US410797A - Horse-detacher - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

H. J. KENNEDY. HORSE DETAGHEE.

No. 410,797. I Patented Sept. 10, 1889.v

V ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. KENNEDY, OF BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSE-DETACHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,797, dated September 10, 1889. Application filed April 5, 1839. Serial No,306,068i (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY JOSEPH KEN- NEDY, of Bristol, in the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved lIorse-Detacher, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to horse-detachers, the object of the invention being to provide an attachment for single' and double trees whereby the traces may be disconnected from their supports, and the horses thus freed from engagement with the vehicle.

To the end named the invention consists, essentially, of the novel constructions, arrangements, and combinations of elements to be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

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

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a singletree embodying my invention. Fig. 2 1s a cross-sectional view on line II II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the singletree shown in Fig. 1, the parts being represented as they appear after the retaining-rod has been moved to free the trace-support; and Fig. 4.- is a plan View representing the detacher as it appears when arranged in connection with a doubletree.

In the drawings, 10 represents a singletree, to the ends of which there are secured caps 11, having apertured ears or lugs 12. Between the ears or lugs 12, I arrange a trace-receiv 111g device 13, said device being held to place by a bolt or rivet 14, which passes through apertures formed in the lugs or ears 12 and through an aperture formed in the trace-receiving device, as will be readily understood. The trace-receiving device is formed with two horns a and a, the horn a passing through the eye of the trace, While thehorn a serves as a stay acting to hold the trace in the desired position. 111 addition to the horns a and a, the

trace-reoeivin g device is provided with aleverarm I), which is normally held in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 1 by a bar 15, which is held to the singletree by clips or bearings 16. This bar or rod 15 is provided with a rearwardly-extending lever-arm 17 which carries a stop 18, that normally abuts against the rear face of the singletree, the parts being held in this position by a spiral spring 19, coiled about the rod or bar, one end of the spring being connected to the singletree and the other end being connected to the lever-arm 17. The ends of the rod 15 are cranked and overlap the ends of the levers Z) of the trace-receiving device 13. To the lever 17, I connect a cord or red 20, which extends upward to within reach of the driver, being secured in any proper position, preferably to the dash-board of the vehicle. Such in general being the construction of my improved horse-detacher, it will be seen that if the cord 20 be drawn upon the lever-arm may be turned upward to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 3, and in so turning the ends of the rod 15 will be carried from engagement with the levers I) and the trace-receiving device will be free to move to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and when the device is in the position just referred to the trace will be free to slip from the horn a.

In case the device is to be employed in connection with a doubletree, I provide a sup plemental rod or bar 21, that is held to the rear edge of the d oubletree and provided with projections 22, which pass beneath the leverarm 17 This rod or bar 21 is formed with a rearwardly-extending lever 23, to which the cord or red 20 is secured, so that if the cord or red be drawn upon the projections 22 will be carried upward, and in so moving upward will carry the levers 17 upward, and thus free the ends of the rods or bars 15 from engagement with the levers b of the trace-receiving devices 13.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new anddesire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In a horse-detaching device, the combination, with a horizontally-turning trace-receiver 13, provided with rearward-projecting horns a a, and a lever-arm b to extend along the rear side of the singletree, of the rocking bar 15, having bearings 18 on the rear side of the singletree, and provided with an outward bend at its inner end to engage a similar bend on the lever-arm Z), a spring 19, holding said ends in engagement, and an operating-arm 17, projecting from the bar 15, substantially as set forth.

The combination,with the traee-1'ee(.-ivers 1 having lever-arms I), projecting toward each other, and vertieally-roeking bars or rods 15, having outward bonds at their opposite ends engaging sim ilarbends on arms 7), springs holding said ends in engagement, and the op crating-arms 17, projecting from rods or bars 15, of a vertieally-roeking rod or bar 2.1, having erankarms 22 at its ends engaging the arms 17, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a singletree having traee-reeeivers pivoted at its ends and provided with lever-arms extending toward each other along the rear side of the single tree and having their inner extren'lities bent rearward] y and inwardly, of bearings 16 on the rear side of the singletree, a vertically rocking or turning red 15, mounted in said bearings, provided with rearward and outward bent ends overlapping the inner extremities of the lever-arms Z), a spring 10, holding said ends in engagement, and an operating-arm 17, substantially as set forth.

HENRY J. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

EDWARD KENT, Jr., (J. Snowmen.

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