US617499A

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Publication number: US617499A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-01-10
Anticipated expiration: 1916-01-10

Description

Patented .la'n. l0, I899.

No. 6l7,499.

J. J. CREEDUN.

TRACE CONNECTION.

(Application filad June 18, 1897.)

(No may.)

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JOHN J. OREEDON, OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE'HALF TO HERBERT WV. COOPER, OF SAMEPLACE.

TRACE CONNECTION.

' SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 61 7,499, dated January 10, 1899.

Application filedJune 18, 1897. Serial No. 641,255. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN J. OREEDON, of Moline, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Traces and Similar Connections, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hame-tug sections and similar connections, and has for itsobj ect to produce a simple and inexpensive construction whereby the wear upon the leather of the tug and the metal parts of the connection may be reduced and largely obviated; and to this end the invention consists in certain novel features, which I will now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in the claims. V

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a structure embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modified form of the device. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the clip is formed. Fig. 6 is a view showing the device employed in connection with a long-staple hame.

In the said drawings, A represents the tug,

and B the bolt or cross-bar to which the tug is to be connected. In Figs. 1 to 4 I have shown this part as the bolt of a shackle B, while in Fig. 6 it is shown as the cross-bar of a staple B of a hame B The device is equally adapted for use in connection with a bolt-hame.

represents a clip formed from a blank such as is shown in Fig. and havingabody or central portion of greater width than the arms or jaws 0. These enlarged portions are partly separated from the body by means of cuts in line with the edges of the jaws, thereby forming wings or lugs 0', four in number, located in pairs at the top and bottom of the bow or central portion of the clip. The clip is cut or stamped out of sheet-steel of uniform thickness, whereby it is rendered light and yet very strong.

In assembling the device the clip, being bent into U shape to bring its jaws or arms 1 suitable means.

the bolt or bar Band form abu'tments for the tug, which prevent contact between the same and the bolt or bar and obviate the chafing and wearing of the tug and its consequent destruction. The clip also gives a longer bearing on the bolt by reason of the extension or increased width of the body at the bow or central portion of the clip and prevents the rocking of the clip on the bolt or 7 bar and the consequent cutting of this latter and undue wear of the clip.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 6 the leather of the tug is embraced between the jaws of the clip, the clip being outside of the tug and exposed; but, if preferred, Imay cover the clip with the leather, and such a construction is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and will be readily understood without detailed description.

While I have described my invention as chiefly applicable to hame-tug sections, it is obvious that the same maybe used in other connections-as, for example, at the other end of the tug, where it is connected with the singletree.

I claim+- 1. Ahame-tug clip formed of asheet-metal blank adapted to be doubled or folded upon itself to provide arms to embrace the tug and a loop to receive the bolt or staple, the central part of the blank being wider than the extremities, and the marginal portions of said central part being partially severed from the body by incisions and forming free wings or lugs which are bent to embrace the bolt or staple above and below the body of the clip, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the tug and the tions or wings thus formed being bent around bolt 01' staple to which it is connected, of a the bolt or staple above and below the body IO sheet-metal clip bent upon itself and having of the clip, substantially as described. arms which embrace the tug and a loop to re- T ceive the bolt or staple,the central part of said JOHN CREEIXD clip being wider than the arms, and the marginal portions of said central part being partiallysevered from the blank and the free porlVitnesses:

EVA STANTON, SARAH T. STODDAR'D.