US429035A

US429035A - Draft-equalizer

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Publication number: US429035A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-05-27
Anticipated expiration: 1907-05-27

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(No Model.)

G. J. KAPLAN. DRAFT EQUALIZBR.

No. 429,035. Patented May 27, 1890.

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GODFREY J. KAPLAN, OF OWVATONNA, MINNESOTA.

DRAFT-EQUALIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,035, dated May 27, 1890.

Application filed December 23, 1889- Serial. No. 334,637. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GODFREY J. KAPLAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Owatonna, in the county of Steele and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft-Equalizers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of the invention and is a perspective View.

This invention relates to four-horse eveners or draft-equalizers; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a long evener-bar pivoted at one end to the pole G, and A a shorter evener-banpivoted to the barA beyond the pivotal point of the latter and extending over the pole G on the opposite side, to which extension is centrally pivoted the doubletree D by means of a clip 0. Adoubletree D is clipped in a similar manner at the extreme end of the long evener-bar A, and'similar clips are employed for pivoting the singletrees B to the two doubletrees. To the back of the evener-bar A, near its outer end,is secured by a pivoted clip 0' a rod and chain E, connected together, the said chain extending back and working over a pulley C on the rear of the pole G and extending down in a nearly parallel manner on the opposite side of the latter to connect with the clip (1, pivoted to the short evener-bar A.

H is a stop secured to the upper part of the pole G, a little removed from the rear of the bars retain their normal position at a right angle to the pole. Should the team at the end of the long evener-bar A draw ahead suddenly, the short evener-bar A will en gage the stop H in its rear,whereby its further backward movement will be arrested, and thus prevent the horse near the pole from being drawn too suddenly against the latter. The short evenerbar A is provided with pins M, seated therein, one on each of the clips securing the doubletree thereto, to limit the lateral play of the latter in either direction, and thus enable the team to maintain its proper relative position on either side of the pole.

The long evener-bar Ais provided with perforations g g at proper intervals, whereby the position of the doubletree may be shifted to a greater or less distance from the pole, as oooasion may require, when three or four horses are employed.

IVhat I claim as new is- Y The combination of the unequal evenerbars A A, pivoted together and to the wagonpole, the doubletrees D D, clipped, respectively, thereto at their respective outer ends, the stop II on the pole for the evener-bars, the chain-and-rod attachment to said even er-bars, and the pulley O on the pole in rear of the evener and engaging said chain, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

- GODFREY J. KAPLAN.

itnesses:

E. W. RICHTER, W. A. DYNER.