US550463A - Hitching-ring attachment - Google Patents

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W. 'H. THOMAS. HITUHING RING ATTACHMENT.

Nb. 550,463. v Patented Nov. 26, 1895 INVENTEIFI- v UJITNEEEEE W/(SW (KEM XW/Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM H. THOMAS, OF JENKINTOTVN, PENNSYLVANIA.

HITCHlNG-RING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,463, dated November 26, 1895.

Application filed December 29, 1894. Serial No. 533,338. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM H. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at J enkintown, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hitching Ring Attachments, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention has relation to hitching-rings for live stock, and has for its object the provision of certain new and useful improvements therein.

Heretofore the fastening of devices of this character to awning-posts, &c., has involved the drilling and consequent weakening of such posts, &c.,while being quite a laborious operation and more or less unhandy, particularly after the posts, 850., are up, and requiring special machinery or appliances and a skilled mechanic for its accomplishment.

My invention consists of a hitching-rin g attachment of the character hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which is applicable to awning or other posts or poles, as well as to horizontal rods and bars, tubular fencing, and the like, without recourse to drilling or otherwise weakening or changing the structure of the same, and is capable of being secured on either,while holding the ring in the same and proper position in all cases, through the mere turning of a wrench or other suitable tool, requiring no more skill than is common to persons of ordinary intelligence,while being a matter of comparatively no work.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of the hitching-ring attachment,

the horizontal tubular bar or railing upon which the same is secured, and the ring itself, being in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away and in section, of such attachment in use on a verticalpost or pole. Figs. 3 and 4. are plan views of the blanks from which the improved ring attachment is formed. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of attachment,the vertical post or pole upon which the same is secured appearing in horizontal section. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the modified attachment and a modified form of ring in use on a horizontal tubular rod, bar, or fencing.

In said drawings, having reference more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, the improved ring attachment is seen to be composed of a hinged circular collar or clamp A, the sections a a of which in the flat or blank are of the forms shown, respectively, in Figs. 3 and 4, having similar openings 17 b b therein, and a slot 0 intermediate the two last-mentioned openings, and having the ends a a with which they terminate, coiled around and interposed one between the others, a pintle a being then passed through them, forming a hinge-joint for the clamp or collar, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The main portions of these sections, the extent whereof varies in accordance with the circumference of the particular post, pole, &c., which they are to jointly encircle, are curved in opposite directions semicircularly, then bent outwardly, as at a a, the longer section a being continued forwardly considerably in advance of that portion or theremainder of the shorter section which forms one end a of said collar or clamp, then curved laterally and around to form the circular eyes a a, and, finally, bent back upon itself, so as to secure the registry of the circular openings 1) 11 therein with each other and bring the ends of said slot flush, the bending of that part of section a in which the slot 0 is located serving to additionally strengthen that portion of the clamp or collar which may be designated the shank a and said slot in this condition forming a recess 0, which extends inwardly from the plane of said eyes to a point just outside the front edge of the end a of said clamp or collar.

In practice it is desirable that the hitchingring D shall hang fiatwise, or with its face out, instead of edgewise, when not .in use, and should swing outwardly in the plane illustrated in the various figures of the drawings, whether the support therefor be vertical or horizontal. To this end, when the ring is to be attached to a section E of tubular railing or other horizontal support, such ring is sprung into the eyes a a between those portions of the forward end of clamp-section a which form the shank a of the attachment. Then the respective sections of the clamp orcollar are swung apart sufficiently to permit the latter to embrace the railing, whereupon the forward ends of such sections are drawn together and a bolt passed through the openings 1) b in said shank and the opening I) in the end a of section a, and, through thelmedium of the nut b the parts through which said bolt passes are drawn together, as shown in Fig. 1, sufliciently to insure a firm grasp of said railing by said collar or clamp. Onthe other hand, when the post, pole, &c., is upright, while the clamp or collar is secured thereto in the same manner as just described, instead of first passing the ring D between the parts which compose shank a said ring, in order to compensate for the changed position of its support, has one side inserted in the recess 0, whenabolt F is passed through eyes a a" and through the ring and the nut f screwed thereonto. Thus said ring is secured in said recess in the same condition as before, while being as free to swing therein.

Instead of having eyes formed by coiling the forward end of one of the clamp or collar sections, as at a a", and the shank of the attachment twofold, as hereinbefore described, eyes 9 g, similar to the eyes last mentioned, may be cast integral with the shank g of the section G, of which they form a part, as shown in Fig. 5, said shank being of increasedthickness over that of such section for strengthening purposes and the latter at its rear end being cast with hollow bosses g3 g which form this sections part of the hinge, the ring D being inserted in the recess g like the recess 0, which is formed in shank g and secured in this position by the bolt 11, passed through eyes g g and through said ring and having the nut h screwed thereonto in the same n1anner as in the form of attachment shown in Fig. 2.

The other section G may be produced in any suitable manner and is hinged to section G through the medium of the pintle g, and the respective sections of the modified form of attachment are secured in clamping rela* tion with the post, pole, &c., by the bolt Ill, passed through registering openings in shank g and the forward end g of section G. When the support for this form of attachment is horizontal, however, a loop I, provided with flattened endsz' 2', adapted to embrace the eyes g g, through which latter and said ends said bolt H is passed, may be employed, the same having liberty of swinging motion on such bolt in the desired manner.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

1. Ahitchin g ring attachment consisting of a sectional hinged clamp having one of its sections provided 011 the end opposite the hinge thereof with a slot and eyes in the side wall of said slot, a bolt passing through said eyes and a connecting bolt for the ends of the sections adjacent said slot, said eyes being formed of a bent end of one of the sections and said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. In ahitching-ring attachment, the combination of a clamp or collar having one end turned upon itself to form eyes for reception of such ring, then brought into close relation with its main portion and provided with a recess which extends across the openings of said eyes for reception of said ring, a bolt or retainer passing through the eye and ring when the latter is in said recess and a similar fastening passing through the respective ends of the clamp or collar when in position for use, substantially as specified.

I11 testimony-whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of October, A. D. 1894.

WILLIAM H. THOMAS. \Vitnesses:

WM. II. POWELL, R. DALE SPARHAVVK.

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