US760987A - Combined buckle and cockeye. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES Patented May 24, 1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

FREDERICK W. HAWES, OF HENRYETTA, INDIAN TERRITORY.

COMBINED BUCKLE AND COCKEYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,987, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed June 11, 1903. Serial No. 160,976. (No model.)

To 01. whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. HAwEs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Henryetta, in the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, have invented a new andlmproved Combined Buckleand Cockeye, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to harness connections, and has for its object to provide simple and novel means for the connection of the cockeye of a trace to a buckle adapted to be adjustably connected with the rear end of the trace, so as to permit lengthening or shortening the trace at its rear end and dispensing with the ordinary'buckled connection of the trace with a collar or breast-band of the harness.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of the invention, showing the preferred construction for a heavy buckle and cockeye connected with the rear end of a draft-trace; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view substantially on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

The trace 10 is of the usual construction and formed ofleather, having a series of suitable perforations a formed therein at proper intervals near the rear end or extremity that is coupled with a swingletree when an animal Whereon the harness is placed is hitched to a vehicle.

The buckle shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is particularly Well adapted for heavy harness used to connect a draft-animal with a loaded wagon or to any vehicle or load to be drawn and comprises the following details: The buckle- -frame 11 is oblong and substantially rectangular, comprising the side bars 6, that are spaced apart in'parallel planes, so as to loosely receive the trace 10 between them by the spaced cross-bars b b and also by a cross-bar c, whereon the tongue-post d is erected at the transverse center of the buckle-frame. The side members 6 of the buckle-frame 11 are'integrally extended at one end thereof, and these extensions are preferably curved downward from the nearest cross-bar I), thus disposing the cross-bar 6 in substantially the same plane with the tongue-supporting bar 0, that is below the plane of the cross-bars b, so that the trace 10 may be readily introduced between the latter and the bars 0 b for an engagement with the tongue-post d, that may be inserted through any one of the spaced perforations a, and thus changeably secure the buckle-frame upon the trace 10. At a proper distance from the cross-bar b the extensions 11 of the side bars I; are integrally merged into a hook member 11, that is curved upward and somewhat rearward or toward the cross-bar 6 The oockeye or link that affords means to connect the buckle-frame and trace with a swingletree is preferably formed as shown, consisting of an ovate-shaped ring 12, that at the smaller end of its eye is integrally connected with a cross-bar 12, from which extends at each end the parallel side bars 12 that are joined together at their ends by the cylindrical coupling-bar 12.

In Figs. 1 and 2, which show the construction preferred'when the device is to be employed for heavy harness and must be capable of resisting the draft strain produced by 'a heavy load drawn with the traces 10, the coupling-links 13 may with advantage be utilized, these links serving toreinforce the hook 11 and to this end have a loose engagement with the coupling-bar 12 and with the side-bar extensions 11, where the hook is connected thereto, so that when draft strain is imposed on the cockeye and buckle-frame the hook connection between said parts, together with the links 13, will be adapted to resist breakage of' the hook and at the same time afford a flexible connection between the cockeye and buckle-frame.

Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with a buckle-frame, comprising two side bars, two end cross-bars, a tongue-bar engaging the side bars between the end bars, and a tongue projected upward from the tongue-bar, of a hook formed on the extended ends of the side bars, a cockeye-ring having a hinge-loop at one end, and means for loosely connecting the hinge-loop with the hook.

2. The combination with a buckle-frame, having two side bars, two spaced cross-bars on one edgeof' said side bars, a tongue-bar disposed intermediate the cross-bars on the opposite edges of the side bars, said side bars having integral extensions from one end of each bar, and a hook formed integral with the ends of the side-bar extensions and projecting toward the tongue-bar, ofa cockeye-ring having two parallel spaced members extended from the cockeye-ring, and a cylindrical coupling-bar extended between the spaced members on the eoekeye-ring, said bar having rocking engagement with the hook.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK W. HAWES.

Witnesses:

J AS. HAwEs, G. D. SMITH.

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