US822831A - Harness. - Google Patents

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No. 822,831. PATNTED JUNE 5, 1906.

E. S. DODGE.

HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2s. 1903.

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WITNEEEEE-' EZRA S. DODGE, OF PROVIDENCE, Rid-IODE ISLAND.

HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

Application filed May 28,1903. Serial No. 159,094.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA S. DODGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harnesses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in the construction of harnesses, and more particularly to an improvement in securing metal rings in the bridle, traces, breeching, or other parts of the harnesses to prevent wear on the same.

In harnesses as heretofore constructed the metal rings were secured in loops formed by the leather straps of the harness. In this construction the metal rings would soon wear out or destroy the leather and ruin the harness.

The object of my invention is to prevent this wear and breaking ofthe harness by inserting metal wearing-pieces between the rings and the leather straps of the harness.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a metal wearing-piece shaped to conform with the ring and the loop end of the harness-strap and held in position by the strap passing through elongated slots in the wearing-piece to prevent wear on the leather strap by the metal ring, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is a side View of the loop end of a leather strap forming part of a harness and showing my improved construction, whereby the metal ring is prevented from wearing on the strap. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken lengthwise through Fig. 1, showing the metal wearing-piece in the loop of the strap and the metal ring bearing on the wearing-piece. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view taken through the loop end of the strap and the wearingpiece. Fig. 4 is a side view of the wearingpiece removed from the strap and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the wearing-piece, showing the semicircular grooved center block for the ring and the outside elongated slots for the strap.

In the drawings, a represents the loop end of a leather strap forming part of a harness, b a metal harness-ring, and c the metal wearing-piece inserted in the loop end between the ring and the strap. The metal wearingpiece c consists of the center block c', having the semicircular grooved upper edge c2, shaped to conform with the ring b, the flat sides c3 c3, the half-round lower edge c4, and

the outwardly-extending arms c5 c5, supporting the cross-bars cG c, forming with the sides c3 c3 the elongated slots c7 c7 for the strap` all formed in one piece of metal, preferably of brass or bronze.

In securing the wearing-piece to the strap the end of the strap is carried downward through one of the slots c7 in the wearingpiece and under the lower edge c4, then upward through the opposite slot c7. The ring l) is now placed in position on the wearingpiece and secured in the loop formed by securing the end and body of the strap together above the ring by stitching, as shown in the drawings.

By the use of the wearing-pieces all wear on the leather by the metal rings used in the harness is eliminated and a more perfect and durable harnessis constructed than has heretofore been done.

It is evident that the wearing-piece could be secured in the loop of the strap by a lip on each end of the wearing-piece or similar means to prevent endwise movement of the wearing-piece in the loop without materially affecting the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A device of the character described, comprising a center block provided with a lower, longitudinal, straight edge, said edge beveled or curved transversely throughout its entire length, said block provided with an upper, longitudinally-extending semicircular edge provided with a groove, arms extending laterally from the ends of said block, straight, cross-bars positioned uponthe sides of said block, each bar integral with each two of said arms, said block provided with flat, parallel sides, each bar provided with an inner, iiat vertical face, the inner faces of said bars parallel with the iiat, parallel sides of said block, andsaid cross-bars, arms, and block constituting guides or keepers for snugly retaining the looped portion of a strap against said block when the same is positioned thereon.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a centerblocl, provided with a lower longitudinally-straight edge, said edge curved transversely, said block provided with parallel, straight sides, a longitudinallyextending groove formed in the upper edge of said block, outwardly-extending arms secured at each end of said block, said arms of less length than the greatest width of said IOO IIO

the side of and below the highest point of said block, each bar provided With a straight,

vertical, inner surface or face, said face aral,

lel With the contiguous side of said bloc and said cross-bars, arms, and block, constituting guids or keepers for snugly retaining the looped portion of a strap against the block When the strap is positioned upon said block.

3. A device o the character described, comprising a block provided With parallel, Hat sides, arms extending from said blocks,

bars positioned upon opposite sides of said 15 block and supported upon said arms, each bar provided with an inner, flat face, the faces of said bars parallel With the flat sides of said block, and said block, arms and bars, constituting guides or keepers for snugly se- 2o curing a strap against said block.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of vtWo subscribing Witnesses.

EZRA S. DODGE. Witnesses:

ADA E. HAGERTY, J. A. MILLER, Jr.

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