Improvements in or connected with Hames or Collar Blades.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Hames or Collar Blades.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the
Excelsior Plough Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Agricultural
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to hames or collar blades, and consists in making them of
metal of U-shape in transverse section whereby great strength and lightness are
obtained without the use of wood to keep the parts rigid. This section is also
most convenient for securing attachments to the hames, and such attachments
can be made to take a larger bearing on the collar than heretofore thus allowing of
a lighter collar being used. The pressure also is very equally distributed on or
over the animal's neck or shoulders, thereby preventing to a very large extent
galling or rubbing of the neck or shoulders of the animal. The attachments are
also fixed in a novel manner as the holes are reversed from the ordinary method,
and no welding is required. The invention is most convenient also for the
attachment of rings or any head or top decoration.
Dated this 18th day of May 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
We, WILLIAM HENRY SLEEP and ROBERT HENRY SLEEP, both of the
Excelsior Plough Works, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, 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 :-
Our invention relates to hames or collar blades, and consists in making them of
metal of U-shape in transverse section whereby great strength and lightness are
obtained without the use of wood to keep the parts rigid. This section is also most
convenient for securing attachments to the hames, and such attachments can be
made to take a larger bearing on the collar than heretofore thus allowing of a
lighter collar being used. The pressure also is very equally distributed on or over
the animal's neck or shoulders, thereby preventing to a very large extent galling
or rubbing of the neck or shoulders of the animal. The attachments are also fixed
in a novel manner as the holes are reversed from the ordinary method, and no
welding is required. The invention is most convenient also for the attachment of
rings or any head or top decoration.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
:-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of hames constructed according to our
invention; and,
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same:

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Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 1, drawn to an enlarged scale
and,
Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4, Figure 1, also drawn to an enlarged
scale:
Figure 5 is an elevation shewing a slight modification; and,
Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6, Figure 5.
a, a are the hames, which, as herein before described, are of U-shaped metal, as
shewn in Figure 3, the depth of the groove or channel varying at different parts
according to the external shape of the hames, the depth of the U, for instance,
being much greater in the section on the line 3-3, Figure 1, than in that on the
line 44, Figure 1, the greatest depth being at the points where the draught
attachments are fixed. b is the chain by means of which the hames are connected
at the lower ends, the said chain being attached to pins c, c passed through the
trees. d, d are the eyes or loops through which the strap, by means of which the
hames are tightened onto the collar, is passed. These eyes, as shewn, are each
cast in one piece with a plate e of sufficient width to rest upon the edges of the tree,
at the back of which plate lugs f, f, which enter the channel, are formed and
through which rivets or the like are passed in order to secure the said eyes in
position.
h, h are the draught hooks, the plates or parts to which the said hooks are
pivoted being fixed by means of pins passing through lugs projecting into the
channels in the hames. Figures 5 and 6 shew a draught attachment wherein a
folded plate having a series of apertures j, j is fixed by means of rivets, a pin k
being arranged to be passed through the said attachment and through links or eyes
inserted into one or the other of the apertures j, j.
It will be readily understood that hames of a channel shape as described afford
great facility for the fixing of the usual attachments.
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
claim is:
1. Harness hames made of channel or U-shaped metal, substantially as, and for
the
purposes, described.
2. The manufacture and use of harness hames of U-shape or channel section
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 18th day of February 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.