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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM J. CANES, SR., OF GONZALES, TEXAS, AND CHARLES TW.
PENFIELD, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.
STAKE-PIN.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,675, dated May 18, 1880.
Application filed September 17, 1970.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, W. J. CARNES, Sr.,
of Gouzales, county of Gonzales, State of
Texas, and CHARLES W. PENFIELD, of New
5 Britain, in the county of Hartford and State
of Connecticut, have invented a new and valu-
able Improvement in Stake-Pins; and we do
hereby declare that the following is a full,
clear, and exact description of the construe-
io tion and operation of the same, reference be-
ing had to the annexed drawings, making a
part of this specification, and to the letters
and figures of reference marked thereon.
Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation
I5 of a perspective view of my improved stake-
pin. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, partly in
section, and Fig. 3 is a detail.
This invention has relation to improvements
in stake-pins for picketing horses and attach-
20 ing the lariat or rope.
The nature of the invention consists in the
construction and novelarrangement of a stake-
pin composed of a prismatic drive-spike hav-
ing at its upper end an annular recess with-
25 out obstruction, and seated in said recess a
ring having an eye, said ring being extended
between the shoulders of said recess and in
contact therewith, and said shoulders cover-
ing the edges of the ring to keep out dirt and
30 prevent the rope from becoming fastened in
winding, as hereinafter shown and described.
In the annexed drawings, the letter A des-
ignates a vertically-corrugated metallic pin
tapering to a point and having a rounded
35 head. Below this head is an annular recess,
a, provided with shoulders a' at its top and
bottom, in which rotates, in a plane at right
angles- to the length of the pin, a ring, b.
This ring has an eye, e, for the attachment of
40 the end of the lariat or rope, and it is cast on
the pin in the following manner:
The ring and eye are cast separate from thepin, and, when cast, the, inner surface of the
former is coated with a mixture of fine sand
and oil or shellac. A pattern of the pin and 45
ring together, solid, is then molded and with-
drawn from the flask and a ring and eyelaid
in the impression made by the ring and eye of
the pattern. Melted metal is nowpouredinto
the mold and the stake-pin cast complete. 50
In this way thering and eye can be made soas
to rotate freely on the pin, the coating of sand
having prevented the adherence thereof, and
when the pin is in the ground the lariat or
rope cannot be wound around it; consequently 55
the tether cannot be shortened, and the animal
may graze over the whole surface included
within a circle described, with the lariat as a
radius.
We are aware that a drive-spike of prismatic 60
form is not new, and that it is not new to
cast a notched ring about a shouldered screw
having a lug on the shoulder, and we do not
claim such invention; but
What we claim as new, and desire to secure 65
by Letters Patent, is-
The stake-pin herein described, consisting
of the prismatic drive-spike A, having at its
upper end an annular recess without obstruc-
tion, and seated in said recess the ring b, 70
having the eye c, said ring being extended be-
tween the shoulders of said recess and in con-
tact therewith, and said shoulders covering
the edges of the ring to keep out dirt and pre-
vent the rope from becoming fastened in wind- 75
ing, as shown and described.
in testimony that we claim the above we
have hereunto subscribed our names in the
presence of two witnesses.
WILLIAM J. CARNES, SR.
CHARLES W. PENFIELD.
Witnesses :
H. C. NOBLE,
E. . KELLEY.
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Carnes, William, Sr. & Penfield, Charles W. Stake-Pin., patent, May 18, 1880; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169989/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.