US333528A - Check-rein holder - Google Patents

Description

(No ModeL) J. LAWRIE.

GHEOK REIN EOLDER.

No. 333,528. Patented Jan. 5; 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFERSON LAWRIE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHECK-REIN HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,528, dated January 5, .1886. Application filed October 19,1885. Serial No. 180,334. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON LAWRIE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Check-Rein Holders; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a side view, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section, of the check-rein holder of my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims, hereinafter presented.

In common parlance such a holder is usually termed a water-hook, it being affixed to the saddle of a harness for the purpose of hitching a check-rein extending f1 om the headstall.

1n the said drawings, A denotes a ring or elliptical eye having extended from ita pointed cylindrical shank, a, provided at its middle with a shoulder, b. There is a groove, 0, in such shank just in rear of its point d. and extending around the shank. The said shank extends endwise into asocketed head, B, having pivoted to it two lever-catches, O O,which, arranged in it as represented, have between their outer arms, and disposed transversely through the head B, a spiral spring, D. The fulcra of the levers are shown at c 6. Each lever is provided with an ear or projectiomf, to enter the groove c. On pressing the shank of the eye into the mouth 9 of the head and against the earsff the catches will be sepa rated until the shoulder 12 may bring up against the head. On such taking place, the spring will cause the catches to engage with the shank, so as to hold the eye in connection with the head. From the head a hook, G, extends in manner as shown, such hook serving not only as an ornament, but as a means of hitching the check-rein to the head,when such may be desirable. The head, like the common water hook, has a prismatic shank, h, extending down from its base is and terminating in a screw, t, such being for fixing the head to a harness-saddle.

To use the described rein-holder, the check rein is to be run endwi'se through the eye A. On forcing the shank of the eye into the head B, the two will be coupled to each other. To release the check-rein from its engagement with the said head, the outer arms of the catch-levers are to be moved simultaneously toward each other by the thumb and finger of the hand of a person applied to them.

In practice the eye A will remain on the check-rein. The shank of the eye can readily turn in the mouth of the head, to adapt itself to the check-rein. Vltll the shanked eye and the catches of the head it is, for a horse, much easier to connect the check-rein to the saddle than by means of a common water-hook, as with the latter the head of the horse has to be drawn back forcibly and farther in order to hitch the rein upon the book.

In case of breakage of or loss of the eye, or accidental breakage or wear of its connections with the head, the hook G may be used to connect the rein with the saddle.

I claim 1. A check-rein holder consisting of the shanked eye A and of the socketed head B, having not only means of connecting the latter with a harness-saddle, but one or more catches, substantially as described, to engage with shank of the eye, as set forth.

2. The check-rein holder consisting of the eye A, its shank a, grooved, pointed, and pro vided with a shoulder, as described, the socketed head B, the two lever-catches O 0, their operating-spring D, and the fastening screwthreaded shank 11, all being arranged substantially in manner to operate as and for the purpose as set forth.

3. The combination of the eye provided with the shankwith the head to be applied to a harness-saddle, and socketed to receive the said shank, and also with means or mechanism for holding the shank of the eye in engagement with the head, and for disconnecting them, substantially as set forth.

JEFFERSON LAWRIE.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY.

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