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I (No Model) C. ROEHL.

HAMB. No. 289,028; Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

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CARL ROEHL, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO CARL FRIEDRICH KLEUZE, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patenthlm 289,028, dated November 27', 1883.

Application flied April 10, 1883. (Nomodehl To all whom zit may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL ROEHL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Harnes for Harness, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object to produce metallic hames for horses harness that are simple in. their construction, combine great strength with lightness, and can be readily adjusted to fit to collars of different size and shape, and the necks and shoulders of diiferent horses; and it relates to improvements on the devices described in Letters Patent Nos. 245,869 and 245,870, issued to me on August 16, 1881, and in the application for Letters Patent (Serial No. 81,474) filed by me on January 10, 1883, that will simplify and reduce the cost of manufacture of the hames and yet retain the principal advantagesset forth in my former applications.

Myinvention consists of the peculiar shape and construction of the heme-bars, and in the device for securing the tug-eye and martingale-ring, all as hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of my improved hames provided with the spring locking device Fig. 2, an elevation of one of the hame-bars with a bottom loop for a han1e-strap. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the martingale-ring and clevis detached; Fig. at is a cross-section of a hame-bar on line :1: a Fig. 5, an elevation of that portion of the hame to which the tugeye is to be attached; and Fig. 6 shows a bottom and edge view of the tug-eye detached.

Corresponding letters in the several figures designate like parts.

A A denote the hame-bars, cast of metal, (preferably ofmalleableiron,) and each consisting of a plate, a, that has a flange, 6, extending from its inward edge in an acute angular direction, with a rounded vertex edge, 0, unitingthe sides a b, which form a tapering or wedge-shaped double face, that is intended to fit in the crease of the collar, and with the plate a. shaped to bear against the body of the collar. A brace, (1, extending in a line approximately at right angles to the length of hame from one plate, a, up against the other plate, b, stiffens these parts and serves to prevent their being mashed or forced together, so that the wedge shape of the two outer faces of the plates is preserved. A hame-bar, A, thus composed of plate a, that is re enforced by flange b and braced by a series of small ribs, d, will combine great strength and stiffness with proportional little weight.

Against the lower ends of plates a are ad= justably secured, by eye-headed screws c, slotted extensi on plates B B, one of which has an end socket, f, and the other one having a tenon, g, which, with bringing the hames together, will enter socket f, and thereby will connect the two ends of the homes and hold them steady, as described in my former application. For securing the free lower ends together, a tube, 0, is hinged to extension-plate B, and a tube, D, to the other extension-piece, B, that will enter tube (3, and has a springbolt, E, for locking the parts, also described in my former application. Instead of applying extension-plates B and spring-bolt E, I can as well secure the hames adjustably with I leather buckle-strap, h, for which purpose a provide the lower end of each hame-bar with a-loop, a, as in Fig. 2.

For adjustably connecting the upper ends of the hames, I provide a series of notches, j, in the outer edges of plates a and flanges b, with a ring, F, slid over each haine bar that will lock with either one of the notches, both these rings 13 being connected by a bucklestrap, G.

H are the terret's that are riveted or screwed to the hames.

I are the tug-eyes, secured by rivets or bolts against lugs formed on plate-a of the hame-bar. This tug-eye has to the under side of its connecting-plate 0 projecting lugs, with intermediate cavities, m, that formthe sockets or bearings for the inwardly-projecting trunnions a of a clevis, J, which forms the coupling-link for martingale-ring L.

The object of this construction is to cast all the parts separate and then to couple them, first by inserting ring L into the clevis J through the openings between its trunnions n, then by sliding the clevis J over the end'of the plate 0 of tug-eye I until its trunnions n have entered the cavities m, and then, after thus linking the parts together, by riveting or bolting the tug-eye to the hame.

Hames of the above construction are light, strong, and durable, their metal parts can all be cast of malleable iron, and their construction is simple and inexpensive.

\Vhat I claim is- 1. A metalhame consisting of plate u, having flange I), that extends from its inward edge in an acute angular direction, forming a tapering or wedge-shaped double face to fit into the crease of the collar, substantially as set forth.

2. A metal hame consisting of plate a, having flange b, that extends from its inward edge in an acute angular direction, and braces or ribs (1, which extend from. one plate to the other at approximately right angles to the length thereof, and prevent the said parts from being crushed together, all substantially as set forth. 7

3. In a hame for harness, the tug-eye I, having plate 0, with cavities m, in combination with clevis J, having trunnions n and martingale-ring I1, constructed and arranged sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. he metal hame A, consisting of plate a, with acute angular flange 1), in combination with tug-eye I, having plate 0, with cavities m, clevis J, with trunnions n, and martingalering L, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

fAR-L ROEHL.

Witnesses:

HARRIs W. HUEHL, ADAM GEO. WHITE.

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