US633016A - Tether. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Sept. I2, |899.

No. 633,0l6.

A. LITTLE.

T E T H E B.

(Application filed Nov. 12, 1898.)

(No Model.)

UNITED .STATES PATENT muon.

ANDERSON LITTLE, OF SEDDON, ALABAMA TETH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 633,016, dated September 12, 1899.

Application iiled November 12. 1898. Serial No. 696,294. (No model.)

To ail whom, it may con/cern;

Be itknown that I, ANDERSON LITTLE,a citizen of the United States, residing at Seddon, in the county of St. Clair and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Tether, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tethers, and has for its object to provide a simple and portable device for staking or tethering cattle While grazing, the same having means whereby the extent of range may be varied to suit the conditions and requirements ofv use.

Further objects and advantages of this in-v vention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed outv in the appended claim.

In the drawings,'Figure 1 is a view of a tether constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the stationary hitching member.

Similar reference characters indicate correspending parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 represents a Wheeled truck having a longitudinal beam 2, tothe front end of vwhich is attached a clevis or staple 3, through which may be driven a securing-stake 4. Rising from the truck is a standard 5, in the bifurcated upper end of which is mounted a windlass having a drum (i, to the spindle of which is attached a crank-arm 7.

v Above the drum 6 is a direction pulley or roller 8, over which a runner or tether rope 9 passes, said rope being provided With a plurality of spaced stops l0. To brace the standard 5, I employ lateral guy-ropes 11, extending to stakes V12, and a front guy-rope 13, extending to the upper end of the stake et, the upper extremities of said guy-ropes being attached to suitable staples on the standard; also, a suitable ratchet device, consisting of a pawl 14, engaging ratchetteeth on the drum, may be employedfor holding the latter at the desired adjustment or with the `runner at the desired tension. The other end of the runneris attached to an upright 15, braced by suitable guys 16, extending to'stakes 17. Mounted upon the runner, between the spaced stops, are travelers 18, with Which may be engaged halter ropes or straps of tethered animals,

I and it will be understood that these travelers are adapted to traverse the runner between the stops to give a limited amount of freedom to the animal; also, in connection with the runner I -preferably employ one or more bitching-rings 19, of plural-coil construction, having terminal eyes which are engaged, respectively, with the runner. The loop of a bridle-rein may be readily engaged with this hitching-ring by extending the loop through tween the sides of the bridle-rein, and finally engaging it over the upper side of the ring, as indicated in Fig. 2. A hitch of this kind cannot be' disengaged by a strain applied to the body portion of the ring; but by grasping the portion of the loop adjacent to one side of the ring and drawing it across the ring the rein disengages readily. To prevent the sliding movement of this bitching-ring upon the runner, I preferably engage one terminal eye thereof with a fixed eye 20, formed in the runner, and this runner-eye serves to support one side of the loop of the-bridle-rein which is engaged with the ring. Therefore to disengage the bridle-rein readily from the ring it is simply necessary to grasp it at a point adjacent to said supporting runner-.eye and draw the loop laterally, as toward the left in the construction illustrated, across the ring.

The device embodying my invention is of simple construction and may be arranged in any desired position to facilitate the grazing of the stock While retaining them under sufcient restraint, and when not in use the runner may be reeled upon the drum and the stakes may be suitably supported upon the truck to enable the device to be transported.

Various changes in the form, proportion, 'and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In a tether, the combination with a liexible runner having an eye 20,of a bitching-ring 19 of plural-coil construction, having its extremities spaced apart and provided with eyes of which one is engaged ywith theeye 20 of the runner, and the other with the adjacent body the ring, thence passing it downwardly be-` IOO portion of the runner, the intermediate p0rmy own I have hereto affixed my signature in tion of one of the coils, between said terminal the presence of two Witnesses. eyes, being adapted for engagement. by the loop ofthe bridle-rein, of which the downward movement is cheeked by the eye 20, subsin- Witnesses:

Linlly :ls specified. J. F. BARBER, In testimony that I claim the foregoing; :is J. M. KIDD.

' ANDERSON LITTLE.

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