US26291A - Whiffletbee-hook - Google Patents

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s. .PERK WH FF INS.

BTRBB HOOK.

Patented Nov, 29, 1859.

\ UNITED STATES PATENT on Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,291, dated November To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. M. PERKINS, of Albany, in the county of Whitesides and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVhifiietree-Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the folowing is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification, in the several figures of which similar characters of reference denote the same part.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a whifiletree hook embracing my improvements connected to the whiflietree and the trace attached. Fig. 2- represents a sectional elevation of the Whiflietree and hook, showing the spring Within the hook. Fig. 3 represents a modification in the arrangement of the position of the revolving iprilpg button for retaining the trace on the The object of my improvements in whifiietree hooks is to give greater security in the attachment of the trace to the whiffletree; and my invention for efiecting this object consists in combining with the studwhich enters the end of the whifiietree a spring button so arranged that when turned in one position the eye of the trace is passed over it on the outside to the stud and held by the springing back of the button so as not to be unhooked when the trace is extended in drawing the carriage or slackened in going down hill; and my invention further consists in combining with a turning spring button a stationary button so arranged as to prevent the eye of the trace, in all positions from being unhooked without turning the revolving button.

My invention also consists in arranging the stops and spring of the turning button, so as to retain the button in such a position as not to be turned by the trace when hooked to the whiffietree, and also to retain it in a position at right angles to the stationary button; and my invention also consists in constructing the turning button with a hooked end in order to catch the eye of the trace and hold it while being passed from the outside over the end of the button.

In the accompanying drawing is represented my improved whifiietree hook which button. I I

spring button (Bylan d on the button and coiled aifoundfthe shank is a spiral spring ((3) onef bfj h I therotherllllw hew i I l I I I so tached. to the shank gand Extending from the inner oftlie I ton is a projecting pini(a), and on the shank are two stops (6 and h) which regu late the range of motion ofthe button inI either direction. In the present instance these stops allow the button to be turned about a quarter of a circleffrom a horizontal to a vertical position, and the spring iswsoh 3 arranged as to carry. the bIlttOIl'fIOm a ver- I I I tical position forwardto a horizontal. To the outer end of the shank. .whichtpasses through the buttonyis attached: a stationary z stop (D) arranged at rightanglessto the.

turning button, when against the Iforward stop, and extends suflicient distance beyond, its sides to prevent the eye of; the trace being drawn over the endlof the button. 1.

The rear end .(E) of the button 1 made in the form ofahook in order to catch I the rear end of tlieeye of the trace, and hold it while it is passedover the end ofthebut I ton. In hooking the traceytothe .w-hiffletree the button (-B) when arranged as described, 1 1

is turned to a position nearly verticallto corks respond or be in line with the stopg(D)..*

8 5 1 The eye of the trace isfcaught and; heldby I. [I I the button hook (E) and then passed over f the outer stop and button On being reg I.

leased the button springs back to nearly a g I the outer stop, and thetraceisheld b the. If 1 button and stop from being drawn o the horizontal position. and at rightfangles Ijtoj whifiletree hook.

It will be seen fromjthe a r ng httolf I 1 the spring (C) and the directionin which it draws the button and alsothepositioniofk the stop (1)) and the projecting pin,(d) I which bears on the stop when the button is in a state of rest,that the button cannot be a tion it would assume in drawing the. car- II 3 riage so as to allow the trace to. be discony- I 1 turned by the eye of the traoe in any posii nected from the whiflietree hook. I

I do not confinemyselflto theyprecise are. I rangement, former position of the spring 1 button in relation to the whiffietree \as it w 1 may be arranged and U constructed inthe manner represented inFig. 3,. in which the outer sto is removed and the button heldin 1 5 I a vertica position when atrest,and turned;

in a horizontal position to pass the eye of the trace over and connect or disconnect it with the Whifiletree.

Having thus described my improvement in Whiffletree ho0ks,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. The combinationof the stud With a revolving spring button arranged substantially as described for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination With arevolving spring button I claim a stationary stop (D) so arranged as to prevent the eye of the trace in all positions from passing over the button.

3. I claim the combination of the spiral spring, the projecting stud and the inner stop arranged substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

4. And I also claim constructing the button With a hooked end substantially as described for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name before tWo subscribing Witnesses. Y

S. M. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

D. S. EFNER, D. L OSTRANDER.

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