US145163A - Improvement in hames-fasteners - Google Patents

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J. G. FLEMING.

flames-Fasteners.

Patented Dec- 2.1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

JAMES G. FLEMING, OF COOHRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMES-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,163, dated December 2, 1873; application filed July 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES G. FLEMING, of Cochranton, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new an d valuable Improve m ent in H ame-Fasteners and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a sectional view of my hame-fastening. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

This invention has relation to means for fast ening together the lower ends of the hames of draft-harness; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the thumb attachment and the draw-strap with its loops, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates the ratchettongue. This consists of a long and narrow plate curved to correspond with the convex form of the lower part of the collar, upon which the haines are fitted. The ratchet is formed by a series of slots, at, having each a square and a beveled wall, as indicated, respectively, at b and c. B indicates the socket-piece. This consists of a metallic block, curved to correspond with the form of the collar, along its inner and thin wall d, a curved slideway or slot, 6, being formed within it, and bounded on the inside by said wall 01 for the reception of the adjustable ratchettongne. Communicating with saidslideway is a recess, f, designed for the reception of the thumb-pawl C and the spring 9, the former of which is pivoted to the walls of the recess by the pin 71, and the latter of which is secured to a transverse bar, 7., of the socket-piece. The outer end of the thumb-pawl 0 extends through an opening, I, of the recess, in which it is pivoted, and this portion is fashioned into a thumbseat, m having a long flange, n, which covers the cleft between the pawl and the edge of the opening I when the former is pulled back, and prevents accidental pinching of the thumb in said cleft. The pawl is provided on the side next the spring with a shoulder, 12, with which the end of the spring engages. D D indicate loops, respectively attached to the tongue A and the socket B. To the former the draw strap E is secured, which,.passing through the latter, serves to enable the tongue to be drawn into the socket, thereby bringing the ends of the hames together. F F designate clips, by means of which the pieces A and B are secured to the hames.

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

The combination, with the curved ratchet tongue A and socket B, of the thumb-pawl G, loops D D, and draw-strap E, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES Gr. FLEMING.

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