US509968A - Drenching-bit - Google Patents

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B. SWAN. RENGHING BIT Patented Dec. 5, 1893.

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THOMAS B. S WAN, OF ATLANTIC, IOWVA.

DRENCHlNG-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 509,968, dated December 5, 1893.

Application filed February 25, 1893. Serial No. 463,744. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. SWAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Atlantic, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits; 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 drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bridle-bits and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of the parts that will be more fully set forth hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The object of my invention is to provide a bridle-bit which will perform the oifice of an ordinary bridle-bit, and which can also be utilized in the treatment of the various diseases to which the throats and mouths of horses are liable. I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-,-

Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improved bridle-bit having a part of the mouth piece broken away to show the construction within the mouth piece. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of a modified construction of the bridle-bit having a part of the mouth piece broken away showing the supports for the absorbent materialwith the absorbent material removed therefrom. Fig. 3, is a detailed perspective view of the threaded plug having the ring and the absorbent material support attached thereto. Fig. 4, is a detailed perspective view of the threaded plug having the ring and absorbent material support secured thereto, and of the absorbent material secured to its support. Fig. 5,is a cross section of the bridle-bit taken on the broken line 00 0a, in Fig. 1.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A, is the mouth piece of the bit which is made hollow and has a number of small perforations d, formed through its sides, through which medicine contained within the mouth piece, or its vapor, may escapeinto the horses mouth.

(3 O,are the rings into which the headstallstraps and the reins are buckled.

B B, are plugs which stop the ends of the mouth piece A. They each have apertures f, through which the rings loosely pass. The inner end a, of each plug is threaded and made of suitable size to fit the inner diameter of the mouth piece which has its innersurface threaded at its ends to receive the inner threaded ends of the plugs. hen the bridle-bitis constructed with a mouth piece as shown in Fig. 1, the plug B, can be made permanent and integral with the mouth piece if desired.

D, is a support for the absorbent material which is firmly secured at its outer end to the inner end of the plug B, and preferably made integral therewith, and it consists of a rod which extends longitudinally along the hollow within the mouth piece A, provided with the apertures e, and b, and having the point g, at its inner end.

E, is a piece of sponge having the support D, passing longitudinally through it. Instead of sponge any other absorbent material can be employed.

F, is a flexible band by means of which the sponge, or absorbent material is securely bound to the support D. The middle portion of the band is within the aperture 12, and the end portions pass through the aperture e, in opposite directions and are brought together on top of the support and tied by the knot h.

In the modified construction of the bridlebit shown in Fig. 2, the mouth piece consists of two sections m, and n, hinged together at their inner ends in the ordinary manner, each section being provided with an absorbent material support D. The support D, is made pointed so that it readily pierces the absorbent material fixed thereon. The diameter of the absorbent material E, is made somewhat less than the inner diameter of the mouth piece so that there is a space between the outer surface of the absorbent material and the inner surface of the mouth piece.

By unscrewing the plug having the support attached thereto, the support having the sponge, or absorbent material mounted thereon, can be easily withdrawn from the mouthpiece and the sponge saturated with medicated liquid, and then inserted within the mouth-piece and secured therein by screwing the plug into the end of the mouth-piece. If the bit be then inserted in a horses mouth the Vapor from the medicated liquid will escape through the perforations (Z, into the horses mouth, and the salivafrom the horses mouth will pass in and out of the perfora tions d, and around and about the surface of the sponge, or absorbent material E, and abstract the medicated liquid therefrom and convey it into the horses mouth.

It is evident that the bit can be used as an ordinary bridle-bit when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

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