An Improved Method in the Manufacture of Pattern Saddles.
Year: 1893

page_text: CODPAD OF POTICATION
An Improved Method in the Manufacture of Pattern Saddles.
WC, WILLIAM Graham Leckie, & Joseph AlEXANDER LEOKIE, both of
the London Saddlery Works, Goodall Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Saddle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
Our invention relates to an improved method in the manufacture of saddles, or
parts of same, to act as patterns, or samples for the use of commercial travellers
or other persons, by means of which one saddle, or part of same, may be made to
represent two, three, or more different descriptions or qualities of saddles, thus
avoiding the necessity of a commercial traveller, or other person whose duty it is
to secure orders for saddles, carrying with him a considerable number of different
descriptions or qualities of saddles; while in no way reducing the variety of
patterns which he can exhibit to intending purchasers.
We make that part of the saddle known as the saddle top, or the seat and
skirts combined, on a wooden or other saddle tree or frame, in the usually practised
method known to the saddlery trade, using either hog-skin, or split cow-hide,
sheepskin or other suitable leather for the covering of the scat portion of the same,
as desired; and solid cow-hide, or cow-hide covered with either hog-skin, split cow-
hide, sheep-skin or other leather, for the skirts, also as desired.
We also make the flaps of the saddles in tho usually practised method, those
portions known as the knee and thigh pads being made by sewing a piece of serge,
canvas, or other material of the required shape on to the solid leather flap,
and then stuffing and filling up the same with flook or doe-hair into the
required shape, and then finally covering the pads so made with a thin surface
of leather by hand tools;-or by the patented method fully described in the
Patent Specification of William Graham Leckio, dated 15th March, 1888, and
numbered 4047.
Instead of finishing the saddle in the usually practised manuer by nailing the
flaps on to the tree in their proper positions, we insert two or more screw or other
sockets into and underneath those parts of the saddle tree known as the wooden
bars, and we cut out corresponding holes in the tops of the saddle flaps, and by
passing thumb, or other, screws, or fastenings through the. said holes in the flaps
and into the said sockets, we affix the flaps temporarily yet firmly.
By this means the saddle flaps can be changed at will, and two, three, or more
different kinds or qualities of saddle flaps may be shown in combination with one
kind of saddle top; or reversely, two, three, or more saddle tops may be shown in
combination with one kind of saddle flap.
When thought desirable we also make the saddle top to represent two different
qualities or descriptions of saddle, by making one skirt of a different quality or
shape from the other, so that when the saddle flaps are fixed in as described
above, each side or half, of the saddle represents an entirely different quality or
description.
It is evident that pattern saddles so produced may be made to represent a very
much wider range of varying styles, descriptions, and qualities, and will as a con-
sequence be rendered much more portable, and therefore more economical for a
commercial traveller or other person to carry than the usually practised method of
|carrying a separate saddle to represent each quality or description.

page_text: In order that our invention may be the better understood wo now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the drawings herein annexed, reference being had
to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1. is a front elevation of a saddle top. A. is the seat. B. B. are the
skirts.
Figure 2. is a front elevation of a saddle flap. A. is the knee-pad. B. is the
thigh-pad. C. C. C. the holes through which the thumb-sorows herein before
mentioned, for temporarily fixing the flaps to the saddle tree, are insorted.
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Figure 3. is a face elevation of the under part of the saddle top. A. A. A. are
the sockets into which the thumb-screws before mentioned arc inserted.
Figure 4. represents one of several patterns of thumb-screws or other fastenings
which may be adopted.
Figure 5. represents a saddle top with a straight head, the seat of which is
covered with thin cow-hide, while the skirts are made of solid cow-hide leather.
Figure 6. represents a saddle top with a out-back bond, the seat of which is
covered with hog-skin, while the skirts are made of cow-hide, with an outer
covering of hog-skin.
Figure 7. represents a saddle top with a cut-back head, the seat and skirts of
which are made similarly to those described in Figure 6. but the skirts are of a
different shape and pattern.
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Figure 8. represents a saddle top with a cut-back head, the seat of which is
covered with hog-skin, while the two skirts are of different shape and description,
A. being made of solid cow-hide leather, whilo B. is made of cow-hide leathor
covered with hog-skin.
Figuro 9. represents a "demi " flap, the knee pads only being covered with
thin cow-hide leather, while the remainder of the flap is composed of solid
leather.
Figure 10. represents a flap made by the patented method hereinbefore
mentioned.
Figure 11. represents a flap with the knee and thigh pads of a different shape
from those in Figures 9 or 10, the whole boing covered with hog-skin.
It is obvious that the combination, for instance, of the saddle top represented
by Figure 5. with the saddle flap represented by Figure 9. reprosents an entirely
different description of saddle from the combination of saddle top Figure 5. with
Alap Figure 10, or of saddle top Figure 5. with flap Figure 11;-aud reversely,
that the combination, for instance, of saddle top Figure 5 with flap Figure 10.
represents an entirely different saddle from the combination of saddle top Figure 6
or 7. with flap Figure 10. It is, further, obvious that the arrangement shown on
Figure 8. enables us to represent two or more different descriptions of saddle tops,
accordingly as we fix in different patterns of saddle flaps, each side representing
an entirely different shape or quality of saddle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;-
1st. The combination of a saddle top with saddle flaps of different shapes,
qualities, or patterns, so that a person can represent two, three, or more different
descriptions of saddle by simply carrying a corresponding number of saddle flaps
of different shapes, qualities, or patterns, and by temporarily fixing them in their
proper place substantially as described.
2nd. The combination of a saddle flap with saddle tops of different shapes,
qualities, or patterns, so that a person can represent two, throe, or more different
descriptions of saddles by carrying a corresponding number of saddle tops of
different shapes, qualities, or patterns, and changing the flaps from one to the other
substantially as described.

page_text: 3rd. A saddle top constructed with the two skirts of different shapes, qualities,
or patterns so as to represent two different shapes, qualities, or patterns of saddlo
tops substantially as described.
Dated this 31st day of January 1893.
WILLIAM GRAHAM LECKIE.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER LECKIE.