US404579A - Rein-holder - Google Patents

Description

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W. F. TUBMAN.

REIN HOLDER. r Patented June 4,1889.

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UNITED STATES IVILLIAM F. TURMAN, OF

WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.

RElN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,579, dated June 4., 1889. Application filed February 12, 1889. I Sen'al No. 299,592. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. TUBMAN, of Weatherford, in the county of I a-rker and State of Texas, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Rein-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in rein-holders, and has for its object to provide a device of simple, durable, and effective construction, and capable of ready attachment to a vehicle; and the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation. I

The body of the device consists of a base plate 10, having produced therein at one end a transverse slot 11 and at or near the opposite end a semicircular slot 12. At each side of the slot 11 a transverse rib or flange 13 is projected from the under face of the baseplate at a right angle thereto, as best illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. The flanges 13 are adapted to facilitate the attachment of the device to the vehicle-the front or dash-board, for instancethe said flanges in this event being made to clasp or engage with opposite sides of the dash-board, and bolts 14, screws, or equivalent devices are passed through the flanges and through the dash-board.

If it is not convenient to bolt the device to the vehicle, it may be attached thereto by means of a strap, the said strap being fastened in any approved manner to any desired portion of the vehicle and passed upward or downward, as found most desirable or convenient, through the slot 11.

Although I have described the device as attached to the dash-board of a vehicle by means of the flanges 13, I desire it to be understood that the flanges may be made to engage or clamp any convenient projectingportion of the body of the vehicle without de-- parting from the spirit of the invention.

Eetween the end of the base-plate and the semicircular slot 12 a post 15 is secured to the upper face of said plate, preferably adjacent to the center of the said semicircular slot, and slightly below the right-hand extremity of the said semicircular slot 12 another post 16 is secured to the upper face of the plate,

as best illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. Both of the posts extend at a right angle outward from the base-plate, and in the approaching faces of the said posts, near the top or outer end of each, a recess 17 is produced, as best shown in Fig. 3. Upon an approximately central longitudinal line between the two slots 11 and 12 a pivotpin 18 is rigidly secured to the upper face of the base-plate, upon which pivot-pin a lever 19 is fulcru med. The left-hand side, which, for convenience, I will designate the outer side of the lever, is essentially straight, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the upper end of the lever is cylindrical, as illustrated at 20 in Fig. 3. The inner side of the leveris concave, as shown at 21 in Fig. 1. The rear end of the said lever is provided with an inwardly and outwardly extending curved projection or hook 22, the curve of the inner face of which hook or extension constitutes a continuation of the concavity of the inner face of the lever. The cylindrical upper surface of the lever is made to approach the upper post 15, and the concaved face of the lip or extension 22 the lower post 16. In the rear extremity of the lever a depression or concavity 23 is formed, adapted to the contour of the ball of the thumb, which depression or concavity is carried upward from the base-plate in the direction of the outer side of the lever. From the outer face of the lever, at the upper end, a cylindrical flange 24: is projected, adapted, as the lever is manipulated, to enter, respectively, the recesses 17 of the posts 15 and 16, the said flange also serving to prevent the lines or reins from slipping out when brought in contact with the cylindrical surface of the lever and the outer post 16, as illustrated in positive lines in Fig. 1. In the forward or upper end of the lever a stud 25 is entered from the under surface, which stud extends downward through the semicircular slot 12, terminating in a head 26, (best shown in Fig. 2,) the lower edge of the wall of which slot 12 is rabbeted to receive the said head, as best illustrated at 27 in the same figure.

The normal position of the lever 15) is illustrated. in Fig. 3, in which it will be observed that the lever-flange is in engagement with the walls of the recess formed in the upper or outer post 15 by means of a spring 28, attached at one end to the stud 25 above the head 26 and at the other end to the outer wall of the semicircular slot 19, as best illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

If desired, an auxiliary spring may be coiled around the stud 25 between the lever and the main plate to assist the coil-spring 28 in retaining the said lever in connection with the post 15. The concealed spring is also intended to be made strong enough to control the lever of itself in the event that the horizontal spring should break.

In operation, if it is desired to leave a team for a few minutes only, the line or rein is slipped down between the upper end of the lever and the post 15 to a contact with the cylindrical. surface of the former beneath the flange 21, as shown in positive lines in Fig. 1; but if a secure fastening is desired the inner or loop end of the rein is carried downward around the post 16 and in cont-act with the extension 22, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. when the reins are in this position, they may be drawn back at will, while the animal cannot draw them forward. If the animal is unruly and it is desired to draw his head back and hold it in such position by drawing inward upon the reins when in the position illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 the head of the animal may be gradually thrown back as far as desired and in an expeditious manner.

To release the reins, the lever is pressed in the direction of the outer side by placing the thumb in the depression or concavity 23, whereupon the cylindrical and binding surface of the lever is removed from the post 15 and the lip or extension :32 from the post 16, thus permitting the free withdrawal of the reins.

I desire it to be understood thatI do not confine myself particularly to the contour of the lever illustrzitted, as the same may be somewhat varied without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Ilfaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a base-plate provided with spaced posts attached to one side thereof, of a lever pivoted to said plate and provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and an essentially hook-shaped extremity atthe opposite end adapted for engagement with. the said posts, substantially as shown and described.

The combination, with a base-plate provided with spaced posts upon one surface, of alevcr pivoted upon said base-plate, provided with a cylindrical surface at one end, with a flange integral with the outer face projecting beyond said cylindrical surface, and an essentially hook-shaped extension at the other extremity, all combined for operation sub stantially as shown and described.

The combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a springactuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with the other post, substantially as shown and described.

i. The combination, with a base-plate provided with a curved slot near one end and posts projecting at a right angle from one face of the plate at opposite sides of the said slot, of a lever pivoted below the slot, provided with a cylindrical upper end, and a flange projected from the outer surface beyond the said cylindrical end and grooved on their ad jacent sides, and a concaved inner face terminating in a hoolcextcnsion, a stud projected downward from the lever through the curved slot, and a spring secured to one wall of the slot and to the said stud, all combined for operation substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with a base-plate provided with a curved slot near one end, a transverse slot near the opposite end, a rib or flange extending downward from the under face of the said base-plate at each side of the transverse slot, and posts projected from the outer face of the said base-plate at opposite sides of the curved slot, of a lever pivoted upon the outerface of the base-plate, provided with an upper cylindrical end surface, and a flange proj ecting from the outer face beyond the cylin drical surface, a concave inner face, and a hook-extension at the lower end continuous with the said concave inner side, a stud projected downward from the inner face of the lever through the curved slot, and a spring connected with one wall. of the slot and the said stud, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM l TUI'UNIAN.

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