US655913A - Bridle-bit. - Google Patents

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' ATES PATENT OFFI E.

MERRELL l-I. SIMS, OF MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.

BRlDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,913, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed April 5, 1900. Serial No. 11,697. No model-) To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I DIERRELL H. SIMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milledgeville, in the county of Baldwin and State. of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bridle-bits; and it consists in the simple, inexpensive, and advantageous bridle-bit hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved bit. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, taken in the plane indicated by the broken line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken in the plane indicated by the broken line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged de tail transverse section taken in a plane at the outer side of one of the cheek-pieces.

In the said drawings similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the several Views, referring to which- AAare the cheek-pieces, and l3 B the crossbars, of my improved bridle-bit.

The cheek-pieces are each made in one piece of suitable metal and are by preference cruciform in on tlinethat is to say, they respectively comprise a central body a and four arms I), o, d, and e, reaching therefrom. They are provided in their central or body portions a with slots or elongated openings f, for a purpose presently described, and are also provided in their several arms with apertures, as shown. The apertured arms I) of the cheek-pieces are designed for the connection of the head-stall of a bridle, the apertured arms 0 for the connectionof a side check rein, the apertnred arms 8 for the connection of the overcheok-rein, and the apertured arms cl for the connection of a tie-rein or fancy halter-chains when the latter are at oneend to the inner side of one checkpiece and extend loosely through the slot or elongated opening f of the other cheek-piece. They have their outer portions curved rearwardly, as indicated by g, and terminate at their outer ends in enlargements h, in which rein-rings i are journaled, as shown. As will be readily observed by referenceto Figs. 1, 3, and 4c of the drawings, the apertures f of the two plates A are arranged in different planes, and the bars B are connected to the plates at opposite sides of the apertures that is to say, one bar B is connected to the right-hand plate below the aperture therein and the other bar B is connected to the lefthand plate above the aperture therein. By virtue of this the bars 13 are held apart and cannot contact with each other at any point in theirlength. Thisishighlyadvantageous, since it removes all'liability of friction be tween the bars when said bars are drawn in opposite directions and also because it precludes a horse pressing the bars together between his teeth, and thereby preventing movement of the bars in the opposite directions and the consequent pressure of the cheekpieces against the mouth of the horse.

WVhen the bars B are drawn outwardly in opposite directions by a driver pulling on reins attached to the rings 2', the cheek-pieces A are caused to clamp the mouth of the horse and concentrate his attention on the bit, and the more the reins are pulled the closer the cheek-pieces are drawn together, with the resultthat the driver is enabled to control the most fractious horse. Moreover, it will be seen that when the bars B are drawn outwardly in opposite directions by pulling on the reins said bars will also be drawn rearwardly against the corners of the horses month, which adds to the efliciency of the bit.

The rearwardly-curved portions 9 of the bars B enable the cheek-pieces A to freely work in and out on the said bars as the reins or driving-lines are pulled upon and slackened, and hence enable a driver to maintain the driving-lines may be attached to the arms c of the cheek-pieces and the bit used after the manner of the ordinary bit.

Having thus described myinvention, What I claim is- 1. The herein-described bit comprising the right and left hand cheek-pieces, having the slots or elongated openings 1 arranged in different planes, a cross-bar fixedly connected at one end to the inner side of the right-hand cheek-piece, at one side of and a slight distance from the slot therein, and extending loosely through the slot of the left-hand cheekpiece, and a cross-bar fixedly connected at one end to the inner side of the left-hand cheek-piece at the opposite side of and a slight distance from the slot therein, and extending loosely through the slot of the right-hand cheek-piece whereby the bars are held apart throughout their length; the said bars having their outer portions curved rearwardly and adapted to be connected to driving-lines, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described bit comprising cheek-pieces each formed in one piece and having the central portion provided With a slot or elongated opening f and four apertured arms reaching from said central portion, and the cross-bars each fixedly connected at one end to the inner side of the central portion of one cheek-piece at a slight distance from the slot therein and extending loosely through the slot in the central portion of the other cheek-piece whereby the bars are held apart; the said bars having their outer portions curved rearwardly and provided with loose rings, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MERRELL H. SIMS.

Witnesses:

W. L. BETHUNE, MILLER S. BELL.

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