US497541A - Harness - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

A J.-J. GRIFFIN.

HARNESS. l No. 497,541. 'Patented May 16, 1893.

UNITED 'STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN .I. GRIFFIN, OF- IRWIN, IOWA.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,541, dated May 16, 1893.

Application tiled April 28, 1892. Serial No. l30,959. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Irwin, in the county of Shelby and State of Iowa, have invented a newand useful Improvernent in Harness, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manner of connecting hip straps and trace carriers with the back strap of a harness and consists in the arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a metal frame or coupling device adapted for detachably and adjustably connecting a back strap, a crupper, twohip straps and two trace carriers therewith. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a trace carrier adapted to be adj ustably and detachably connected with a hip strap and also adapted to be detachably connected direct with the metal coupling device. Fig. 3 is a top view showing all the parts combined as required for practical use.

Referring to .the accompanying drawings the reference letter A is used to designate the back strap and A2 the crupper strap.

B represents the metal coupling device preferably cast complete in a single piece. It is flat and approximately octagonal in V*outside configuration and provided with elongated slots B2 at its front, rear and side extremities.

B3 are loops extending upwardly from the top of the device'and adapted to admit the back and crupperstrapsto be extended therethrough.

B4 isla tongue projecting upward and located concentrically in the top of the device and adapted to enter any one of the series of perforations O in the straps A and A2. y It is also advantageous for the removal of the crupper whenever desired.

D is a-trace carrier, in the form of a snap hook and coupling device, the under surface of which is adapted to admit a hip strap to be adj ustably connected therewith by means of a tongue D2 and cross bar D3 formed on or fixed thereto.

, N represents a single back strap that has a` perforation in its center. When used it is preferably passed through the loops B2 of the coupling B and secured thereto by allowing the tongue B4 to enter the said perforation i'n its center. It will be at right angles to the back strap A and crupper strap A2 and may be under or on top of these straps and the trace carriers may be detachably and adjustably connected with the back strap, las indicated in Fig. 2, so that a ring H or a cockeye J on the end of a trace may be detachably connected with the trace carrier as required to support the trace.

It is obvious that the trace carriers can be readily adjusted on the hip strap as required to raise and lower their positions relative to ahorse as required to place them within reach of persons of different heights. It is also obvious that the hip strap can be dispensed with in harness for plowing and the trace carrier D connected direct with the vcoupling B by inserting the hooks F of the trace carrier in the loops B2 of the coupling B; or the hip strap ing upward, a back strap and crupper, a hip strap, and a trace carrier D havingloops D3 on its under side to admit a hip strap and a tongue D2 to engage the hip strap, and a hook F at its end to engage a loop B2 of the coupling B, as and for the purposes stated.

JOHN J. GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

ED. QUINN,

M. J. GRIFFIN.

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