US528414A - Julius carwin clausen - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries J ULIUS CARWIN CLAUSEN, OF HENSALL, CANADA.

HAM E-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,414, dated O'ctober 30, 1894.

Application filed `February 5, 1894. Serial No. 499,079. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JULIUs GARWIN CLAU- SEN, of Hensall, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented 'a new and Improved Hame-Tug and Trace Fastening, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My hame-tug belongs in a class whose characteristic is a series of notches, or slots, adapted to receive a hook attached to a trace. I have devised certain material changes and improvements as hereinafter specified.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and claimed. w

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the hame tug embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a broken perspective view of the fastening hook on the trace, showing the outer side thereof. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the inner side of the fastening hook, and Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

The hame tug 10is provided with an elongated frame having two parallel side pieces 11 which are connected at intervals by cross rods 12, which stien the frame and which also assist in holding the trace hook, as hereinafter described, and to one of these cross rods, at the end of the frame, is pivoted the strap 13 which may be connected to the hame in any usual manner.

The side pieces at the rear end of the tug are widened, as shown at 14, to form a good bearing,fand at these points the buckle frame 16 is pivoted, as shown at 15 in Figs. 1 and 2,

this frame being of substantially the usual.

kind having the customary cross bar/17 to guide the trace, the rear loop 18 serving as a guide and adapted to receive the breeching strap, and the top and bottom loops 19 to connect with the back pad and belly girth. This pivot or hinge connection between the hametug and buckle frame, 16, is important, since it enables the hame-tug to be bent inward when a trace is to be attached, so that the lathard, so that it becomes diicult to adjust them from one engagement to another with a buckle or other fastening device. By my construction and connection of parts, no difflculty is encountered in such adjustment. The frame is provided also with cross bars 20, these being arranged at regular intervals, and each bar being placed adjacent to and a little behind a cross rod 12, while in the back side of each cross bar is a notch 21, rearwardly and inwardly inclined, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 5, this 'notch being adapted to receive the tongue 22 on the inner side and rear end of the fastening hook 23, which hook is provided with an out-turned point or nose, 23, havinga transverse groove, 24, in its outer side to adapt it for engagement with a cross rod, 12. The fastening hook 23 is provided with square shoulders 25 on each side of the tongue 22, these shoul- V ders being adapted to abut with the front flat end portions of the cross bars 20. The hook 23 is also provided with arearwardlyextending shank 23a which is fastened in the end of thetrace 26, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, but the hook may be fastened in any convenient 'to facilitate the adjustment of the hook.

The trace 26 extends backward through the buckle 16 in the customary manner, and to l IOO which it is desired t0 engage the hook, and when the tongue enters the notch, the groove 24'engages the cross rod 12, and the trace is thus heid securely in piace and extends rearward so that there isastraight pull on the tug.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of a buckle, a hametug hinged thereto, and having cross-bars' provided with notches on their inner sides, and cross rods arranged in front of said bars, and a trace and its fastening hook having a `tongue and out-turned point adapted to engage said cross-bars and rods, respectively, as shown and described.

2. The combination with the haine-tug hav` ing the notched cross bars and cross rods arranged in front of the latter, of the metal, trace-fastening hook, having a rearwardly projecting hook, and an out-turned point which is adapted to pass beneath and engage said cross bars, as shown and described.

JULIUS CARWIN CLAUSEN.

Witnesses:

JAS. SUTHERLAND, GEORGE JAMES SUTHERLAND.

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