US376305A

US376305A - Hame-tug coupling

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Publication number: US376305A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-01-10
Anticipated expiration: 1905-01-10

Description

(No Model.)

D. "HILL.

HAME TUG COUPLING.

No. 376 ;305. Patented Jan. 10, 1-888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DONALD HILL, OF STORM LAKE, IOYV A.

HAME-TUG COUPLING. I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,305 dated January 10, 1888.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DONALD HILL, a citizenof the United States of America, and a resident of Storm Lake, in the county of Buena Vista and State of Iowa, have invented an Imand combination of a clip adapted to be per-.

inanently fixed to ahame, aTshaped knuckle, and two metal straps adapted to be hinged to the knuckle and clip, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the metal straps adapted to be fixed to a hametug and detachably hinged to the knuckle. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the knuckle adapted to be detachably hinged to the clip. Figs. 3and 4 are perspective vicwsof the clip adapted to be fixed to the ha'nic. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing all the parts combined with a piece of a hame and a piece. of a heme-tug as required for practical use.

a is a curved and perforated clip adapted to overlap the outside and convex face of ahaine, and I) is a flat and perforated right-angled extension of the clip adapted to overlap the square and iron-bound edge of the hame.

c c are perforated and parallelears projecting at right angles from the edges of the flat extension I). The complete device is preferably cast in a mold and made complete in one piece of malleable iron;

1 dis a T-shaped metal kuuckle'adapted in size to be hinged between the parallel earscof the clip by means of a screw-bolt passed through the perforations in the ears and a bore, cl, in the knuckle.

V d is a rightangled and flat-sided extension from the central portion of the elongated knuckle.

g is a straight and perforated metal plate adapted to be riveted to the front end of a. leather tug.

g is an integral curved and perforated end adapted to overlap the Tshaped knuckle, as clearly shown in 5. A counterpart or mating plate, 9 g, is placed on the opposite side, so they can'be jointly hinged to the knuckle by means of a screw-bolt, h.

The clip is fixed to the hanie by means of bolts or rivets, and the knuckle is hinged to the clip by means of a screw-bolt, h, in such a manner that the tug and plates 9 9' will have vertical play while the knuckle is stationary,

and the tug and plates and knuckle will have joint lateral play; but the tug will at all times be prevented from assuming atwisted position relative to the hame or a horse while in practical use, and by simply turning the knuckle half-way round the tug can be lengthened and shortened at pleasure.

I claim as my invention- 1. A hame tug coupling comprising a metal clip, a, havinga flat part, b, and parallel extensions c c,'a T-shaped knuckle, d d, and

plates g g, substantially as shown and described, for the'purposes stated.

2. The combination ofthe metal clip a I), -having parallel ears 0, the Tshaped knuckle dd, and two mating plates, 9 g, with a hame-tug and a hame, for the purposes stated.

DONALD HILL.

Witnesses:

EDGAR E. Moon, J. H. LA GRANGE.