US1406735A

US1406735A - Hame and trace connection

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Publication number: US1406735A
Application number: US296254A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick F Hodges
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-05-10
Filing date: 1919-05-10
Publication date: 1922-02-14
Anticipated expiration: 1939-02-14

Description

F.F. HODGES.

HAME AND TRACE CONNECTION.

APPLICATION FILED'MAY 10, 1910.

1,406,735. Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

S nuntoz Frederic/4 H0 c1535 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK F. HODGES, 0F KALAMAZOO', MICHIGAN.

HAME AND TRACE CONNECTION.

a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iame and Trace Connections, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hame and trace connections upon harness, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby the trace may be readily adjusted upwardly and downwardly on the hame; and, second, to provide a means whereby the trace may be given a vertical, and a lateral pivotal movement upon the hame.

I attain these objects by the mechanism and construction of parts shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of my bolt hame and trace connecting elements. Fig. 2 is a sectional end view of the hame with my appliance attached showing its relative position with the collar, a cross sectional outline of which is shown. Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the connecting members in my bolt hame connection. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the other member of my bolt hame connection, the member shown in Fig.3 being shown in dotted outline as it appears when in cooperative position therewith. Figs. 5 and 6 are lens of the same elements disconnected to sl Fig. 7 is an elevation of the supporting rivet that secures my connecting element to the hame.

Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

These connecting elements are designed to be used upon any stock hame, 1, and consist of a casing 8 that is secured to the hame by means of several eye bolts or rivets, as 10, which are passed through the base of the casing 8 and through the hamel and riveted in place, as indicated in Figure 3 and are properly distributed to receive and support the pivotal supporting bolt 9, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. The casing is slotted laterally to form a multiple of receptacles for the ends a. and 7) of the

parts

5 and 5, which parts are to be placed into said slots at the desired positions on the hame and are pivotally mounted upon the bolt 9 so they may have a free lateral swing upon said bolt. The element 5 is presumed to be cast, or formed with an integral hub 6 that is de- 10W their general line of construction. 7

. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 14, 1922,

1919. Serial No. 296,254.

signedjto act as a bearing for the loop 4, as indicated in Fig; 1, and when the two elements, 5 and 5, are properly assembled, as indicated bythe solid line view of 5 in Fig. 4, and the dotted outline of 5 in the same figure, they are firmly riveted together, as indicated at 7, so they will form a firm and substantial pivotal support for the loop or link 4, thus providing a pivotal bearing for the Vertical adjustment of the trace. The loop or link 4 is pivotally connected with the trace by means of a looped strap 3, so connected that the trace connections 2 may be made to have a lateral pivotal movement both upon the bolt 9 and the loop 4.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the hame 1, and its connection with the trace 3 connected with the outline, 13, of a collar practically as it is applied in real use.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the hame and tug connections made near the upper end of the casing 8. This is to indicate that the positions of these connections depends entirely upon the position of the slots 0 in the easing into which the bearings a, b are placed when assembling the parts. The space on each side of the central rivet 10 is so distributed that the bearings a, b may bespaced uniformly anywhere in the length of the casing 8. In case the metal loop 3 should become badly worn it is a simple matter to correct the difficulty by taking out the rivets and replacing this part.

lVhat I claim as new in the art, is:

1. In a hame and trace connection for harnesses, a looped metal casing mounted longitudinally of the hame and having lateral slots formed in one side thereof, eye rivets securing the casing to the hame, a bolt passing through the eyes in the rivets, two plates with extended ends thereon, and having openings through the ends to encircle the bolt and form a lateral pivotal connection therewith, said plates riveted together and one of said plates having an annular hub upon one side, to form a vertical bearing between the two plates, a loop mounted upon said bearing, a sheet metal plate riveted to the end of the trace and arranged to form a pivotal bearing around the first named loop giving the trace both a lateral and a vertical pivotal movement through its connection with the first named loop.

2. In a hame and trace coupling for harnesses, a looped casing having lateral slot-s uniformly distributed longitudinally thereon, eye rivets securing said casing to the hame, a bolt passed through the eyes of said rivet-s longitudinally of the hame, connecting members having projecting ends by means of which they are pivotally mounted upon said bolt and adapted to a lateral pivotal movement thereon, one of said members having an annular hub on one side and the other of said members having a portion 10 abutting said hub, a loop mounted upon and FREDERICK F. HODGES.