US277431A

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Publication number: US277431A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-05-08
Anticipated expiration: 1900-05-08

Description

(No Model.)

A. C. SMITH.

HORSE TAIL HOLDER.

No. 277,431'. Patented May 8,1883.

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ALLEN O. SMITH, OF OANAAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VAN RENSSELAER POWELL, OF TROY, NEV YORK.

HORSE-TAI L HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,431, dated May 8, 1883.

Application tiled February 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, ALLEN C. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the town of Canaan, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Tail Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

1o The general object of this invention is .to

produce a very simple, effective, and quicklyapplied device in the forni of a band for holding together in nice form the hair on a horses tail when the hair is folded up out of the way 15 of being spattered by mud.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l. and 2 represent two of my improved horsetail holders, each of which embodies all the essential features and parts of my invention. Figs.

2c 3, 4, and 5 represent three horse-tail holders, each of which embraces one or more of the parts of the same invention. Fig. 6 represents one ot' my improved devices around a crosssection of the folded-up hair on the tail of a 25 horse.

In the lseveral figures similar parts are marked by like letters.

In the devices represented, A is a part which is nearly in the form of a semicircular bow or 3o band, and has secured toits ends straps B B',

furnished with a buckle, C, whereby the device can be tightly fastened about the folded hair on the tail of a horse.

Vlo use either of the devices shownthe hair 3 5 on a horsels tail is simply folded up by commencing at its end, making the first fold about four or five inches in length, and continuing the folding upon the under side of the tail until the fold is about four or tive inches on 4o the stump, and so that the hairs growing on the top and upper side parts of the tail shall extend from their roots directly to, over, and along the upper half partof the fold. Then the concave side of the bow A of the holder 45 is placed on the top ot' tbe middle part ofthe folded hair Z,Fig. 6,and the strap B is passed under the fold and buckled tothe other strap, B', tightly about the fold.

To cause the holder to strongly adhere to 5o the hairs that extend from their roots directly along the top and upper side parts of the fold,

I make the inner surface ofthe part A of the holder with a series of inwardly-tapering ribs or projections, d, and intervening tapering grooves or recesses, e, so that by tightening 5 the holder upon and around the folded hair the hairs that extend from their roots directly along the top and side parts of the fold will be forced, crowded,and wedged into the series of tapering grooves or recesses e, as indica-ted 6 in Fig. 6, so as to thereby greatly lessen the liability of the holder to become slipped down on the horses tail. As regards this feature of my invention the part A, or its inner portion, may consist of a crimped or corrugated strip 6 of sheet metal, j, as indicated in Figs. 4t or 5, or of other suitable material or materials.

To increase the adhesion to the hair ot' the part A, and to prevent all liability of the hair being cut or injuriously scraped by the inner 7 surface of that part of the holder,I commonly make the part A, or its inner surface portion, of a somewhat soft and elastic materialas leather or vulcanized india-rubber-substantially as indicated in Figs. l, 2, 3, or 6.

In Fig. 3 the part A is, represented as consisting wholly of a transverselygrooved strip of moderatelystift' leather or vulcanized india-` rubber.

Toincreasetheniceappearauceof theholder, 8 facilitate its application to the fold of hair'on a horses tail, and cause the inner surface ot' the part Ato adhere strongly to the hair without liability of injuring it, I commonly prefer to have the outer portion of the part A consist of a strip, g, of somewhat bendable and elastic sheet metal, in a permanent bow shape of nearly a semicircular form, and to line the same with a strip, h, of moderately soft and elastic materialsuch as leather, or, prefera- 9 bly, vulcanized india-rubber-substantially as indicated in Fig. l, 2, or 6,and to rivet or otherwise securel flexible straps B B, ofleather or equivalent material, vto the ends of the part A, and furnish the straps with a buckle, O, or 9 its equivalent fastening device.

A horse-tail holder has been made in the form of aconcave strip, having at its ends straps furnished with a buckle, and having two long` pins or thin parts extending inwardly 1 from such concave part for insertion into or through the folded hair, but not having the inner surface portion of such concave partformed with a series of taperinggrooves or recesses, nor composed of vulcanized indiarubber.'

W'hat I claim as my invention is 1.' A horse-tail holder having on its inner surface a series of tapering grooves or recesses7 3. A horse-tail holder composed of a curved strip, g, of metal, having a grooved or recessed I 5 1inin'g, h, of somewhat soft and elastic material, and at its ends straps furnished with a fastening device, substantiall5T as described.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto set myhand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, zo this 10th dayof February, 1883.

ALLEN C. SMITH.

Witnesses:

JACOB L. ROWE, AUSTIN F. PARK.