A Spring or Rubber Boss or Pad, to be Attached to the Draft of all kinds of Hames Used with Harness.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Spring or Rubber Boss or Pad, to be Attached to the Draft of all
kinds of Hames Used with Harness. .
WILLIAM HENRY DULY Handcross Crawley Sussex Harness Maker do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The draft boss or pad is a V shaped metal spring, to fit the various kinds of
drafts of hames, the metal is of different substance and metal, to suit all light or
heavy hames, the inside of metal spring is filled up with blocks of rubber or cork
or leather or wood, rubber prefered, the boss or pad is fixed by a metal clip fitting
over the draft shaped so that two ends go under the body of hames at that point
and the other end of clip is drawn down by screws and nuts, holding the boss or
pad tightly up to draft of hames, the under side of boss or pad is lined with leather
to prevent it wearing the collar, for different shaped drafts the boss or pads and
clips must be made according.
Dated this Oth dan
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ML 1005
A Spring or Rubber Boss or Pad, to be Attached to the Draft of all
kinds of Hames Used with Harness.
WILLIAM HENRY DULY Handcross near Crawley Sussex Harness Maker 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 :-
The draft boss or pad is a V shaped metal spring to fit the various kinds of
drafts of hames the metal is of different substance and metal to suit all light or
heavy hames the inside of spring is filled up with rubber or cork or leather or
wood, rubber prefered the boss or pad is fixed by a metal clip fitting over the
draft shaped so that two ends go under body of hames at that point and the other
end of clip is drawn down by screws and nuts holding the boss or pad tightly up
to draft of hames, the under side of boss or pad is lined with leather to prevent
it wearing the collar, for different shaped drafts the boss or pads must be made
according.
The spring or rubber boss is made as shewn in drawings or as follows, the metal
part Figure 1, shews the clip which fits over top of the draught of hame, Figure 2
shews the bottom plate or metal part, and is made in two pieces rivetted together
as shewn, the top plate of Figure 2 is raised at the front part, leaving an opening
for the insertion of a rubber or leather block or pad, the edges of the top plate
Figure 2 are turned up to form a groove and the sides of the metal clip Figure 1
are turned under to fit the groove of top plate Figure 2, Figure 3 shews the clip
Figure 1 attached to metal part Figure 2, with rubber or leather pad inserted
between the plates, letter B Figure 3 is the front view of the rubber or leather
pad and metal parts attached, Figure 4 gives a side view and shape of pad as
inserted under or between metal parts a, shews the screws which holds the whole
TD.
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page_text: firmly together when in use, the spring or rubber boss or pad will be adapted to
the drafts of all kinds of hames used with harness, the clips and metal parts will
have to be made to fit the various shape drafts.
For waggon or van hames the metal parts would have to be made stouter metal
and the pads or blocks of these might be made of wood or leather, but where it is
possible for all the lighter harness hames rubber is prefer'd.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
That my spring or rubber boss or pad both in the whole or in its separate parts
is quite a new invention.
WILLIAM HENRY DULY,
Handcross, near Crawley, Sussex, Harness Maker.