Patent GB-191110421-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Saddles for Transport or other purposes.
Inventor: AMESBURY WHEATON LIPYEATT RALE
IPC: B68C1/04
Filed: 1911-04-29
Granted: 1912-04-25
Abstract: 10,421. Amesbury, W. L. R. April 29. Harness, pack, and riding saddles; girths; pads.-Relates to saddles for transport, riding. pack, or draught, of the type in which the side bars are connected together by means of adjustable front and rear arches. The side bars are formed as is known in connexion with saddles of the ordinary type of a series of separate blocks or the like carried on rods. Figs. 1 and 2 show a transport saddle with front and rear arches that are adjustable in width and each comprise two parts 1, 2 provided with horizontal channel portions 4 arranged to slide over one another and to be secured together by one or more bolts 5 which pass through a block 6 on a plate 7 connecting the two arches, a series of holes on the part 1 allowing any desired adjustment to be made. The arches and member 7 may be made of tubes locked in any suitable manner. Two loading stays 9, preferably of channel iron, may, if desired, be bolted to the arches, and hooks 12, 13, which may be removed when the saddle is used for draught or as an ambulance riding saddle, are secured by the bolts 5. The lower bent extremities of the arches are connected by two curved bars 19, to which the metre girth straps 21 are attached and one or both ends of which are detachable for enabling the saddle to be taken to pieces. The side bars comprise each a series of wooden or other keys 26 carried loosely upon a rod 24, which passes through apertures in the feet 22 of the arches, and may be curved, and made of round or half-round spring steel. Terminal blocks 28 are slotted for the reception of the feet 22, a washer being moved from the outside to the inside of the foot 22 in the slot when a side bar is shortened by the removal of a key. The rotation of the keys 26 is restrained by means of two rods supported by the blocks 28 just above the keys. The keys may have concave faces, the central ones being of deeper section if desired, and may be wedge shaped when the rods 24 are curved. A numnah, Fig. 7, comprising two pieces 32, 33 may be supported by straps 34 or by webbing over a bar 31, preferably of spring steel. Extra numnah slips can be used, or the upper parts may be made double. The metre girths 21 pass through slots 37, Fig. 1, in the stays 9 and are attached to the girths (not shown), which are crossed. Crossed straps 38 hooked to the bar 7 pass through slots 37<A> in the stays 9 and are secured by hooks 41 to the chains of the breeching and breast piece. Fig. 9 shows an arrangement for loading square-sided articles, which comprises two rods 42, 43, a suspension ring 44, and rings 45 to which the loading rope is attached. Fastening.-Figs. 2 and 8 show a swivel 15 carried by a short bar 7<A> on the plate 7, or it may be carried by the plate 7, which is provided with rollers 16, 17 to receive a curricle bar. The roller 16 is prevented from being completely removed by means of a flange 18. The heads of the rear bolts 10 for securing the stays 9 to the arches are slotted for the attachment of the crupper straps.