US93569A - Improvement in sleigh-bell fastenings - Google Patents

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HIRAM VEAZEY, OF EAST IIAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

17mm- Patent No. 93,569, dated August 10, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT tIN' SLEG'H-BELL FASTENING-S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom, it may concern: 'i

Be it known that I, HIRAM VEAZEY, of East Ham pton,in the county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful- Improvement in Fastening Bells to Leather Belts; and I declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference thcreoinibrming a part of this specification.

In the drawings, the salnelettcrs always indicate the saine parts.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a sleigh-bell fastened by my invention to a leather belt.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view of what is known herein as the washer.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the washer, the

i section being made lengthwise of the slot in the washer.

Figure 4 is a lsectional view of the washer, the section being made at right angles to the section shown in iig. 3, that is, across the slot.

My improvement relates chiefly to the fastening of sleigh-bells to their belts, but is applicable as well to the fastening of other bells.

The letter d designates a round sleigh-bell, in sec' tion.

b is the jinglet;

c is the leather belt;

d is a rivet; and

c is the washer.

The hell is cast without a shank, with a hole forl the rivet to enter through, and with a projecting teat, or spur each side of the rivet hole. So far forth after the Letters Patent of L. C. Chase, dated May 14, 1861.

But instead of having these `two teats, or spurs drawn directly into the leather belt, when the rivet is headed, a softmetal washer, e, is introduced between the bell and the leather.

This washer is at first made, as seen in figs. 2, 3, and 4, with a slo't, e', extending across its upper face, and with a depth of about halt' the thickness of the washer.

This washer is best made with a thickness of about one-'eighth of an inch, and with a slot about one-sixteenth of an inch in depth, and of some soft metal, 'as brass, 'for instance. V Y

When the parts are pnt together, preparatory to heading the rivet, the two teats onthe bell are allowed to rest in the slot in the washer. Then, when the' u'vetis headed down, inside the bell, these teats will be drawn down strongly into the metal of the washer, and will force down from the lower side of the washer, projections, as seen in iig. 1, which will sink into the leather, and will hold the bell tightly in its place.

The main improvement or advantage gained by this i washer being -fhere interposed, is that the rivet and teats cannot so readily work loose in the metal washer as in the unprotected leather.

I fully disclaim lall the part-s used by me which are covered by the patent ofl said Chase.

IcIairn as my invention 1. The washer e, made as described, andinterposcd in the manner described between the bell and the belt, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the teated bell a., the rivet d, the washer c, and the belt c, the whole constructed and arranged as described, for the purpose described.

' Dated this 28th day of May, 1869.

lVitnesses: HIRAM YEAZEY.

EUNICE G. ADAMS, FEsTUs E. ADAMS.

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