IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS FOR DRAFT AND SADDLE HORSES
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
STEDMAN GILLETT, of Guildford Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of February, in the seventh year of His reign,
. did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Stedman Gillett, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said William Stedman Gillett, my exors, adññors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Stedman Gillett, my exors,
adiñors, or assigns,, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and. the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HARNESS FOR DRAFT AND SADDLE HORSES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that I, the said William Stedman Gillett, shall 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 said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Stedman Gillett, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):
My improvements relate, first, to the mode of connecting the traces to the
collar, and to the carriage. Secondly, to an apparatus for causing a horse to
stand quiet, and also to prevent its running away.
Figure 1 shows a horse harnessed according to my Invention.
a, one of the
traces, which is attached to the collar at a higher position than usual, by which
I am enabled to obtain a more central draft on the collar. In order to
accomplish this object, the traces must not proceed directly to the carriage, but
they must be drawn out of the straight line by means of a strap passing
under the horse, as shown at b, such strap being padded; and I prefer that it
should contain a bent steel spring. To the strap b are attached the straps of
the saddle, and by this means the strap 6 becomes also the ordinary belly
band. The traces are each made of two parts, one part which proceeds
from the band 6 to the collar, and the other part proceeding from the band b
to the carriage, as is shown in the Drawing.
Figure 2 shows the application of my second improvement; it consists of a
small head strap d, d, having at each end a chain attached, which passes
through the upper end of the hooks e, which are put into the sides of the
horse's mouth, as is shewn in the Drawing. Each hook e has an eye through
which the chain passes freely, and is connected at each end to the rein g.. If
the horse is restive, or attempts to run away, the driver or rider will check the
rein, by which the hooks will be drawn upwards and drag up the mouth, and
cause the horse to be checked, and it will quickly become quiet.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim as my Invention is,-
First, the mode of applying the strap to the traces between the connection
of the traces with the collar and their attachment to the carriage, by which I
am enabled to obtain a more equable draft on the collar, as above described.
And, secondly, I claim the application of the hooks e, e, and parts connected
therewith, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Stedman Gillett, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
W. S. GILLETT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid William Stedman Gillett came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.