Improvements in Certain Parts of Harness Saddles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Parts of Harness Saddles.
I, THOMAS WINCER, of 108 Littleton Street East, Walsall, Staffordshire,
Wholesale Gig Saddle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the beads or guides which protect the edges of
the skirt of gig and cab and other harness saddles where the back band passes
under and also serve the purpose of securing those parts of the skirt to the saddle
trees. My invention is also similarly applicable to the skirt screws which are
sometimes used for securing the skirt instead of the said beads or guides.
Heretofore it has been customary to fix the said beads or guides in place by two
screws or bolts which pass through the bead or guide and the flap and saddle tree.
The heads of the screws or bolts projecting above the beads or guides are
unsightly and moreover they are apt to catch the wiper when the bead or guide
is being cleaned up.
By my invention I am enabled to secure the beads or guides to the saddle tree
by secret screws as follows:-Below the upper surface of the bead or guide I form
a boss at each or all of those parts where the screws are required, the bosses either
projecting downwardly below the underside of the bead or guide, or being formed
in the body of the same. These bosses are screw threaded internally from the
underside so as to engage with the screws which pass through the saddle tree but
these screw threaded holes in the bosses are closed at the top side of the bead so
as to hide the screws from view.
My invention is similarly applied to the skirt screws the metal heads of which
I cast or make from sheet metal or otherwise form with a boss underneath which is
screw threaded internally to engage with the screwed shank, this hole being closed
at the top of the lead so as to hide the screw shank from view.
Instead of tapping the bosses of the beads or guides for separate screws as above
described, the said screws or screwed shanks may be laid in the mould and cast to
the beads or guides; or the said shanks may be secured in the holes in the said
bosses by the bosses being closed around the shanks by a closing tool or tools
worked in a press or by other means, the shanks being slightly headed or notched
so as to hold in place more firmly.
Dated this 24th dor of February 1892
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Parts of Harness Saddles.
I, THOMAS WINCER, of 108 Littleton Street East, Walsall, Staffordshire,
Wholesale Gig Saddle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has reference to the beads or guides which protect the edges of
the skirt of gig and cab and other harness saddles where the back band passes
under and also serve the purpose of securing those parts of the skirt to the saddle
trees. My invention is also similarly applicable to the skirt screws which are
sometimes used for securing the skirt instead of the said beads or guides.

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Heretofore it has been customary to fix the said beads or guides in place by
two screws or bolts which pass through the bead or guide and the flap and saddle
The heads of the screws or bolts projecting above the beads or guides are
unsightly and moreover they are apt to catch the wiper when the bead or guide is
being cleaned up.
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By my invention I am enabled to secure the beads or guides to the saddle tree
by secret screws as I will now describe by referring to the accompanying drawings
on which Fig. 1 shews in sectional elevation a "single". bead or guide. made
according to this invention and. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 represents in
elevation, Fig. 4 in cross sectional elevation and Fig. 5 in plan a "double" bead
or guide made according to this invention; Figs. 6 and 7 are sectional clevations
of skirt screws made according to this invention; Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of
a modified form of my invention; Fig. 9 shews one of the screws for the same and:
Fig. 10 shews how this screw. Fig. 9 is fixed to the bead or guide represented by
Fig. 8.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of my drawings.."
In carrying out my invention I form on the bead or guide A a boss at each or
all of those parts where the fixing screws B are required, these bosses projecting
downwardly below the underside of the bead or guide A. On each of the beads
ör guides shewn in my drawings there are two of these bosses, marked respec-
tively C C. These bosses C. C are each screw threaded internally at d (see
Figs: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) from the underside so as to engage with the screws B which
pass through the saddle tree (or as hereinafter described the holes & may be plain)
but these screw threaded holes d in the bosses are closed at the top side of the
bead so as to hide the screws B from view when the bead or guide is fixed in
place on the harness saddle.
My invention is similarly applied to the skirt screws the metal heads E of which
I cast (Fig. 6) or I make covered sheet metal (Fig. 7) or I otherwise form, with
a boss C underneath the hole d in which is screw threaded internally to engage
with the screwed shank B, this hole d being closed at the top of the head so as to
hide the screw shank from view.
Instead of tapping the bosses CC of the beads or guides A for separate screws
as above described, the screws or screwed shanks B may be laid in the mould and
cast in the bosses C C of the beads or guides; or the screwed shanks B may be
secured in the holes d'in the bosses C C by these bosses being closed around the
shanks by a closing tool or tools worked in a press or by other means, the shanks
being slightly headed or notched so as to hold in place. This is illustrated by
Figs. 8, 9 and 10 where it will be seen that the holes d are plain and that the
screwed shanks B are notched at b so that when the shank is placed in position in
the boss as shewn in Fig. 10 and the bead placed on the bed F the ordinary closing
tool G which is cupped out at g descends and closes the boss C around the shank B
and in the notch & thus securing the shanks B and the bead or guide A together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. Making harness saddle beads or guides with bosses such as, C C underneath
for the fixing screws to screw into, the screw holes in the said bosses being closed
on the top so as to hide the screws, substantially as hereinbefore set forth and
shewn by the accompanying drawings...
2. Making the metal heads of skirt screws for harness saddles each with a
tapped boss such as C underneath for the screwed shank to screw. into, the screw
hole in the said boss being closed on the top side of the head so as to hide the
screwed shank, substantially as herein before set forth and shewn by Figs. 6 and 7
of the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved single bead or guide for harness saddles made with the tapped

page_text: bosses C C underneath for the fixing screws to screw into, substantially as herein-
before set forth and shewn by Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
4. The improved double bead or guide for harness saddles made with the tapped
bosses C C underneath for the fixing screws to screw into, substantially as herein-
before set forth and shewn by Figs. 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
5. The improved bead or guide for harness saddles made with the bosses CC
underneath and having fixed in each boss a screwed fixing shank, substantially
as herein before set forth.
Dated this 25th day of November 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.