CERTAIN NEW AND IMPROVED METHODS OF MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING SADDLES AND SIDE SADDLES
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WYCHERLEY, of Whitchurch, in the County of Salop, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said George Wycherley did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
that I had, after much labour and expence, found out and invented "CERTAIN
NEW AND IMPROVED METHODS OF MAKING AND CONSTRUCTING SADDLES AND SIDE
SADDLES;" that I was, as I verily believe, the first and true Inventor thereof,
and that the same would be of great public utility, and had not been adopted
or used by any other person or persons whomsoever to my knowledge or
belief, I therefore most humbly prayed that His said Majesty would be
graciously pleased to grant unto me, my exors, admors, and assigns,
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom,
for the sole use, benefit and advantage of my said Invention, within England
and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years,
pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided; and His said
Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which
might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my
request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourth day of December, in the fifth year of His reign, of His
special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did, for Himself, His

page_text: heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Wycherley,
my exors, admors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said George Wycherley, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George
Wycherley, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, and His Dominions of Wales and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His said Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said George Wycherley, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretion
seem meet; and that I, the said George Wycherley, my exors, admors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said George Wycherly, my exors, admors, and assigns, for
and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete
and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said George
Wycherley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, then and in
that case the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in
and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Wycherley, in compliance with
the above recited proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and the following description thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: Firstly, my new and improved method of making and constructing saddles,
consists in an additional stuffed or padded före part made to the under side of
the pannel of the saddle with two straps and a girth to it, by means whereof
the saddle will remain steady upon the horse's back, and be effectually pre-
vented from slipping forwards, and thus to do without the aid of a crupper.
In the said Drawings, hereunto annexed, Figure 1 is a representation of the
under side of a saddle, and the part marked A, A, A, A, is the ordinary pannel,
and B, B, B, B, the additional or fore part of it, which is formed of the same
materials and at the same time with the ordinary pannel, and is joined across
to the pannel at C, C, in such a manner that it can be brought-down upon
the back part of the withers of the horse by means of the straps D, D, affixed
to it (as shown by the dotted lines) on the under side being brought through
holes made in the pannel, after which they are buckled to a girth as usual.
Figure 2 is a view of the front part of the saddle, shewing the same parts
indicated by similar letters of reference as in Figure 1, and E, E, is the
girth.
Secondly, my new and improved method of making and constructing side
saddles is as follows:-Figure 3, in the annexed Drawing, is a section of a sido
saddle, and Figure 4 therein represents the off side of it, with the flap and
skirt romoved. F, F, in Figure 8 is one of the girths, which is secured to the
saddle on each side by straps and buckles in the usual manner. G, G, in
Figure 4 are two other straps secured to the fore and hind parts of the saddle-
tree, and united with a ring H, to which ring another strap I is stitched, and
this strap is passed through a square J, with a roller upon it affixed to the
girth F; it is then turned up and secured by a buckle K upon it to a strap L
which strap L passes across or over the back of the horse through a guide
trough or channel M, Figure 8, furnished with one or more friction wheels or
rollers N, Ñ, to the near side of the saddle where it has a stirrup O affixed to
it. On the lady pressing down the stirrup with her foot the strap L pulls the
girth F tight, and thus keeps and secures the saddle firm and upright upon
the back of the horse.
Figure 5 of the said Drawings is a plan of a side saddle tree having the
guide trough M, with friction rollers N, N, affixed to it, and Figure 6 of the
said Drawings is a plan, and Figure 7 an elevation of another guide trough M,
with a single friction roller N in it and two springs P, P, one on each side of
it, which are intended to ease and facilitate the passage of the strap L over it.
Further, my said new and improved method of making and constructing
saddles in the manner firstly herein-before particularly described and illustrated
by the said Drawings hereunto annexed and referred to in and by the said

page_text: description, is also applicable to side saddles; and a side saddle made and con-
structed with an additional stuffed or padded fore part, in the way herein-
before directed and described in the case of saddles, will in like manner remain
steady upon the horse's back, and be prevented from slipping forwards without
the aid of a crupper.
In witness whereof, I, the sald George Wycherley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day June, in the sixth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Fourth, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and