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UNITE
1,250,964.
To all whom it may co
Be it known that
citizen of the Unite
Carbon, in the county
5 of Texas, have inve]
useful Improvements
of which the following
This invention h:
equalizers, and has fo
10 a device of this chara
cured to the draft ton
machine such as a bii
chine may be drawn e'
line, irrespective of the
15 be applied unevenly t
due to its operation, a
animals may be suits
side of the draft tong
equalizer to insure u
20 machine.
In addition to the f
comprehends improver
construction and arran
hereinafter more full
25 ticularly set forth in
In the accompanyin
similar and correspon
nated by the same ch
throughout the several
30 appear:
Figure 1, is a view
equalizer, constructed
my invention, and ill
tion to a draft tongue
35 Fig. 2, is a transvers
line 2-2 of the precede
With reference to th
a draft tongue of con
indicates generally th
40 plied thereto.
This draft equalizer
superposed frame bar
versely of the tongue a
per side thereof throne,
45 U-shaped bolt 4 which
tongue with its terming
wardly at each side
through, openings provi
3 for the reception of
50 Nuts 6 are applied to
nals 5 of the U-bolt wh
may be secured to the
spacing blocks 7 are d
bars 3 to dispose them i
55 a purpose which will be
The frame bars 3 are) STATES PATENT. OFFICE
JIM P.? BUfTTS, 9QYCARBON, TEXAS,
Specification of Letters Patent, Patented Dec. 25, 1917.
Application filed December 16, 1916. Serial No.. 137,379.
neern: ar angle frona pointcjacent thetlongitu-
I, JIM P. BhTTS, a dinal'edges of thdccraft tongue 'as set forth
d States, residing at in Fig. 2.ad . pivoted between the.outer ex-
of Eastland and State;, tremities of said bars at either end thereof 60
nted certain new and is a lever indicated at 8. Each lever is piv-
in Draft-Equalizers, oted at substantially a point intermediate its
g is a specification. ends-to the- ends of the bar 3 through the
as relation to draft medium of a rivet, bolt or the like, indicated
r an object to provide at 9. 65
cter adapted to be se- Mounted on the draft tongue forwardly
gue of an agricultural of the equalizer is a bracket 10 constructed
rider whereby the ma- of strap iron having an attaching portion
evenly and in a straight whereby it may be secured to the tongue and
e resistance which may a rear portion 11 spaced vertically from the 70
o the sides of machine surface of the tongue to receive between the
nd whereby the draft under side of the said surface and the tongue
ably disposed at -.each a pulley 12 mounted for rotation upon a bolt
ue and hitched to the 13 which passes through said ortion 11 of
uniform travel of the the bracket and the tongue. I flexible ele- 75
ment 14 which may be in the nature of a
oregoing my invention cable, section of chain or the like is passed
ments in the details of partly around the forward portion of the
igement of parts to be pulley 12 and is connected at its terminals
y described and par- to the inner adjacent ends of the links 8 80
appended claim. through the medium of a series of perfora-
g drawings in which tions 15 provided in said ends of the levers.
ding parts are desig- Thus, the ends of the flexible element may
characters of reference be secured in any of the perforations with
1 views in which they a view to varying the leverage of the levers 85
8 for the purpose of evening the draft. To
in plan of a draft the, outer ends of the levers 8 are secured
after the manner of swingletrees 16 forming a means for hitch-
ustrating its applica- ing the. horses or other draft animals thereto.
and Thus, it will be seen that with the flexible 90
e section taken on the element connected to the levers 8 in the
ling figure. manner set forth in Fig. 1 of the drawings
e drawings 1 indicates the draft upon the machine will be more or
ventional type and 2 less even. However, should it be desired to
e draft equalizer ap- provide a greater draft upon one side of the 95
tongue than the other, owing to the uneven
r includes a pair- of resistance to movement of the machine due
rs 3 disposed trans- to its operation, the terminals of the flexible
nd secured to the up- element may be inserted in either of the per-
gh the medium of a forations 15 until the draft is evenly dis- 100
extends beneath the tributed.
ials 5 projecting up- While I have thus illustrated and de-
of' the tongue and scribed my invention with some degree of
ded in the frame bars particularity I- realize that in practice va-
the said terminals. rious alterations thereover may be made, and 105
the 'threaded termi- I therefore reserve the right and privilege of
ereby' the frame bars changing the form of the details of con-
tongue and suitable struction or-otherwise altering the arrange-
isposed between the ment of the correlated parts without depart-
n spaced relation for ing from the spirit of the invention. or the 110
presently obvious. scope of the appended claim.
bent downwardly at Having thus described my invention, whatD
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Butts, Jim P. Draft-Equalizer, patent, December 25, 1917; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1259115/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.