US390883A

US390883A - Pole-tip

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Publication number: US390883A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-10-09
Anticipated expiration: 1905-10-09

Description

(No Model.)

G. MENGEL.

POLE TIP.

No. 890,883. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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NITED STATES PATENT Price.

GEORGE MENGEL, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,883, dated October 9, 1888;

Application filed May 17, 1888. Serial No. 274,230. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE MENG EL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Pole-Tip, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to pole tips which may be easily attached to the pole of any vehicle, which tip is provided with a holdback and also a pivoted latch to prevent the neck-yoke from being disengaged from the pole. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a longitudinal section of the poletip through the line a: x of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a view of the under side of the pole-tip with the latch removed.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout both the views.

Aisthe outer surface ofthe circularly-formed pole-tip, and l) is its inner circularly-formed cavity.

O D are the rear extensions of the tip and 0 cc 0 are perforations therein, and through which the tip is secured to the pole by bolts.

E is a rectangular slot through the under side of the tip to accommodate the movement of the latch G in swinging upon its pivot g.

F is that portion of the cavity of the poletip having its walls vertical and parallel to accommodate the upper part of said latch G.

H is the holdback, which may be constructed integral with said pole tip, or may, if desired, be bolted to its under surface.

The front end of the pole of the vehicle is inserted into the cavity B a sufficient distance, but not so as to be in contact with the latch G, and the tip secured toit by bolts passing through the perforations 0 cc 0 and the pole. The ends of pivotg rest in the side walls of that portion of the cavity at F, and latch G swings thereon and swings downward by its own gravity. When the ring of a neck-yoke is passed over the front end of the pole-tip and moved baclgit causes the latch G to swing upward through the slot E, and as the ring of the neck-yoke is moved back of said slot the latch G swings downward, thus forming an obstruction which prevents the neck-yoke ring from slipping forward off the pole-tip.

I am aware that pole tips have been constructed heretofore having a pivoted latch which by its own gravity would swing downward to form an obstruction and prevent the neek-yoke ring from slipping off, and which could also be swung upward through a cavity in the tip to enable such ring to be slipped back upon the tip when desired. I do not claim these features broadly, my invention relating to novelty in the construction of the parts forming the combination, strength, and convenience of attachment to a pole.

When in practical use,the neck-yoke is above the pole and connected therewith by its ring, and the neck-yoke is also by a strap attached to the collar upon the animal, which point of attachment is above the neclcyoke; hence the line of strain is from the point of attachment on the collar to the point of contact of the neck-yoke ring with the latch on the under side of the pole, and if the pivotal point of attachment of the latch be forward of or in front of this imaginary line of strainthe tendency of a quick or sudden strain will be to cause the latch to swing upward and release the ring and neck-yoke from the pole, thus permitting a result which ought to be avoided. In the device patented to WVhitehouse, No. 77,426, and to Mott, No. 352,978, the line of strain is in the rear of the pivotal point of the latch and isaserious objection in each. While I use an interior pivoted latch I so locate its position that the line of strain is in front of the pivotal attachment of the latch, thus preventing detachment of the neck-yoke from the pole by a quick strain.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the pole of a vehicle, the pole-tip A, with its cavities B and F and slot E, in connection with the pivoted latch G and holdback H, substantially as described.

GEORGE MENGEL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. REUPKE, W. O. WARRINER.