US279123A - biokle - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

H. J., BIGKLE & J. E. BRIDGES.

HARNESS SADDLE.

No. 279.123. Patented June 12,1883.

UNITED- ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J BIOKLE AND JOHN E. BRIDGES, OF DUNGANNON, ONTARIO,

CANADA.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,123, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed December 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY JAMES BIOKLE, of the village of Dungannon, county of Huron, Province of Ontario, harness-maker, and J OHN EDWARD BRIDGES, of the same place, wagonmaker, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Pads; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our improvements relate to a harness-pad in common use in buggy, carriage, and other harness.

It consists in improvements in said harnesspads by which the cost of manufacture is greatly reduced, and the pad, more suitable for general use, being adjustable to suit the various configurations of that part of the horse with which it is in contact when in use.

In the or dinary harness-pad, the construction of which is without any means of such adjustment, a correctly-fitting pad is very seldom found, and less or more injury to the back of the animal is caused in consequence of such misfit. Our pad consists of the usual metallic main plate, but is constructed with ribs 011 its under surface, near to each outer edge, and with two slots in each side of the crown of the plate, so that the pad is more easily secured to the same.

It also'consists in the mode of construction of the pad, which construction consists of a piece of suitable wood or other material made of a peculiar form, and covered on its under surface and'sides with leather or other suitable material and stuffed between the leather and the wood when so required. On the upper and flatside of this wood there is inserted a metallic plate, drilled and threaded to receive the threaded point of one of the terrets, which, after passing through the leather strap or cover and the main plate, enters the threaded hole in the metallic plate in the upper side of the pad, and by turning the terret it becomes thoroughly secured and fastened with the cover to the main metallic plate, and at the same time secures the pad to the under side thereof. By unscrewing the terret a little the pad is then loose enough to be shifted in the slot, as may be required, and thenscrewed down tight. There are two slots in the main plate, in the outer one of which a screw-nail may be put in when thoughtto be necessary. To the outer ends of main plate we generally secure the side straps with copper rivets, making a strong and good finish, the one with the other. The outer end of the cover is generally sewed to the skirt, making all snug and tight.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of harness-pad, with portions of the straps attached thereto, showing the metallic main plate A, the outer cover, B, the pads O O, terrets D- D, the hook E, and straps F F. A portion of the main plate is removed to show the plate 0, into which the terrets are screwed. Fig. 2 is a detached view of terret D. Fig. 8 shows one of the terrets D as if being screwed into one of the pads C. Fig. 4 is a detached view of hook E. Fig. 5 is aview of main plate A, showing the aperture a for hook E, the slots a and rivet-holes a. Fig. 6 is a side view of pad 0. Fig. 7 is aplan view of cover B, showing the aperture 1) and the slots 1) b". Fig. 8 is a cross-section of main plate A, with ribs to for securing more perfectly the pads O G, which are fitted closely between the said ribs.

It will be observed from the foregoing specification and accompanying drawings that by slightly unscrewing the terrets D D the pads O O can be moved in either direction, so as to fit accurately any particular form of the back of the animal on which it may be applied. It will further be observed from the cross-section of plate A, as shown in Fig. 8, that it is greatly increased in strength by the ribs to, placed on the lower edge of the same, and will be more durable than the ordinary main plate in harness-pads. I

Having thus described our invention, we claim The pads O C, constructed with the plate 0, as described, in combination with the plate A, provided with the slots a and terrets DD, as specified and described, and for the purposes set forth.

' HENRY JAMES BIOKLE.

JOHN EDWVARD BRIDGES.

Vitnesses:

JOHN IVIOFFAT, GEO. A. SIDDALL.

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