US211460A - Improvement in yokes for carrying tobacco - Google Patents

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R. A. CORN. Yoke for Carrying Tobacco.

No.2",460. Patented Jan. 21,1879.

VNESSES I ATTQRN EY PETERS, PIIUTQ-UYHOGRIPNEEWASNINGWN. D. O I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT A. CORN, OF HALE WOOD, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN YOKES FOR CARRYING TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211,460, dated January 21, 1879; application filed September 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. CORN, of

Hale Wood, in the county of Madison and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Yokes for Oarryin g Tobacco and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my tobacco-carrier; and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the end having the adjusting-pin.

This invention has relation to tobacco carriers or yokes for transporting the tobacco from the field to the drying-house; and it consists in the improvements in the construction of the same hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

- The longitudinal bars A A are padded at the points B B, where they rest upon the shoulders of the laborer. These longitudinal bars A A are recessed at a a to receive the end rails or cross-bars O O. The cross-bar O is bolted rigidly in place in its recess a in longitudinal bar A, while one end of the longitudinal bar A is pivoted to the cross-bar O. The cross-bar G is perforated at I) toreceive a pin, (1, secured to the bar 0 by a chain or cord, 0, to permit the longitudinal bar A to be adjusted to admit the heads and necks of differcut-sized persons between the longitudinal rails A and A. The longitudinal bars A A are held against the cross-bars C O by straps ff on the under side thereof, and the longitudinal bars A A are also connected to the crossbar G by stirrups g g.

Notches h are made in the upper faces of the cross-bars O O to receive the ends of the poles upon which the tobacco is hung to be transported from the field. Legs t t are mortised into the cross-bars G O, in order that the carrier may rest upon the ground in a position to be conveniently loaded, and also to allow the laborer to readily assume the load to be transported.

The operation of this invention is obvious.

Studs k are placed near the inner and outer notches h to prevent the poles from leaving the notches.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a tobacco-carrier, the padded longitudinal bars A A, secured to the notched cross-bars O 0, one of said longitudinal bars being adjustably connected to the cross-bars, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a tobacco-carrier, the combination of the longitudinal bars A A, cross-bars O O, and legs ii, constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereby affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT ARRETUS CORN.

Witnesses:

W. S. SAVYER, It. P. WILD.

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