IMPROVE- MENTS IN HORSE GIRTHS AND ROLLER BANDS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Charles Odell Elastic Web Manufacturer of the
City of Coventry in the County of Warwick for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE GIRTHS AND ROLLER BANDS""..
C.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Charles.Odell at. the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th July 1883.
JOSEPH CHARLES ODELL Elastic Web Manufacturer of the City of Coventry
in the County of Warwick. "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE GIRTHS AND ROLLER
BANDS"
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This Invention has for its object improvements in horse girths and roller bands.
In the manufacture of horse girths and roller bands I introduce india rubber.
threads.
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The india rubber threads are worked as warp at nearly full tension and are raised
or lowered over and under the shuttle thread or weft.
The difference between the modes of working the rubber threads and the:
ordinary warp threads is that in nearly all cases all the rubber threads of
the fabric are raised and lowered together and not as in ordinary warp threads
being made to divide and move separately allowing the weft thread to pass
between them. The rubber is therefore either all above or all below the weft
thread the object being to cover up the rubber as much as possible with the other
warp threads and the weft to preserve it from injury and improve the appearance.
of the fabric woven.
The advantages are with horse girths that the saddle will still be held firm
when the body of the horse has contracted by the digestion of his food during a
days work and also that these girths will allow extra expansion of the lungs of the
horse when galloping instead of being a rigid band round him
The advantage of an elastic roller band is that while it may be fastened round
the horse sufficiently tight to keep the cloths in place it will stretch when he
strains it in lying down or rising when ordinary bands frequently break.
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The elastic "girth" or "roller band" may be woven in any style, of girth,
weaving or boot elastic web weaving.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Charles Odell in the Patent Office on the 4th January
1884.
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JOSEPH CHARLES ODELL Elastic Web Manufacturer of the City of Coventry
in the County of Warwick "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE GIRTHS AND ROLLER
BANDS"
This Invention has for its object improvements in horse girths and roller bands.
In the manufacture of horse girths and roller bands I introduce india rubber
threads.
The india rubber threads are worked as warp at nearly full tension and are
raised or lowered over and under the shuttle thread or weft.
The difference between the modes of working the rubber threads and the
ordinary warp threads is that in nearly all cases all the rubber threads of the
fabric are raised and lowered together and not as in ordinary warp threads being
made to divide and move separately allowing the weft thread to pass between
them. The rubber is therefore either all above or all below the weft thread the
object being to cover up the rubber as much as possible with the other warp
threads and the weft to preserve it from injury and improve the appearance of the
fabric woven.
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The advantages are with horse girths that the saddle will still be held firm
when the body of the horse has contracted by the digestion of his food during a
days work and also that these girths will allow extra expansion of the lungs of the
horse when galloping instead of being a rigid band round him.
The advantage of an elastic roller band is that while it may be fastened round
the horse sufficiently tight to keep the cloths in place it will stretch when he strains
it in lying down or rising when ordinary bands frequently break.
The elastic "girth" or "roller band" may be woven in any style of girth
weaving or boot elastic web weaving.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 represents a horse girth, the part aa according to my invention consists
of stout elastic fabric and b b are the buckles by which the girth is attached to the
saddle or harness.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal section of the elastic fabric which I employ,
the several warp threads which it contains are shewn by distinctive lines and an
explanation of these is given upon the face of the Drawing. The weft threads
which are cut through in the section are indicated by small circles. Figure 3 is a
diagram to illustrate the method of weaving, in this diagram each description of
warp or each leaf of the heddles has its separate line. The diagram is to be read
from left to right the first vertical line of squares corresponding to the shed
opened to receive first pick and the marks on these squares indicating the

page_text: heddles, which are raised. Similarly the second vertical line of squares indicates
the position of the heddles when the second pick of weft is laid in and so on.
The mode of weaving may however be varied.
What I claim is :-
First, My improvements in horse girths and roller bands consisting in the
employment therein of elastic web as herein described.
Second. My method of manufacturing horse girths and roller bands as herein
described.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Charles Odell have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty fourth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
JOSEPH CHARLES ODELL (L.S.)