US296960A

US296960A - Neck-yoke

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Publication number: US296960A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-15
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-15

Description

No Model.) N. HIATT.

NEGK YOKE.

No. 296.960. j Pa tented Apr. 15, 1884.

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NICHOLAS HIATT, OF INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS.

'NECK-YOKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,960,.dated April 15, 1884-.

Application filed December 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,- each side are ears 0, through which the two Beitknown that I, N IOHOLAS IIIATT, a citiparts A A are secured together at their unzen of theUnited States, residing at Independder sides. A slot or opening, L, is made in ence, in the county of Montgomery and State the under side of the shell,which reaches from 5 of Kansas, have invented certain new and useone ear 0 to the other,which is for the accomful Improvements in Neck-Yoke Centers, of modation of the neck a of the ball. which the following is aspecification, reference F represents a metallic loop with neck 6 and 5 being had therein to the accompanying'drawball D, all cast in one piece. The leather H ings. passes through. the opening K of this loop, and I0 My invention relates to neck-yokes to be is secured around its lower side or bar, J. The used when driving horses in double harness; neck 0 is cast upon the upper bar of the loop, and the object I have in view is to make one and to the upper end of this neck is the ball which is not only strong and durable, but one D, which fits in the socket formed between the which readily accommodates itself to the movetwo parts of the shell.

15 ment of the horses whether they move stead- I represents the opening in the leather, ilyand in harmony or at variance to each other through which the end of the pole passes. in gait. I am aware that it is not new to use a di- In the accompanying drawings, which make vided sleeve upon a neck-yoke stick; and I am a part of this specification, Figurel represents also aware that it is not new to use a ball-and- 2o aplan View, showing a part of one shell broken socket joint in neck-yoke attachments; hence I awaysoas to disclosethe ball ofthe oint. Fig. I do not claim these; but,

2 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is a per- Having thus fully described my invention, spective, of the loop to which the leather for what I claim as new, and desire'to secure by holding the pole is attached. Letters Patent, is

2 5 In the figures, A represents a metallic sleeve The loop F, with its bar J, for holding the which surrounds the center of the neck-yoke leather H, the neck 6, and the ball D, all cast stick. This sleeve is divided centrally and in one piece, in combination with the divided longitudinally in two parts, A A. One'ot' sleeve provided with 'a shell in which is a these parts is provided upon its upper side globe-shaped socket to receive and retain the 0 with a loop, a, and the other with a curved ball D, substantially as and for the purpose tongue, I), which passes into andcutches under set forth.

, the upper bar of the loop when the two parts In testimonv whereof I affix my signature in are to be connected together. The parts A A presence of two witnesses. are also provided on their under sides with 35 the half-shells e B. when the two shells are NICHOLAS HIATT' brought together, a globe-shaped chamber is Witnesses: formed between them, which receives and re- E. P. ALLEN, tains the ball D. Connected to the shells on G. M. RALSTIN.