US997340A - Ringer. - Google Patents

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W. S. & J. M. TAYLOR.

RINGER.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 8, 1911.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. TAYLOR, OI ROLL, AND JESSE M. TAYLOR, 0F CENTERVILLE, INDIANA.

RINGER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM S. TAYLOR and Jnssn M. TAYLOR, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Roll and Centerville, in the counties of Blackford and Turner, respectively, State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Ringer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to animal husbandry, and more especially to ringers which are utilized for putting a ring into the nose of a hog or the like; and the object of the same is to improve the construction of a tool of thischaracter so as to adapt it to rings of various sizes within limits, to provide means for holding the ring very firmly in place, and finally to provide means whereby the ring is automatically and suddenly contracted in size at the moment it is inserted in the web of the nose. These objects are accomplished by the construction described and claimed below and shown in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of this instrument before the ring is put into it. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the ring in place, this View illustrating how the set lever is manipulated to raise the dog. Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the instrument with its parts in the same position as in Fig. 2, the thumb lever being here depressed to turn the movable jaw so as to compress the ring a little and hold it more tightly in place.

Figs. 4, 5 and. 6 are perspective details of the movable jaw, thumb lever, and trigger respectively.

In the drawings the numerals and l designate respectively the movable and fixed handles which are pivoted together at 3 and normally spread apart by a spring 41. interposed between their rear ends. What I call the fixed handle 1 carries at its lower end the fixed jaw 5 whose inner face is dished and grooved as at 6 for the reception of one side of the ring R, and what I call the movable handle 2 haspivoted to it the movable jaw 7 best seen in Fig. 4 and whose working face is also dished and grooved as at 8 to engage the other side of the ring R as best seen in Fig. 3, but this jaw 7 is pivoted as at 9 to the lower end of the handle 2 and its upper or inner end has a cam face 10 engaged by the thumb lever 11 which in turn is pivoted as at 12 to the other handle. Normally this lever lies in the posit-ion shown in Fig. l,'when the ring R is Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1911.

Serial No. 619,797.

first inserted it stands as shown in Fig. 2, and by depressing its outer end the movable jaw 7 is turned on its pivot 9 so that the ring R is quite tightly held in the instrument.

The lower ends of the handle members are held distended by a set dog 15 pivoted at 16 within the movable member, and the nose 17 of this dog is sharpened to an edge and is adapted to engage a notch 18 in a latch 19 which is pivoted at 20 in the other handle member, its lower end having an ear 21 adapted to be engaged by a cross bar 22 at the rear end of a spreader 23 which is pivoted as at 24 to the fixed handle and which Patented July 11, 1911.

has two prongs 25 adapted to straddle the ring as best seen in Fig. 2.

The numeral 26 designates a set lever whose hand portion 27 lies over the movable handle 2 and whose body is preferably mounted on the same pivot 16 as the dog, its lower end carrying a cross bar 28 which extends beneath the nose 17 of the dog, as best seen in Fig. 3.

In the use of this instrument, itis taken in the left hand as shown in Fig. 1, and the set lever turned to the position shown in Fig. 2. This causes its cross bar 28 to raise the nose of the dog until it engages the notch 18 in the latch 19. Meanwhile the other hand holds the trigger raised so that the ear 21 of the latch passes over the cross bar 22, and when the trigger is released and the prongs 25 drop to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 its cross bar 22 engages behind the ear 21, after which the set lever can be restored to the position shown in Fig. 1 as it is then of no further use.' The ring R is then inserted in the grooves 6 and 8 of the two jaws, and the thumb lever 11 brought down from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 3 or perhaps beyond, this action bearing the upper end of the movable jaw 7 outward and passing its jaw face inward so as to compress the ring R slightly and hold it very rigidly in place. The instrument is then brought against the edge of the web in the nose of the animal to be ringed, and when such web touches the prongs 25 of the trigger 23 the latter is turned on its pivot 24 and its cross bar 22 releases the ear 21 of the latch. As the expansive force of the springt is giving the lower ends of the mits the tip of the nose 17 of the dog to slide out of the notch 18 and down the in clined inner edge of this arm of the fixed handle, and the sudden expansion of the spring 4 causes the two jaw faces to be approximated sufliciently to compress the ring and project its extremities through the web of the nose. The nose 17 being now disengaged from the latch, before the instrument can be again used to insert another ring the operation of setting the dog must be repeated in the manner above described.

Thus it will be seen that we have produced a nose ringer wherein the compression of the ring through the web of the animals nose is effected automatically by the sudden expansion of the spring, and the latter is permitted by the tripping of the latch by the contact of the trigger with the nose itself.

V e do not wish to be limited to the precise construction, nor to details except as hereinafter claimed; and the materials and proportions and finish of parts are obviously matters of no moment in this patent.

What is claimed is:

1. In a ringer, the combination with two main levers, ring-holding jaws at their extremities, and a spring for throwing said jaws normally toward each other, of a pivoted trigger lying across the ring when in place and having a cross bar, a latch having an ear adapted to be engaged by said cross bar and a notch in its body, a dog having a nose with a sharp point adapted to engage the said notch, and means for setting said dog.

2. In a. ringer, the combination with two main levers, ring-holding jaws at their extremities, and a spring for throwing said jaws normally toward each other; of a pivoted trigger lying across the ring when in place and having a cross bar, a latch adapted to be engaged by said cross bar and having a notch in its body, a dog adapted to engage the said notch, the latch and dog being pivoted to different members respectively, and a setting lever pivoted to the member which carries the dog and having a cross bar standing under and adapted to raise the same into engagement with the notch of the latch.

3. In a ringer, the conibination with one member having a fixed jaw, a movable member pivoted to the first member, a spring between their hand portions for throwing them normally apart, and a dog normally resisting the tension of this spring; of a movable aw pivoted to said movable member, means 011 this member for setting the dog, a trigger and connections for tripping the dog, a movable jaw pivoted to said movable member and having a cam face, and a thumb lever pivoted to the fixed member and adapted to engage said cam face for the purpose set forth.

4. In a ringer, the combination with one member having a fixed jaw, a movable member pivoted to the first member, a spring for throwing them normally apart, and a dog normally resisting the tension of this spring; of a movable jaw pivoted to said movable member, means for pressing its jaw face toward that of the fixed jaw, a setting lever for setting the dog, and a trigger pivoted to the fixed member and adapted to trip said dog by contact of the trigger-arms with the animal.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

XVILLIAM S. TAYLOR. JESSE M. TAYLOR.

Witnesses to the signature of Villiam S. Taylor:

ALAN Boson, J r., Jnssm LARSEN. lVitnesses to the signature of Jesse M. Taylor:

EvERT ALEXANDER,

O. W. LIKELY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0.

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