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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFIC.
WILLIAM JACKSON DOBBS, OF GROESBECK, TEXAS.
HAME ATTACHMENT.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,668, dated June 26, 1900.
Application filed August 19, 1899, Serial No. 727,813, (No modeL)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM JACKSON
DOBBS, a citizen of the United States, resid-
ing at Groesbeck, in the county of Limestone
5 and State of Texas, have invented a new and
useful Hame Attachment, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
This invention relates to certain new and
useful improvements in hame attachments,
ro having for its object primarily to provide a
simple yet efficient snap hame-hook readily
applied to the hame and when in position
therein prevented from accidental displace-
ment. The spring is applied in a novel man-
15 ner and is so disposed as to be protected from
injury by contact with the staple of the hame,
and any pressure of the hame thereupon tends
to more securely lock the hook against open-
ing. The hook or attachment is provided with
20 studs upon opposite sides thereof, around
which are coiled opposite ends of the spring,
the terminals of which are disposed in grooves
or recesses and find abutment against the
walls thereof. The central portion of the
25 cross-bar of the spring is disposed in a recess
in the butt-end of the hook. The tendency
of the spring is to press outward against the
outer wall of the groove or recess, so that any
pressure or strain of the staple of the hame
30 upon said spring will more firmly force it
against said outer wall of the groove. The
attachment can be readily snapped into po-
sition upon the staple and as readily removed,
when desired, by simply pressing inward upon
35 the spring, and thus affording passage for the
staple.
Other objects and advantages of the inven-
tion will hereinafter appear, and the novel
features thereof will be particularly pointed
40 out in the accompanying claims.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, which, with the nu-
merals of reference marked thereon, form a
part of this specification, and in which-
45 Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my
improvements attached to the staple of a
hame. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the hook or
attachment. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section
thereof. Fig. 4is a cross-sectional'view taken
5o on the line 2 2 of Fig. 2.
Like numerals of reference indicate like
parts throughout the several views.Referring now to the details of the draw-
ings, 1 designates a portion of a hame of or-
dinary construction, and 2 the staple. 55
3 represents my attachment. It embodies
a body portion 4, from opposite sides of which
extend the studs or pins 5, the function of
which will be hereinafter explained.
6 designates a hook portion of usual form, 6o
while upon the opposite side of the center of
the body portion is the loop 7, which is de-
signed to receive the staple of the hame and
to have free movement thereon in the usual
manner. The free end 8 of this loop.is pro- 65
vided upon its inner face with a groove or
recess 9, which by preference is of greater
depth than the thickness of the spring which
is designed to be locked therein, so that when
the spring is in position it will be flush with 7o
or sunken below the face of the loop adja-
cent the recess, so that the staple will slide
from the said face over and onto the spring
without danger of engaging the end thereof,
so as to press it inward, and thus open the 75
latch. Upon the upper and lower faces of
the body portion adjacent to the studs 5 there
are formed longitudinal grooves 10, which by
preference are slightly undercut, as indicated,
and against the vertical walls thereof the ex- 8o
tremities of the spring are designed to en-
gage.
11 is a spring. It is formed of a single
piece of material, preferablyspring-wire,bent
upon itself at its center to form the cross bar 85
or portion 12, and the ends are bent around
the studs 5 one or more times, as indicated
at 13, and the extreme ends are extended
backward substantially in line with the side
bars of the spring and are engaged in the re- 90
cesses 10 of the body portion of the hook. The
cross-bar 12 is engaged in the recesses 9 on
the inner face of the free end of the loop por-
tion of the hook.
In operation the attachment is applied to 95
the hame by placing it with the hook turned
toward the front of the hame, when by press-
ing slightly toward the hame, with the staple
bearing against the side bars of the spring,
the spring will be pressed inwardly of the ioo
loop, and as the staple drives over the same
it will slide off of the inner end thereof and
into the loop of the attachment, when the
spring will immediately fly back into position
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Dobbs, William, Jackson. Hame Attachment, patent, June 26, 1900; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511749/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.