US231835A - Harness-tree - Google Patents

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T. MILLER. Harness Tree.

Pa'tenfed Aug. 31,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

THOMAS MILLER, OF WHARTON, OHIO.

HARNESS-TREE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,835, dated August 31, 1880.

Application filed Apn'l15, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS MILLER, of Wharton, in the county of \Vyandot and State of Ohio, haveinvented an Improvement in Harness-Trees, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to harness-trees; and it consists in certain improvements therein, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved tree. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a completed backpad secured to and built upon my improved tree.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification, A A represent the checks of my tree, made of, preferably, hard and well-seasoned wood, with each end of each cheek chamfered nearly to' an edge and on both sides. The inner ends of each of these cheeks are secured together by the leather straps B B, nailed one on top and the other to the lower sides of these checks, thereby forming a flexible connection over the back bone of the horse when the harness of which this .tree forms a part is in use. Midway between the two ends of the cheeks thus secured together, and between the two straps B B, is secured the nut orburr (1, into which the bolt D of'the check-hook is engaged; or if a posthook is preferred, the threaded end of the post may be screwed into said nut or burr. Upon the top and bottom of the outer ends of each of the checks are nailed the short straps D D, to give a flexible extension thereto. Through each of the cheek-pieces is bored a hole, a, slightly smaller than the threaded posts of the rein-terrets E, so that the latter are rigidly held in place by being screwed into said holes, thereby avoiding the necessity of the use of nuts or burrs for that purpose.

Upon this tree it is very easy to build up and secure a back-pad by nailing at less expense and trouble than upon an iron tree, and the pad will be more elastic and pliable and more durable, because the nails will hold better in wood than in the leather to which the nailing is done when an iron tree is used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a harness-tree composed of the wooden cheeks A A and straps B B and D D, arranged and secured together substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In a harness-tree, the wooden cheeks A A and straps B B, arranged and secured together as described, and provided with terrets E, having their shanks screwed in holes a in the cheeks, thus dispensing with nuts to secure the terrets, substantially as specified.

THOMAS MILLER.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, CHAS. J. HUNT.

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