Year: 1885

page_text: I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of invention (a communication from
Thomas George Gillespie of Campbellford, in the County of Northumberland,
Canada, Trader and Matthew Sheffield Cassan of Seymour, County of Northum-
berland, Canada, Farmer), and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of the invention is to design a fastening for a horse collar capable of
being readily and quickly locked and unlocked, and which when locked will not
accidentally unfasten; and it consists essentially, in dividing the collar as herein-
after specified, and placing upon each end of the division a metal socket shaped
and fixed so as to form a complete binding for the protection of the end covered
by the said socket. One socket so attached is provided with two projecting
cone-shaped pins, notched or recessed so that when they are inserted into holes
made in the end of the opposite socket a slight twist of the socket, as hereinafter
specified, will securely lock the said pair of sockets together; a tapered and central
pin being provided to act as a guide, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
after more particularly explained.
Figure 1 is a view of a horse collar provided with this improvement.
Figures 2 and 3 are enlarged perspective details of the pair of sockets made in
accordance with this invention.
A represents a collar divided at the lower part of the neck.
B and C are two metal sockets formed to fit over and clasp the ends of the collar
so divided, forming a complete and substantial finish for each of the said ends.
The socket B, it will be noticed, has two holes a, pierced through its end plate,
which is further pierced by two slots or notches b extending one into each hole a,
but on opposite sides thereof. The same socket, it will be further noticed, has a
tapered pin D, projecting from the centre of its end plate. This pin D, is designed
to fit into a hole d, made in the centre of the end plate of the socket C. On either
side of this hole d, will be noticed two cone-shaped pins E, situated so that they
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page_text: shall come opposite and fit into the holes a, when the pin D, is inserted into the
hole d, as hereinafter described. The base of each of these cone-shaped pins E, is
cut away so as to leave a space between the base of each pin and the face of the
end plate of the socket C and a neck e formed so that they will fit into the
notches b.
When a collar is divided as described, and has its ends bound by a pair of sockets
like B and C, the said collar may be opened up and slipped over the neck of the
horse. The two ends are then brought together so that the pin D, shall enter the
hole d, when by giving the ends a slight twist, the cone-shaped pins E, may be
slipped into the holes a, when the natural tendency of the collar to recover the twist
thus given it brings the necks e, formed at the bases of the cone-shaped pins E into
the notches b, thus securely locking the two sockets B and C together.
Although the twist that is necessary to give the ends of the collar so as to effect
the lock described is very slight it is sufficient to prevent the two being accidentally
unlocked.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is
1. In a horse collar divided as described, and having the ends of the division
protected by the sockets B and C, the pins E connected to the end plate of the
socket C, and having necks e, formed on them, in combination with the holes a,
and notches b, formed in the end plate of the socket B, substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
2. In a horse collar divided as described and having the ends of the division
protected by the sockets B and C, the pins E, connected to the end plate of
the socket C, and having necks e, formed on them the holes d, made through the
said end plate, in combination with the holes a, and notches b, formed in the
end plate of the socket B, and the pin D, extending from the said end plate,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.