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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM J. CA1RNES, JR., OF GONZALES, TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,486, dated August 12, 1879; application filed
March 22, 1879.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILL TAJAbEs CARNES,
Jr., of Gonzales, in the county of Gonzales and
State of Texas, have invented a new and valu-
able Improvement in Buckles; and I do here-
by declare that the following is a full, clear,
and exact description of the construction and
operation of the same, reference being had to
the annexed drawings, making a part of this
specification, and to the letters and figures of
reference marked thereon.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a representa-
tion of a longitudinal central section of my
buckle with straps applied. Fig. 2 is a top
view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sec-
tion thereof.
This invention has relation to improvements
in buckles; and it consists of a three-tongue
buckle having a central transverse bar pro-
vided with separating-lugs, formed on said
bar between the seats for the eyes of the
tongues, keeping the latter in proper relative
position, as hereinafter shown and described.
In the accompanying drawings, the letter a
designates the body of the buckle, the same
being an oblong rectangular frame having a
central cross-bar, b, dividing the opening of
the frame into two equal parts, or thereabout.
This bar b is provided with spaced projec-
tions or lugs i; or, in lien thereof, annular
flanges or collars extending completely around
the said bar may be used, between which are
arranged the tongues c and c', the object of
the said projections being to keep the said
tongues properly spaced, or at a normal dis-
tance apart. These tongues play upon the
same side of the buckle-frame, and are se-
cured upon the bar b by bending or looping
pieces of wire of suitable thickness around
the interspaces between the lugs, projections,
or collars aforesaid.
The effect of this construction is, that I
avoid the spreading out of the metal of the
tongues at one end, thereby thinning and
weakening the same, in order to form later-
ally - extended sleeves, which, being folded
around the pivot-bar side by side, hold the
tongues in place upon the said bar.
The tongue c bears upon the end bar d ofthe buckle-frame, and the tongues c' upon the
opposite end bar, d', as shown in Fig. 2.
e' designates a raised loop, forming, with
the end bar d' aforesaid, a slot, e, the object
of which will be hereinafter fully shown.
At each side of the frame a, and usually in
the same plane therewith, are other loops, g g,
forming, with the side bars of the body or
frame, a slot, s. These slots are designed to
receive the ends of the hip-straps, which sup-
port the breeching, or traces where no breech-
ing is used; but there are many other pur-
poses to which they may be applied in harness
not herein requiring enumeration.
By means of this improved buckle an en-
tire set of harness, or any part thereof, may
be put together without a single stitch.
Bridles, headstalls for halters, military ac-
couterments, and many other like construe-
tions, may be in like manner put together with-
out stitching, and by comparatively unskilled
labor.
Should a trace, rein, or knapsack-strap give
way on a march or journey, the damage may
be repaired by passing one of the ends of the
said trace, rein, or strap under bar d' and en-
gaging the tongues o' in the perforations of
the same, and then passing the other end un-
der bar d, drawing up any slack, and engag-
ing the tongue c with a perforation of that
end thereof, any excess in length being passed
through the raised loop. This may be accom-
plished in a few moments.
What I claim as new, and desire to secure
by Letters Patent, is-
A three-tongue buckle having a central
transverse tongue-bar, b, provided with the
separating-lugs i, formed on said bar between
the seats forthe eyes of the tongues, keeping the
latter in proper relative position, substantially
as specified.
In testimony that I claim the above I have
hereunto subscribed my name in the presence
of two witnesses.
WILLIAM JAMES CARES, JR.
Witnesses:
THos. H. SPOONER,
L. H. PLANIEcx.
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Carnes, William J., Jr. Improvements In Buckles., patent, August 12, 1879; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169873/m1/2/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.