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' A. 'L.'HILL. HOG RINGING IMPLEMENT.

Patented July 5, 1881 uii-arzi/y I. PETERS. momymn m mr. Washington. ac.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW L. HILL, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND E.

A. JONES, OF SAME PLACE. I

HOG-RINGING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,895, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed June 8, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW L. HILL, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hog-Ringing Implements;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked IO thereon, which form part of this specification,

and in which- V Figure 1 shows the device opened. Fig. 2 shows it closed. Fig. 3 shows the ring open and closed, and Fig. 4 shows it applied to the [5 snout of a hog. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the jaws.

The object of my invention is to provide an efficient means for ringing hog-snouts to prevent them from rooting, and one that will be rapid and easy in its application and to these ends it consists in the peculiar construction of the pinchers, whereby a piece of sheet metal may be forced through the snout, and at the same time turned or bent to form a small cylinder.

It has been heretofore customary to ring the snouts of hogs with wire, but the difficulty experienced with this method is that the wire ring soon pulls out or breaks, without even leaving the snout in a condition to prevent the hog from rooting as well as though it had never been ringed. By using a piece of sheet metal of suitable width in the place of wire I completely obviate these defects, as the slot through the snout is of such length that even in the event of the cylinder becoming detached, which is very difficult to do, yet the snout will be deprived of its natural stifi'ness or rigidity.

To enable others skilled in the art to make 40 and use my invention, I will now describe it more fully.

A represents the pinchers, constructed with widened jaws curved toward each other. The

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upperjaw, a, is edged, while the lower one, a,

is flattened on its face to give a suitable bear- 4 5 ing-surface against which to cut. The lower jaw is shouldered or notched, as seen at I), just under the inner portion of its lip or flattened surface, so that when the piece of sheetmetal B is inserted, as seen in Fig.1, it will be firmly held in place, and the iuner portion of the lip of thejaw a, just over the notch b, is beveled, as seen ate in Fig. 5, in order that when the free end of the sheet-metal ring B comes around it will be turned slightly inward and slip easily past its stationary end. The width of the jaws should be about half an inch, more or less.

The operation of my device is as follows: The sheet-metal pieces being slightly curved at their ends, one is properly inserted between the jaws. When the handles of the pinchers are closed the sharpened edge of jaw a will cut the snout about half through, at which point the upper curved end of the metal plate B will overtake the cutter and be forced through the snout, overlapping its lower end, forming an inclosed cylinder, whose overlapping portion is on the outer lower side of the snout. The operation being completed it is continued in like manner.

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

The within-described implement for ringing hogs snouts, consisting of the pinchers A, having the cutting-jaw cand the anvil-jaw a, the latter provided with notch 11 and beveled edge 0, all substantially as herein described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW L. HILL. Witnesses:

T. H. ALEXANDER, W. R. KEYwoE'rH.

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