US413736A

US413736A - Bridle-bit

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Publication number: US413736A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-10-29
Anticipated expiration: 1906-10-29

Description

(No Model.)-

H; T. SEELEY.

BRIDLE- BIT.

No. 413,736. Patented Oct. 29. 1889.

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which lugs are adapted to receive therein the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM T. SEELEY, RIPON, VISCONSIN.

ABRIDLVE-BIT.

' srncrrrcnrrorr forming part of Letters Patent Lie 413,736, dated October 29, 1889. Application filed May 6, 1889. Serial No.309,'734. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM T. SEELEY, of Ripon, in the county of Fonddu Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters or figures of reference marked thereon,which form apart of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a bit which,under a certain limited pull on the reins,will bear only on the teeth or mouth, and that under a greater and extraordinary pull on the reins will throw two clamping-arms onto the nostrils and against the outer walls thereof, whereby the horse is more effectually controlled.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of my device. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same device, the outerside of the casebeing removed to show interior parts. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on line X X of Fig. 1,looking downwardly, the part being reversed to the position it has in Fig. 1, and the clamping-arm being thrown down in the position shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The bar A is a metal rod, and is the part that enters and passes laterally through the mouth of the horse. On each end of this bar is supported loosely a case B. The case is retained on the bar A by means of a washer C I on the outer end of the bar A,which is secured thereon by the upsetting of the'endof the bar or other equivalent means. Within the chamber in the ease Bis a head-piece D, which is secured removably on a square-faced part of the bar A, so that the head-piece rotates with the bar A. The cases B B are each provided with a" lug or cheek-piece E, having a slot,

side piece of the bridle,whereby the bit is supported and retained in the mouth of the horse. A clamping-arm F is hinged on the head-piece D in such manner as to permit lateral oscillation, and the clamping-arm extends outwardly and upwardly through aslot G in the periphcry of the case B. The walls III-I of the slot G are so inclined as to form cams,whereby, as the bar A is rotated to the extent of something less than a quarter of one revolution,

wardly and inwardly the bearing-rings will be brought against the outer walls of the nostrils. A spring K in the chamber in the case B is fixed at one end in the wall of the case and at the other end is secured to the head-piece D, and this spring is adapted to hold the arm F yieldingly upward in the position shown in Fig. 1. A draw-bar L, hinged to the head-piece D, passes out through a slot in the periphery of the case B, and at its outer end is provided with a slot for receiving therein the end of a rein. The case B is preferably made in two parts secured together by rivets at M M M.

The springs K K aremade of such strength as to resist a certain amount of pull on the reinssay about twenty pounds on both reinsand when an additional force is applied the springs will yield and the clampingarms F F will be thrown downwardly and inwardlyagainst the walls of the nostrils, as bebefore stated, and on the release of the pull to a point below the strength of the springs the recoil of the springs will carry the arms back again into the position shown in Fig. 1.

The cases B B are held in a nearly constant and upright position by the bridle-straps in the lugs G G while the bar A is in the mouth of the horse, and the pull on the draw-bars L L, if greater than the strength of the springs K K, will rotate the bar A with reference to the cases sufficiently to move the clampingarnisF F through the segment of an arc indicated in Fig. 2 by the position of the clamping-arm F, and its position indicated by the dotted lines N.

It will be understood that the value and use of this bit are in the fact that under an ordinary pull on the reins on the bit the horse is controlled by the bit alone, and that under a greater pull on the reins the clamping-arms are thrown down on the walls of the nostrils,

whereby the horse is caught in a more sensitive locality, and is thereby more surely and eifectually controlled.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bridle-bit consisting of a bar adapted to pass through the mouth of a horse, and on each end thereof a movable case having therein a head-piece on the bar, to which headpiece is pivoted a clamping-arm, a draw-bar, and a spring, the case being provided with an inclined slot, the walls of which are-adapted to act as cams on the clamping-arm, substantially as described.

2. A bridle-bit consisting of a bar A and the thereon rotating cases B B, in combination with head-pieces D D, removably secured on the bar A, clamping-arms F F, hinged on the head-pieces D D, bearing against the inclined walls H H of slots G G, springs K K, fixed in the cases B B and connected to the head-pieces D D, and means, substantially as described, for rotating the head-pieces, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In abridle-bit, clamping-arms F F,hin ged on head-pieces D D, secured on and rotating with a bar A, in combination with cases B B, loose on the bar A and inclosing the headpieces, and cams in the periphery of the cases, against which the clamping-arms bear and are moved laterally when the bit and clampin g-arms are rotated, and means, substantially as described, for rotating the clamping-arms with reference to the cases, as and for the purpose set forth.