US47735A - Improved name-fasten ing - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES W. lV. KITTLE MAN,

PATENT EEICE.

0E BLooMEiELD, Town.

* IMPROVED HAMEfFASTENING.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. W. KITTLEMAN, of Bloomfield, in the county of Davis and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hame-Fastenings5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved hame-fastening as applied tothe haines. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a portion of the hames with my fastening applied to them. Fig.3 is an edge view of a portion of the hames, showing my improved fastening. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the loop-catch.

Similar letters of reference in the several gures indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to the fastenings which are used at the lower ends of haines; and the nature of the improvement made by me consists in a pivoted loop-catch applied to one of the parts of the hames, in connection with a perforated link, which is pivoted to the other part of the hames, and has its free end passed to a greater or less extent through the loop-catch, and retained by means of the tongue or catch of the loop, said tongue or catch taking into one or another of the perforations of the-link, all as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A B are the two parts of the hames which fit the groove of the horses collar and carry the ordinary harness rings and irons. The upper ends of these parts A and B are connected together by means of a strap and buckle, as usual.

C is the loopcatch, and l) the link used therewith', both applied to the lower end of the hames, as represented. The link may be jointed, as at a, so as to accommodate itself to the shapes of different collars. The attaching end of the link is forked, so as to receive the lower end of the part A of the hames, and through this forked end and the end of the part A a pivot, b, passes so as to vform a hingeconnection, as shown. Through the free or disconnected end of the link a series of apertures or slots, c c, are cut in an oblique direction, as represented. The solid metal between these slots may be cut down so as to form a groove, d, and the sides of each slot may be cut down so that stops or shoulders e are formed, as represented.

The loop-catch C has a depressed cros s-bar`, f, at its rear end, which serves as a means by which to connect it to the part B of the hames, and also as the hinging-pivot on which it is adjusted. At the front end of the loop a shoulder, g, may be formed, and in addition thereto the hook-shaped catch h, as represented.

The respective hingeconnecting pivots of the link and loop-catch are held in place by vmeans of a light metal strap, which is attached to the edge of the parts A and B of the hames, as shown.

From theforegoin g description and the draw ings it will be evident that the parts A and B of the haines can be linked together at their lower ends by simply slipping the slotted or `notched end of the link under the hook-catch and through the loop to which said catch is attached, for by this operation the hook-catch will by its own gravity enter one of the slots or notches, and when once in a slot or notch it cannot readily get out, as the action which `it is subjected to tends to force it farther into the slot, or more lirmly against a shoulder of the link; but while this is the case, the teamster can in a moment disconnect or detach the hames from the collar or adjust them upon the collar, it simply being necessary for him to compress the lower ends of the parts A and B together, and then lift the loop-catch to thel position represented by red lines in Fig. 2.

By my invention all the advantages of an extensible hame are secured, and at the-same time the necessity for using and manipulating a spring-catch, turn-button, or other device, besides the two parts-viz., link and loop or socket, which are necessarily used-is entirely avoided. l

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The link D, with oblique slots through 4. The combination o f the llames, 100por in it, in the manner and for the purpose (3a-teh, and link D, constructed7 applied, and described. operating substantially as herein described.

2. The combination of the 0'roove d shoul- T ders e, and slots or holes o c in jche inanner l W W' KITTLEMA1` and for the purpose described. Witnesses:

3. The loop-catch C, constructed as de- ENos 'L GOILE, scribed, for the purpose set forth. WM. C. JOHNSON.

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