Improvements in or relating to Traces or Driving-reins.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Traces or Driving-reins.
I, JULIUS SCHMITZ, of 10 Stationsstraat, Maastricht, Netherlands, Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore traces or driving-reins have been made of leather, those traces being
very expensive and moreover worn out in a very short space of time, for, the
leather being very porous, it will absorb moisture and consequently corrupt, not to.
mention the quick consumption of leather caused by friction.
Also, in traces made of leather, hitherto one has folded the outmost end of the
strap as to form an eye through which directly the iron eye of the chain has passed.
By this construction and by the folding of the leather, whereby the eye of the
leather has to suffer a great stretching strain and friction, the leather will soon be
torn and the trace becomes too short.
My invention relates to a trace or driving-rein made of cotton, mohair, balata or
other suitable textile material, said trace being connected on both its outmost ends.
to iron or steel double-covers that bear the eyes of an hook or of a chain.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a top-view of the trace,
Figure 2 a side-view of the same and finally
Figure 3 represents the sole strap made of cotton, mohair or the like.
My improvement consists in a trace the strap A of which, in order to avoid
corrupting, being made of cotton, mohair, balata or other suitable textile material,
six or more bands of such material being stitched up and impregnated to protect.
the strap from weather. Therefore it cannot at all absorb moisture and moreover
is protected from wear and very cheap.
Moreover I avoid any bending, and consequent liability of breaking the trace
especially its outmost ends by arranging the extremities of the strap between iron
or steel double-covers B, united together and riveted to the strap. The said
double-covers are made pieceless as to form an eye on every end of the trace one
of said eyes being passed through by the eye of the hook H and the other by
the eye of the chain C that bears a ring R, so that the strap A itself is not to
sustain a strain in any bent part.
Dated this 31st January 1896.
JOSEPH MOHLIG,
Agent for Applicant.
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Improvements in or relating to Traces or Driving-reins.
1, JULIUS SCHMITZ of 10 Stationsstraat, Maastricht, Netherlands, Merchant
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:-
Heretofore traces or driving-reins have been made of leather, those traces being
very expensive and moreover worn out in a very short space of time, for, the

page_text: leather being very porous, it will absorb moisture and be consequently corrupt, not
to mention the quick consumption of leather caused by friction.
Also, in traces made of leather, hitherto one has folded the outmost end of the
strap as to form an eye through which directly the iron eye of the chain has passed.
By this construction and by the folding of the leather, whereby the eye of the
leather has to suffer a great stretching strain and friction, the leather will soon be
torn and the trace becomes too short.
My invention relates to a trace or driving-rein made of cotton, mohair, balata or
other suitable textile material, said trace being connected on both its outmost ends
to iron or steel double-covers that bear the eyes of an hook or of a chain.
In the drawings, filed with the Provisional Specification,
Figure 1 is a top-view of the trace,
Figure 2 a side of the same and finally
Figure 3 represents the sole strap made of cotton, mohair or the like.
My improvement consists in a trace the strap A of which, in order to avoid
corrupting, being made of cotton, mohair, balata or other suitable textile material,
six or more bands of such material being stitched up and impregnated with resin or
the like to protect the strap from weather. Therefore it cannot at all absorb
moisture and moreover is protected from wear and very cheap.
Moreover I avoid any bending and consequent liability of breaking the trace
especially of its outmost ends, by arranging the extremities of the strap between
iron or steel double-covers B knitted together and riveted to the strap. The said
double-covers are made pieceless as to form an eye on every end of the trace, one
of said eyes being passed through by the eye of the hook H, and the other one by
the eye of the chain C that bears an annular R, so that the strap A itself is not to
sustain a strain in any bent part.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a trace or driving-rein the combination of a strap made of several stitched up
and impregnated bands of cotton, mohair, balata or other suitable textile material,
with riveted double-covers on every extremity of the strap, said double-covers
being made pieceless as to form eyes through one of which passes the eye of an hook
and the other one being passed through the eye of a chain.
Dated this Eighth of September 1896.
JOSEPH MÖHLIG,
Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, Agent for Applicant.