provements in the Manufacture of Hames,
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hames,
I, SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER, of the Firm of Cooper, Webb Jones and Company,
of Stockwell Works, Littleton Street East, Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates, in the one part, to the manufacture of hames for harness,
including cart, cab, gig, van and other hames, and has for its object, the making
or production of such articles by a process of drop stamping, and in another part,
to the tools to be employed in such process or processes.
In carrying out my invention in connection with the production of one form of
hame, I make the same in two parts, viz., a body part and a draught plate, each of
which are produced separately, and attach the one to the other by rivetting, brazing
or other means.
Thus, I take a pair of dies, each having sinkings in them comprehending one
half of the hanie, or part of the hame to be made and I place between the said dies
a piece of malleable iron or steel, preferably in a heated and soft condition, which
is made, by the ordinary drop stamping processes, to flow into and fill up the
interstices of the dies employed. When loops or eyes are required to be formed
at the ends of the hame members, then I may form the said loops in the solid and
pierce out the apertures or holes, although the eyes or loops may be made solid
by first putting the piece of metal to be fashioned at the eye end of the bottom die
instead of at the middle.
The draft, or draft plate, may be produced by drop stamping in like manner
and then attached to the hame in either of the ways before referred to.
It is understood that after the hame has been roughly shaped between the dies,
the rough edges or webs are removed by clipping, and the hame is otherwise
finished.
As another form, the draft or draft plate is made in a piece with the hame body,
which may be formed either with or without end loops, the dies in this case being
provided with additional sinkings or matrices to receive the metal which is to
form the draft or draft plate, or in hames where the draft plate is attached to
cheeks, then such cheeks, with their straps, are made integral with the hame body
by a stamping process.
In producing cart hames, I propose to produce these also by stamping, with the
top staple, rein ring eye and draft attachment cheek or equivalent mount for
carrying the draft plates all formed integral therewith, or the said mountings may
be formed separately and attached to the body of the hame by rivetting, brazing
or otherwise.
In a further form of hame in which nibs are employed for carrying a traversing

page_text: rein ring, this nib, which is an eyed lug connecting the ring to the hame, may be
made integral with the hame by a drop stamping process.
Dated this 15th day of January 1898.
SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Hames.
1, SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER, of the Firm of Cooper, Webb Jones and Company,
of Stockwell Works, Littleton Street East, Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates in the one part, to the manufacture of hames for harness,
including cart, cab, gig, van and other hames, and has for its object, the making
or production of such articles by a process of drop stamping, and in another part,
to the tools to be employed in such process or processes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of a gig hame,
the production of which is effected in accordance with my invention. The metal
to form the draft is a separate piece from the hame iron and is united to it by
welding under a drop stamp or an equivalent operation and subsequently shaped
between dies.
In carrying out this method of production, I take a length of rolled or fashioned
wrought iron of suitable section and sufficient to form a hame. This length is
represented in plan and section in Figure 2. A part of this length is gapped at c,
(see Figure 3) by punching or otherwise at the point where the draft blank, which
is marked d and represented separately in Figure 4, is to be attached. The draft
blank is then made red hot and its inner portion ', is placed over the gap c, in the
hame iron b, and the said parts are united together by forging, or between a pair
of plain dies or by drop stamping or otherwise so as to cause a portion of the metal
of the said draft blank to fill up the gap in the hame iron, as represented 'in
Figure 5.
The whole of the draft blank d, and the adjacent parts 6', of the metal of the
hame iron are then raised to a welding heat, and operated upon between a pair of
dies whose sinkings comprehend the shape which the finished draft piece is to have.
Figure 6 represents the draft piece of the proper shape assumed by it after this
operation and lying within the sinking of the bottom die e. The draft and hame
are then clipped of fins and other superfluous metal, when the middle part of the
hame is finished, as represented in back elevation in Figure 7.
The ends 62, of this half-round or like bar are next made hot and then successively 4
operated upon by a pair of dies, in order to form the integral loops or eyes 63, (one
of which is represented in plan in Figure 8). These eyes are disposed in a plane
at right angles to the width of the bar, and at the same time they are formed, the
taper figure is also given to the ends of the bar or length, when the shaping of the
body part of the hame, with its taper or reduced ends and the integral loops or 4
elongated eyes, is thereby completed.
The hame at this stage is a straight form so that next the end portions 64, of
the body b, are bent over, and if necessary twisted to impart the required curvature

page_text: (as represented in Figure 1) for enabling the hame to be property nuted onto the
side of a harness collar.
Figure 9 represents a plan of one of the dies employed in the formation of the
looped end of the hame body and showing the length of half-round bar to be
operated upon placed within it.
Figure 10 is a like view, but showing the fashioned end lying within the matrix
of the die.
Figure 11 is a vertical section of the pair of shaping dies, with the fashioned end
between them.
Figure 12 represents one of the said dies alone, partly in plan and partly in
horizontal section upon the dotted line ¹, Figure 11.
The pair of top and bottom dies d and e, employed in the production of this
particular form of hame each having sinkings d, e, in them comprehending one
longitudinal half of the shape to be given to the end of the hame and when a piece
of wrought iron, preferably in a heated and soft condition, is placed between them
and operated upon by ordinary drop-stamping processes, it is caused to flow into
and fill up the interstices d², e², of the dies employed and so produce the loops or
eyes.
Instead of notching a part of the hame iron to receive the end of the draft blank
as described, the part of the hame where the draft is to come may simply be made
hot and the heated end of the draft blank welded on to it.
Figures 13, 14 and 15 represent different patterns of draft pieces which may
be attached to the hame iron by welding and subsequently fashioned between dies
in the same manner as hereinbefore described.
It is understood that in all cases after parts of the hame have been roughly
shaped between the dies, the rough edges or webs are removed by clipping, and the
hame may be otherwise treated to give finish to the same.
The ends of the body of the hame may, instead of being fashioned into loops
as represented, be formed, in some patterns of hames, into round eyes, or in other
patterns, into hooks.
In hames having top staples, rein-ring eyes, and draft attachment check or
equivalent mounts for carrying the draft plates, the said mountings may be formed
separately, and attached to the body of the hame preferably by welding and sub-
sequently shaping between dies, as before described, or a nib for carrying a travers-
ing rein ring, which is in the form of an eyed lug connecting the ring to the hame,
may also be made in like manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
First In the manufacture of ħames, making the draft picces or like parts by
taking a separate blank and welding it to the hame iron and then shaping the said
attached blank between fashioning dies, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly: In the manufacture of hames, making the end eyes, loops or hooks
from and integral with the metal of the hame iron by fashioning the same between
dies by drop or like stamping, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 10th day of October 1898.
SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.