US1012313A - Harness-saddle. - Google Patents

Description

M. B. ZELLER.

HARNESS SADDLE.

APPLIOATION FILED APB.20,1910.

Patented Dec. 19,1911.

MELANCTHON E. ZELLER, 0F FINDLAY, OHIO.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 20, 1910.

Serial No. 556,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MnLANo'rIioN. E. Znnnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Findlay, in the county of Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Saddles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to harness saddles.

One of my objects is to provide a saddle tree and a saddle plate which do not have to be loosened from one another when the saddle is taken apart for repair.

Another object is to improve the means of connection between the skirts of the saddle, the pads and the shaft-bearers.

Other objects will become apparent from the following description.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a harness saddle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional View on the line ww of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line :I/:Z/ of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detailed view of the saddle tree with the saddle plate and. metal skirt-pieces attached thereto, and Fig. 5 is a detailed view of the channelplate carried by the pad.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 designates the saddle tree which is preferably made of cast metal having upstanding posts 2 at its apex which support the saddle plate 3 above said tree for the purpose to be hereinafter explained. The wings 4 of the tree have sockets 5 in their under surfaces into which are fitted the upper ends of steel skirt-pieces 6 secured by rivets 7. Each of the skirt-pieces has a hole 8 bored therein near its lower end.

The leather skirts proper 9 are made in the form of sheaths and each one is slipped over one of the metal skirt-pieces and wings of the saddle tree and extends well beyond them. The upper edge 10 of the outer portion of each skirt fits below the saddle plate by reason of the latter being raised or sup ported above the former. In other words, the spacing of the saddle plate away from the saddle tree permits the skirt to be inserted and withdrawn without loosening the connecting screw 11 which secures said plate and tree together. Each skirt has a hole 12 through it registering with the hole 8 in the lower end of the metal skirt-piece when the parts are assembled. These holes are of a size to accommodate the screwthreaded shank 13 of the terret 1 1. The shaftbearer, comprising the looped strap 16, and ring 17, is secured to the skirt beyond the end of the skirt-piece by means of a bolt 18 passed through the skirt and both folds of said strap. Said bolt is provided with a loop 19 at its lower end which projects below the skirt. A leather wear strip 19 is preferably placed below the shaft bearer and extends up into the lower end of the skirt, being secured therein by the bolt.18.

The pad 20, which is only partially illustrated, is made separate from the skirt and has a channeled plate 21 secured to its upper face. The lower end of the base of the channel is cut away, as at 22, leaving a tongue 23 adapted to fit the loop 19 in the lower end of the bolt 18. Said channeled plate laps the metal skirt-piece and has a hole 24 in the base of the channel which registers with the hole in said metal skirtpiece and the holes in the upper and lower folds of the sheath-like skirt when the parts are assembled and the tongue on said channeled plate is in engagement with the loop on the bolt 18. The screw-threaded shank of the terret may then be passed through the registering holes so that its extremity is arranged in the channel in the plate 21. Said terret is secured by a bur 25 arranged in the channel in said plate 21 and locked against turning by the sides of said channel.

It will be noted that my device is very simple in construction, is not likely to get out of order and yet can be taken apart readily and quickly. By means of the looped bolt and tongue, the skirt, shaftbearer and pad are all connected together at the same point, making the device very strong. Furthermore, this connection holds the skirt or sheath and shaft bearer together independently of the shank of the terret which secures said skirt to the skirt-piece, so that said sheath and shaft bearer may be removed, without separating them, from the skirt-piece. The durability of my invention is also increased by the metal skirtpiece lapping over the channeled-plate on Patented Dec. 19, 1911.

.tending well beyond them, shaft bearers housed in the outer ends of said sheaths, fastening means passed through said sheaths and shaft bearers beyond the ends of said skirt-pieces, and other fastening means connecting said sheaths and skirtpieces, which, when removed, permit the respective sheaths and shaft bearers to be removed, without separating them, from the skirt-pieces.

2. In a harness saddle, the combination with a tree and skirt-pieces, of separate sheaths covering said skirt-pieces and eX- tending well beyond them, separate pads arranged below the respective sheaths, means to secure said pads to said sheaths be yond the ends of the skirt-pieces, and fastening means connecting the corresponding pads, sheaths and skirt-pieces which, when removed, will permit the respective sheaths and pads to be removed, without separating them, from the skirt-pieces.

3. In a harness saddle, the combination with a tree and skirt-pieces, of separate sheaths covering said skirt-pieces and extending well beyond them, shaft bearers housed in the outer ends of said sheaths, separate pads arranged below the respective sheaths, means to secure said pads and shaft bearers to said sheaths beyond the ends of the skirt-pieces, and fastening means connecting the'corresponding pads, sheaths and skirt-pieces, which, when removed, will permit the respective pads, sheaths and shaft bearers to be removed, without separating them, from said skirt-pieces.

4. In a harness saddle, the combination with a tree and skirt-pieces, of separate sheaths covering said skirt-pieces and extending well beyond them, shaft bearers housed in the outer ends of said sheaths, separate pads arranged below the respective sheaths, bolts having looped lower ends and passed through said sheaths and shaft bearers beyond the ends of the skirt-pieces, plates on said pads, each plate having a tongue engaging the loop in the corresponding bolt, and fastening means connecting the corresponding sheaths, plates and skirt- -pieces, which, when removed, will permit the respective pads, sheaths and shaft bearers to be removed, without separating them, from the skirt-pieces.

5. In a harness saddle, the combination with a tree having short wings provided with sockets therein, of thin steel skirtpieces secured in the sockets in said wings and separate sheaths covering said skirtpieces and corresponding wings.

6. In a harness saddle, the combination with a tree having short wings provided with sockets therein and with a saddle plate, of steel skirt-pieces secured in the sockets in said wings, and separate sheaths covering said skirt-pieces and corresponding wings, the inner ends of said sheaths extending below and being concealed by the saddle plate.

In testimony whereof, I afliX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

MELANOTHON E. ZELLER.

Witnesses:

S. W. WORDEN, DAVID L. WILsoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. O.

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