(No Model.)
M. E. ZELLER.
GAG RUNNER.
Patented Oot. 24, 1882.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MELANCTHON E. ZELLER, OF BLUFFTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO O. B. NORTH 86 CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.
GAG-RUNNER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,575, dated October 24, 1882.
Application .filed August 28, 1882.
, 15 This invention relates to an improvement in the article of saddlery-hardware commonly called ga-g-runner-that is to say, the eye which is attached tothe head-strap and through which the check-rein runs; and it consists in zo the eye constructed with a loop at its upper end, the upper bar of that loop provided with a tongue turning outward and upward, as more fully hereinafter described.
A represents the e) e, which may be of any z5 of the usual shapes. At its upper end is a loop, B, in width corresponding to the width ofthe head-strap, and in height so as to permit the strap to be passed freely through it. Upon (No model.)
the upper bar, a, and at its center, is a tongue or support, b. This support extends outward 3o from the loop equal to the thickness ot' the head -strap, and is then turned upward, as shown. 'lhis completes the article. It is applied as seen in Fig. 2. The head-strap is passed outside the tongue b, and thence down 55 through the loop and back of the eye until at the required position. Then the tongue is passed through a perforation in the strap, which holds it tirinly in its place, but permits it to be easily adjusted or removed should occasion re- 4o quire.
I do not claim' broadly a gagrunner provided with a tongue for engagement with one ot' the holes in the headstrap, as such, I am aware, is not new; but 45 Vhat I do claim is- As an article of manufacture, the herein-described gagrunner, consisting of the eye A, constructed with the loop B at its upper end, and with the hook-shaped tongue b, extending 5o outward and upward from the upper bar of the loop, substantially as described.
MELANCTHON E. ZELLER.
Witnesses:
J. 1;l. PATTERSON, H. N. GRONINGER.