US651392A

US651392A - Horse-detaching whiffletree.

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Publication number: US651392A
Application number: US1026500A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert Shepard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-03-26
Filing date: 1900-03-26
Publication date: 1900-06-12
Anticipated expiration: 1917-06-12

Description

No. 65|,3972. Patented June [2, I900.

A. SHEPARD.

HORSE DETACHING WHIFFLETREE.

(Application filed Mar. 26, 1900.)

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ALBERT SHEPARD, OF OAKLEY, IDAHO.

HORSE-DETACHING WH |FFLETREE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,392, dated June 12, 1900.

Applicfltiov filed March'26, 1900, Serial No. 10,265. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT SHEPARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakley, in the county of Cassia and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Detaching \Vhifiietrees; and I do declare the following to be a full,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, reference being had to the ac'companyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in horse -detaching devices, and especially to a whiffletree made in sections and hinged together, the two sections being of unequal length, one of the sections having a staple which is engaged by a hasp, which latter is pivoted to the other of the sections, said hasp and staple being on the opposite faces of the sections from the hinge connecting the two, whereby when the hasp engages the staple the two sections are held in alinement; but by detaching the free end of the hasp the two sections are allowed to turn upon themselves, so that the traces may become detached from the ends of the whiffietree to free a horse from the latter. In connection with the sectional whiftletree the sections of which are hinged together and having a hasp for holding the same in alinement with suitable cord connected to the end of the hasp,whereby the free end of the hasp may be detached from a staple which it engages, I provide holdback-retaining members by which when the sections of the whiffletree are allowed to turn upon themselves the holdbackstraps will be allowed to draw from under said members and the horse be detached from the whiffletree and thills.

My invention will be clearly understood when considered in connection with the following detailed description and the drawings forming a part of the application.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings Figure 1 is a top plan View of my improved horse-detaching device, showing the sectional whiftletree held with its two sections in alinement, the sectional whiffletree being shown in dotted lines in its detaching position after the hasp has been released. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the thills with the whiffletree secured thereto, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the sectional whiftletree.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the thills of a bu gg ,and to the cross-piece of the thills is pivoted by means of a bolt 0 one section D of the whittletree, said bolt being at the middle portion of said cross-piece. The second section D of the whiflietree, which is shorter than the section D, is hinged,as at E, to section D, said hinge being on the forward faces of the whiftletree-sections. The ends of the sections are provided with the tracehooks F, which are made, preferably, of such a shape as to allow the traces to become easily detached when the two sections of the whiffietree are allowed to swing forward. On

the rear face of the section D is mounted a hasp G, which is pivoted to an eye G. This hasp is preferably fiat and has an elongated aperture g near its free end and an eye H, in which latter a cord K is adapted to be attached. On the section D is a staple M, over which the apertured end of the hasp engages, as shown in the drawings, when the two sections of the whiftletree. are locked in their normal positions, in which they are in alinement with each other.

The cord K passes rearward and within convenient reach of the occupant of the buggy, so that in case of emergency the operator may pull upon the cord and release the free end of the hasp from said staple, which will allow the whiftletree-sectionsto swing forward and the traces of the harness to be detached from the trace-hooks.

To the under surfaces of the shafts of the thills I secure the holdback-hooks N, which are fastened at their rear ends to the thills, bent, as shown, and have their free ends held adjacent to the under faces of the shafts. Said hooks being made, preferably, of spring metal their ends will spring down to allow the holdback-straps to be detached therefrom in case the horse becomes frightened and it is wished to free said horse from the thills. The traces being detached from the IOC Whiifietree and the holdback-straps from the spring-hooks on the thills, the horse is freed from the buggy.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A horse-detaching device, comprising in combination with the thills, a whiffletree made up of two sections hinged together, said sections being of unequal length, the longer of the two being pivoted to the cross-piece of the thills, a hasp for holding said sections in alinement with each other, and means for disconnecting said hasp, as set forth.

2. A horse-detaching device, comprising in combination with the thills of a buggy, a