US367810A - Check-hook - Google Patents

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CHECK HOOK.

No. 367,810. Patented Aug. 9, 1887,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. HIGGINS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHECK-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,810, dated August 9, 1887.

Application filed October 18, 1886. Serial No. 216,516. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Terrets and Oheekrein-Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification. a v

This invention relates to improvements in terrets and cheekrein-holders, and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my invention, and Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of it. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section on the line A B, (shown in Fig. 2;) and Fig. 4 represents a vertical section on the line C D, (shown in Fig. 1.)

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the di'li'erent .parts of the drawings. v

a is a ring, madeof wood, bone, metal, or other suitable material, such ring having an annular groove on its outer periphery, in which fits the split ring b, the latter having in its lower portion asplit screw-threaded shank, b, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The split screw Z) is screwed into the screw-threaded socket a, made in one piece, with the flange c and lower screw threaded shank, c", which latter is adapted to be secured to the saddle or pad of the harness. Between the lower portion of the split ring b and the flange c is located the perforated base (1', that surrounds the socketpiece a, and is provided with an upwardlyprojecting rod or post, cl, located back of the ring a and projecting above the top of the latter, as shown in the drawings, such rod or post serving to receive the loop of the checkrein after it has been passed through the ring a, and when the loop of the eheckrein has been so secured to the post or red d it is impossible to get detached from it, except at the will of the person in charge of the horse or animal.

The ring a can belrea'dily turned around its axis within the split ring b, to adjust it therein in case one portion should become worn by the chafing of the rein. This is a great advantage, as the ring a can be easily turned around when one portion of it is worn more than the other,

audit will thus retain its usefulness much longer than stationary rings.

In using the device as aterret I dispense with the rear projecting rod or post d and ad- \Vhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is I 1. In a checkrein holder, the ring a, in combination with the sl'ibstantially vertical rodor post cl, arranged on the rear and entirely outside of the said ring a, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a eheekrein-holder, the split ring I), having the split screw-threaded shank b, and

the ring a, made adjustable within said split ring, in combination with the rod or post (1, arranged at the rear of said ring a, as and for the purpose set forth. 7

3. In a rein-holder, the ring a, and' the split ring D, with its split screw-threaded shank 1), arranged as described, in combination with the socket c, v having flange c and screwthreaded projection c, and the post or rod d, with its perforated base d, substantially as and for the'purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in. the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 15th day of October, A. D. 1886.

JOHN B. HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, HENRY CHAD'BOURN.

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