US981006A - Horse-collar. - Google Patents

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C. ROSS.

HORSE COLLAR;

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 5, 1910.

Patented Jan. 10,1911.

WITNESSES:

V fINVENmR g ATTORNEY,

CHARLES ROSS, 0F BLAIR, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR T0 BLAIR HORSE COLLAR COMPANY, OF BLAIR, NEBRASKA.

HORSE-COLLAR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (Jr-mamas Ross, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Blair, in the county of lVashington and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in horse collars of the sweeny type; that is, collars having a full shoulder or draft p0rtion of the after-Wale on each side and the top of after-wales reduced in cross-section to produce a slim-topped collar, the fore-Wale or rim being of the usual size; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide such a sweeny horse collar having a flexible top and throat whereby the side-halves of the same may be adjusted laterally to fit the animals neck through the medium of the hamcs and their connecting straps or other couplings; second, to provide strong durable semi-flexible connections or splices to unite the rigid shoulder or draft portion with the flexible sweeny or top and with the flexible throat; and third, to produce in the construction of a horse collar, and conserve in its after service, the qualities of a flexible top or sweeny and a flexible throat, connected by an intermediate, full and rigid draft or shoulder. I attain these objects, with others of minor importance more particularly hereinafter set forth, by the collar structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete collar from a point obliquely forward; Fig. 2, an elevation of the working or shouldcr-bearing face of the collar; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section through the after-Wale at the broken lines (Z in Figs. 1, 5 and 6; Fig. 1, is a cross-section at the broken line a in Figs. 2 and 3; Fig. 5, is a cross-section at the broken line Z) in Figs. 2 and 3; and Fig. 6, is a cross-section at the broken line 0 in Figs. 2 and 3.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and the arrowheads indicate the direction in which the views of the figures referred to are taken at the broken lines.

The rim or fore-Wale 5, which is nearly of uniform size and shape in cross-section throughout its length, I prefer to construct with a firm leather outer casing uniformly and compactly filled with a coarse long Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 5, 1910.

10, 9 and 21.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911. Serial No. 536,466.

fibrous filler 16, asstraw, to form a strong but yielding support for all parts of the after-Wale. lVhile this fore-Wale is made with a coarse long stiff fiber compactly stuffed, being comparatively small in cross section, it is a sufiiciently yielding as well as strong support. The after-Wale consists of the face or liner 4: of good firm leather stock continuous throughout the length of the side'- halves of the collar. Opposed to said liner, to inclose and form the belly to receive the filling, the top or straight 3 is disposed for the top or sweeny part of the collar; this being in a flexible part of the collar and where there is little wear, for both utility and economy, it is made of a less firm and less expensive piece of leather; and extends downwardly inside the shoulder draft or crook 2 with a wide underlap therein.

The crook 2 at its top end widely overlaps thelower end of the straight, as shown at 17 in Fig. 3,. from which lap it extends down wardly its narrow lower end abutting at the eenterof the throat of the collar a like end of the crook on the opposite half of the collar. These crooks, preferably of selected firm leather stock, have then-inner edges with the inner edges of the straights and liners sewed into the closing seam 10 of the rim to secure the whole together.' The outer edges of these parts are secured together by the ribbon-thong seam 9 throughout the entire length of the collar halves, said "seam bearing inwardly 011 its course along the sweeny and throat, to reduce these portions as shown, and is supplemented by a threadstitch closing seam 21 along the immediate outer edge of the collar.

The throat portion of the after-Wale is reinforced by the inner throat-facing piece 7, and the outer throat-facing piece 6, their inner and outer edges sewn into the seams Their overlapping ends 19 and 18, like the overlapping top ends 17 of the crooks, are left without any lateral scams or stitching across the wale, so that when the collar is flexed in adjusting, the lapping portions of the splices will slip on each other instead of buckling and wrinkling and perhaps breaking the adjoining integral parts. The wide unsewn laps uniting the firm crooks and pliable straights form flexible splices between these parts, easing the firmness of one into the greater flexibleness of the other and vice versa, in-

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stead of the abrupt change that would result from seaming these parts together across the Wale.

Filling 15 of the throat and 13 of the sweeny, may be of any short or fine fibrous material, as short-cut straw, grain hulls, hair or wool, compacted only sufiiciently to leave these parts flexible. But the filling l l of thedrafts or shoulders, is preferably of a coarse long fiber, as straw compacted firmly, like the filling 16 of the rim;-a facing 20 of some fine soft material is usually first placed against the liner as shown in Fig. 5; The top end of this shoulder filling is less compact, being slackly stuffed within the splice 17, and some of the long coarse fibers extended above into the sweeny filling. The filling of the sweeny is incorporated into thisslackly stuffed part, intermixed with the upwardly projecting long fibers to form a semi-flexible filling within and adjacent to the flexible splice 17, as indicated at 11 in Figs. 3 and 4:. A like splicing of the filling of the throat with the lower end of the shoulder-filling is indicated at 12 in Fig. 3. Thus whole sections of the afterwales, including both the leather casings and the fillings, contribute to form semi-flexible splices connecting the rigid drafts or shoulders of the collar with the flexible sweenys and throat.

A horse collarconstructed and shaped as illustrated and herein described can be readily adjusted to the animals neck and shoulders through the medium of the hames and their top and bottom couplings. It does not break or become distorted at .the junctions of its rigid and most flexible parts and is otherwise serviceable, and comfortable to the creature wearing and working it.

I claim:

1. A horse collar, comprising a suitable rim or fore-Wale; an after-Wale consisting of full length side liners, straights opposed to the top portions of said liners, crooks opposed to the lower portions of said liners and having their top ends overlapped on the lower ends of said straights to form yielding splices without lateral seams or stitching,

a closing seam to unite the inner edges of said liners, straights and overlapping crooks with the edges of the casing of said forewale, a closing seam to unite the outer edges of said liners to the outer edges of said opposed straights and crooks, a closely compacted filling of long coarse materials between the crooks and liners to form rigid drafts or shoulders, and a less closely compacted finer filling between the straights and liners to form flexible tops or sweenys to said after-Wale.

2. A horse collar, comprising a fore-Wale, and an after-Wale having rigid drafts or shoulders and flexible sweenys or tops connected to said shoulders by flexible splices less flexible than said sweeny or top and also having a flexible throat portion connected by less flexible splices at its ends to the rigid shoulders of opposite sides of said after-Wale.

8. A horse collar, comprising a fore-Wale having a pliable casing and a substantially uniform filling throughout; an after-Wale having full-length pliable side liners abutting atthe center of the throat of the collar, pliable tops or straights opposed to the upper portions of said liners, pliable crooks opposed to the lower portions of said liners and having their upper ends overlapped on the outside of said straights without lateral stitching or seams, outer and inner pliable throat-pieces overlapped on the abutted lower ends of opposite side liners and opposite side crooks without lateral stitching or seams, a closing seam to unite the inner edges of said liners, straights, crooks and throat-pieces into the closing seam of said fore-Wale, aclosing seam to unite the outer edges of said liners, straights, crooks and -throat-pieces, a compacted stifl' fibrous filling between the liners and the upper parts of said crooks to form rigid drafts or shoulders,

flexible throat portion to said after-Wale, and -finer less compacted filling between said straights and the upper parts of said liners to form flexible tops to said after-Wale.

-l. A horse collar, comprising a fore-wale of substantially uniform size and rigidity throughout its length; an after-Wale having full-length side liners of firm leather, straights of less firm leather opposed to the top portions of the liners, and also crooks of firm leather opposed to the lower portions of said liners and having their top .ends overlapped on the lower ends of said straights to form yielding splices thereto without lateral seams or stitching, draftfillings of long coarse stiff fibrous materialsas strawclosely compacted between said crooks and liners but less closely co1npacted at the top ends of said drafts, and top fillings of finer more pliable fibrous materials less closely compacted between said straights and liners, and the lower ends of these fillings inter-compacted with the top ends of the draft fillings to form intermediately-pliable splices in the filling athwart the yielding splices of said crooks and straights.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES ROSS. Witnesses JOHN D. ABRAM, BURL VAUGHAN.

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