US48735A - Improved horse-collar fastener - Google Patents

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No. 48,735. PATBNTFD JULY '11, 1865. A. STEINBAGH.

LOCK AND FASTENING FOR HORSE DOLLARS.

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Specification forming part of Letters Petent No. 83235, dated July 11, 1865. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. STEINBAoH, ofEvan sville, in the county of Vanderhnrg and State of Indiana, here in ren ted a newand Improved Lock or. Fastening for Horse-Collars; end I do hereby declare that the-following is a full, clenr,and'exnct description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art' to make end use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specitication.

Figure 1 is n plan or top view of my invention, showing the two parts of the invention detached; Fig. 2, a plan ortop view of the same, showing the two parts connected together; and

' Fig. 3, a vertical section of the same, taken in the line .n :r, Fig. 2. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to anew and improved lock or fastening for connecting together the upper ends of a'liorse-collnr.

The ohjectot' the invention is to obtain a lock orfilsteningof the kind specified which may same width as the collar at its upper part, and

is bent 'inelongitudinal direction to conform to the curvature of the neck of the horse. This .plrite is connected by rivets'a to the'top of one side'ot the collar B. At'the center of the plate Athere is made i an oblong holeor slot, 0,} one end of "which is enlarged laterally, as shown at b, the other portion of the slot being of an'eqnel width throughout, as shown clenrly in Fig. 1. At each side ofthis slot; 0 there is an inclined ledge, c, and

this ledge forms abrupt shoulders d at one end, as shown cleerlyin Fig. 3. These ledges odo not extendthe whole length of the slot 0, but

from the inner end of theenlarged pert b to 1 within a short distance of theopposite end, a part, c, of the slot 0, neerlyeqnal in length to the part I), being allowed beyond the shonltiers d. i

1) represents a plate, which is secured by rivets f to the upper end of the other part'of the collar B. This plate D has a. bar or arm, E, projecting centrally from it at right angles, and at the outer end of the bar or arm E, at each side ofit, there is a projection or lip, g. i In order to connect thetwo parts of the col= lar together, the opera tor inserts the outer'part of the bar or arm E through the enlarged part b of the slot 0, and then draws the platesAD apart or from each other until the projections or lips 9 pass over the. inclined edgesc c, as

shown in Figs. Z'and 3, Th projections'or'lips A y, it will be seen, extend over the sidcsip't the slot 0, and the shoulders (I prevent thejprojectionsor lipsfroin slipping back-toward thcen; lat-god end, b, of the slot. l

In order; to detach the two plates-A D,tho operator raises the plate D and depresses the plate A so that theproic'ctions oi: lips I may be shoved over the shonhiers d and backw-to the enlarged part bet the slot 0, where theprOjec, tions orlips may pass down'threrigh the slot. This lock or listening may he cheaply coristrncted and applied and the two parts of the collarreadily connected and disconnected.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let tersPatent T v Theplate A. attached to. one side or pn'rt'ot' the npperpart ot the horsecollar and'pro rided with the slot 0, having an enlarged part and an inclined ledge, a, at each side, 'ae sirranged with the plateD,-nttachedf0 thieother side or part of the collar, and having a bar or" arm, E, provided with a projection 01 lip, g, at

each side of its outer part, substantially as and for the purpose set'fortl A, STEINBAOH. Witnesses: 1

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