A An Improved Device for Rapidly Fastening and Unfastening Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
A
An Improved Device for Rapidly Fastening and Unfastening Horses
and other Animals.
I, FRIEDRICH WILHELM FURGSCHAT of Tilsit in the German Empire,
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:-
My invention relates to a new or improved device for rapidly fastening and
unfastening horses and other animals within their stalls or stables, so that in case of
emergency, such as an outbreak of fire, the animals can be simultaneously set free.
It can also be put to ordinary stable use.
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In order that my said invention may be more clearly understood, I have appended
accompanying sheet of drawings in which :-
Figure 1 shews a general view of the arrangement as applied to stables.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the attaching and detaching device.
Figure 3 shows the arrangement of the handle by means of which the device can
be operated from the outside of the stalls.
Figure 4 is a section through X X in Figure 3.
Figure 5 shews another arrangement of handle by means of which the device
can be operated from the inside of the stalls.
Figure 6 is a section through X X in Figure 5.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide a tube a, Figure 5, preferably of
wrought iron, within which a rod b, having hooks c attached thereto, is caused to
slide by means of a handle d. When it is desired to fasten up a horse or other
animal, the ring or loop at the end of the fastening chain or rope is placed within
a slot in the aforesaid tube a, and the handle d, which also works within a slot,
is pulled so far as said slot callows. The hook shaped bolt c is, by this movement,
caused to pass through the ring or loop in the manner shewn in Figure 5 thus
firmly securing the chain or rope and also the animal.
The apparatus can be operated either from the inside of the stalls as in Figure 5
or from the outside as in Figure 3. According to the latter arrangement there is
placed over the end of the tube a a sliding collar e with handle. The rod bis
attached by means of a screw or otherwise to said sliding collar, which is prevented
from coming completely off by means of a screw g or pin within a slot of suitable
length.
When it is desired to unfasten the animal, the rod is moved by means of the
handle d or so that the hook shaped bolt c passes out of the ring or loop, which is
thus released from the slot.
I do not confine myself to the size or material of any of the aforesaid parts and
the apparatus may be used in connection with one, or any number of stalls.
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 :-
The apparatus for fastening and unfastening horses or other animals substantially
as, and for the purposes, herein described, and shewn by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 27th day of February 1892
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.