US386093A - Carl c - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

O. 0. SMITH.

HARNESS SHAFT LOOP.

No. 386,093. Patented July 10, 1888.

CARL G. SMITH, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO O. F. BOBENMYER, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS SHAFT-LOOP.

. JPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,093, dated July 10, 1888.

Application tiled February 23. IP88. Serial No. JG-L967. (No model.)

fastened between two metallic plates, G G, ex-

To aZZ whom it Jib/Ly concern.-

tending rearwardly beyond the leather to re- Be it known that l, CARL O. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilccive the pivot in its bearings, while on its ton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, front end is the plate H. open slotted at h, and

5 haveinvented certain new and useful Improveprovided at one side of said slot with ashonlments in Harness Shaft-Loops; and I do deder, h. As the part G is pressed down on the clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact part B, the plate H straddles a catch, I, swivdescription of the invention, such as will en eled in the crossbar b and held by a spring, able others skilled in the art to which it ap- J, obliquely thereto, so that the part O auto- 1O pertains to make and use the same, reference matically turns the catch I and allows it to being had to the accompanying drawings, and pass up the slot h until the shoulder 71 is to the letters and figures of reference marked reached. Behind this shoulder the catch I is thercon,which forlnapartofthis specification. thrown by the spring J, so that the loop is The special object ofthe invention is to make closed and locked. [5 a shaft-loop which will need no buckles, and D is a keeper made of metal, having the side may be opened or closed in a moment, so as flanges, d d, and hinged on thepivot F, so that to put it on or take it off the shaft quickly, the saddle-strap is not only held, but prewith little trouble, and with no unnecessary vented from lateral displacement, while it can loss of time. always adjust itself to the direction taken by 20 Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation the saddle strap.

showing the shaft-loop closed on the shaft; What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Fig. 2, a perspective view showing it open and Letters Patent, is off the shaft, and Fig. 3 a vertical crosssec- 1. A two-part shaft'loop, one of the parts tion. provided with a swiveled springhcld catch 25 In thedrawings, A represents my loop made and the other with an open slot and shoulder,

in two hingeeonneetcd parts, B O, and proas shown and described. vided with a hinged keeper, D, having the 2. The combination of the metallic hooks I) tongue (I to go into a hole of the saddle-strap b, connected by a cross-bar, b, and filled in- E. The part B has a leather body fastened termediately with leather, the hinged metallic 7o 30 between two curved metallic hooks, I) I), conplates G G, intcrmediately filled with leather, nected by the cross-bar I). These hooks exthe slotted and shouldered plate H, and the tend at both ends beyond the leather. The swivcled spring-held catch I, all constructed ends If If form a bearing for the pivot I which and arranged substantially as shown and deturns with the part 0, and on which the keeper scribed. 33 D turns, while the ends I) I) receive between In testimony whereof Iaftix my signature in them the front end of the hinged part O. presence of two witnesses.

Around the pivot F is placed the coiled n springf, which throws back the part O, thus CARL SMUH' holding the loop open for the reception of the Vitnesses:

4o shaft. CHAS. F. BoBnNMYsn,

The hinged part 0 has also a leather body I. S. EvERsoN.

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