US283539A

US283539A - Halter

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Publication number: US283539A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 1900-08-21

Description

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, C. S. UPTON.

HALTER.

Patented Aug. 21,1883.

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HALTER.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,539, dated August 21, 1883.

Application filed June 15, 1883. (No modeLl To all whom 212% may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. Urron, of

Spencerport, Monroe county, New-York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Halters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of the halter. Fig. 2 is side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of the clamp for attaching the throat-latch. Fi g. 4 is a similar view, but showing a modification. Fig. 5 is a detail view.

My improvement relates to halte rs made ontirely of rope, and consisting of a head-piece, a nose-piece, and a stale or hitching end, which passes through a noose in the body of the 11 al ter. Such halters are usually made without a throatdatch and are very insecure, as the horse can easily get it off over his head. In this halter I employ a throat-latch made of leather; and the invention consists of metallic. clamps of peculiar construction, which are adjustable to diiierent heights on the rope, and capable of being fixed in place at any position, and eyes or rings on. the clamps to which the straps of the throat-latch. are attached, all as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A shows the halter made entire from one piece of rope. It consists of a head piece or loop, a, anosepiece, b, and a forming the nose-piece.

stale or hitching end, 0. The rope is first doubled, forming a loop, f, and secured by clamps (Z (Z. One end is then carriedup, forming the head-piece, and the other forward,

stand in the same plane with the body of the 7 ring. On the back side of the clamp is cast The loose end 1 of or otherwise formed an eye or ring, k, to receive the strap of the throat-latch. The eye may be round, square, or of other form, and it may either be formed solid with the clamp, as shown in Fig. 3, or it may pass through the clamp and rest loosely thcrcin,'as shown in Fig. 4. Two of these clamps are strung upon the rope before the halter is formed, and then, after the halter is formed, they are adjusted in position on each side of the head-piece, and then they are clamped in place by turning the spurs 0r teeth 71 i down at right angles and into the rope, which holds them fast in place. The straps mm, forming the throat-latch G, are then attached to the eyes and the halteris complete.

I do not claim in this application, simply and broadly, the ring-clamps having the spurs or teeth, as these are shown and described in my patent of May 15, 1888; but such clamps alone are not capable of use asa throat-latch fastening; and my invention consists of the clamps provided with the eyes or rings, as before described, and as shown in thedrawings. By this means the throat-latch can be attached securely to rope, which, from its form, is difficultto attach to, and it can also be set higher or lower in fixing it in place, which is not done in any other halter with which I am acquainted.

A halter thus made can be furnished at the minimum price, and is as strong and enduring as aleather halter, and has the great advantage of being provided withathroat-latch, so that the horse cannot get it off.

' Having described my invention, I claim- The combination, with the cheek straps or ropes of a halter, of a ring provided with clampingspu rs adapted to be bent inward, and having an eye for the attachment of the throatlatch, all'substautially as described.

. CHARLES S. UPTON.

\Vitnesses R. F. Oseoon, L. E. Moss.