US367400A - Checkrein-hook - Google Patents

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A. N. HOVEY.

CHEGKRBIN HOOK. No. 367,400. Patented Aug. 2, 1887.

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ANSEL N.HOVEY, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.`

CHCKRElN-Hook.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,400, dated August 2,1887.

Application filed April 2l, 1887. Serial No. $235,642. (No model.) V

vand the object of my improvements is to pro vide a hook from which the checkrein is not liable to be accidentally disengaged, and which can be conveniently secured to the harnessi saddle. y-I attain this object by the means illustrated iu the accompanying drawings, in

'which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan, of a portion of a harness-saddle with my improved checkrein-hool'r attached. Fig. 3 shows my checkrein hook attached. to 'that vkind of harness-saddle in which the checkrein-hook is secured on the upper surface of the saddle instead of betweentwo of the different partsof which the saddle is made.

Similar reference-figures refer to similar parts throughout the severalviews l is a part of the skirts ofa harness-saddle. 2 is the seat of a gig-saddle. 3 isa checkreinhook. i

rlhe hook-3 is secured to the saddle in the usual ways and curves forward and upward, then backward and upward, and near its highest part divides into two forks, 4 and 5. The forks 4 and 5 bend away from each otherand backward and downward to near their ends, where they come at opposite sides of and below the highest part or ridge of the saddle. From this point they may bend upward to their ends. Said forks should separate far enough to leave vspace for the checkrein to readily pass edgewise between their lowest part and the saddle.

` The method of adjusting the checkrein to and the-operation of my improved checkreinhook are as follows: The checkrein is bowed over the top of the saddle and passed edgewise between the saddle and the forks 4t and 5, and rests in the bend of the hook 3. It will be noticed that if the checkrein is thrown backward by the motion of the horses head or otherwise, it will strike against the forks 4 and 5 and the top or ridge of the saddle, and be prevented from disengaging, while it may be readily disengaged by hand in a manner similar to that described for inserting Vit into the hook.

In checkrein hooks heretofore used the hook, as the forks .tand 5 separate sufficiently to permit of the bolt 6 being dropped vertically into place between them.

The method ofadjusting my improved checkrein-hook to harness-pads for teams is entirely similar to that herein described for adjusting it to the harness'saddles for single horses, and therefore requires no separate description.

Having fully described my invention, what I wish to claim and secure by Letters Patent l. A checkrein-hook having its prong divided into two gradually-diverging forks, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a harness saddle, of a checkrein-hook bent backward over said saddle and divided into two forks, said forks extending near to and below the highest part of the saddle, substantially as and for the purpose described.' y

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed `my hand and seal this 18th day of April, 1887.

ANSEL N. HOVEY. [L s] Witnesses: A

. ELLIOTT-J. STODDARD,

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