US468309A

US468309A - Bridle-bit

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Publication number: US468309A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-02-02
Anticipated expiration: 1909-02-02

Description

(No Model.)

0. SMITH.

BRIDLE BIT.

No. 468,309. Patented Feb. 2, 1892.

ATTEET INVENTOR" I llghisodicorne UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALEB SMITH, OF SANNEMIN, ILLINOIS.

BRlDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,309, dated February 2, 1892.

Application filed September 3, 1891. Serial No. 404,611. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALEB SMITH, of Sannemin, in the county of Livingston and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is capable of general application. It may be used on tractable and tender-mouthed horses without inflicting pain or discomfort, and it will effectually curb an unruly or hard-mouthed horse without, however, lacerating the flesh by a sawing motion.

It consists, generally speaking, of a pair of bit-bars pivoted together at their longitudinal centers and connected one end of each with opposite ends of a two-part metallic chin strap or frame, the parts of which are pivoted together.

It also consists, specifically, in the details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective representation of my device, and Fig. 2 is a diagram or plan representing two positions of the parts by solid lines and dotted lines, respectively.

One bit-bar is shown at 1, the other at 2, and the pivot-pin at 3. Rings 4 and 5 are carried in the swinging ends of bit-bars 2 and 1, respectively, and they provide means for connecting the reins with the bit. The curved bars 6, 7, 8, and 9 comprise a chin strap or frame between the parallelly-arranged bars of which the bit-bars swing. Side rings or guards are formed of the

semicircular parts

10, 11, 12, and 13, which extend one pair above the chin-frame and the other pair below, as shown in Fig. 1. The connections 14 and 15 for the halves of the side rings provide pivots for the stationary or comparatively stationary ends of the bit-bars. The chin-frame is composed of two parts, one formed of bars 6 and 7 and the other of bars 8 and 9, and the two parts are connected together pivotally at 16.

The bit when in a horses mouth usually maintains the position shown by solid lines in Fig. 1, and an ordinary pull on the reins will not materially alter that position. A good strong pull on the reins will, however, draw the swinging ends of the bit-bars backward, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus compressing the sides of the month by means of the side rings and pinching the lower jaw between the chin-frame and the bitbars with almost any desired degree of severity.

When the bit is used on a horse that is safe beyond question, the reins maybe connected with the large side rings, and in that case the bit will, of course, loose its powerful curbing peculiarity.

I claim- A bridle-bit consisting of the chin-frame 6 7 S 9, pivotally connected at 16, bit-bars 1 and 2, connected together pivotally at 3, connected pivotally with the chin frame at 14 and 15, respectively, and extended between the parallel bars of the chin-frame, rings 4 and 5 on the swinging ends of the bit-bars, and the side rings on the chin-frame, as set forth.

In testimony whereofI sign my namein the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CALEB SMITH.

Attest:

G. H. GRAY, J12, Tnos. SMITH.