CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS TO A BRIDLE OR BITTS FOR BRIDLES USED IN DRIVING OR RIDING HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LUKE
HOPKINSON, of Holborn, in the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Coach and Harness Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of May, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said Luke Hopkinson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His special licence, full power and authority, that I, the said
Luke Hopkinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, during the term of years
therein mentioned, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS TO
A BRIDLE OR BITTS FOR BRIDLES USED IN DRIVING OR RIDING HORSES OR OTHER
ANIMALS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Luke Hopkinson, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Luke Hopkinson, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in

page_text: the Drawings hereunto annexed, and in the following description thereof, that
is to say:-
First, that the bitt or bitts may be made of iron or steel, and the mouth
part may be made to any convenient or approved pattern or size, and the
cheek part of the bitt may be either made with a sett-off elbow or straight,
as may be most convenient. The upper part of the check A is made separate
from the lower part-B, and attached thereunto by a rivet, screw, or other
secure fastening, so as to admit of it moving backward; and forward, and
which motion is corrected by a spring C, made either in shape as in the
annexed Drawing, or in any other convenient form. On the edge of the
lower part of the cheek A is a notch D, which is received upon a cog E,
which cog is securely placed upon the lower cheek, and is there placed to
form a stop to the action of the cheek A; the lower part of the cheek B is
made straight, but inclining forward at bottom, and the ring, loop, or dee to
which the reign is applied, is made to clip the cheek B, so as to traverso
freely from the top to the bottom; or the ring for the rein may be securely
fixed at bottom of the cheek B, if most convenient. The curb is attached
to the cheek A in the usual manner, and requires when in use to be put on
perfectly tight, so that by holding, the rein tight when the animal is required
to be stopt, it will not act suddenly severe, but will operate in proportion to
the resistance made in consequence of the upper part of the cheek A being
loose, as above stated; the bitt is again thrown into its original position when
the rein is slackened by means of the spring C, and the curb no longer
presses on the animal...
TUID TA ZZINGON