US373764A

US373764A - Horse-blanket attachment

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Publication number: US373764A
Authority: US
Priority date: 1887-09-30
Filing date: 1887-09-30
Publication date: 1887-11-22
Anticipated expiration: 1904-11-22

Description

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' G. R. AYRES.

HORSE BLANKET ATTACHMENT.

Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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G. RALSTON AYRES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSE-BLANKET ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,764, dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed September 30, 1887. Serial No. 251,109.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, G. RALSTON AYRES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Securing Labels to Horse-Blankets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is tosecure a tag or label to a horse-blanket in such a Way that it cannot be detached therefrom without mutilating or removing part of the blanket; and this object I attain in the manner hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ofa horseblanket having a tag or label applied thereto in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view,on a larger scale,of the piece carrying the tag; Fig. 3, an enlarged sectional view of part of the blanket, and Figs. 4 and 5 views illustrating a modified plan of carrying out the invention.

Manufacturers of horse-blankets have experienced much difficulty in so marking the some that purchasers and users are able to identify the goods, the dealers through whose hands the goods pass removing thetags or in bels. In order to prevent this I make the tag a with a series of projecting prongs or spurs, b, which spurs are by preference passed through and bent down on the back of a piece of fabric, (2, which piece of fabric is afterward sewed around its edges to the inside of the bla ket at the breast portion thereof, so as to serve as a breast-lining and as a reenforcing. or strengthening piece for the breaststraps g, the bent prongs or spurs of the tag being between (No model.)

the said rc-enforcing piece and the body of the blanket, so that they are inaccessible, and the tag cannot be removed without the almost co mplete removal ofthe re-enforciug piece or such mutilation of the blanket itself as is not likely to be attempted. This plan is generally adopted in what are known as shaped or stable blankets; butin street or square blankets I prefer to adopt the plan shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the prongs of the label being passed through the blanket from the inside and bent down on the outside of the same, and these bent prongs being then covered by the leather diskf, which is ordinarily employed to protect and strengthen the inner end of the breaststrap g.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a horse-blanket, having a re-enforeing piece secured thereto around its edges,with a tag or label having bentspurs inclosed between the said re-enforcing piece and the body of the blanket, all substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a horse-blanket,havinga re-enforcing piece secured thereto around its edges,with a tag or label having spurs passing through said re-enforcing piece and bent down between the same and the body of the blanket, all substantially as specified.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

G. RALSTON AYR'ES.

Witnesses:

XVILLIAM D. CONNER, HARRY Sirrrn.