US597008A - Iiffletree-hook - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

A. D. LODGE.

WHIPPLETREE HOOK.

No. 597,008. Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

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WHIFFLETREE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,008, dated January 11, 1898. Application filed May 22,1897. Serial No. 637,711. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

to it known that I, ADDISON D. Loren, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Vandalia, Montgomery county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in W'hiffietree-Hooks; and my preferred manner of carrying out the invention is set forth in the following full, clear, and exact description, terminating with claims particularly specifying the novelty.

This invention relates to carriages and wagons, and more especially to the whii'fletreehooks used thereon for the removable attachment of the traces; and the object of the same is to produce such a hook adapted for removable attachment to whiiiletrees of different sizes for adjustment in its position after attachment and to avoid scratching the paint.

To these ends my invention consists in a whiflietree hook or attachment constructed substantially as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan view of the right end of a whifiletree with this hook or attachment in position and closed. on the trace, the latter being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment itself removed from the whiflietree and with the arm thrown back.

In the said drawings the letter W designates one extremity of an ordinary whittletree, preferably and usually having a shoulder S on its rear side near its outer extremity, beyond which it is reduced and possibly pointed, so as to receive the cockeye of the trace T, as usual. This forms no part of the present invention, but is illustrated in order to show the application and operation of my invention.

The letter O designates an oval piece of spring-wire having both ends rounded, as shown, and the ends of the wire are preferably connected at one of such rounded ends in the manner shown-that is to say, one extremity of the wire has aflat eye F and the other is turned upward and pointed, as at P, so that it may pass through the eye F and upward into the under side of the whiffietree, if desired. However, this is a matter of preference entirely, for the extremities of the wire could be soldered or brazed together or the entire oval could be stamped or cut from sheet metal without any extremities to be connected, if desired, without departing from the spirit of my invention. If so made, it will be obvious that there would be no protruding point P to take into and necessarily mar the lower side of the whiiiietree. The sides of the oval are bent upward between its ends, and each side is provided at about its center with an eye I, as seen.

The letter A designates the arm of my improved hook. This is also preferably made from a single piece of wire of substantially triangular configuration, the base extending across the center of the oval and through the two eyes Lbetween which it is deflected to the rear or inwardly along the whiffletree in a cam, as at G, and just outside the eyes this wire bends sharply outward into two converging members extending along above the Whit'fletree and turned down at their outer ends. In Fig. l I have shown these downturned ends as making a metallic footadapted to rest upon a small piece of felt, leather, or other material L, secured upon the whiffletree in proper position to receive the pressure of the foot and prevent the scratching of the paint; but in Fig. 2 I have shown a small foot F, as of leather, rubber, or other proper material, which might be attached to and carried by the downturned ends of the wire, so that the provision of the cushion on the whiiiietree would not be necessary.

\Vith the above construction of parts and their assembly as seen in Fig. 2 my improved device is attached to any whifiietree by simply depressing the ends of the oval until they can be passed under the whifiletree,while the cross-bar and cam of the arm at the center of the oval passes over such whiftietree, thus causing the spring action of the oval to be exerted to draw said cam downward on the wood of the tree. This naturally'raises the inner or camend of the arm A, and hence forces its outer end downward, and the result is that the foot F is caused to rest upon the reduced outer end of the whiffletree, as shown. Obviously the trace is fastened in place by first raising the foot slightly, then passing the coclceye over the point of the 2 o I a 597,008

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What is claimed as new is- 1. In a Whiffletreehook, the combination with an oval loop of Wire Whose ends stand beneath the Whifiletree and Whose center is raised, one extremity of the Wire having a fiat eye at one end of the oval and the other extremity being bent upward and passing through such eye; of a hook-shaped arm piv- 5o oted to the raised center of the oval, and

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my signature on this the 17th day of 95 May, A. D. 1897.

ADDISON D. LODGE.

Vi tn esses FRANK LIPMAN, EDWARD SURRELL.

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