US311796A - Hame-tug and trace- fastening - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

S W. H. TYLER.

HAME TUG AND TRACE FASTENING: No. 311,796.

WITNESSES INVENTOR i W ATTORNEYS.

llnrrnn STATES PATENT rrrcno WILLIAM H. TYLER, OF DAVID CITY, NEBRASKA.

HAME TUG AND TRACE-FASTENlNG.

Q'PECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,796, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed July 2, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. TYLER, of David City, in the county of Butler and State of Nebraska, have invented a new-and Improved Hame-Tug and Trace-Fastening, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to hametugs and trace fastenings of harness, the object being to provide asimple, strong, and durable tug and fastening adapted for quick and easy adjustment of the trace to alter its length, and to hold the trace securely when adjusted.

The invention consists in particular constructions of the han1e-tug with an outer plate having oppositely-arranged studs to take the draft of the trace, and with trace and backstrap loops, and also with a longitudinal rib, and a face-plate secured along the rib and facing the studs; and the invention consists, also, in particular constructions of the fastening-loop by which the trace is held to the studs on the hame-tug, and may be released therefrom for adjusting the trace; and the invention consists, also, in particular combinations of parts of the tug and fastening, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an edge View of my improved hame-tug and trace-fasten-ing, partly in section. Fig. 2 is an inside view with the inner plate of the hame-tug removed. Fig. 3 is an outside view of the hame-tug and trace partly taken away and in section. Fig. 4: is an enlarged cross-sectional elevation on the line :20 m, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail side view of the locking-head of the trace-fastening, as when the draft is applied to the trace, and partly in section on the line y 9', Fig. 6. Fig. 5 represents the position of one of the locking-heads of the trace-fastening when the trace is thrown forward on the heme-tug. Fig. 6 is a detail cross-sectional elevation with the trace-fastening in position to lengthen or shorten the trace, and Fig. 7 is a rear perspective View of the trace-fastening.

hanie-tug, which has at one end the eye a for connection to the hames, and at the other end the loop a, through which the trace T passes. The hame-tug plate Alias a series of studs, B, fixed at intervals in opposite pairs along the opposite edges of the plate, and on its inner face, against which studs B the trace-fastening loop 0 is adapted to draw.

I make the plate A with a central longitudinal rib or corrugation, a forming a groove next to the outside of the tug, and giving great strength to a light plate. The rib a is thickened or provided with bosses where the eyea is fastened to it, and where the screws or riv ets a" enter it to hold the inside plate, A, of the hame-tug, and the tug is bent, as at at. to clear the shoulder of the horse. plate, A, ranges fiatwise about parallel with the main plate A, and serves as a guide to the trace-fastening loop in shifting the loop, as hereinafter more fully explained. I apply a leather facing, D, to the outside face of the hame-tug, and fasten it by screws (Z or otherwise, and so that as the trace is set back more or less to lengthen it the face of the tug will present a like linish'with the face of the trace.

AtE is shown a loop or frame which is fixed to the main plate A, or to its loop a, and has a cross-bar which carries a pin, 6, adapted to enter any one of a series of holes, f, in the back-strap F, to support or hold the latter, which passes over the side bars of the frame E and beneath its center crossbar, which carries the pin 6.

The trace-fastening loop 0 is formed with the cross bar 0, the opposite side arms, 0 c, and the locking heads. or arms G G, which heads project inward or toward each other from the ends of the arms 0 c, and are separated sufficiently to pass along freely at either side of the corrugation a? of the plate A, as Shown.

To hold the fastening-loop O to the trace T, I first enter the plate H edgewise through the opening between the heads GG and bring the plate up flat against the cross-bar c of the loop, and so that the side arms, 0 c", of the loop will enter the side notches, h h, of the plate. The end of the trace is now passed be tween the plate H and the heads G G, and a pin, h, fixed to the under side of the plate at one end, is passed into a hole, 2, made in the The inside trace. The notches h h are wide enough to allow the heads G G to be swung inside of the trace and lengthwise of the trace.

Thelocking-heads G G ofthe trace-fastening O are of peculiar form. The extreme ends of the heads are made larger than the neck portions 9 thereof, so as to provide heel portions or shoulders g, which latter remain always over those portions of the plate A between the ribs a" and the inner edges of the studs B, and so as to slide along inside of the studs when the trace is adjusted for length, as hereinafter described. The heads G each have forward extensions providing the sharp points g", and the rear sides or faces, t, of the necks are longer between the points 1 2 on the line y Fig. 5, than are the portions of the necks on the line 22 between the points 2 3. The forward faces, is, of the heads G are inclined to the rear faces, as shown. When the draft is on the traces, the loops 0 will be drawn upon to carry the faces of the opposite heads G against the front ends of a pair of opposite studs, B, the lower points, 2, of the necks y then coming below the tops of the studs and causing the trace to draw against said faces 2', and the points 1 of the heads G being then back quite close to the plate A, the plate A will not allow the heads to lift from thestuds.

(See Fig. 1, in full lines, and- Figs. 4 and 5.)

lVhen it is desired to adjust the trace for length, the cross-bar 0 of the fastening G will be moved forward with the trace until the faces 70 of the heads G may be swung up flat against the inside face of the plate A, which being done, the points 2 of the heads will come above the tops of the studs B, as in Fig. 6 and in dotted lines in Fig. 1, whereupon the fastening G and the trace may freely be slid backward or forward along the hame-tug, the heels or shouldersg of the opposite heads then running along behind the studs. Should the trace T suddenly he pushed forward on the hame-tug, the fastening C will be swung by the notched plate H, so that the extreme forward points, 9', of the heads G will be swung up against the inside of plate'A, as in Fig. 5, which will carry the necks g of the heads G down into such positions as to prevent the farward passage of the fastening 0 past the studs 1), in front of those against which the fastening is set to draw; hence, the trace cannot be moved forward or backward except when the faces 7c of the heads G are flat against the plate A, or are held to be parallel therewith, as before described. I fit an outwardlybowed spring into the end of the trace to give a like face curvature to the trace, so that it shall hold the heads G G of the fastening-loop O in place against the plate A and its stud B. The drawings represent this spring as made of a couple of elastic bowed wires, w 10, held between the leather layers of the trace and one at each side of the pin h of the plate H; but flat springs may be used instead of the wires, or a single spring-plate applied between the trace-layers and apertured for the passage traces may be lengthened or shortened much more easily than with buckles and loops; and my improved tug and trace-fastening, being made almost wholly of metal, is much more durable than the usual leather devices, which quickly rot and wear out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hame-tug constructed with a metal plate, A, having studs B, arranged in pairs along opposite edges of the plate, and an in ner face-place, A, secured to the plate A,substantially as shown and described.

2. A hame-tug constructed with a metal plate, A, having studs B, a draft-eye, a, a trace-loop, a, and'aback-strap-holding frame, E, and a plate, A, secured to the plate A, substantially as shown and described.

' 3. A haine-tug made with a metal plate, A. provided with oppositely arranged studs B and a longitudinal rib or corrugation, (t and a face-plate, A, secured along the riband facing the studs, substantially as shown and described.

4. Ahame-tug plate, A,formed with alongitudinal rib or corrugation, er, and provided on its ends with draft andtraceeyes, substantially as set forth.

5. Ahame-tug made with a metal plate, A, provided with opposite studs, B, a draft-loop, a, a trace-loop, a, and the inner face-plate, A, fixed to plate A, and about parallel flatwise with the outer :face of the plate A, substantially as herein shown and described.

6. The combination, with the hame-tug having studs B, of a trace, T, held to the tug by a loop, 0, having faces or' draft-shonlders t and inclined faces k, permitting the loop to be swung for releasing the heads G from the studs B, substantially as shown and described.

7. The combination of the harne-tug having parallel plates A A and studs B, as specified, and a trace, T, held to the tug by a swinging loop-fastening, 0, provided with heads G, having shoulders '13, inclined faces in, and ex tension-points g", substantially as shown and described.

8. The trace-fastening loop 0, made with a cross-bar, a, side arms, 0 c, and heads G, provided with draft-faces t, inclined faces k, and points 9", substantially as shown and de-' scribed.

9. The combination, with the hame-tug plate A, having studs B, and the fasteningloop 0, provided with heads G, having faces 2' to lock against the studs, as specified, of a bowed spring fitted at the end of the trace,for holding the loop-heads to the tug-plate, substantially as shownand described.

Witnesses: WVILLIAM H. TYLER.

Gno. P. SHUsLEY, I-IORAOE GARFIELD.

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