IMPROVEMENTS in Horse CollarS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Carr, of Aakern, in the County of York,
Saddler, for the Invention of “ IMPROVEMENTS in Horse CollarS,”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Carr at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th September 1875.
I, JOHN CARB, of Askern, in the County of York, Saddler, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE
COLLARS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing such collars in sections, so
that one or more sections may be removed and all pressure taken away
from the shoulders of the horse wearing it at any desirable place or
places.
This collar is especially adapted and intended to be used on horses
having sore shoulders, which by the continual contact and friction of an
ordinary collar are prevented from healing.

page_text: In constructing my improved collar I employ a frame composed of
wood or metal of the shape and size required.
Inside this frame are
placed a number of pads having wood or metal backs, and these pads
are attached to the frame by set screws. Each pad being fastened inde-
pendantly of the others, any one or more of them may be removed as i
may be desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Carr in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CARB, of Askern, in the County of York, Saddler, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Carr, Her special licence
that I, the said John Carr, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Carr, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE
COLLARS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Carr, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Carr, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings, that is to
say:

page_text: This Invention consists in constructing such collars in sections, so
that one or more sections may be removed and all pressure taken away
from the shoulders of the horse wearing it at any desirable place or
places.
This collar is especially adapted and intended to be used on horses
having sore shoulders which by the continual contact and friction of an
ordinary collar are prevented from healing.
In constructing collars with my improvements I employ a frame
composed of wood or metal of the shape and size required. Inside this
frame are placed a number of pads having wood or metal backs, and
these pads are attached to the frame by set screws. Each pad being
fastened independantly of the others any one or more of them may be
removed as desired.
Figs. 1 and 2 in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings represents a
collar constructed according to my Invention.
The cushion or padded part of the collar is formed in sections or
parts with wood or metal backs A (see Fig. 3), and are fastened by sét
screws a to the strip of metal B shewn in dotted lines. One section
is left out in the Drawing, and it will be readily seon that if the horse
wearing the collar has a sore or tender place, by removing one or more
sections of the collar the friction upon that place is avoided and oppor-
tunity is allowed for healing without interfereing with the horse in the
performance of its labour.
I claim the construction of collars in separate parts or sections, sub-
stantially as herein shewn and described:
In witness whereof, I, the said John Carr, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
JOHN CARR 17.01