US74305A - Jefferson chase - Google Patents

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JEFFERSON CHASE, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent lo.` 74,305, dated February 1l, 1858.

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Be it known that I, JEFFERSON CHASE, of Orange, in the county of Franl:lin,'and State of Massachusetts, have invented a. new and useful Device for Contining or Fastening a Hoop or Band; and do hereby declare tho following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the salue, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making-part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is aiperspective view; and

Figure 2 a. horizontal section of my invention.

Such invention-consists in a flat metallic plate, having slots or apertures formed in each end for receiving the respective opposite ends of the hoop or band, and confining them in place, as hereinafter explained.

In the above-mentioned drawings, A denotes a flat metallic plate, rectangular, or'thereahouts, in general shape, and having an aperture or slot, a or b, uiade in each endof it. The hoop or band is shown Vat c, as of ordinary construction, in wood or metal, the two ends of such hoop, after it has been passed about the barrel, or other object,'heing extended through the slots a or b, and lapped upon one'another; or the ends of the hoop may be continued still furtheiyand not only lapped upon one another, but run through both slots, as shown in Figure 3 of the drawings. u v

The hoop and clasp thus combined arcta be passed over the end of the barrel, or other object, and driven forcibly upon it, in the manner of applying an ordinary hoop. The friction upon the bearing-surfacesot' the hoop and clasp thus forced together serves to ctl'ectually confine and `prevent escape of the ends of the hoop.

If in practice this friction is not found to answer the purpose, a small indentation or rib may loe made upon the' hoop, for the reception of one end of the clasp. For cotton-haie ties, the ends of the hoop, in addition to being lapped and run through both slots ofthe plate or clasp, may have their extremities bent dou'n or over upon the plate, as shown in Figure 4.

If the metallic plate or clasp is made of wrought metal, it will yield and conform itselt' tothe strain of the ends ofthe hoop sufficient to allow'of their entrance.` It' made of cast or malleable metal, the extreme ends of the plate, or that which forms the outer boundary ot' the slots, should he bent inward at an angle, as shown in Figure 5 of the drawings, in order to allow of the entrance of the ends of the hoop, and also to take a rm hold of the surface of such hoop.l l

I claim the clasp or plate A, having the slots a (I, formed herein described, and operating to holdthe overlapping ends ofthe hand or hoop, substantially in the manner herein shown and set forth'.

JEFFERSON CHASE.

Witnesses:

E. C. GnIrFiTn, C.. W. BALDWIN.

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