AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE OF MAKING SADDLES, SO AS TO AVOID THE DANGER AND INCONVENIENCE OCCASIONED BY THEIR SLIPPING FORWARD
Year: 1830

page_text: CALVERT, of the City of Lincoln, Gentleman, send greeting.
COME, I, FIENRY
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the first year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Calvert, His especial licence that I, the said Henry Calvert, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Calvert, my exors,
admors, 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, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE OF
MAKING SADDLES, SO AS TO AVOID THE DANGER AND INCONVENIENCE OCCASIONED
BY THEIR SLIPPING FORWARD;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Henry Calvert, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to
cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Calvert, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist
in the introduction of a spring in making up a saddle, to which the forward
girth is fastened in such manner as to prevent the saddle getting too forward
on the withers of the horse; and, in further compliance with the said proviso,
I, the said Henry Calvert, do hereby describe the manner in which my said
Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof, and by
reference to the Drawing annexed, and the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say
In making up a saddle, and before it is what is technically called drawn on, 1
I fix a spring or elastic plate to the end of each saddle-tree point, projecting
in a curved line a little before the tree point, and descending below it, to which
the forward girth is drawn up.
Figure 1 represents a saddle in an unfinished state, placed on a horse. A is
one of the saddle-tree points; B is the spring or clastic plate; Cis the forward
girth; D is the pannel; and E is the point of the horse's shoulder. By this
mode of making saddles, with the spring or elastic plate aforesaid, it will be
seen that when the girth C is forced close up to the arms of the foro legs, still
the saddle will remain off the points of the shoulder of the horse.
Figure 2 represents a saddle in a finished state, placed on a horse, shewing
how much more forward the girths lie, with reference to the saddle, than
in saddles made in the ordinary manner. It is only necessary further to state,
that the spring should incline in a slight curve inwards towards the horse, so
as to cause a slight pressure under it, which assists greatly in keeping the
saddle to its place.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the introduction of the spring or
clastic plate aforesaid in making saddles, and such my Invention being, to the
best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used within
that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon- s
Tweed, nor in any of His said Majesty's Colonies or Plantations abroad, I do
hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily
believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and
without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain s
exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Calvert, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
S
HENRY (L.S.) CALVERT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord 1830, the aforesaid Henry Calvert came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
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 Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty.