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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
JOHN BARRY, JR., OF ANTELOPE, TEXAS.
DETACHABLE NECK-YOKE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 10, 1910.
Application filed January 7, 1910. Serial No. 536,881.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN BARRY, Jr., a
citizen of the United States, residing at An-
telope, in the county of Clay and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Detachable Neck-Yokes, of
which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to certain new and
useful improvements in detachable neck
10 yokes, and it consists in the novel combina-
tion, arrangement and construction of parts
as will be hereafter more particularly de-
scribed and claimed.
In the drawings forming a part of this
15 specification, and in which like numerals of
reference indicate similar parts in the sev-
eral views, Figure 1 is a perspective view
of a portion of my invention showing the
shaft members and parts comprising the
20 same for, movably attaching said shafts to
the hounds of an ordinary wagon or other
vehicle. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the
detachable pole or neck yoke employed in
connection with the terminal ends of the
25 shaft members. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of
my complete invention with the parts united
showing the pole or neck yoke in its proper
position with respect to the shaft members.
Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section taken on
30 the line T-x of Fig. 2, also showing the
pole or neck yoke in a binding position upon
the upper edges of the shafts. Fig. 5 is an
enlarged cross section of the neck yoke
through one of the bands and ring carried
35 thereby and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the
combined staple and band before the same
is bent around in a binding position upon
the pole.
The object of my invention is to produce
40 a very durable, practical and efficient draft
equalizer, whereby three horses may be
worked side by side, thus equalizing and
distributing the draft or work upon each
of the animals, and dispensing with the
45 usual lead horse, and further clearing the
horses of the track and uneven surfaces cut
in the road by wagons or other vehicles and
permitting them to travel upon a smooth
and solid road bed.
50 My invention therefore consists of a de-
tachable hold back in the form of a pole
or neck yoke of suitable length, which may
be easily and readily secured in its proper
position to the reduced terminal ends of the
55 shaft members, and further in the particu-
lar arrangement of the several attachingrings carried by the pole or yoke, and means
for attaching the same whereby the said
rings are movably secured to the pole' or
yoke by a combined staple and band, the 60
latter portion encircling and binding the
pole and having securing eyes for the rings,
the said band and metal forming the eye
being integral or of a single piece of metal.
the locking and securing for the several 65
parts being hereinafter more fully described
as will appear from the detailed description
following.
Referring to the drawings 1 represents
the V-shaped frame which is movably at- 70
tacked to the ordinary hounds of a wagon
or other vehicle in the well known manner.
and secured to the forward ends of the V-
shaped frame by bolts or other suitable fas-
tening devices are transverse beams 2, and 75
also secured to said frame in the rear of the
beams 2 and parallel thereto is the beam 3,
all of which forms a rigid support and
frame for attaching the rear ends of the
shaft members 4 to the frame 1. 80
In order to more thoroughly secure the
shafts 4 in a rigid position in respect to
one another a semi-circular or arch shaped
bar 5 is employed, the ends of which are
attached to said shaft members and having 85
its intermediate portion secured to the outer
end of the V-shaped frame 1, by suitable
bolts or other fastening device as clearly
shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Secured
to the rear transverse beam 3 midway be- 90
tween its ends is one end of the metallic clip
6, by means of a bolt 7, the free ends of
said clip having an opening through which
an ordinary coupling bolt is adapted to
freely pass, and also through an opening 95
formed in the forward transverse beam 2 lo-
cated on the upper surface of the frame 1.
The clip 6 referred to is designed to remov-
ably hold the ordinary triple tree in its
proper position in respect to the shafts 4, 100
and to said double tree are movably secured
the usual swingle trees, all of which is of the
well known or of any improved construction.
The forward free terminal ends of the
shaft members 4 are reduced as clearly 105
shown in Fig. 1, the under surfaces of which
are inclined as shown at 8, which inclined
surfaces lead to and terminate in a vertical
abutting surface 9, against which the rings
carried by the pole or neck yoke are adapted 110
to be brought in contact when the pole is
in its proper position upon the shaft mem-957,179.
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Barry, John, Jr. Detachable Neck Yoke, patent, May 10, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513643/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.