A New or Improved Horse Collar.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Horse Collar.
I, ROBERT LOVELY of 14 Wellington Street Ballymena, County Antrim,
Ireland, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:--
This invention relates to a new or improved horse collar and consists of a metal
frame or hames or rib jointed on top and placed saddle-ways on the horse's neck
and fastened at the bottom by a strap, chain, or clasp; the metal being hollow or
solid, or part hollow and part solid and curved to the natural curves of the horse's
neck and shoulders or nearly so.
There is no all round stuffing, the only stuffing consisting of three pads, one
saddle pad at top upon which the hames or rib rests, and two traction pads, one for
each shoulder. The traction pads can be adjusted up or down (within limits) to
suit the best points of traction of the horse's shoulders, and they move horizontally
(within limits) to suit the curves of the horse's neck and shoulders. The up and
down movement of these pads is effected by the attendant on the horse; the
horizontal movement by the horse when in motion. The saddle pad moves at top
latterally to suit the curve at the top of the horse's neck. The motions of the pads
are effected by swivel and slide rings, pivots, and slides, or other analogous
manner.
The tugs are of thin metal and hook on the traction pads, and have a spring.
catch to prevent them becoming unhooked unless by the attendant. In the case of
leading horses the tugs have two branch hooks, one for the wheeler's collar, the
other for the leader's trace.
To secure the collar in its place provision is made to fasten the collar at top by
a strap to the straddle, and at the bottom by a martingale to the belly-strap.
The ball on the joint unscrews and can be substituted by other ornaments or at
night by a bull's-eye light.
The pads can be put together either by rivets, or by sewing, or other suitable..
means.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Horse Collar.
I, ROBERT LOVELY, of 14 Wellington Street, Ballymena, County Antrim,
Ireland, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved horse collar, and consists of a metal.
frame or hames or rib jointed on top and placed saddle-ways on the horse's neck
and fastened at the bottom by a strap, chain, or clasp; the metal being hollow or:
solid or part hollow and part solid and curved to the natural curves of the horse's.
neck and shoulders or nearly so.
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There is no all round stuffing, the only stuffing consisting of three pads one
saddle pad at top upon which the hames or rib rests, and two traction pads,.
cach shoulder. The traction pads can be adjusted up or down (within limits) to
suit the best points of traction of the horse's shoulders, and they move horizontally

page_text: (within limits) to suit the curves of the horse's neck and shoulders. The up and
down movement of these pads is effected by the attendant on the horse, the
horizontal movement by the horse when in motion. The saddle pad moves at top
latterally to suit the curve at the top of the horse's neck. The motions of the pads
are effected by swivel and slide rings, pivots, and slides, or other analogous
manner.
The tugs are of thin metal and hook on the traction pads and have a spring
catch to prevent them becoming unhooked unless by the attendant. In the case of
leading horses the tugs have two brauch hooks, one for the wheeler's collar, the
other for the leader's trace.
To secure the collar in its place provision is made to fasten the collar at top by
a strap to the straddle, and at the bottom by a martingale to the belly-strap.
The ball on the joint unscrews and can be substituted by other ornaments or at
night by a bull's-eye light.
The pads can be put together either by rivets or by sewing or other suitable
means.
This collar varies from other collars as the foundation of it is metal to which the
leather work is supplementary. In other collars the leather work is fundamental,
the metal work (the hames) being supplementary only to strengthen the leather
and connect it with the traces.
My invention is illustrated on the accompanying sheets of drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents a complete collar, and the other figures are details of the
parts.
The new collar is formed of two ribs, one on each side, to which the leather work
is attached. The ribs may be of hollow metal, solid metal, or part hollow and part
solid. Part hollow and part solid is shown on the drawings.
The leather work consists of three pads, one A at the top on which the metal
work rests, and the whole placed in a permanent position on the horse's neck.
This pad I call the saddle pad, the other two pads B and C, which I name traction
pads are placed one on each side for the horse to pull by.
The ribs D have one joint or two joints. In the case of one joint it is placed on
the top as shown at E, Figure 1; in the case of two joints one joint is placed at
each side near the middle of the rib as shown at E E, Figures 2 and 3. Both
class of ribs open at their respective joints and are placed on the horse's neck like
a saddle. In the case of hollow or tubular ribs with lighter sections above, the
light sections screw into the heavier ones below, and the joints are strengthened by
collars, or where part hollow and part solid the solid parts (which are of less
thickness than the tubes externally) screw into the tubes and the joints strengthened
by collars. In the case of solid metal all through they consist of one piece except
at the joints where they screw into sockets which form then a part of the joints for
them. The ribs are curved approximately to the natural curves of the horse's
neck, and are secured at bottom below the horse's breast by a strap, chain, or metal
coupling.
The saddle pad is secured at bottom by pivots F, F, connected with rings G on
the ribs, and in the case of one-jointed collars the rings slide on the ribs to allow
the pad to move at the bottom up or down on the opening or closing of the ribs.
To these rings are attached the rein-rings H H. The top of the pad is connected
with a slide 1, Figure 1, and in this slide a segmental round piece of metal J,
Figures 1 and 1 moves and passes through a hole in each rib. This allows the
saddle pad to move to a certain extent backwards and forwards at the top, while
at bottom it moves on the pivots. The piece passing through the ribs is segmented
to allow the ribs to move up and down on it, and in the case of the one-joint collar
to allow the ribs to open and close. The balls at end of segment may be
ornamental, and are provided to restrict the opening of the ribs.
The traction pads B and C are secured to the ribs by swivel rings K K which
move up and down on the ribs. To these rings are attached arms which are
fastened through the face leather of the pads to a skeleton iron frame. The

page_text: padding is secured to the face leather by rivets as shown on drawing, but stitching
may be used if desired. The padding of the saddle pads is secured likewise. The
traction pads can be moved up or down to suit the horse's shoulder, (to a certain
extent), the swivel rings sliding on the ribs D as shown at Figure 2A. The pads
have also a certain extent of lateral motion due to the motion of the swivel rings
on the pivot as shown at Fig. 4.
The joints are composed of a series of flanges, the spindle passing through them
being hollow with a solid head in front and at back; in the case of the top joint a
nut that screws into them with a runner for a strap to fasten collar back to the
straddle, Figure 14, but the runner is absent in the side joints. A provision for a
top runner is made for the two-joint collar, Figure 3. The bottom of the collar is
secured to the belly-strap of the straddles by a martingale. The joints are grooved
outside for lightness and appearance. The joints for both collars are alike except
that the top joint has arms and the bottom joint none. The two joints also are a
little smaller than the one joint.
The tugs L are of thin metal of the form shown in drawings. They are of two
sorts, one where wheel horses only are used, the other where leaders are used, as
in tandems etc.). The latter has two forked hooks, one for wheeler, and one for
leader, and the hooks have springs (steel) to prevent unhooking. The coupling of
the two ribs at the bottom may be of leather as shown in Figure 1, or of metal as
shown in Figure 1B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner, the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The horse collar consisting of metal ribs, a saddle pad and two traction pads
constructed substantially as described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
2. The use of hollow tubes in the construction of the ribs.
3. The application of metal in the formation of the tugs constructed as described
and illustrated on the accompanying sheets of drawings and as being applicable to '
use in all forms of collars where leather traces are used.
Dated this 15th day of July 1893.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.