US554953A - Thomas price - Google Patents

Description

{No Model.)

T. PRICE.

THILL SUPPORT.

Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

INVENTOH By M MAMA- ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT DEEICE.

THOMAS PRICE, OF ITASOA, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ALEXANDER WV. KERR, OF SAME PLACE.

THlLL-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,953, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed July 24:, 1895. Serial No. 557,036. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern! Be it known that LTHOMAs PRICE, of Itasca, in the county of Hill and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Antirattling Attachment for Thill-Oouplin gs, of which the followingis a f ull,clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons; and it has for its object to construct such an attachment, practically of a single piece of material, and enable it to be readily applied to any axle and any thill, and furthermore to cause the device to exert constant and sufficient pressure on the eye of the thill-iron and prevent rattling where the iron is connected with the axle-clip and at the same time to cause the device to exert a rolling tension on the forward face of the thill-iron in a rearwardly direction, the latter tension being of such an extent that the shafts and thills will be practically balanced when the horse is attached thereto, and wherein when the animal.

is disengaged from the shafts the device will serve to automatically carry and hold the shaft or thills in an upright or practically vertical direction.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

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

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the antirattling attachment and the lower portion of the thill and thill-iron to which it is applied, the axle being in section. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device detached from the thills and axle. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cushion, against which the device has bearing at one of its ends; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the preferred form of clip used, the clip-plate not being shown.

In carrying out the invention the antirattling device, as shown in detail in Fig. 2, is made from one piece of spring wire of suitable size, and comprises rear arched or curved body members 10, each of which at its lower end is continued in the form of a coil 11, and from the two coils a single tongue 12 is made to emanate, and the said tongue is given an upwardly and forwardly direction and is located about centrally between the rear or body members 10. p

In the detail formation of the tongue 12 its forward extremity is decidedly arched or convexed on the top, forming an under concaved surface 13, (shown particularly in Fig. 1,) and back of the convexed upper surface of the tongue and adjoining the upright members of ,the coils at the back of the tongue a concavity 14 is made in the upper face of said tongue. The extremities of the body members 10 are bent inwardly upon themselves and serve to journal a friction-roller 15, the spring or tension of the wire being such as to cause the said body members to practically clamp the friction-roller, which is preferably made of metal.

The clip A is attached to the axle with the ordinary clip-plate 16, and the clip is provided upon its forward face with two horizontal ears 17, receiving the pivot-pin of the eye 18 of the thill-iron 19, the thill 20 being secured to the iron in any suitable or approved manner.

In connection with the antirattling attachment a cushion 21 is employed, which is preferably of leather, and this cushion, as shown in Fig. 1, is made to rest upon and extend partially around the upper or rear face of the eye of the thill-iron.

In applying the attachment the forward end of the tongue 12 is carried up between the eye of the thill-iron and the forward ends of the clip, between the ears 17 of the latter, and its concaved under face is made to rest on the cushion 21. The upper concavity of the tongue near its rear or lower end is adapted for engagement with the axle or with the ends of the clip-plate 16, and the antirattling pressure is obtained at this point usually by the pressure of the tongue against the forward lower edge of the axle. The coils 11 will now be beneath the axle, and the friction-roller 15 having been removed and the thill hoisted upward, the body-arms of the attachment are carried forward, one at each side of the thill, and the said arms are then suifered to spring into the friction-roller 15, which is shaped to receive the forward face of the thill-iron 19.

By means of this attachment all rattling on the part of the thill-coupling is prevented.

The attachment is exceedingly simple, capable of being readily and expeditiously applied; the frietion-roller 15 serves to prevent any wear and tear of the thill-iron, and the cushion 21 prevents any wear on the eye of the thill-iron, and in addition to serving as an antirattler, when a horse is not harnessed to the vehicle the thills will be automatically carried up out of the way.

Having thus described my invention, -I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An antirattling attachment for thillcouplings, consisting of a single piece of spring-wire bent upon itself to form parallel curved body-bars, coils at the lower extremities of the bodybars, a tongue similarly curved to the body-bars, located beneath and between the same and emanating from the said coils, the said tongue having its under face concaved at its forward extremity and its upper face concaved above and near its junction with the coils, as shown at 14, the extremities of the body-bars being bent inwardly toward each other to serve as journals for a friction-roller, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with an axle, a clip secured to the axle, a thill-iron the eye of which is pivoted in offsets from the clip, and a cushion located upon the rear portion of the said eye, of an antirattling attachment, the same consisting of arms curved from a point below the axle upwardly and forwardly, one at each side of the thill-iron, a friction-roller carried by the forward ends of the arms, being in engagement with the forward face of the said thill-iron, a coil formed at the lower end of each of the said arms and located beneath the axle, and a tongue, being a continuation of the said coils, which tongue is carried upward with a compound curve, as shown at 14, 13 in engagement with an edge of the axle and to an engagement with the cushion on the eye of the thill, the said antirattling attachment being made of a spring material, substantially as described.

THOMAS PRICE. Witnesses:

ED. WILKINSON, I. P. MARTIN.

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