US171661A - Improvement in halters - Google Patents

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T. GINGRAS.-

HALTER.

Patented 52.1114, 1876.

(gnre 1 1 'UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY GINGRAS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HALTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,661, dated January '4, 1876; application f1edg-c November 1, 1875.

To all 'whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY GINGRAS, of the city of Buii'alo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a Halter, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in Inaking 4a halter for hitching horses, so that the saine can be readily adjusted without unbuckling or interfering with a bridle or head-` stall, or the reins attached to the headstall, and the same may be readily adjusted to a bitching-post, either loosely or tightly, and when closely or tightly adjusted the same will not be in danger of getting loose, so as to be moved up or down upon the post.

Figure 1 represents the halter upon a horses head and attached to a post. Fig. 2 repre= sents the snaps and plate.

The halter is made with a stra-p, a, which goes over the horses head back of the ears, and may have a strap going around the ears. It has a strap,4 m, extending from the lower part around the nose, and a short strap, i', angling from the nose-strap to strap a, going over the head, one on each side. Strap a has plates of metal, letter s, riveted at each end thereof, in which, on one side, is hinged a metallic plate, letter d, in which the strap of the halter a2 is fastened by means of a snap, letter h. On the other side of the halter it `is hinged to the plate s by a similar snap, by means of which, when the halter is placed upon the head of the horse, the two sides of the halter are fastened under the neck ofthe horse., All this can be effected when the headstall is upon the horse, and without unbuckling the same or any ofthe reins. A

The strap ofthe halter has a snap attached to the extreme end, and an adjustable plate with an adjustable levez-,and ring attached near the eXtreme end, said plate lettered b, and the sainel can be moved,'so that the loop formed by attaching the snap at the end in the ring of the plate shall be suited to the bitching-post. The adjustable lever serves to hold the plate fast to the strap or allow it to be moved. v

Whatl claim as Iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with theheadstall a, m, and i', the metal plate s, hinged plate d, and snaphooks h, constructed and arranged to operate as described.

i TIMOTHY GINGRAS.

[n presence of- WM. H. SLADE, CHARLES MCCHRISTALL.

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