US518044A - Hopple - Google Patents

Description

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HOPPLB.

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Patented Apr. 1894.

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HENRY MCGUIRE, OF MEMPHIS, MICHIGAN.

HOPPLE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 518,044, dated April 10,1894.

Application filed June 5, 1893. Serial No. 476,602- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MCGUIRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Macomb, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hopples for Animals; 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.

This invention relates to hopples for animals, especially designed for preventing breachy stock from jumping fences; and consists in a certain construction and arrangement of parts as fully hereinafter set forth, the essential features of which being pointed out particularly in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and elfective means for preventing horses and other live stock from jumping, which is unencumbering; may be readily applied, and will not injure the animal nor interfere with its ordinary habits.

This object is attained by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 1 Figure 1 is a view of a horse having myimproved device attached to the leg thereof. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device removed. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through one of the securing bands, the ends of which are buckled together as when secured to the leg of an animal.

Referring vto the letters of reference, A and B designate the upper and lower bands re-.

spectively, that are adapted to encircle the leg of the animal. These bands are provided at one end with straps a, and at the other end with buckles a, so that said ends may be brought together and secured to form aloop, as shown in Fig. 3, and the inner faces of said bands are provided with. a pad or lining O.

D designates two slats or bars that are attached at their ends to the bands A, B, so that when the ends of said outer face of the bands are brought together, said bars will stand nearly opposite one another and will be held free from the leg of the animal. These bars may be of either wood or iron, and may be riveted directly to said bands, or attached thereto by means of the clips I), as shown, which are secured to said hands by bolts or rivets e, andwhich embrace the ends of said bars, which are secured in said clips by means of a bolt d that passes through the holest' in said bars. These holes permit said bands to be adjusted upon the bars to increase or decrease the distance between them, so as to accommodate the boot to the various sizes of horses. The'pad or lining O on the inner face of the bands, is of such thickness as to cause the bars, which are attached to the outer face of said bands, to stand away from the leg of the animal so as to permit the knee joint to pass freely between them, said pad also covers the ends of the rivets or bolts with which the bars are secured torthe bands and prevents any injury to the animal. The boot is placed upon the fore leg of the horse, as shown in Fig. 1, the

band B embracing the leg above the fetlock, and the bandA embracing the leg between the knee and the body of the animal, and are so disposed that the bars D will stand in a vertical one on the inside and the other on the outside of the leg. The boot when so placed upon the leg does not interfere with the free movement of the knee joint in walking, but when an effort is made to jump the fence, the front leg wearing the boot'cannot be gathered to the body preparatory to casting forward in the act of jumping, but remains stiff and swings straight out from the shoulder so that when the animal settles back upon its hind legs before making the spring, and raises its front legs from the ground, the booted leg swings out straight, so disconcerts the animal and holds it so far away from the fence, that all efforts at jumping are abandoned.

Having thus fully set forth my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p 1. In a device for the purpose set forth, the

combination of the bands adapted to embrace and having means to secure them in place,-

the thick pad or lining upon theinnerface of said bands, the bars extending between said bars, the bolts passing through said clips and bands and secured at their ends to the outer the holes in said bars so as to permit of lon- I5 face thereof,and the meansfor adjusting said gitudinal adjustment, the thick pads upon bands longitudinally upon the bars so as to inthe inner face of said bands whereby said 5 crease or decrease the distance between them, bars are extended free from the knee of the said bars passing on opposite sides of the leg animal.

of the animal free from the knee thereof. In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in 20 2. In a device for the purpose set forth, the presence of two witnesses. combination of the bands adapted to embrace to the leg, the bars extending between said bands HENRY MCGUIRE and having a series of holes in the ends there- Witnesses: of, the clips attached to the outer face of said 5. J. AsQ-UITH,

bands and adapted to receive the ends of said WILLIAM H. BRANNOGK.

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