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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
ERNEST S. SAETTLER, OF GIDDINGS, TEXAS.
TRACE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,448, dated March 28, 1893.
Application filed December 10, 1892. Serial No, 454,709. (No model,)To all whom it macy concern:
Be it known that I, ERNEST S. SAETTLER, of
Giddings, in the county of Lee and State of
Texas, have invented a new and useful Im-
5 provement in Traces, of which the following
is a full, clear, and exact description.
My invention relates to an improvement in
harness traces, and it has for its object to con-
struct a trace in such manner that that por-
io tion of the trace in which the eye is located,
and which is adapted for engagement with a
single tree, will be rendered as durable as any
other portion of the trace.
The invention consists in the novel con-
I5 struction and combination of the several parts,
as will be hereinafter fully set forth and
pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings forming a portion of this specifica-
20 tion, in which similar figures and letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts in all
the views.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the trace.
Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is a per-
25 spective view of one portion of the clamp to
be located at the eye of the trace; and Fig. 4
is a detail perspective view of another sec-
tion of the clamp.
The invention consists primarily of a rein-
30 forcing clamp located at the eye 10 of a trace
A. The clamp consists of a body section B,
illustrated in detail in Fig. 3, which section
consists of a plate 11, made of malleable iron,
or any other hard yet thin material, and one
35 end of the plate, the inner one for example,
is reduced in width, as shown at 12 in the
drawings, and this end of the plate is pro-
vided with an aperture 13, while a second
aperture 14, is produced at the opposite
40o end of the plate, both apertures being pref-
erably located upon a central longitudinal
line. Each side edge of the wider portion of
the plate is provided with a flange in direc-
tion of both the top and bottom,-and the flange
45 is given a dove-tailed shape in cross section
and is designated in the drawings as b.
Near the center of the wider portion of the
plate 11, a longitudinal slot or opening 15, is
produced, adapted to register with the eye 10
50 in the trace. In connection with the body
section two slides C, are used, and these slides
are preferably made of sheet metal, and thecentral portion of the slide is longitudinally
struck up from the bottom to form a dove-
tailed channel 16, while at the side edges of 55
the slide spurs 17, are formed, the spurs stand-
ing at a right angle to the under face of the
slide.
In the construction of the trace made from
two straps of leather D and D', the body plate 60
B, is introduced between two straps, the side
edges of the straps fitting snugly between the
flanges b, and the body plate is so adjusted
between the straps that the outer wider edge
of the plate will be flush with the rear ends 65
of the straps, as shown in Fig. 2, at which
time the slot 15 in the plate will be brought
into registry with the eye 10 in the strap.
This having been accomplished, rivets 18, are
passed through the straps and through the 70
apertures 13 and 14 in the body plate.
The final clamping and reinforcing of the
trace is accomplished by causing the dove-
tail channels of the slides to respectively re-
ceive a flange b of the body plate; and when 75
the slides have been properly adjusted the
side portions of the slides are bent downward
to engage the side faces of the straps D and
D', and the spurs 17, are at the same time
driven into the straps, as is likewise shown 80
in Fig. 2.
I desire it to be distinctly understood that
other fastening devices may be substituted
for the spurs 17, and also that the slides may
be made of any material that may be found 85
most advantageous in practice. It will be
readily observed that by means of the device
above set forth and the manner in which it is
applied, the rear end of the trace is not only
strengthened, but it is so reinforced at the 90o
eye that the trace at that point will stand wear
and tear as well, if not better, than at any
other point in its length.
I desire it to be distinctly understood that
although I have stated that the above de- 95
scribed device is especially adapted for rein-
forcing the eye portions of traces, said de-
vice may be applied with equally good results
to any strap for the purpose of reinforcing an
opening therein and strengthening the strap. oo
Having thus described my invention, I
claim as new and desire to secure by Letters
Patent-
1. As an improved article of manufacture,
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Saettler, Ernest S. Trace., patent, March 28, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173358/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.