that it ends of said bars, however, being on a plane can be used with equal advantages on any porbelow the front ends, for a purpose hereinafter tion of a harness where it is desired to adjustexplained.

` ably connect straps.

The middle cross-bar, B, is located below Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure the plane of or out of line with the rear crossby Letters Patent, is` bar, and is made preferably oval-shaped, as l. A harness-buckle consisting of side bars shown in Fig. l, said bar being provided with curved downwardly and rearwardly at their an inclined stud or tongue, C, projecting upfront ends, and at their extreme rear ends abruptly upward, said bars being connected by cross-bars, the rear one of which is on aplane below its fellow, and a middle transverse bar provided with a rigid stud or tongue and located between the cross-bars ou a plane below wardly or forwardly therefrom.

D designates the hame-tug, which surrounds the cross-bar B, the stud C.

E is the trace, provided with a series of apand is perforated to receive IOO f said parts constitutereby the strain upon direct line through substantially as de- 15 the rear cross-bar, all o ing a single casting, wh the straps is brought in a in combination with a hamelg and a trace, the former surrounding the riddle bar, and the latter secured to the tongue hereof, whereby draft upon the trace is in a their longitudinal axes,

Virect line through the haine-tug, all arranged scribed.

s and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 2. A harness-buckle consisting of curved presence of two witnesses.

ide bars connected at their ends by cross-bars, ROBERT M. BILLARD.

hich is ou a plane below or Witnesses: A

JAMES H. FORT,

the front bar, and a middle ined stud and located below J oHN M. SnIoKLEY.

1e rear cross-bar,

)ut of a line with )ar having an incl

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