US422652A

US422652A - Bridle blinder or winker

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Publication number: US422652A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-03-04
Anticipated expiration: 1907-03-04

Description

(No Model.)

M. S. STARKWEATHER. BRIDLE BLINDBR 0R WINKER.

No. 422,652. Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

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MARTIN S. STARKIVEATIIER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRIDLE BLINDER OR WINKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,652, dated March 4,1890.

Application filed June 10, 1889. Serial No. 313,655. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. STARK- WEATHER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Stateof Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Bridle Blinders or IVinkers, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to the herein-de scribed improvement in winkers or blinders for bridles.

I'Ieretofore it has been customary to make the winker or blinder and the cheek-strap separate, and to unite the same by a process which involved considerable expense. My invention consists in making the winker and cheek-strap integral.

Referring to .the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a winker and cheekstrap having the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the cheek-strap. Fig. 3 is a section through the winker. Fig. 4. is a View in elevation of the winker and cheekstrap, showing the buckles secured to the strap, as hereinafter specified. Fig. 5 is a section upon the dotted line of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents the attachment of a leather end or strap by riveting to the cheek-strap shown in Fig. 4. I

In practicing the invention I take a moldable material containing rubber and capable of vulcanization, either re-enforced by fibrous material-like cloth or canvasor wire-gauze, or both, and by means of suitable molds form under heat and pressure the winker or blinder A and the cheek-strap a, the blinder and cheek-strap being homogeneous and integral. There may also be formed at the same time and of the same material the crownstrap a. The cheek-strap may have its ends a a shaped to be secured to buckles carried by or attached to other straps; or the buckles a a and loops a may be united to the ends of the cheek-strap by molding the material about the same during the formation of the winker and strap, as represented in Figs. i and 5, inwhich event a leather strap end a is subsequently riveted to the lower end of the cheek-strap, as represented in Fig. 6. 'By making the winker and cheekstrap of moldable material and integral the cost of construction is materiallydiminished and a desirable result obtained and without the expenditure of the labor necessary in uniting the winker to the cheek-strap.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a blinder or winker of moldable material molded to the required shape and having at- 3. The co1nbination,with the molded blind A and the moldedcheek-strap a, integral therewith and provided with molded-in buckles a a and the molded-in loops at", of the strap a attached to said cheek-strap, substantially as set forth.

MARTIN S. STARKlVEATl-IER.

Witnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN.