US609548A - Horse-hitching device - Google Patents

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No; 609,548. Patented Aug. 23', Issa s. s. Juv. i HDRSE HITCHING DEVICE.

(Application Bled Feb. 28, 189B.) (.Nn Model.)

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SAM S. JOY, OF NEW MARKET, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HORSE-HITCHING DEVICE. d

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,548, dated August 23, 1898.

` Application iiled February 28, 1898. Serial No. `6'7I,901. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, SAM S. JOY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Market, in the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, have invented. certain newand useful Improvements inHorse-Hitching Devices; and I dohereby declare the'following to be afull, 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.

This invention relates to devices for securing the hitch rope or strap of the halter or bridle of a horse, and is adapted to be placed iu either a night or day stall or in sheds or on bitching-posts, the object of the invention being to render it easy for any one to hitch his horse very quickly and securely without the necessity of tying a knot of any kind and without .depending upon snap` hooks.

The device is equally well adapted to accommodate a hitch rope, strap, or chain; and it consists, essentially, in a pair of levers both hung on the same pivot and movable independently one of another. Each of the levers has a cross-bar at the extreme end, and the larger of the two is held in normal position by means of a spring-actuated latch, as will be fully set forth in the following specification and claims and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, of which* Figure l is an elevation of my improved hitching device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation of the sameA Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the smaller or grip lever. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the larger or guide lever. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the latch for engaging the guide-lever, Fig. 6 being a detail plan view of a retaining-plate by which the latch shown in Fig. 5 is held in position. Fig. 7 is a broken sectional view showing a part of the frame with the latch and its retaining-plate in proper place. Fig. 8 shows a portion of the frame, the grip and guide levers, and their rictional tensionpivot.

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I provide a frame which may be formed of cast-iron and consist of a plate A, having perforations a for the recept-ion of retaining- `screws, and sidewalls B B, and a Wall C, which rises at an acute angle from the plate A at a point about midway of its length and connects with the walls B iB. Said Wall C terminates at its top in a curved portion c,

lwhich joins the plate A near its upper end, and the top of said-Wall C may be provided with a v -groove c', for a purpose to be hereinafter explained. The curved portion c and the upper portion of the` wall C is open in the center for the reception of the hitchlevers and connected by walls c2 with the plate A, the levers D and E being pivotally connected to said Walls c2 by a suitable stud F. This stud F is preferably formed slightly tapering and may afford a spring-opening and a tension device for the levers D and E by means of the helicalfspring G, mounted upon said stud, to which one of its ends is attached, while the other enters a perforation in the frame. The stud may be provided with a slotted head and rotated to the desired tension byV a screw-driver, when a light blow of a hammer will prevent it from turning. 4

The frame is provided with a socket H for the reception of the `latch, I, which enters from the rear and isprovided with oppositelydisposed bosses i, which find bearings in said socket H and take the place of a rivet. A retaining-plate .I is perforated at j to receive studs h,formed in the socket H, and by slightly upsetting said studs the plate J and latch I are retained in their proper place. An integral projection or stop h is formed `at a point to sustain the latch atthe proper elevation to readily engage the guide-lever E by entering the opening e, formed therein, and through which said latch extends far enough to be raised by ones nger.

Both levers D E are perforated,respectively, at d3 e3 for the reception of their pivot-pin or stud F, and the lever D has in one of itssides a recess d, in which the lug or projection e2 of the lever E may play, thus affording the `hitch-rope-fastening lever D a limited movemeut wholly independent of the guide-lever E and even while the latter is securely locked in operative position by the latch I. The cross-bar c of the lever E is preferably formed cylindrical; but it is advisable to form the bar d triangular or with a moderately-sharp pro- ICO jcction d2, adapted to engage the V-groove c of the Wall C, so that the hitch strap or rope will have less tendency to slip.

The sectional view, Fig. 2, is taken on cut` ting-line 2 2 of Fig. l, and to fasten a hitchrope the levers D E are drawn out, as seen by dotted lines in Fig. 2, when a loop of the hitch rope or strap may be passed over the lever D and the rope brought down on each side under the cross-bar CZ and the cross-bar c of the guide-lever E When the latter is pressed down until engaged by the latch I, and the harder a horse may pull in any direction the more tightly Will the hitch rope or strap be held by the grip-lever D. A perforation a is formed in the frame,in which is placed a spring K, one end of Which receives the projection t" of the latch I and the other bears against a stop-pin 7o, near the other end of the perforation a', thus keeping the latch I normally in engagement With the guide-lever E.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. A horse-hitching device comprising, a

suitable metal frame, and a grip and guide lever mounted both on the same pivot and movable independently one of the other.

2. A horse-bitching device comprising, a suitable metal frame, a grip and guide lever mounted both on the same pivot and movable independently one of the other, and a springactuated latch for engaging the guide-lever.

3. A horse-bitching device comprising7 a metal frame substantially of the form shown and having an elevation or Wall provided with a V-groove, a grip-lever having a cross-arm adapted to engage said V-groove, a guide-lever having a cross-arm 'filling the space between the side walls of said frame, and a spring-actuated latch for engaging the said guide-lever, all substantially for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SAM S. J OY.

Witnesses:

J. B. THURsToN, JOHN H. ANDREWS.

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