US360913A - Eugene pringle - Google Patents

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E. PRINGLE.

l GGNNRGTING DRVIGR PoR STRAPS 0R OTHER ARTIGLRS. No. 360,913l Patented Apr. 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PAT-ENT QEEICE.

EUGENEPEIGLE, or GLovEnsvILLE, NEW YORK.

.CONNECTING DEVICE FORS-TRAPS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,913, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed May 6, 1886.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE PEINGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glovyersville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Securing the Attaching Tags, Straps, and other Attaching Appendages of Horse-Blankets, Carriage Curtains and Aprons, Girths, and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding attached tags, straps, and other appendages to horse-blankets, carriagecurtains, girths, and other articles; and it consists of the parts and elements and combinations of parts or elements', hereinafter` particularly described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and eiective means for securing tags, straps, and other attaching appendages of articles heretofore attached or secured by buckles. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l`is a plan view of my improved device secured to the corners of a horse-blanket and connected-together. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken at line 1 in F-ig. l. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the same applied to acurtain orapron of a carriage. Fig. 4. is a sectional view ofthe same,taken at line 2 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sec-V tional-viewtaken at'line 3 in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the device modified in form vfor attaching or connecting the opposite end portions of straps. Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken at line 4. in Fig. 6. Fig. 8

is a view of a stud secured to a bow of a carriage for use with the other parts in this invention; and Fig. 9 is a sectional view of a bow of a carriage-top, having secured in it the stud employed in this invention for use to secure carriage-curtains containing my improved fastener.

The sameletters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings,A A', Figs. l and 2, represent the corner portions of ahorse-blanket to which my invention is applied.

B is the stud-holding piece, secured to one portion, as A, of the blanket. This piece is made of leather or equivalent material and secured to portion B by rivets a a, or stitching or other equivalent means for uniting such pieces. Firmly secured or attached to this SerialNo. 0l,37l. (No molel.)

piece B is the stud C, which may be made hollow or solid in form, and secured to piece B by being riveted to the same, preferably, or any known manner of attachment of this stud C to piece B can be employed. Stud G is provided witha semi-spherical head, c, and an annular concave groove, c", below said head. If preferred, Vthe head c can be made with a conical form.

D is the clasping button strap, made of leather or equivalent material, and with any form preferred or best adapted or suited tothe article used with. This strap D is secured to piece B by rivet b, or equivalent fastening device or means.

E is a clasp-button,made with aform ofconstruction of parts which will admit its being secured by riveting or equivalent means to st-rap D. This clasp-button can be of any known construction in which a catching-piece, e, within the button, will engage with the notch or groovel c in stud C.' Though the clasp-button E shown in the drawings is constructed to embody certain improvements invented by myself, and forming the subjectmatter of another patent, yet, as above stated, other forms of claspbuttons can be used,if preferred, with thestud C, when adapted to operate with the semispherical or conical head and concave groove in said stud. When the strap D is thrown up, as indotted lines in Fig. 2, the button-clasp E will be out of engagement with stud C,and when pressed down to position of full lines the said buttonclasp will be in engagement with said stud. F is a tag or strap, (shown in Figs. l and 2,) to be secured to portion A' of the horse-blanket or other article by rivets f, though it can be secured by stichings or other equivalent means. This strap is made of leather or other suitable material, and has made in its free end F perforations g, oneA or more, of diameter corresponding with that of stud C, which said perforation is to receive.

It willbe observed that the clasp-button E is so located in strap or tag D that its central .iper-foration, s, will be relatively in line with the stud C, so that the latter will enter the said perforation and hole with the button,and when the draft or pull on stud C through strap or tag F is had this stud will be held equally from its base and top ends by the pieces B and D, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 isshown the same device,

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modified in part to adapt it for use with a strap provided with a number oi' studholding pertbrations for increasing or lessening its measure of extension, as may be required, as in the case of girths, surcingles, straps of valises, and other articles. In this modification piece D has its rear end portion extended to a sufcent width to produce in its cross-direction a loop, D', when said pieccis secured by rivets b 11, or equivalent astening, to piece B at points relatively outside the lines of outer edges of strap F, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5,so that iis loop portion D will form abillet or loop to receive the entering end of strap F, which is provided with several perforatious, g, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

In Figs. 6 and this device is shown to be used for connecting the two ends of a strapsuch as a shawl-strap or a belt-in which both ends of the same are provided with stud-holding perforations g, as shown in Fig. 6, andthe pieces B and D are formed and united, substantially as shown in Figs. 3 and f1 and 5,with the loop portion D ot' piece D raised above piece B sutiicientl y to receive the thicknesses of the two ends, F F2, ot strap F, as shown in Fig. 7. In this moditieation the piece B, together with its associated piece D, is free to be moved in either direction on strap F, and when each end of said strap is provided with several perforations g the compass of the strap or belt can be increased orlessened from both ends, instead of from but one end, as heretofore in straps or belts employing buckles.

In Fig. S the clasp-button strap is shown to be arranged relatively transverse to the direction of the strap F and piece B, and strap Fis provided witha series ot' perforations, g, while piece B is shown to be provided with a billet or loop, D.

In Fig. 9 stud C is shown to be made willi a tang, C', which is driven in the wood ot' a carriage-bow, H, when used with the other palts ot' my device. When this stud C is secured to the wood piece I-I, or its equivalent, the piece B will be dispensed with and wood piece or bow I-I will be the equivalent to the stud-holding strap for operation with stud C,and the clasp-button strap D for holding with a strap or tag, F. lVhen this device is used to secure carriage-curtains to their bows, the bow II,or equivalent picce,is used for holding` the studs C, and the clasp-button strap D will be secured to said bow by a rivet or screw, which will operate substantially as rivet b in Figs. l and 2 to hold strap D and its attached clasp-button E in connection with the bow, the same as strap D is held with piece B in Figs. l and 2, when the strap or tag F, secured to the curtain,will be connected with stud C the same as shown in Fig. 2.

lhis improved device, in its essential parts, consists ot' the stud C, secured as above described, and the clasp-button E, attached to a strap, which is ilexibly connected with the piece-holding stud C, together with the strap F, having perforations g, one or more, operating with said stud.

In some cases the parts B and D may be made of metal, with the latter iiexibiy con nected with the former by a joint. The stud C is to be connected with its holding-piece B in any suitable manner.

In some cases, as in the use of myinventiou for securing curtains and aprons of carriages with the parts or devices they are usually connected with, the stud can be secured to the part or piece or device the curtain is to be connected with, instead of to a piece, as to B, and the tag F can be dispensed with by having perforations g made in the border portion of the curtain or apron, when the catching device E, by its flexibly-connected piece D, will be made to engage with the head of the stud, as above described, to lock the curtain securely with the stud and between its base and the catching device.

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

1. The means for fastening at will one article, thing, or part with another article, thing, or part, consisting in the combination, with a stud provided with a holding-notch below its head and secured with or to one of the articles, things, or parts to be connected, of thecoacting catching device E, having a flexible connection with the same article, thing, or part and adapted to engage with said stud, and perforations g, made with or in the other piece or part to be connected and capable at will ol" being engaged with the stud between thcbase of the same and the coacting catching device E, and be locked from slipping oi'f from said stud, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A device for connecting and disconnecting articles or parts at will, consisting of stud C and strap D, secured at one end to the piece or part holding said stud and having near its opposite or free end the catching device E, so situated in relation to said stud that its opening will receive the latter, and the perforation g, made in or with the other piece or part to be connected, so as to be engaged at will with the stud and be secu red therewith by the catching device operating with the latter, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In devices for connecting at will articles, pieces, or parts to be temporarily held together, the combination, with stud C, above described, secured to holding-piece B, or its described equivalent, and piece D, provided with catching device E, and secured to piece B, of the tag, strap, or piece F, provided with perforationsg, one or more, and connected with Y a piece or part to be connected with the other piece or part having said stud, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

EUGENE PRIN GLE.

lVitncsses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, MADIsoN D. SHIPMAN.

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