US289038A

US289038A - smith

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Publication number: US289038A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-11-27
Anticipated expiration: 1900-11-27

Description

(Model.)

A. C, SMITH.

FLY NET.

` No. 289,038. Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

N. PETERS. Pmcrmhngnper. Wuming V:turen STATES PATENT Erica ALLEN CLINTON SMITH, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLY-NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,038, dated November 27, 1883.

Application filed August 11, 1882. (Model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Beit known that I, ALLEN C. SMITH, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse Fly-Nets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of a net constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof; Fig. 3, a detail view' showing the manner of connecting the rib to the neck-strap and the end of the rib to itself by the same knot that secures the lashes; Fig. 4, a detail View illustrating the manner ot' forming the knot; and Fig. 5, a similar view, showing the position of the ribs when the net is in use.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in that class of horse ily-nets in which the lashes are knotted to the ribs; and the object thereof is to improveA the manner of connecting the extremity of the ends of the ribs after being secured to the neck and crupper straps; and it consists in extending the ribs around and under the straps and fastening their ends or extremities to the ribs by the saine knot that secures the lashes, as will be more fully described. and subsequently pointed out in the claim. f

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the lashes of a horse fly-net, knotted to the usual ribs, B, in the manner shown, the lashes passing through the holes a bin the rib, as more clearly illustrated in Fig. 4. The ribs B are connectedto the neck and crupper straps (l D by rivets d, after which the ribs are brought around and under said straps, and their ends or extremities secured to the ribs by the same knot that fastens the lashes thereto, the extremity or end of the rib having holes that register with the holes a. b,- or they can be punched through with a suitable awl when the extremity or end of the rib has been turned under. The outer ribs have secured to their looped ends rings E, to which is connected a breaststrap, F, having depending lashes e, to protect the front of the horse. ing theends or extremities of the ribs after being attached to the neck and crupper straps by looping them around the same and fastening them by the lashes renders the ribs less liable to tear from their fastenings than were they simply fastened to the straps and their ends terminated at the point of attachment thereto. In the former case there is an equal strain upon the rib in opposite direction from the point of attachment to the strap, while in the latter case any longitudinal strain would be in one direction only, and consequently the fastening would be more likely to tear out.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

j In a horse y-net, the lashes A and ribs B, connected together substantially as described, in combination with the straps C D, the ribs being secured thereto and extending under and around the same and the extremities or ends thereof fastened to the ribs by the same knot that fastens the lashes, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALLEN CLINTON SMITH Witness es R. J. DIEHL, HENRY S. SELLERs.

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