US214554A - Improvement in check-rein guides for bridles - Google Patents

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B. A. DENNI-s.v Check-E8111 Guides for Brid'les.

No..v 214,554. Patented Apri l 22, 1879 ATTEST. w INVENTDH.

MPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHISNGTON D O ;UNITEDSTATES PA'rFNr OFFICE.

' 1 BENJAMIN A, Dennis, on PAWTUOKET, ssienon To ouAnLns H. Dow,

OF PROVIDENOE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMET I'N CHECK-REIN GUIDES F OR BRIDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 4.5511, (lated April 22, 1879; application filed August l, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concera:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN A. DENNIS, of Pawtucket', in the count-y of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Overdraw Check-Reni Guides'for Bridles; and lfido hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawin gs furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description thereof. p Heretofore leather loops have been combined with and mounted upon the crown-band's of bridles for use with an overdraw check-reiu, but these do not hold the reins from contact with the adjacent portions of the head of the horse, and more or less chafing results from their use. To obviate this, base -plates pro! vided with vertical standards have been de' vised for affording an elevated support for the check-rein. Some of these have been straight on the upper ed ge from end to end, and rounded laterally for contact with a flat check-reiu, and others have been provided with circnlar apertures for the reception of a round check-rein. If either of this class be of sufficient height to properly elevate the cheek-rein from the head of the horse, they are liable to tip forward or backward, and he retained in'those positions by the angular bend inthe checlr-rein at its point of contact with the guide, said reins being usually so adjusted as to be under considerable tension Vhen these standards are thus tipped backward or forward, the reins are not maintained out of chafing contact, and, what is worse than this, one edge or the other of the base-platcs, or the edge of the crown-band on which they are mounted, is pressed upon the head of the horse, and speedily chafes it raw.

Now, the object of my invention is to attain the requisite height of standard, and obviate all liability of its tipping backward orforward; and my invention consists, mainly, in the combination,with a bridle crown-band,of an overdraw check-rein guide-loop, composed of a double standard mounted on a base-plate, and provided with a pivoted bearing or seat for the check-rein between the sides of the standard,

whereby the standard -is prevented from tippin g to front or rea-r, and held in that position by the angle of the check-rein. These pivotal bearings for the check-rein are preferably in the form of a roller; and as my guide-loops are I capable of being` readily attached without the aid of a saddler, my invention further consists in an overdraw check-rain guide-loop consisting of a base-plate adapted to be secured date two double standards or frames, c, curved in the manner shown; or, as is preferable, each standard may be provided with its individual plate. The two' standards are connected at the top by a cross-bar, usually forined solidly with the standards. Each of these standards' or frames, with its roller e, constitutes a guideloop. The roller is mounted on an axis, i, which is parallel with the base-plate, and said axis is preferably a separate pin or rod, althrough it may be cast solidly with the roller; but when the pins are used the rollers may be cast hollow, and their weight be thereby reduced to a minimum.

It will be seen that the upper surface of each roller is sufliciently elevated above the lower surface of the crown-band to maintain the check-rein so far above the head of the horse that it cannot chafe, and that the easily-turning roller, actin g as a pivotal point of contact V with the reiu, prevents the standard from tipping forward or backward, as before set forth.

I am well aware that roller-loops have heretofore been employed on straps pendent from the Crown-band on each side for supporting side check-reins, which, in use, are particularly liable to run to and fro in the check-hook, and therefore run more or less through the roller-loops. Theseprior roller-loops are, however, of an entirely different construction from those herein shown, and 'are incapable of being' mounted on the crown-band, because they have no base-plate which is parallel with the axis of the roller, and, so far as my knowledg'e extends, mine are the first which have that construction.

As heretofore applied, rollers in guide-loops for check-reins do not serve to prevent ehafing of the horse7s head, but nierely permit the rein to run freely therein; but on the other hand the roller in my loop not only perinits such limited free movement as is possible in an overdraw check-rein longitudinally, but prevents the standard in which it is mounted from tippin g to the front or the rear, thus not only assuring` the maintenance of the rein at a proper height above the head to prevent chafin g, but it also prevents the standards from being' so tippedand held in the angle of the check-rein at its bearing on the roller that the edge of the plate or the corresponding,` edge of the crown-band will be presented in ehafing,` contact with the head of the horse.

I'desire it to be distinctly understood that I herein make no claim, broadly, to two guideloops mounted on one base-plate but w What I do claim is-- 1. The combination, with a bridle crownband, of an overdraw check-rein guide composed of a double standard' mounted on a baseplate, and a pivoted bearing` or seat for the check-rein between the sides of the standard,

substantially as described, whereby the stand- BENJAMIN A. DENNIS.

Witnesses: I

THos. P. BARNEFIELD, GEO. vWALTER BARNEFIELD..

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