US51341A - Improvement in making horse-collars - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OTEICEn i T. W. MURPHEY, OF NEW EGYPT, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING HORSE-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,34 l, dated December 5, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE W. MUR- PHEY, of New Egypt, in the county of Ocean and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Making Harness- Collars for Horses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference bein g had to the accompan yin g drawings, forming part of this speeitieation.

rlhe present invention consists in a novel arrangement of devices in and by which a liarness-collar for horses can be with great dispatch, facility, and ease stuffed or filled with any of the ordinary materialssuch as hay, straw, Ste-used therefor, while, at the same time, the collar is held with the requisite degree of tension, it being accomplished within a very short time and before the leather of which the collar-casing is iliade can become dry, the advantages of which are self-evident to all conversant with their manufacture.

In accompanying plate of drawings my iinprovements are illustrated, Figure 1 being a side elevation of the apparatus in position for being used; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same, taken in the plane of the line x x, Fig. 3, which is a central Vertical section taken in the direction ot' its length and the plane of the line y y, Fig. 2.

a a in the drawings represent the frame or bench of the apparatus supported by two legs, b b, on its center, and when in position resting at one end, c, upon the ground or iioor of the room, platform, or any other suitable place. rI his bench or frame may be made of iron or other metal, wood, or any other suitable material, and has secured to it at or near its center, by clasps d d at each end or in any other proper manner, a iixed center piece or p1ate,]", corresponding to which in thickness, and at each end of it for the remaining portion, g, of the bench, is a sliding frame or plate,h h, each kept in position by clasps l l, attached to it, passing around and under the bench. At or near the inner end of cach ot' these sliding pieces la h, and upon their under sides, is secured one end of a common belt, in, passing around frictional rollers n n, hung in the apertures o c of the outer end of the bench, and through a slot in the cross-shaft q, hung and turning in the bench, and having a winch-haiidle upon one end of it, as plainly shown in Fig. 2, so that by turning the said hand le either to the right orleft the said beltis wound upon its sh aft, thus causing the pieces or plates h h each to move out and away from the iixed center piece of the bench, spiral or other suitable springs being attached to them to draw them back to their original positions against the IiXed piece when the hand is removed from the winch.

Upon the center-piece, and at or near the outer ends of each sliding piece, are hung simi lar-shaped semicircular j aws or clasps i" fr, in vertical planes, against the upper edges of which, when so desired, the cam-shaped ends s s ot' levers t t, hung upon fulcrums in xed standards a a of the bench, are brought to bear by simply pulling down upon their outer ends, thus causing the jaws to be not only brought down and upon the bench but to be held there.

When the apparatus is to be used the clasps or jaws are iirst all sprung up from the benchslides and center-piece, to which they are secured, as described, and as plainly shown in Fig. 2, and the casing of the collar laid upon the apparatus, under the jaws, and secured at each end by bringing the jaws or clasps thereat down and upon the saine with the cam-levers. The winch-handle is then turned in the proper direction to cause the slides to move outward and away from thefixed center-piece, thus drawing the casing to a tension, which can be either more or less, as may be desired, where itis retained by interlocking the pawl a? of the bench with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 'v of the winch-shaft. The center clasp is then sprung down and over the collar-casing, when it is ready to be stuffed or filled with any of the ordinary materials used for such a purpose to the requisite degree ot'hardness, which having been completed the collar is removed from the apparatus and bent or formed into shape in any proper manner.

By means of my improved apparatus it is manifest that horse-collars can be stuffed with great rapidity and facility, and while at the same time they are held at the requisite tension, and that, furthermore, it can be accomplished in so short a time that when the collar is removed from the machine it will be still sufficiently wet or moist as to preclude any possibility of theleather cracking while being bent or formed into shape, it being, as is well known, necessary to meisten the leather in order to K stretch it to any degree of tension.

l Witnesses:

near its center upon two legs, b b,- tlie stationary centerpiece f, slides h h, extension apparatus m q u2 fu, clamps r, and cam-levers s t, all constructed and arranged to operate as and for the purposes specified.

The above speciiication of my invention signed by me this 1st day of August, 1865.

T. W. MURPHEY.

ALBERT W. BROWN, M. M. LIVINGSTON.

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