US773601A - Bridle-bit. - Google Patents

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No. 773,601. PATENTED NOV. 1.1904. J. H. SLAWSON.

BRIDLE BIT.

APPLICATION FILED .TAN.11. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented November 1, 1904.

PATENT OEETcE.

JAMES HARDEN SLAVVSON, OF NORTON, INDIAN TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IVILLIAM F. SLAISON, OF NORTON, INDIAN TER- RITORY.

BRlDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,601, dated November 1, 1904. Application filed January 11, 1904. Serial No. 188,641. (No model.)

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Be it known that LJAMES HAEDEN SLAwsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing' at Norton, in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, have invented a new and useful Bridle- Bit, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to improved bridle- 4bits, and has for its object to improve and noted by like designati ng characters, Figure 1- is a perspective view of the improved device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partially in section, of one of the side members of the improved device.

The improved bridle-bit consists of two spaced cheek members transversely connected by a bit member and with or without a connecting-bar at their lower ends, and as the cheek members are precisely alike corresponding reference characters are employed for like parts in each. The cheek members are each formed of a single piece of wire of suitable gage to withstand the strains to which they will be subjected and bent into elongated loops with parallel spaced sides 10 11 and preferably circular upper ends 12, with one side, as 10, extended at the lower end and terminating in an eye 18 and with the other side bent laterally and looped around the side 10 above its eye 13, as shown at 14. The sides 10 11 are connected by coupling members 15, preferably cast thereon, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the side members 1011 being fully embedded in the coupling members at the ends and centrally thereof and only partiallyembedded at other points, as shown. coupling members are lightened materially without reduction of their strength or holding power upon the cheek members.

Connecting the coupling members 15 is a bar member which forms the bit proper of the device and is preferably formed of two rods 16 1T, closely associated and cast by their ends in the members 15 and with the rod 16 bent centrally into a curb-loop 18. The lower By this means the extended ends of the sides 10 may also be connected by a transverse brace-bar 19, looped by its ends thereto between the eyes 13 and loop connections 14, as shown. The cheekstraps of the bridle(representedat 2O 21) will be connected in theordinary manner to the rings 12, and the driving-reins will be connected, as at 22 23, to the eyes 13.

By this simple means a very strong, durable, and rigid bridle-bit structure is produced which may be cheaply manufactured and applied to any bridle or head-stall in common use.

rThe material employed for the cheek members and the bit and cross-bar portions will preferably be steel of the required size, and the coupling members may be of iron, brass, or other metal or metallic compounds and plated, galvanized, or otherwise protected or ornamented.

The parts may be of any desired size and of any fanciful design and may be otherwise modiiied in minor particulars without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. A bridle-bit embodying two cheek members, each comprising a loop and a pair of spaced parallel arms, a double bit-bar one of which is provided with a curb, and coupling members cast around the arms and the terminals of the bit-bar.

2. A bridle-bit embodying two cheek members, each comprising a loop and a pair of spaced parallel arms, one of the arms terminating at its lower end in an eye, and the other in an angular offset terminating in a loop to embrace the arm above the eye, a brace-bar having its terminals looped around the two longer arms adjacent to the eye, a bitbar, and coupling members cast around the arms throughout a portion of their length and the terminals of the bit-bar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES HARDEN SLAIVSON.

Vitnesses:

MATT H. OAMAN, WILLIAM HOGUE.

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