US475841A - Neck-yoke - Google Patents

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Patented May 31, 1892.

G. -H. YOUNG. NEGK YOKE UNITED Status ATENT 7 FFICE,

lEORGE I-I. YOUNG, OF DAVENPORT, IOVVA.

N EC K-YOKE.

SPECIFIOATION formng part of Letters Patent No. &75,841, clated May 31, 1892.

Application filed February 17, 1892'. Serial No. &21,838. (No model.)

To aZZ whom in' may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE I-I. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott, State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvenents in Neck-Yoke Attachments, of which the following is a specification, refe ence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in neek-yoke attachments for vehicles; and it has for its object, among others to provide a simple yet cheap and eificent attachment which shall form a center for a neck-yoke that shall he perfectly safe at all times and which shall also perform the double function of keeping the yoke attacled to the pole even though the team should become detaohed at the whiffletree. I form a hall-and-socket joint connected with a part sleeved on the pole, a set-screw or other analogous means being provided as a safety means to prevent separation of the ball-andsocket joint, and also serving as a tension device when firmly set against the pole, thereby preventing rattling of the parts.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features tlereof will be specifically defined by the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon,form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section through ny improved attachment in position with the pole shown in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on the line z z of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow, with a portion broken away. Fig. 3 isa perspective view, on a smaller seale,ot' the parts constituting my invention separated.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the pole, provided with the usual holdback-lug 60,013 known construetion, as seen in Fig. l, cast ou the poletip A', also of any preferred construction. These parts are not of my inveution.

B is the yoke.

C is a clasp embracing the yoke, as seen best in Fig. 1, being formed in two parts, as shown best in Fig. 3, each part having a concaved depending portion c, with apertured lugs c', through which pass the means which secure the parts together, as seen in Fig. 2. These depending portions are adapted to embrace and hold the ball D of a ball-and-soeket joint, hercinafter to be described. The ball D is cast with or rigidly Secured to a cross-T E, which is provided with a hinged ring F, which encircles the pole-tip, as seen in Fig. 1, and is designed to engage the holdback-lug a, as will be understood from Fig. 1. At the other end of the cross-T E is a ring G, which is formed of two parts, one hinged to the other, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and which is designed to cmbrace loosely the pole-tip, as seen in Figs. l and 2. The upper part of this ring is provided with side lugs b, between which is designed to lie the spring-arm H, which is secured at one end to one part of the ring and its free end turned outward, as seen in Fig. 2, to serve as a handle, by which it may be manipulated, and designed to engage a lug 0 On the other part of the ring when the two parts are closed, as seen in Fig. 2.

I is a set-screw eXtendin g vertieally through the overlapped portions ot' the clasp C and through the yoke B and ball D and resting on the top of the pole-tip, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

Modifications in detail may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages. The set-screw nay sometimes be omitted without materially efiecting the successful operation of the other elements.

What I claim as new is- 1. A Beck-yoke attachment conprising a cross-T,with hin ged ring and spring-held ring IOO With the poleand holdingthe said parts against sepa'ation, as set forth.

3. The combination, withthe pole and yoke, of the cross-T having ring at one end and a twopart ring ;tt the other, With spring to hold it closed, the ball on said cross-T, the two-part clasp to enbmce the yoke and ball, and the set-screw passed through the yoke, ball, and

cross-T and adjustably held against the pole, substantially as specified. IO In testmony whereof I affix my signature in u presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. YOUNG. VVtnesses:

D. T. YOUNG, PAUL LEDOROOYER.

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