US31698A - braynard - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOS. L. BRAYNARD, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

REIN-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,698, dated 4March 19, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. BRAYNARD, residing in New York, in the county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new Article for the Holding of the Beins or Securing Them in a Proper Position to the Vehicle when the Vehicle is Left by the Driver; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings and working model which accompany this application.

The following is a description of the rein holder, viz:

Two eccentrics marked in Figure l as A and B run on two upright shafts marked a and l1 the edges of which where they come in contact being grooved, said eccentrics A and B resting upon a platform D and the bottom of each ec centric hollowed out as shown in Fig. il and in which is a spiral or coil spring marked one end of which is fastened to the eccentric at d and the otherl end to the upright shaft marked c in Fig. 4, upon which the eccentric runs. The plat.-

`form upon which the eccentrics rest, lhas a screw running through it, by which the rein holder is fastened to the vehicle. The cuts in Fig. 1 show the head of the screw which screws into the shafts c and fastens the eccentric to the shaft, so that the drawing out of the reins shall not draw the eccentric off of the shaft. The letters C C are the reins which are now drawn between the eccentrics A B and are now held by the nipping of the eccentrics, and the strain upon the reins by the jerking of the horses head only tightens the hold of the. eccentrics upon them.

E in Fig. l is the post of the carmans truck upon which the rein holder is secured. Fig. 2 Vshows the 4eccentrics open as the reins pass through them, andF ig. 3the Y closing of them upon the reins.

The driver in leaving his vehicle, only has to draw the reins through the eccentrics and at once has them in a secure position, and no danger of their getting under the horses feet..

The letters e e in Fig. 2 show two pins which keep the eccentrics from acting farther than that point, said pins being fastened into the platform D.

I am aware that devices have been contrived to hold straps, &c., by the use of cam levers acting against a Xed point or shoul- THos. L. BRAYNARD.

lVitnesses:

JAS. W. HALE, IV. W. VILsoN.

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