IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS SADDLES OR COLLAR PADS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue of the firm of Tongue and Birkbeck
Patent Agents and Engineers of 34, Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS
SADDLES OR COLLAR PADS Communicated to him from abroad by Dexter
Curtis of Madison Wisconsin United States of America
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st February 1883.
"
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck Patent Agents
and Engineers of 34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS SADDLES OR COLLAR PADS" A Com-
munication to me from abroad by Dexter Curtis of Madison Wisconsin United
States of America
Heretofore horse-collar pads have usually been constructed either entirely of
metal or entirely of leather, or of leather having an arched piece of metal applied
to the outside of its top or crown. The pad constructed entirely of metal has
the advantage of presenting a smooth, firm, cool surface to the neck of the animal,
and of being sufficiently stiff at the crown of the arch to prevent it from bending
and pinching the animal; and moreover, being made preferably of zinc, it has
curative or remedial properties which prevent the galling of the animal or operate
to cure galls produced by other pads; but because of the inflexibility of the sides
of this pad, if they, from any cause, become bent, they remain in their bent
position, being in this respect inferior to the leather pads. The leather pad has
the quality of lightness and flexibility at the sides, but is inferior to the metal pad,
in that it does not present the cool, smooth, nonabsorbent surface of the latter, and,
further, because it lacks the necessary stiffness at the arch or crown, but at that
point pinches the animal's neck. This latter objection is in a measure cured in
the pad of the third class mentioned, wherein the arch or crown is stiffened
somewhat by an externally applied metal strap; but in this form of pad the surface
of the leather bears directly on the animal's neck and the pad has not the cool,

page_text: smooth, remedial bearing of the pad made wholly of metal. Observing the defects
and advantages of these several kinds of pads, the inventor has succeeded in
producing a pad combining the advantages of all of them without the defects of
any. This is accomplished by forming the body of the pad of thick leather, and
applying to the inside of the arch thereof a metal bearing plate of sufficient width
to span the width of the animal's neck and give the requisite stiffness to the pad
at that point and a cool, smooth bearing, but not wide enough to take from the
leather sides of the pad their proper degree of flexibility
The body of the pad is advantageously formed of heavy leather a strip of metal
(advantageously zinc) of about 2 inches in width being applied to the inner arched
portion and secured by rivets at the corners.
The strip of zinc is advantageously pressed into the body of the leather flush
with the surface of the latter, so as to form a smooth joint all around. Thus
formed, the pad is cheaply constructed, is light, strong at the top, with a cool,
smooth, remedial bearing for the neck of the animal, and leather sides of the
required flexibility.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th August 1883.
⚫ JOHN GARRETT TONGUE of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck Patent Agents
and Engineers of 34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS SADDLES OR COLLAR PADS" A com-
munication to me from abroad by Dexter Curtis. of Madison Wisconsin United
States of America
The following is a full clear and exact description
pad reference being had to the accompanying drawings.
this improved horse collar
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the collar pad constructed in accordance
with this Invention.
Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line of Figure 1.
Similar letters of reference refer to corresponding parts.
Heretofore borse collar pads have usually been constructed either entirely of
metal or entirely of leather, or of leather having an arched piece of metal applied to
the outside of its top or crown. The pad constructed entirely of metal has the
advantage of presenting a smooth, firm, cool surface to the neck of the,animal, and
of being sufficiently stiff at the crown of the arch to prevent it from bending and
pinching the animal; and moreover, being made preferably of zinc, it has curative
or remedial properties which prevent the galling of the animal or operate to cure
galls produced by other pads; but because of the inflexibility of the sides of this
pad, if they, from any cause, become bent, they remain in their bent position, being
in this respect inferior to the leather pads. The leather pad has the quality of
lightness and flexibility at the sides, but is inferior to the metal pad, in that it
does not present the cool, smooth, nonabsorbent surface of the latter, and further,
because it lacks the necessary stiffness at the arch or crown, but at that point
pinches the animal's neck. This latter objection is in a measure cured in the pad
of the third class mentioned, wherein the arch or crown is stiffened somewhat by
an externally applied metal strap; but in this form of pad. the surface of the
leather bears directly on the animal's neck and the pad has not the cool, smooth,
remedial bearing of the pad made wholly of metal. Observing the defects and
advantages of these several kinds of pads, the inventor has succeeded in producing
a pad combining the advantages of all of them without the defects of any.
is accomplished by forming the body of the pad of thick leather, and applying to
the inside of the arch thereof a metal bearing plate of sufficient width to span the
width of the animal's neck and give the requisite stiffness to the pad at that point
and a cool, smooth bearing, but not wide enough to take from the leather sides of
the pad their proper degree of flexibility
This
The body of the pad A is advantageously formed of heavy leather a strip of
metal B (advantageously zinc) of about 2 inches in width being applied to the
inner arched portion and secured by rivets D at the corners.
The strip of zinc is advantageously pressed into the body of the leather flush
with the surface of the latter, so as to form a smooth joint all around. Thus formed,
the pad is cheaply constructed, is light, strong at the top, with a cool, smooth,
remedial bearing for the neck of the animal, and leather sides of the required
flexibility.
Having thus described the nature of the invention communicated to me from
abroad I would remark that no claim is made to any of the parts separately

page_text: which are well known and in common use But what I claim on behalf of the said
Dexter Curtis is—
First. An improved horse collar pad consisting of a curved body of leather or
other like flexible material and a narrow metal bearing plate applied and secured
to the under side of the top or arch substantially in the manner and for the purpose
herein before described and represented in the drawings annexed.
Second. An improved horse collar pad consisting of a curved body of leather or
other like flexible material and a narrow metal bearing plate advantageously zinc
pressed into the under side of the top or arch flush with the surface of the leather
substantially as herein before described and represented in the drawings annexed.
In witness whereof I the said John Garrett Tongue have hereunto set my hand
and seal this eighteenth day of August in the year of our. Lord Oue thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
TATY 2 MANATTANA
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