AN IMPROVE- MENT IN BLINKERS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Alfred Elliott, of Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN BLINKERS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 10th April 1866, and dated the 14th October 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Alfred Elliott at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th October 1865.
I, CHARLES ALFRED ELLIOTT, of Kensington, in the County of Middle-
sex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN BLINKERS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the construction of transparent blinkers or
open blinkers, by combining with the ordinary blinker glass, talc, or other
like transparent material, or by removing a part from an ordinary blinker.
I form or leave a space in the body of an ordinary blinker and set therein,
by preference in a frame, the rim of which projects on the outside, a plate
of glass; or I leave the space without any filling.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Alfred Elliott in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ALFRED ELLIOTT, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant 'unto me, the said Charles Alfred Elliott, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Alfred Elliott, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Alfred Elliott, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kindom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an. Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN BLINKERS FOR HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Alfred Elliott, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and .imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Alfred Elliott, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the construction of transparent blinkers or open
blinkers, by combining with the ordinary blinker glass, talc, or other like
transparent material, or by removing a part from an ordinary blinker. I
form or leave a space in the body of an ordinary blinker, and set therein,
by preference in a frame, the rim of which projects on the outside, a plate
of glass; or I leave the space without any filling.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view of a blinker con-

page_text: structed according to my improvement, and Figure 2 is a vertical section
of the same.
A is the blinker, which is formed of two thicknesses of leather stitched
together in the usual way; B is a circular or other shaped aperture which
is cut in the centre of the blinker; C is a piece of glass fitted into the
aperture B. The glass may be slightly recessed in the leather which
forms a frame around it, or the glass may be fitted into a frame of metal D,
as shown in the Figures, and fixed in the aperture of the blinker, so that the
rim of the frame projects outside the aperture and forms an ornamental
finish thereto. In some cases talc or other like transparent material may
be advantageously substituted for the glass where a greater degree of
strength and toughness is required. The glass or talc, when the frame D
is not used, is secured between the two pieces of leather, and the blinker
is finished by stitching in the usual manner. In lieu of fixing glass or talc
in the blinker the aperture may be left entirely open where it is preferred
to dispense with the use of these materials.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
transparent blinkers or open blinkers for horses and other animals substan-
tially in the manner herein-before described and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Alfred Elliott, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.
CHARLES ALFRED ELLIOTT. (L.S.)