US868364A

US868364A - Horse-tail holder.

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Publication number: US868364A
Application number: US37447807A
Authority: US
Inventors: Orrin B Read
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-05-18
Filing date: 1907-05-18
Publication date: 1907-10-15
Anticipated expiration: 1924-10-15

Description

PATENTED OCT. l5', 1907.

0. B. READ. HORSETAIL HOLDER.

UNITED STATES ORRIN B. READ, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

HORSE-TAIL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

Application tiled May 18,1907. Serial No. 374,478.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRIN B. READ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, an d State ol New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Tail Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists ol' the novel construction and combination of parts hereinal'ter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several ligures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan View of the outer side ol' my improved holder, extended to occupy a horizontal plane. Fig. 2 ol' the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same locked in circular form as inuse. Fig. 4 is a side view of the holder, showing the same applied to a horses tail.

All-metal horse-tail holders are objectionable for the reason that they require to have certain portions introverted to forni inward projections adapted to be embedded in the hair oi the horses tail, in order to prevent slipping or displacement of the holder, which projections having cut-metal edges tend to tear or cut the hairs and distigure the tail. A spring-metal holder, however, presents a more attractive appearance than strap holders, as the metal surface can be finished in an ornamental manner, and the holder remains circular in form when in use, whereas with a strap holder, or a holder partly metal and partly strap, such circular l'orm cannot be preserved, nor can so. attractive surface ornamentation be secured.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a holder having the advantages of the all-metal holder, but relieved ot' its tendency to cut or break the hairs of the tail.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, l, denotes a spring-metal band, which may be of any desired width, and which, adjacent to one of its ends, is provided with two longitudinally disposed slots 2. At its opposite end, the band is provided on its outer side with a series of lips or tongues, 3, each preferably separated from the body of the band on three sides, and having the tree end ofthe tongue bent outwardly suflciently to permit the lip to pass through one of the slots, 2, in the other end of the band, and to interlock with the outer end wall of said r l l l is a similar view of the inner side slot, when the band is bent to circular form, as shown in Fig. 3, the slotted end lying outside of the end having the tongues 3. Two series of these tongues are arranged in line with the respective slots 2. By having a nurnber of these tongues in series, the band can be bent to a more or less contracted circular form, and locked in such form, thereby adapting the holder for different sizes of tail.

The displacement of the lips or tongues, 3, causes the formation of numerous apertures in the band, said tongues forming, with the body of the band on opposite sides of the openings formed by their displacement, V- shaped recesses or notches, in which the hairs of the tail are likely to become wedged and torn by movements of the holder, or by its removal from the tail. The hairs are also likely to be broken or sheared off if permitted to come between the interengagng tongues, 3, and walls of the slots 2.

In carrying out my invention, I apply and secure upon the inner side of the metal band, in position to cover the openings formed by displacement of said tongues or lips, a strip, 5, of flexible material, such as soft rubber, which may be secured to the metal band by rivets, 6, or in any known manner. The strip, 5, is corrugated on its inner side so that it is adapted to be embedded in the hair of the tail and prevent displacement of the holder When locked upon the tail.

The yielding nature of the strip, 5, makes it impossible for its corrugated surface to injure the tail, and the strip is of such a width and length, and is so placed that it covers the openings formed by the displacement of the tongues, 3, making it impossible for the hairs ofthe horses tail to pass out through such openings, or to engage the cut-metal edges surrounding such openings.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A horse-tail holder comprising, in combination a metallic spring-band having' near one end tongues formed by outward displacement of integral portions of the band, leaving openings therein, and having near its other end means for interengaging with said tongues; and a strip of yielding flexible material secured to the inner side of said band and covering the apertures formed by displacement of said tongues.

In testimony whereof, 16th day of May, 1907.

I have hereunto set my hand this ORRIN B. READ.