US473830A - Trace-carrier - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

H. C. DOI-IRR. TRACE CARRIER.

No. 473,830. Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

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NTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY C. DOERR, OF MACKSVILLE, KANSAS.

TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 473,830, dated April 26, 1892. Application tiled November 30, 1891. Serial No. 413,529. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY C. DOERR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Macksv1lle,in the countyof Stafford and State of Kansas, have invented anew and useful Tracegarrier, of which the following is a specificaion.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of trace-carriers employed as a coupling medium between the back, opposite hip, and crupper straps.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cheap and simple carrier of this class, the cockeye-engaging hooks of which are so disposed as to safely support the traces and prevent them from becoming accidentally detached and yet so formed as to facilitate a withdrawal of the cockeyes therefrom when proper, and finally to provide said carrier with means whereby it may be readily applied to harnesseswithout. the necessity of ripping the stitches thereof. 1

Heretofore in devices of this class it has been customary to construct the frame servlng as the coupling medium integral, the loops o t' the four straps above mentioned being ripped and resewed about the side vand end bars of such frame. The objections arising` from such a necessity are too obvious to require comment, and by my invention, as will be hereinafter apparent, I obviate the same and provide a trace-carrier the frame of which may be coupled with the aforesaid straps without the necessity of any ripping whatever or subsequent sewing or the necessity of calling into service a harness-maker for such purpose.

Referring to thev drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a trace-carrier constructed 1n accordance with my invention. the same being connected with the straps. Fig. 2 is a detail in perspective of the carrier, portions being broken away.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both gures of the drawings.

In constructing1 the coupling I employ opposite side bars l and 2, each of which :is provided with perforations 3 near its extremities, those of the side bar 2 being threaded, as shown. The ends of the side bars are connected by transverse bolts 4, which bolts constitute the end bars of the coupling, which is therefore rectangular, in that it comprises the opposite parallel side bars l and 2 and the end bars 4. The bolts terminate each at one end in a head 5, while the opposite end is threaded, so as to engage the threads of the perforations of the side bar 2.

From a point slightly in rear of the centers of the side bars l and 2 rise hooks t3, which are downwardly curved near their upper ends. These hooks are upwardly, inwardly, and slightly downwardly curved, as shown, and at their inner extremities are provided with forwardly-disposed parallel branches 7. Lugs la project from the side bars opposite the hooks. rlhis completes the construction of the trace-carrier, and it will be seen that the bolts forming the end bars being removable the four parts composing the frame 0r coupling portion of the carrier maybe readily separated.

S designates the loop at the rear end of the baclcstrap, 9 the loop at the front end of the crupper-strap, and 10 the loop at the inner ends of the opposite hip-straps, which loops are all formed in the usual mannerthat is, by opposite rows of stitches-and the straps S and 9 stitched through and t0 shield ll, usually located at the intersection of the four straps mentioned. Heretofore,in order to apply a trace-carrier of this class to these four straps by reason of the fact that the frame of the carrier was integrally formed, it became necessary to rip the stitches embodied in all of the loops of the straps and afterward to reinsert the same. Such an operation was fraught with delay in the use of the harness, sometimes necessitating long` trips to the harness-maker, and in all cases was more or less expensive. By my invention, however, it will be seen that by removing the two bolts constituting the end bars said bolts may be readily passed through the loops S and 9 of the back and crupper straps, respectively, while the opposite side bars l and 2 may be as readily passed at their front ends through the hip-strap. l/Vhen such has been accomplished, it simply remains to rotate the bolts by an ordinary screw-driver, so that their threaded ends are run into the threaded perforations at the ends of the side bar 2.

The advantages of my invention, therefore,

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of the same, the peculiar disposition of the hooks rendering accidental disengagement of the eoekeyes impossible, While readily permitting of a desired disengagement in the act of harnessing.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- The herein-described improved trace-oarrier, the same consisting of the opposite longitudinal side bars, each terminating near its ends in perforations, those perforations of one side bar being threaded, hooks rising from the side bars in rear of their centers and being upwardly, inwardly, and downwardly Curved and terminating at their ends in forwardly-disposed parallel branches 7, and the headed bolts constituting connecting end bars, said bolts being passed through the plain perforations of one of the side bars and having their ends threaded in the perforations of the eompan ion side bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY O. DOERR. Witnesses:

D. S. ENGLISH, JAMES B. ENGLIsH.

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