US237941A - Hame-tug - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 4 J. B. WOOL'SE-Y.

Hame Tug.

. No. 237,941. Patented Feb. 15,1881.

WITNESSES I d iNVENTOR ATTORN EY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. WOOLSEY, OF BLOOMFIELD, IOWA.

HAME-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,941,. dated February 15, 1881.-

Application filed October 16, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN B. WOOLSEY, of Bloomfield, in the county of Davis and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Hame-Tugs and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings are side views. Fig. 3 shows one form of clip. Fig. 4 shows the clevis, bolt, buckle, and eye. Fig. 5 shows another form of clip; Fig. 6, perspective view of the buckle. Fig. 7 is a perspective of the device applied. Figs. 8 and 9 are detail sectional views.

This invention relates to devices for fastening the traces to the hame-tugs; and it consists in a peculiar buckle and clevis for attaching the end of the trace to the halne-tug at the hame, and a clip of peculiar construction for fastening the end of the tug to the trace, all as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the annexed drawings, A is the hemetug, having eye a and holes a.

B is the trace. At one end of this trace there is fastened, by rivets, the clevis O.

D is a buckle having ears d 6?, loop 01, curved bearing 6, and tongue 61'. This buckle is held to clevis O by bolt E, passing through ears 61 (Z and the clevis G, the curved bearing (1 resting against the trace B, and the tongue 11' entering one of the holes a in tug A, said tug passing through loop 01.

By this construction a strong fastening is made, and allstrain holds the parts together, and the curved bearing prevents the loop from pulling upon the tug.

To hold the tug flat to the trace its inner end, a", is looped about the bar f of clip F, whose loops f f pass over the trace B.

In attaching this device to harness the loop or eye a is made fast to the hame-loop, and the tug A is passed through the loop d of buckle D, the tongue 61 entering one of the holes a, and the curved bearing 61' coming between the tug and trace. The trace is then passed under the loops f f of clip F. This latter device is intended forshort-tug harness.

In Figs. 1 and 5 there is shown a clip, H, for use with long-tug harness. This clip H takes the place of clip F, its bar h beingheldin the looped end'of the tug A. This clip H has the loops h h h for the belly-band, backsaddle, and breeching straps, respectively, and loop h', to rest upon the trace.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The buckle D, having ears (Z cl, loop 61, curved bearing 01, and tongue 61', in combination with clevis 0, bolt E, and hame-tug A.

2. The clip H, having bar h and loops h h hill hllll 3. The combination of the hame-tug A,having eye a, holes a, and loop a, and the trace B, having clevis O, with buckle D, bolt E, and clip H.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. WOOLSEY.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. BROWN, HENRY NULToN.

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