US1253838A - Trace-carrier. - Google Patents

Description

W. P. KIEST.

TRACE CARRIER.

APPLICATION um) NOV. 22. 1916.

Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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The object of the inventioil is to provide an improved form of those harness fittings which 'icomb ifle *a eonaeaitg plare bride?" for the back strap, crupper strap andh straps, and a supporting device for the ends of the tugs or traces. In this connection the invention contemplates a simply constructed device which may be readily employed in a harness structure either as a plain connection or as a part of a back pad to which the device is sewed, or in which it is embedded. To this end, the device consists, generally speaking, of a continuous heavy wire or bar in which are formed certain bends and turns and from which results the completed structure. This construction provides a very light fitting without sacrificing any of the necessary strength which it must possess. By making the devices of wrought wire or bar metal, an added strength may be given to it which the ordinary cast fitting which is known to me does not have.

With the above objects in view and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, my invention will now be fully set forth and described; reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 7

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device showing the ends of the harness straps connected thereto, and

Fig. 2*is a side elevation of the device and of a trace cockeye in engaging relation therewith.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the device is shown to be asuitably rectangular base member from whose longitudinal sides a pair of locking loops rise, the loops being shaped so that the eye portion of a cock-eve may be inserted from certain angles, and be prevented from coming out fia s i i standing "looking or he war-{11 and shaped into the latter, and 1s when standing at any normal angle, The

base jframe "maths gara -11y I retaining loops are formedfrom a continuous heavy. hiten. The vertgica ldoop 2 formed ,from lone end of the'fcorfftinuo'us blank length i below the-jloo'p is't'urned lbacl rto forni'one' side of! the bas'e 1, the-ftighctf ate-tans llellig passed "through" a 165g; 3 formed upon the first end of lengthat one s'iideflof the loop ZY' Fronitthe end of tlie'l'ongitiidinal siddof the rectangular base '1 the. jblank isjturnedfat right angreste formg the Sher-tside and again ijghuangl'esjto' parallel the first longitu inalsid'eiuidto' forin'tlie base of the second retainingloo 5. After forming the turned up:

then wrapped as at 6 around the second 1ongitudinal side of the base. From the wraps 6 the blank is laid. along the longitudinal side of the frame 1 which forms the base of the loop 5 and is continued therebeyond a proper distance to provide a strap hold, the blank from the forward end of this continuation being turned at right angles to form the second transverse side 7 of the frame 1, and the second end of the frame being then turned inwardly and wrapped at 8 around the corner of the first loop 2. In this manner the complete device is formed from a single length of material.

After the device has been formed as above described, the side 4 becomes the point of attachment for a back strap 9, the longitudinal sides of the frame 1, adjacent the side 4 become the points of attachment for the hip straps 10, while the second short or transverse side 7 becomes the point of attachment for the crupper strap 11.

The retaining loops 2 and 5 are formed with the lower elongated openings 12 and the vertical narrow openings 13 surmounting the openings 12 so that a pair of opposing angular projections 14 are provided between the horizontal and vertical ortions of the loops. The vertical dimension and the widest transverse dimension are too narrow for the passage of a cock-eye at the rear end of the trace, but by tipping the cock-eye in one direction, and passing the eyelet thereof around the projections upon the o posite ends of the oops the eyelet may fie readily slipped into the loop, but when the cock-eye has been turned into fiat relation and allowed to drop against the vertical of the horizontal part of the loop it is practically impossible for theacock-feyertoa fall out of the loop without an agency which order to preventwtherei ns" from catching in between the loops 2 and 5, a transverse cross or brace bar 15 may be used to join the upper ends of the,1oops, the ends of the brace b ar being turned around the material of; the loopsa d serving al soto holdthem in; rigid relation. v y

From the foregoing it will be obvious that I have provided a verysiinple and improved form of trace carrier, one in which thetrace ends may be located without extra efiort, and in which when the traces have been placed in position, there is little danger of the ends working loose and falling. Forming the device, in one continuous length, it is possiblev to manufacture economically a device which has'heretofore been made in cast metal, and has therefore not had the capa- 'frame adapted to receive the ends of a bacir strap, of hip .straps and of a crupper strap, and a pair of loops rising vertically from the rectangular base frame andeach consisting of a lower section and an; upper section; ithe said upper section beingdess in width than the-lower section thus providing oppositely l projecting angular. shoulders, over either of which the; eye port-ion of a cockeye is passed in engaging th'elatter with one of the loops, substantially as dScribed.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM P. KIES'T.

Witnesses:

HENRY J. CAMPEAU, ELSIE M. HAACK.

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