US674531A - Hame-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

No. 674,53l.

Patented May 2|, I90! N. C. BENNETT &. H. J. COWGER. HAME FASTENER.

(No'flodeL) (Application filed Nov. 28, 1900.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWMAN C. BENNETT AND HENRY J. COWGER, OF ARBOVALE, WEST VIRGINIA.

HAM E-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,531, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed November 28, 1900. S i l NO. 38.028. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.- Y

Be it known that we, NEWMAN O. BENNETT and HENRY J. OOWGER, citizens of the United States, residing at Arbo vale, in the county of Pocahontas and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Hame-Fas'tener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hame-fasteners; and the object of the same is to provide simple and efi'ective means for connecting the lower ends of hames and prevent accidental disconnection thereof, and also to have the improved fastener so constructed that it can be easily and readilypperated to release the hames when desired and whereby an adj ustment may be quickly obtained to compensate for variations in the sizes of. collars and to change the degree of binding stress of the hames on the collar.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the lower portion of a collar andlower hame ends, showing the improved fastener applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the fastener, showing the parts thereof disconnected. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of one of the members of the fastener, showing the locking-arm thereof elevated. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section through a portion of the member shown by Fig. 3 with the locking-arm closed. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a modified construction for a portion of one of the fastener members.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates a collar of ordinary form, only the lower portion thereof being shown in the accompanying drawings, and 2 indicates the hames, having the usual D or other loops 3 in the lower ends thereof.

The fastener comprises a locking member 4 and a coupling member 5, each having an outer terminal hook 6, with an outer upwardly bent or curved guard-finger 7, projecting over and in advance of the adjacent portion of the edge of the hook, the said hooks being engaged by the loops 3 and the guard-fingers preventing the accidental disconnection of the said parts. The hook 6 of the coupling member 5 has a swivel-eye 8 at the center of its inner end, and thereto is connected one of a series of chain-links 9, which are adapted to be placed in adjustable engagement with an outturned hook lOat the inner end of the locking member 4 and movably carried by and integral with a locking-arm l1, pivoted in the inner end of a frame 12 and having the hook 6 integral with its Outer terminal. The locking-arm 11 is adapted to close into a recess 13 in the under side of the frame 12 and has a lip 1% at its free end to prevent it from entering the recess beyond a predetermined distance, the lip striking against a portion of the frame beyond the outer end wall of the recess 13. Extending longitudinally of the rear edge of the free extremity of the said locking-arm is a shouldered recess 15, and secured along the adjacent side wall of the recess 13 is a fiat lockingspring 16, having an elongated shoulder 17 to engage the recess 15 of the arm to lock the latter closed in the frame. The spring 16 is secured at its inner end, and secured to its outer free end is a transversely-extending pin 18, which freely moves through the outer side of the frame and has an outer headed end 19 in a circular recess 20. The spring 16 is of such primary arrangement that the elongated shoulder thereof will be automatically forced into the recess 15 of the arm; but by pressing the pin 18 inwardly the shoulder of the spring will be released from the recess of the arm and the latter will be free to be opened. The inner end of the frame has two depending guards 21, one on each side and both in transverse alinement, and when the arm 11 is closed into the frame the free end of the hook 10 will be located between and upwardly above the lower ends of the said guards 21, and it will be observed that when one of' the links 9 is in engagement with the hook l0 and the arm 11 is closed it will be impossible for the said link to become accidentally disengaged from the hook. When the arm 11 is released and opened, the engaged link 9 will be free to slide or pull off the said hook 10. By causing one of the links nearer the swivel-eye 8 to engage the hook 10 it will be understood that the members of the fastener will be drawn closer together and likewise the lower ends of the hames, and the number of links can be increased, if desired, tofurther increase the range of adjustment.

The improved device is strong and durable, can be easily operated in any kind of Weather, and is comparatively inexpensive in the cost of manufacture. The several parts of the members are also subject to modification within the principle of the invention, and as an instance of this kind the coupling member 5 (shown by Fig. 5) is an example. This member 5 is similar in construction to the member 5, heretofore described, with the exception that the swivel 8 is dispensed with and an eye 8 is formed on the attaching end thereof for engagement with one of the links 9.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a hame-fastener, the combination of a coupling member comprising a series of links having an outer attaching-hook, and a locking member having an outer attaching hook and depending guards near its inner end, said guards being on opposite sides, an arm pivoted at its inner end to the inner end of the said locking member, and having adepending hook with its free end directed outwardly and adapted to freely move between the guards, the latter shielding the free end of the hook when the'arm is closed, the hook having engagement with the links, and means for detachably securing the arm in the locking member.

2. A hame-fastener comprising a coupling member having a series of links, and a looking member comprising a frame with a re cess therein, a shouldered lockingspring mounted on one longitudinal Wall of the said recess and having a transversely-extending operating-pinconnected to its outer free end, the said pin having one end exposed through one side of the frame, and a locking-arm pivoted in the rear end of the frame and provided with an inner hook and a shouldered recess in one side to receive the shoulder of the spring.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

NEWMAN O. BENNETT. HENRY J. COWGER. Witnesses:

GEO. W. MALLOVV, GEO. W. CoWcER.

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