US392352A

US392352A - Hame-tug

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Publication number: US392352A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-06
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-06

Description

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- W. M. LEROI-I.

HAME TUG.

No. 392,352. Patented Nov. 6, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT YVILLIAM LERCH, OEBALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HAM E-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,352, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed August 21, 1888. Serial No. 283,344.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. LEROH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hame-Tugs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in the draft-iron and means for attaching same to the leather tug and trace-buckle. This draft-iron couples the leather tug with the hame. The complete device is called a hame-tug.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inrwhich Figure l is a front or top view of the harnetug. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the hame-tug. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views of the buckle-coupling. Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the draft-iron.

The draft-iron is a double bar or two paral lel bars of metal, A A, the two bars being united at one end by a loop or eye, I), which is to couple with the hame. The two bars are of unequal though nearly the same length and each bar has at its end a hole, 0 c. The leather part comprises the usual straps, d d d, and the loop or keeper 0. It is immaterial how the latter is attached. The buckle F is for connection with the trace. (Not shown.) I employ a coupling-hook, G, to connect the buckle with both of the bars A A.

The improved coupling-hook G hasa body, h, with a cavity, 1', on one surface and lugjin said cavity. Two hooks, G, project from the body, and a slot, k, separates the two hooks, and a flange, Z, at the end of the slot serves as a seat for the head of a rivet, m. The hooks are on one side and the lug projects from the body at the opposite side. The face of the hooks and the face of the body are on the same plane, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

The two bars of the draft-iron have position between the leather straps dd J, and the draftiron eye 11 projects from the ends of said straps. The top strap, (1, is short enough to allow the end of the shortest bar ,A, to project and expose its hole 0.

The cavity t of the coupling-hook rests on the exposed end of the short bar A, and the (No model.)

lugj on said hook engages with the hole 0 on the bar. A rivet, m, has its head seated on the flange Zof the coupling-hook and passes through the slot is and through the hole 0 in the end of the longest bar, A, and through the straps.

It will thus be seen that the coupling-hooks G are made fast to one bar by the lugj and to the other bar by the rivet m. In other words, said hooks are connected with both bars of the draft-iron, but to each bar by a separate fastening device. This gives great strength and durability to the parts, and the strain of the trace pulling on the buckle F at one end of the tug is transferred to the eye I) at the other.

end through the medium of the two bars A A, and said strain does not involve or affect the leather parts. The buckle F is engaged with the hooks G and is kept in place by the head of the rivet m.

The combination here shown of the draftiron having bars of unequal length and the coupling-hook connected to each of said bars by a separate fastening device is new and useful without reference to'the special construction that is shown of the conpling-hook. The special construction of the hook, however-that is to say, having the hooks project atone side and thelug j projecting from the opposite side-enables the hook device to be readily connected with both bars of the draft-iron after theleather parts have been stitched up. These parts comprise a hametug, and the rivet m is to be fastened after the eyeb has been engaged with the usual ring on the heme.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1.. A heme-tug comprising the draft-iron having double bars A A, of unequal length, united by a loop, I), the leather parts, a tracebuckle, and a coupling-hook connected with both bars of the draft-iron,but to each bar by aseparate fastening device, all substantially as described.

2. In the herein-described hame-tug, the 9 iron having double bars of unequal length In testimony whereof I affix my signature in united by a loop, I), and each bar provided at the presence of two witnesses. its end with a hole, the leather parts, atracebuckle, a coupling device having books which \VILLIAM M. LEROH. project at one side, and a lug, j, projecting from the side opposite the hooks, and a rivet, \Vitnesses:

m, to fasten the coupling device to the longest J NO. '1. MADDOX,

bar and also confine the buckle. JOHN E. MORRIs.