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(No Model.)

'F.W. RIBSENBBRG.

l BUCKLE. No. 303,187. Patented Aug. 5, 1884.

V UNITED Srnfrnslg PATENT OFFICE,

FRANK W. RIESENBERG, OF PEORIA, n ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR GF ONE-HALF TO HENRY SARDISON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE,

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,187, dated August 5, 1884.

Application filed December 17. 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK W. RIESEN- BERG, of Peoria, in the county of Peoria. in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Buckle, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactvdeseription thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which-- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section through center; Fig. 2, a sectional plan view atm as; Fig. 3, a perspective view; Fig. 4, a cross-section of modification.

The object of this invention is the construe tion of a buckle by which to secure together straps of leather or fabric.

My invention for this purpose consists, essentially, of a collar having a wedge-shaped opening therethrough, and a thinrwedge so tting in said opening as to permit the insertion of a strap beside said wedge.

The construction of my buckle is such as to adapt it to be used in connection with harnesses, trunk-straps, Suspenders, oron a larger scale for elevator-straps and pulley-belts.

In the drawings, A represents the small rectangular collar, the opening through which 1s rectangularintransverse section andsli gh tl y wedge-shaped longitudinally. Vit-hin this opening is the thin wedge' D, the thickness of which and the size of said opening being so proportioned as t' permit, when the end D of said wedge is flush with the end Aof the collar A, the easy insertion and passage of a strap between said wedge and the lower side of the opening in said collar. To enable a strap to be thus passed through the collar in either direction, the iinger is held partially over the end of the collar, so as to keep the end D of the Wedge from protruding. The wedge D is prevented from escaping from the other end of the collar by flaps c, bent partially over the same. Said naps c must cover alittle more than half of the mouth of the opening, and the end E of the wedge D be slightly thicker than the space uncovered, that said Wedge .may not drop out thereat when the strap e has been removed. To prevent loss from the other -end of the collar under the same condition, I make the Wedge nan 4roWer than the opening in the collar, and provide it with shoulders E. I then contract theA end .at A ofthe opening by bending in at the sides small flaps of the metal, as B, Fig. 2, or

by driving inwardly with a small punch, so as to form projections which shall engage with the shoulders E of the Wedge, and thereby prevent its dropping out.

From the end ofthe collar C, at the thick end of the Wedge D, there projects a loop, F, to which is fastened Vthe end of the strap G. This strap G is fastenedl to said loop F by doubling it therethrough and sewing the end over upon itself, as in Fig. 1, or by being rivbuckle, the slightest pull on the same, tending to separate them, causes the Wed ge D to move toward the end A of the collar, the opening in which being wedge-shaped, as described, causes said wedge and the strap with it to be held from further motion. The stronger new the strap It is pulled the firmer is it held by the buckle, the wedge D wedging in against it all the more tightly. I sometimes roughen y the face of the wedge D contiguous to the strap to enable it to grip the harder against the 35 saine, and substitute a frictionroller, R, for thegiiaps o, as in Fig. 4.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The wedge-shaped collar A, having contractions B, in combination with the Wedge D, having shoulders E, and means, substantially as described, whereby to prevent the removal of said Wedge from theenlarged end of said cellar, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. ,f The wedge D, having shoulders E, in oombination with the collar A, having loop F, contract-ions B, and means whereby to prevent the removal of said Wedge from the enlarged end of said collar, substantially as and for the roo purpose set forth.

3.* Thecollar A, having loop F, iiaps c, andl contractions B, in combination with the Wedge vention I have hereunto set my hand this 11th D, having shonlders E. day of December, 1883;

4. The strap G havin@ metallic loop H collar A, having loop F, aps c, and contrici FRANK NV' RIESENBERG' 5 tions B, in combination with the Wedge D, Witnesses:

having shoulders E, as set forth. v t HENRY SARDIsoN,

In testimon)T that I claim the foregoing in- Y EDWARD FIELDER.

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