Improvements in and connected with Hames or Collar Blades.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Hames or Collar Blades.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP, and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of Excelsior Plough
Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Agricultural Engineers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with hames or collar
blades and has for its object to provide simple means whereby the point of
attachment of the trace to the hame can be adjusted or regulated as required.
According to our invention we provide brackets having a number of hooks to which
the trace books or rings can be secured the said brackets being connected to the
hames in any suitable manner such, for instance, as by means of pins passing through
luge riveted or otherwise secured to the hamos. Whon we apply our present
invention to the hames forming the subject matter of our Patent No. 9884 of 18th
May 1895 we advantageously form theso lugs upon a single base piece adapted to be
fixed in the channel of the hames.
By this construction it will be obvious that to adjust or regulate the point of
attachment of the traces to the hames it is only necessary to shift the trace hooks or
rings from one hook to another on the brackets.
Instead of hooks the brackets may be provided with lugs having holes and in this
case the trace ring is secured to the lug by means of a pin passed through the hole in
the said lug.
DL
1900
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in and connected with Hames or Collar Blades.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP, and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of Excelsior Plough
Works, Plymouth, in the County of Dovon, Agricultural Engineers, 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 to improvements in and connected with hames or collar blades
and has for its object to provide simple means whereby the points of attachment of
the traces to the hames can be adjusted or regulated as required.
According to our invention we provide brackets or plates (hereinafter, for convenience
of description, referred to as tug-plates) having a number of hooks or projections to
which the traco hooks or rings can be secured the said tug-plates being connected to
tho hames in any suitable manner such, for instance, as by means of pins passing through
lugs riveted or otherwise secured to the hames.
By this construction to adjust or regulate the point of attachment of the traces lo

page_text: the hames it is only necessary to shift the trace hooks or rings from one set of
hooks or projections to another on the tug plates.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved adjusting device; and,
Figure 2 is a rear view:
Figure 3 is a section on the line 8-3 Figure 2:
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are views similar to Figures 1, 2 and 3 respectively illustrating
a modification of our invention.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is the tug-plate, 6 is the hame to which the said tug-plate is pivoted, c, c, o are the
hooks upon the tug-plate and d is the link to which the trace is attached and which
can be engaged with either of the said hooks. In the drawing we have represented
the tug-plate as being applied to a channel haue of the kind forming the subject
matter of our Patent No. 9884 of 1895, the said tug-plate being connected to a base
piece fixed in the channel of tho hame and having lugs, between which the
tug-plate is pivoted by means of a pin g. It is to be understood, however, that the
mode of connecting the tug-plate to the haine may be varied as desired to suit
the construction of hames to which our invention is applied.
In the arrangement shown in Figures 1 to 3 the tug-plate a is provided with three
hooks which hooks are so constructed that when the said tug-plate is lying against the
collar the openings of the hooks will be closed by the collar so that the trace link d
cannot escape from the hook with which it is in engagement and so that when in use
the said links will lie flatwise against the plates and against the collar and not
edgewise so as to cut the collar. In order to adjust the link d it is only necessary to
turn the tug-plate away from the collar in order to dotach the link from one hook and
place it upon another.
We sometimes modify the arrangement last described by substituting lugs h, h, h
for the hooks c, o, as shewn in Figures 4 to 6, a pin i being passed through holes in
the said lugs for holding the link d upon.one or other of the latter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
olaim is :-
1. The combination with a hame or collar blade of a tug-plate having a series of hooks
or projections upon it for the purpose of enabling the point of attachment of the trace
to the hame to be adjusted, substantially as described.
2. The manufacture and use of hames or collar blades having tug-plates constructed,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 12th day of May 1897
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.