US198619A - Improvement in harness-saddle trees - Google Patents

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J. HUBER. Harness Saddle-Tree.

No. 198,619. Patented Dec. 25,1871

HER. T0-l UNITnnSTATns PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB HUBER, OF NEWARK, NEWJERSEY, ASSIGNOR. OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN M. GWINNELL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-SADDLE TREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,619, dated December 25, 1877; application filed October a, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB HUBER, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saddle- Trees, 85c. and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. I

This inventionrelates tocertain improvements in saddle-trees for harness, and is fully shown in the drawings accompanying this specification, in which- I Figure 1 is an elevation of one-half of a complete saddle, with its terrets and hook.

Fig. 2 is a View of the tree; Fig. 3, a plan of the tree; and Fig. 4, a view of the bottom plate K.

Similar letters of reference indicate correv spending parts in each of the several figures.

This invention consists in constructing the saddle-tree, as fully'described hereinafter, to

r secure the attachment of the flaps.

In Fig. 1, A is the body of the saddle-tree; B, the terret, and O the hole for'rein-hook. D is the leather flap, under which is a leather brace, E, and over which the back-band or shaft-strap F is secured by its insertion through the opening G, in Fig. 2, and its embracing ,the stem H of the terret B, which passes through the jockey I, flap D, and said shaftstrap F into the nut b. In orderto retain the flap D firmly on the i tree and hold its end flat against the face of the moldingof the same readily in sand.

The end of the tongue, being parallel with the face of the tree, holds the flap D fiat on said face without the use of the ordinary riv ets or pins, while it does not extend above the face of the flap, to make aprotuberance below the jockey. t

In Fig. 3 are shown certain holes a, provided to fit pins con bottom plate K, or vice versa, which are secured to the tree by riveting said pins in the holes a; or both platesimparting great stiffness and strength to the 7 tree and furnishing a smooth surface, which conforms to the shape of the horses back.

The casting of the bottom plate K separately secures the utmost lightness in its construction. The lugs 0 have openings 6 cast behind them, to lighten the castings and facilitate their being drawn from the sand, and the pins (0 providing a cheap and effectual means of fastcningthe plates to the body of the saddle tree A.

I am aware that a hook below the terret for Q holding a tongue of theflap, which flap extends beneath the tree, has been used, and I do not claim the same; but I claim The combination, in a harnesssaddle, of a flap lying on top of the tree, and a hook, J,

arranged above the terret, and holding the.

upper end of the flap in contact with the face of the tree, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto affix my signature in pres- I ence of two witnesses.

" JACOB HUBER.

Witnesses: V V

OLIVER DRAKE,

P. J. INSLEE.

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