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Description

(No Model.) N. O. MOODY.

REIN GUARD FOR WHIFPLETREES.

Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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INVENTOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

NATHAN C. MOODY, OF NE\VBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES H. RICHARDSON, OF SAME PLACE.

RElN-GUARD FOR WHIFFLETREES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,145, dated October 2, 1883.

Application filed July 525, 1853. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NATHAN G. MOODY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newburyport, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein-Guards; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description-of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end oi'a whii'iletree provided with my improved rein-guard. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, showing the spring-catch for holding the guard in its position; and Fig. 8 is a plan or top view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to guards adapted to be fastened upon the ends of a whiffietree for the purpose of preventing the reins or lines from becoming entangled between the whiiiietrees and crossbar, where they are apt to get caught, that the driver will lose control over his team; and it consists in theimproved construction of a guard of that class, here inafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A repre sents one end of a whifiietree provided with my improved guard. The latter consists of a rod, B, of iron or other suitable material, bent into the shape shown, so as to extend out over the whit'fletree hook or cockeye, (shown at (3,) upon which the traces are fastened.

It will be seen that this guard effectually prevents the reins from falling down under the traces and getting caught between the whifiietree and cross-bar.

If desired, and in order to facilitate hitching or unhitehing of the traces, Il. may pivot the guard B upon the bolt D, and provide its flattened end E, which rests upon the top of A the whit'fletree, with a spring-catch, F, adapted to interlock with a notch in the whiffletree, as will appear more clearly by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings. Thus, when it is desired to hitch or unhitch the traces, the guard may be swung to one side upon its pivot-bolt D, and after the hitching or nnhitching has been effected it may be sprui'lg back again over the traces to its former position, when the spring-catch F, by interlocking with the notch in the whitfietree, will hold the guard firmly in this position until it is desired to unhitch, when it may be sprung out of the wa as indicated in the dotted lines in Fig. 3.

I am aware thata reinguard has been. made consisting of a bent rod extending from the pivotal bolts of two single-trees upon a double tree, preventing the reins from being caught under the inner ends of the said single-trees; and I am consequently aware that the principle of a rein-guard is not broadly new, nor do I wish to claim such construction, broadly; but

\V hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ol' the United States, is'

l. A reilrguard consisting of curved or hooked rods fastened to the outer ends of a whiiiletreeand overlapping the eockeyes and shafts, as and for the purpose shown and set forth. 7

2. The combination, with the whillletree A, of the curved rein-guard B, pivoted upon the -bolt 1), and provided with a spring-catch, F, adapted to lock the guard in its operative position, in a vertical plane with and overlap ping the whi'ltletree hook or cockeye, substair tially as and For the purpose shown and set forth.

In. testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed in y signature in presence of two witnesses.

NATHAN CARTER MOODY. XVitnesses:

Hermon l. BARTLETT, STEPHEN Compms.

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