US873549A - Harness-hanger. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED DEC. 10

P. HOP. HARNESS HANGER. APPLICATION rum) MAY 29, 1901.

WITNESSES A TTOHNEYS FRANK HOF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HARNESS-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

Application filed May 29. 1907. $erial No. 376.257.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Hor,.a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness-Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to devices for holding harness in suspension in engine houses, truck houses, and the like, and the purpose of the invention is to provide a single piece hanger and a rocker for the hanger, adapted both as a rest and a release for parts of a harness, the hanger and accompanying rocker being so constructed that the breeching of the harness will be supported by the rear portion of the hanger and the hames and reins by the said rocker, which is located at the forward portion of the hanger.

It is a further purpose of the invention to so construct the device that it will be simple and economic, and reliable in operation, and so that by drawing down upon the reins the entire harness will be instantly and automatically released from the hanger.

The invention consists'in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hanger and a harness supported thereby; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section through the forward portion of the hanger and a side elevation of the rocker, illustrating its rests in supporting position in positive lines and in discharge position in dotted lines.

A represents the body bar of the hanger, and B a cross bar located at the rear of the body bar and at right angles thereto, and these bars are each in one piece, and are made tubular in the interest of lightness. The cross bar B may be attached to the body bar A in any approved manner, usually, however, a T-fitting 10 is employed for the purpose, and the forward end of the body bar A and each end of the cross bar B is upwardly curved, and said ends terminate in balls 11, so that when the hanger is carried upward after the harness is released therefrom, the ends of the hanger will not mar the ceiling or overhead support. A post 12 extends up from the body bar A between its ends, which post is shown located at or near the center, and may be an integral portion of the body bar, but is'shown secured to the said body bar by a sleeve 13, the sleeve and post in such an event being integral parts. The post 12 is provided with an eye 14 at its upper end, and a suspension rope or cable 15 is secured to the post at the said eye, and

adjacent the eye the suspensioncable 15 is provided with an attached ball or other form of offset 16, whereby to limit the up- -ward movement of the cable when the harness is released from the hanger, the cable being provided with the usual attachment weight or weights.

The hanger is braced by means of truss rods 17, which are in the form of bars, and are secured to opposite sides of the upper end portion of the suspension post 12, and at their outer ends the said truss rods or bars 17 are secured to the body bar A by means of clips 18, or their equivalents. The truss rods or bars 17 extend nearly from the said suspension post to the ends of the body bar, but the forward truss rod or bar 17 is further removedfrom the forward end of the said body bar than is the rear truss rod or bar from the rear end of said body bar. A weight 19 is attached to, or is formed around a part of the body bar A between the forward clip 18 and the forward end of the body bar, and this weight 19 is adapted to counterbalance the hanger as an entirety and maintain it when elevated in a substantially horizontal position. In front of the weight 19 yet back of the forward end of the body bar of the hanger, a slot 20 is produced in the upper surface of the said body bar, and a longer I This the hook formation illustrated, the curva-,

ture of both rests 24 and 25 being upward to a greater or lesserextent, and by preference the lower rest 25 is larger than the upper one 24, and when the rocker C is in locking position, shown in positive lines in Fig. 2, the outer end of the upperirest 24 enters the body bar A through the lower slot 21 therein, and the lower rest 25 occupies such a position that its vertical center is practically in vertical alinement with the center of the pivot pin 23.

Rearwardly extending hooks 26, or their equivalents, are secured to the cross bar B adjacent its ends, as is shown in Fig. 1, and

these rear hooks 26 are adapted to receive rings 27 attached to the breeching section D of the harness, and in applying the harness the center ring 28 of the hame D is passed over the lower rest 25, while the snap 29 of a rein D passed through the said ring 28 is made to engage with the upper rest 24. The weight of the forward portion or the harness upon the lower rest of the rocker C will bring the said rests to their normal position, carrying the free end of the upper rest into the said body bar, as is shown in both Figs. 1 and 2. When the harness is to be released from the hanger the man at the head of the horse will simply grip the suspended rein D and draw it downward. In so doing the rocker C will be moved so that both of its rests are carried to the discharge position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and immediately thehame and the rein will leave the rocker and the rear end portion of the hanger will incline downward, releasing the breeching of the harness, which will drop upon the animal, while the hanger will be carried upward out of the way in the customary manner. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a hanger for suspending a harness, a body bar having a slotted portion, and a rocker having a body pivoted in the slotted portion of the body bar and provided with rest members extending from the body, the end of one of said rest members being adaptad to enter the slotted portion of the body 2. In a hanger for suspending harness, a tubular bodybar. having slots produced in its upper and lower surfaces adjacent to one end thereof, a rocker having a body mounted to turn in the slotted portion of the body bar,

and rest members extending from the lower I port-ion of the rocker body and located one above the other, the outer end of the upper rest member being adapted to enter the slot in thelower face of the body bar.

3. In a hanger for suspending a harness, a body bar having a slotted forward portion, a cross bar attached to the body bar, means carried by the cross bar for supporting the breeching section ofa harness, and a rocker comprising a disk body pivoted in the slotted forward portion of the body bar, said disk body having an upper and a lower hookshaped member extending from its lower peripheral portion and forming rests for parts of the forward portion of a harness, the end of the upper hook-shaped member being adapted to enter the slotted portion of the body bar.

4. In a hanger for suspending a harness, a body bar having slots in the upper and lower surfaces thereof at its forward portion, a cross bar attached to the body bar, means carried by the cross bar for supporting the breeching portion of a harness, a rocker pivoted in the slotted forward portion of the body bar, which rocker is provided with hook-shaped rests, one below the other, the upper rest being adapted to receive the snap of a rein and the lower rest the ring of the hame through which the rein passes, the said upper rest, when the rocker is in looking position, entering the lower slot in the body bar.

5. In a hanger for suspending a harness, a body bar, and a rocker comprising a body pivoted to the body bar, and hook-shaped rests extending from the pivoted body, one below the other, the free end of the upper rest when in closed position engaging an opening in the body bar, the saidrests being carried to closed position by the weight of the harness and brought to discharge'position by the withdrawal of a portion of the harness.

6. In a hanger for suspending a harness, the combination with a body bar in one piece, a cross bar in one piece secured to the end of the body bar, the forward end of the body bar and the ends of-the cross bar being upwardly curved and having rounded terminal portions, a suspension member extending from the body bar, truss members extending from the suspension member to an engagement with the body bar at opposite sides of its center, and a counterbalancing weight at the forward end of the body bar, of a rocker pivotally mounted in the forward end of the body bar, said rocker being provided with open rests for the reception of parts of the forward pieces of a harness, and means carried by the cross bar of the hanger for temporarily supporting the pieces of the harness at the rearthereof.

7. In a hanger for suspending a harness, a tubular body bar havin registering slots in the upper and lower sur aces near one end thereof, the slot in the under surface being longer than the slot in the upper surface, a

rocker comprising a disk body extending through the slots in the body bar, a pivot pin extending through the center of the disk body and through the body bar below the central portion of the upper slot, and hook shaped rests extending from the lower peripheral portion of the disk body and located one above the other, the outer end of the upper rest, when the rocker is in locking posilower slot.

tion, entering In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK HOF.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES KRONENTHAL, CHARLES O. FENDRYCK.

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