US1214458A - Saddletree. - Google Patents

Description

J. M. HAYS.

SADDLETREE.

APPLICATION FILED $EPT.22, 191s.

Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

JAMES M. HAYS, OF JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI.

SADDLETREE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

Application filed September 22, 1916. Serial No. 121,577.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES M. HAYS, a citizen of the United States of America, a resident of Jefferson City, in the county of Cole, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saddletrees, of which the following is a full,

1 clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a. part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in saddletrees and it has for its object to provide a more secure and permanent fastening of the horns of saddletrees to the wooden front arches or pommels.

Figure I is a front elevation of the front arch and horn of a saddletree constructed in accordance with my improvement. Fig. II is a vertical section taken on line 11-11, Fig. I. Fig. III is a rear elevation of the front arch and horn, the parts being partly broken away and in section to illustrate my improvement.

In the drawings, A designates the front arch of a saddletree, and B the horn carried by said arch.

The arch A is provided with a vertical transverse groove which receives a leg piece or web 2 extending downwardly from the body of the horn B and held in position in the arch A by pins 3 which are inserted through the arch and the leg or web from the front of the former.

The horn B rests upon the arch A in front of the leg 1, as seen in Fig. II, and it is provided with a forwardly extending arm A which also rests upon said arch.

Experien e has shown that although a saddletree horn made in accordance with the foregoing description may apparently be held to the front arch of a saddletree by the attachment of the downwardly extending leg 1, as I have described, and the further connection of the horn to the arch by securing means such as screws. the horn will in time become loosenedunder severe usage, and it is the object of my present invention to so secure the horn to the arch as to eliminate all possibility of the appearanc of looseness between the horn and the arch by which it is carried.

My improved fastening means comprises rivets 5 which are extended vertically through the forwardly extending arm A of the horn B, and also vertically through the arch A beneath said arm. A metal strap 6 is located within the arch A directly beneath the arm A and is perforated to receive the rivets 5. The said rivets after being passed through said parts mentioned are upset at their ends so as to draw the arm 4: tightly to the top of the arch A and secure it permanently to the arch. The strap 6 may, for convenience, be attached to the arch by tacks or nails 7 which serve to hold it in the proper position ready for the application of the rivets 5.

It will be perceived when a saddle-tree horn is fastened to the arch of a saddletree as herein contemplated, it will be so immovably held as to avoid all possibility of play in any direction, and it will be further appreciated that the fastening means is of such construction and so applied that there is absolutely no possibility of the horn becoming loosened in the least degree as has been possible in the use of the fastening means heretofore utilized.

I claim A saddletree comprising a vertically perforated front arch provided with a vertical transverse groove, a horn located on the front arch, having a body formed with a forwardlv extending perforated arm-seated on the front arch, and a perforated leg piece occupying the vertical transverse groove of the front arch, horizontal pins extending through the front arch and through the perforated leg piece, a perforated strap piece within the front arch, and vertical rivets extending through the perforated arm, through the perforated front arch and through the perforated strap piece.

JAMES M. HAYS.

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