US36027A - Improved fastening for securing traces to whiffletrees - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

B. D. BEED, OF INDEPENDENCE, IOWA. i

IMPROVED FASTENlNG FOR SECURING TRACES T0 WHIFFLETREES.

Specification forming part of Lcttcrs Patent No. 36,027., dated July 2'), 1862.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. D. REED, of Independence, in the county of Buchanan and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Fastening for Securing Traces to Whiflietrees and for Similar Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 isa longitudinal section of my invention, taken in the line :1: .r of Fig. 2;,and Fig. 2, a side View of the same.

Similar lletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a fastening of simple construction which will not admit of' the articles which it connects or fastens together becoming casually detached, and which will at the same `time admit of being very readily applied to said articles, and also admit of being readily unfastened in order to detach or disconnect the articles which it fastens together.

To enables those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct `my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a metal loop of the usual form, commonly called a cockeye,77 one part, a, of which is of sufficient width to leave the trace or other article which is to be attached to it to pass through and be doubled and stitched, as shown in red. (See more particularly Fig. l.)

Theloop A may be of any convenient length, and it is contracted or made quite narrow at the part b opposite to where the trace is attached. In this narrow part b of the loop a metal tube, B, is secured by soldering or brazing; or, if the loop be of cast metal, the tube may be cast with it.

Within the tube B there is placed a pin, O, on which a spiral spring, c, is placed. This spring c is also tted within the tube B, and one end of it bears against a shoulder, d, on the pin, and the other end bears against the back end of the tube, as shown at c in Fig. 1. The spring c has a tendency to keep the front end of the pin O out from the tube B toward the narrow end of the loop, ahead, f, on the back end of the pin determining the distance the pin can be shoved out from the tube.

The narrow end of the loop Ais sufficiently large to receive the end of an arm or rod, D, which is connected to the end of the whifietree or other article which is to be connected to the article to which the loop Ais attached. The arm or rod D,near its end,is provided with a groove, g,whicl1 is made circumferentially in it, as shown clearly in Fig. l, and when the end of the arm or rod D is fitted in the narrow end or part of the loop A the front end of pin O is forced into it by the spring c, and serves to retain it in the loop. The narrow end of the loop also iits in the groove g atapoint op# posite the front end of the pin O, and the arm or rod D is therefore effectually prevented from casually withdrawing from the loop, as will be seen by referring to Fig. l.

In order to detach the armor rod D from the loop A all that is required is to draw back the pin O, so that its front end will be free from the groove g, and the arm or rod D may be then withdrawn.

This fastening may be constructed ata very small cost, and is particularly well adapted for fastening traces to whiffletrees, as it admits of the traces being very readily attached to the whiftletree, as well as being readily detached therefrom, and also effectually prevents the casual detachment of the traces from the whifiietree.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a trace-loop or cockeye provided with a tube, B, and spring-pin C, and otherwise made as herein shown and described.

B. D. REED.

Witnesses:

H. P. BRowNE, J. B. THOMAS.

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