Improvements in Apparatus or Means for Facilitating the Attaching and Detaching of Horses and other Animals to and from Vehicles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 17th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 18th Mar., 1887.
Improvements in Apparatus or Means for Facilitating the
Attaching and Detaching of Horses and other Animals to and
from Vehicles.
I, ALFRED JESSE BLEW of Fawley Lodge, Hythe near Southampton, Gentleman do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention to be as follows:—
My Invention relates to apparatus or means for attaching and detaching horses and
other animals to and from carriages and other vehicles provided with a pole, and is
intended more particularly to be employed in combination with apparatus for releasing
traces from vehicles for which I have obtained provisional protection dated
2nd September 1885 No. 10407 but which may be employed in combination with other
means for attaching and detaching traces to and from vehicles.
My present Invention consists in providing the end of the pole of a vehicle with
two roller bolts or studs for the attachment of the pole chains or straps into which
stud loops on the said chains or straps are placed, a hinged or swinging plate being
also provided so as to be capable of being turned on its hinge or centre so as to be
brought opposite and in contact with the ends of the roller bolts or studs for the
purpose of retaining the pole straps or chains thereon and of being turned from the
said roller bolts or studs so as to release either one or both of the said pole chains or
straps when it is desired to detach one or both of the horses in connection therewith
from the vehicle. The hinged or swinging plate the chains or straps from being
be locked in position opposite
the ends of the roller bolts or studs so as to prevent
accidentally detached by means of a bolt or pin passed through the pole into a notch
or recess in the plate or by means of levers centered to the pole and extending down
both sides thereof so as to embrace the opposite sides or edges of the plate and thus
prevent it from being moved out of position but which bolt or levers may be readily
raised or moved out of position when it is required to detach the pole straps or chains.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for Alfred Jesse Blew.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in
Apparatus or
Means for Facilitating the
Attaching and Detaching of Horses and other Animals to and
from Vehicles.
1, ALFRED JESSE BLEW of Fawley Lodge Hythe near Southampton, Gentleman 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:-
My Invention relates to apparatus or means for attaching and detaching horses and
other animals to and from carriages and other vehicles provided with a pole and is
intended more particularly to be employed in combination with apparatus for releasing
traces from vehicles for which I have obtained Letters Patent dated September 2nd 1885
No. 10407 but which may be employed alone or in combination with other means for
attaching and detaching traces to and from vehicles.
My present invention consists in providing the end of the pole of a vehicle with
two roller bolts or studs for the attachment of the pole chains or straps, onto which
roller bolts or studs, loops in the said chains or straps are placed a hinged or swinging
plate being also provided capable of being turned on its hinge or centre so as to be
brought opposite to or in contact with the ends of the roller bolts or studs for the
purpose of retaining the pole straps or chains thereon and of being turned from the
said roller bolts or studs so as to release either one or both of the said pole chains or
straps when it is desired to detach from the vehicle one or both of the horses connected
therewith. The hinged or swinging plate may be locked in position opposite the ends
of the roller bolts or studs so as to prevent the chains or straps from being accidentally
detached, by means of a bolt or pin passed through the pole into a notch or recess in
the plate or by means of a lever or levers centered to the pole and extending down
both sides thereof so as to embrace the opposite sides or edges of the plate and thus
prevent it from being moved out of position but which bolt or levers may be readily
raised or moved out of position when it is required to attach or to detach the pole
straps or chains.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation the end portion
of a carriage pole provided with my improvements and Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views illustrating a modification.
A is a metal plate secured to the top surface of the pole B and provided with two
roller bolts or studs C arranged one on each side of the pole, on which roller bolts or
studs are placed the loops of the pole straps or chains. A plate D is fitted to turn
beneath the pole on a stud or bolt E so as to be capable of being readily turned into
the position shewn in full lines in Figures 2 and 4 so as to cover the ends of the roller
bolts or studs to retain thereon the loops of the pole chains or straps, or into the
position shewn by the dotted lines in the said Figures 2 and 4 for the purpose of
attaching the pole chains or straps to the roller bolts or studs C or for readily releasing
them therefrom when required. To prevent the chains or straps being accidentally

page_text: detached from the stud C the swinging plate D may be secured in position over the
ends thereof by any suitable means, for example by a bolt F passing through the
pole B and entering a hole or recess provided for its reception in the plate D as shewn
in Figures 3 and 4. Or as I prefer and as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of my
drawings the said plate may be locked in position by means of a double armed or
forked lever F fitted to turn on a centre G, the arms of the said lever when turned
into the position for securing the plate in position as shewn in Figure 1 engaging the
sides or edges of the said plate and thereby preventing it moving laterally in either
direction. To release the pole chains or straps from the roller bolts C the lever F
Figures 1 and 2 or the bolt F Figures 3 and 4 as the case may be is turned on its
centre or raised into the position shewn by dotted lines in Figure 1 and Figure 3 so
as to bring the arms for the bolt F out of engagement with the plate D which may
then be turned on its centre either to the right or to the left and thus admit of either
one or both (as required) of the pole chains or straps slipping off the roller bolts or
studs C and thereby release the horse or horses.or other animals from the vehicle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
First In apparatus for facilitating the attaching and detaching of horses or other
animals to and from vehicles the combination of the roller bolts or studs C and
swinging or hinged plate D arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for
the purpose herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Second-The combination with the roller bolts or studs C and swinging or hinged
plate D of means for locking the said plate in position over or opposite the ends of the
said roller bolts or studs substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Third The combination with the roller bolts or studs C and swinging plate D
of the double armed or forked locking lever F or bolt F the whole being constructed
and arranged to operate substantially in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent.