Improvements in Saddles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles.
I, HUGH ROBERT STEWART of 21 Great George Street, in the City of Westminster,
late Captain in the Royal Navy do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to render saddles more durable than are those made
as at present and also to make them light and buoyant so that for instance in the case
of pack saddles they will afford a means for sustaining the animals with which they
are used in water in crossing water courses or the like.
According to my Invention I use as a packing stuffing or filling for the panniers or
trees or other stuffed parts of pack saddles or other saddles, cork preferably in the
form of cuttings. The covering may be of canvas leather or other suitable material
and is preferably waterproof.
Owing to the nature of this stuffing moths or other destructive vermin will be.
prevented from attacking the saddle and owing to its buoyant character it will enable
an animal carrying a pack and pack-saddle to swim a river for example, with the
saddle and pack on his back as it will assist instead of impeding his swimming and
render unnecessary the use of boats to effect the transmission of the packs.
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J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.,
Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Saddles.
1 HUGH ROBERT STEWART of 21 Great George Street in the City of Westminster
Captain in the Royal Navy 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 :-
My Invention has for its object to render saddles more durable than are those made
as at present and also to make them light and buoyant so that for instance in the case
of pack saddles they will afford a means for sustaining the animals with which they
are used in water in crossing water courses or the like.
According to my Invention I use as a packing stuffing or filling for the pannels or
other stuffed parts of pack saddles or other saddles cork in the form of cuttings. The
covering may be of canvas leather or other suitable material and is preferably water-
proof.
Owing to the nature of this stuffing moths or other destructive vermin will be
prevented from attacking the saddle and owing to its buoyant character it will enable
an animal carrying the saddle to swim a river for example with the saddle on his back
as it will assist instead of impeding his swimming and in some cases render
unnecessary the use of boats to effect the transmission of the packs.
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 :-
:-
First In saddles a stuffing or filling of cork cuttings substantially as and fo
the purposes hereinbefore described.
Second-In saddles a stuffing or filling of cork cuttings protected by a water-
proof covering substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
Dated this 27th day of July 1888.
HUGH ROBERT STEWART.