Improvements in Metallic Whiffletrees.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1892-Accepted, 9th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Whiffletrees.
We, SIGMUND LANDAUER, of No. 4 Baltimore Block in the City of Atlanta
County of Fulton and State of Georgia United States of America and ELIAS
HAIMAN of No. 402 Peachtree Street in the same City Manufacturers, 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 whiffletrees having particular reference to the securing
therein of the draft ring, to which to hitch the traces, the object of the invention
being to obtain this result without weakening the whiffletree and by means that
cannot become disengaged under the greatest strain, the details of all of which will
be hereinafter fully specified.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a plan of the device showing the form of the whiffletree and at the
left end a hole opened for the insertion of the draft ring and at the other end the
ring is inserted and the hole closed.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the whiffletree as shown at the left end in
Figure 1, further showing the details thereof.
Figure 3 is an end view of the left hand end of Figure 1, showing the hole open
for the insertion of the ring or hook to which the traces are to be attached.
Figure 4 is an end view of the right hand end of Figure 1 showing the draft
ring or hook inserted in its place in the hole and the said hole closed, thereby
securely fastening the said ring or hook in its place.
In these figures like characters of reference indicating corresponding elements of
construction in all the views.
A is the whiffletree proper which is formed of a flat metallic strap tapering on
its back edge from its middle to both ends and being provided on its front edge
with the beads or flanges a. The clevis hook or eye A' is suitably secured
preferably pivotally, at the middle thereof. The holes a² are punched in each
end close to the bead a and the metal on the back side of this hole, between
it and the back edge of the whiffletree is severed, as shown at a³ the outer
portion being curved upwards as shown in Fig. 2. When said slit is in the
position shown it is obvious that it does not weaken the whiffletree in any point
where strain would be applied and it is also plain that in a direct end pull on
the whiffletree the removal of the ring a' would be resisted by a braced hook a
also the holes a². being near the bead a the ring will not be strained in any
direction, easily resisting any strain which would ever be applied thereto in
practice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1st. In a device of the class specified, the whiffletree comprising a metallic bar
perforated at its ends and slits whereby said perforations may be opened, for the
purpose specified.
2nd. As an improved article of manufacture, a whiffletree consisting of a flat
metallic strip and the beads formed on each side of its forward edge, the said
metallic strip being pierced near its ends immediately back of the said beads and
slotted from the perforations backward through the strip, the portions separated

page_text: by the perforations and slots from the main portion of the strip, being curved
upwardly at their rear ends, substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of May 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London. Agents for the Applicants.