Improvements in or relating to Vehicles for the Detachment of Runaway Horses.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 1st Feb., 1889
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Improvements in or relating to Vehicles for the Detachment of
Runaway Horses.
We THÉODORE MAURY and ELIE ROUBINET both of Terrasson in the Republic of
Franco Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved system for enabling of the detachment from
a vehicle of runaway horses. If the vehicle is drawn by one horse the pins or bolts
connecting the shafts to the fore carriages are combined with levers adapted to draw
out said pins or bolts. The levers are controlled by metal wires, rods or chains passing
over the pintle of the fore carriage and guided over suitable pulleys to a band lover for
operation by the driver.
By guiding the said wire or the like centrally over the fore carriage, the saine is
not drawn or loosened by the turning of the carriage.
con-
In pair horse vehicles the head of the pole is made detachable and
nected to the pole by a bolt, the traces are connected to or by displaceable bolts. The
hand lever is so connected by lever and rod or wire combinations that when pulled it
simultaneously detaches all said bolts.
1000
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Vehicles for the Detachment of
Runaway Horses.
We THEODORE MAURY and ELLE ROUBINET both of Terrasson in the Republic of
France, 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:-
This invention relates to the attachment of horses to carriages and other vehicles
and consists in certain improved mechanism whereby runaway horses may be imme-
diately and easily detached.
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If the vehicle is drawn by one horse the pins or bolts connecting the shafts to
the fore carriage are combined with levers adapted to draw out said pins or bolts,
said levers being controlled by metal wires, rods or chains or other suitable like
devices passing over the pintle of the fore carriage and guided over suitable pulleys
to a hand lever for operation by the driver.
By guiding the wire or the like centrally over with regard to the axis of the fore
carriage the same is not drawn or loosened by the turning of the carriage.
In pair horse vehicles the head of the pole is made detachable and fastened to the
pole by a bolt, the traces are connected to or by displaceable bolts and the hand lever
is so connected by suitable means to all these bolts that when moved it simultaneously
detaches the pole head and traces by withdrawing said bolts.
Reference being made to the accompanying drawings; Fig. 1 is a sectional side
elevation of part of a single horse carriage fitted with the improved mechanism.
Fig. 2 is a plan thereof with upper part removed. Fig. 3 is a plan and Fig. 4 a side
clevation of a pole and bar for two horse vehicles. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views
of parts.
Lis the hand lever pivoted suitably near to the driver and held in normal position
by spring I. The lower end of the lever is connected by a wire or like means O
branching into two at II with the bell crank levers C, S. The pin K on the arm S
engages in a slot in the head of the bolt u which fastens the shaft in its socket said
slot being for the purpose of allowing play to the pin K when revolving the lever C S
about its pivot.
The nose a prevents the lever from being moved too far. The springs Q tend to
bold the bell crank lever C S so that the bolt u is engaged by engaging at one end
with the stationary holder and at the other with the hub of the lever S.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the head J is fastened on the pole by bolt u adapted to be
withdrawn by bell crank lever S the same as above described, -one arm of said-
._lever. being connected to a rod or the like a attached to one arm of the lever P
pivoted in a standard M fastened to the pole. The lever P is connected with lever
to the end of which is fastened the wire or the like a passing to the hand lever for

page_text: the driver. The other arm of the lever P is connected to a rod or the like a' ter-
minating in a slot in which engage pins on the bell crank levers S governing the
sliding rods M guided in the bar and carrying bolts forming fastenings for the
blocks I to which the traces are fastened.
By drawing the wire the lever P is oscillated on its pivot and the pole head and
traces are simultaneously released.
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
1. In a vehicle the combination with the shaft of bolts u levers C S and wire or
equivalent passing through the line of the rotary axis of the fore carriage sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination with a pole and bar of a detachable head J
and lever S thereto lever Pa levers S¹ and rods M substantially as
set forth.
to said pole, bolt u
and for the purpose