US266574A - Trace-carrier - Google Patents

Description

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M. E. ZELLER.

- TRACE GARRIER.

' No. 266,574. Patented Oct. 24, 1882 NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

MELANCTHON E. ZELLER, OF BLUFFTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO 0. B. NORTH 85 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,574, dated October 24, 1882.

Application filed August 18, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MELANCTHON E. ZEL- LER, of Bluifton, in the county ofAllen and State of Ohio, have invented a new Improvement in Trace-Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part ofthis specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view; Fig. 2, a vertical central section illustrating the operation of the carrier.

This invention relates to a device to be attached at the junction of the back and hip straps ot'a horses harness to afford convenient means for engaging the cockeye ot' the trace, and commonly called the trace-carrier and the invention consists in a frame to which the straps are respectively attached, combined with an elevated ring or support, with a loose tongue hung to said support at each side so as to hang free vertically downward therefrom, as more fully hereinafter described.

The frame is composed of the four sides A, which form bars for the attachment of the back, hip, and crupper straps in the usual manner. Above this frame is a second frame, B, preferably of ring shape, which serves as a support for the tongues. This part B is held above the frame A by posts C, and so as to leave a free space between it and the frame or part of the harness below. To this support B at each side a tongue, D, is hung so -as to swing freely and hang in a vertical position by its own gravity, as seen in Fig. 1. This completes the article.

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The cockeye E is attached as seen in Fig. 2. Its eye end is pressed inward against the tongue D, which turns it to the position seen in broken lines, Fig. 2, until the eye has passed beyond the end ofthe tongue. Then the tongue falls down within the eye. The eye, then left free, draws the tongue against the frame A and makes the engagement complete. To detach the trace, move the cockeye inward until the tongue may be turned away from the eye, as indicntedin broken lines. Then the cockeye may be withdrawn. For convenience of thus turning the devices they are provided with a thumb-piece, d, above their pivots.

I am aware that trace-carriers have been made with tongues hinged above the base, and therefore do not claim broadly such a construe tion but I am not aware of a trace-carrier in which the tongues have been hung so as to swing free upon a support above the base, and hang down toward the base in a vertical position, retaining that position by their own gravity only, which are the essential features of my invention.

I claim The herein-described improved trace-carrier, consisting of the lower or base frame, A, and the ring-shaped frame B, supported by suitable standards, C, and having tongue D loosely pivoted thereon at opposite points, as described, said tongues being adapted to hang in-a vertical position by their own gravity,

7 substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MELANCTHON E. ZELLER.

Witnesses J. H. PATTERSON, H. N. ORONINGER.

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