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2. In a horse-detacher, the combination with the vehicle-axle, of a support having a bifurcated lower end straddling said axle, a combined clamping-plate and coupling-box 5 connected to the bifurcated end of the sup- port under the axle, a shaft having its end located in the coupling-box, spring-pressed operating-levers pivoted to the support and having locking-pins adapted to pass through I the coupling-box and into the shaft, and an
abutment-plate for limiting the spread of the operating-levers. In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of'two subscrib- ing witnesses. JOHN F. TURNER. Witnesses: J. T. GRUCY, A. A. TAYLOR.