An Improvement connected with Shafts of Road Vehicles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Shafts of Road Vehicles.
I, ALFRED TAYLOR Junior, of 38 Princes Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, Carriage
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a side stop and plate affixable to the shaft of a road
vehicle, the side stop being adjustable to suit horses of different lengths of bodies
or varying positions of a harness saddle on a horse.
According to the present system, the side stop is affixed immovably on the side
of a shaft by an extension from either end of the stub, the stop and extensions
being in one article secured to the shaft by screws. This plan is often at a
disadvantage where horses are changed from time to time, the differences in the
length of horses bodies or the position at which the harness saddle is carried
making the turnout unsightly, and in many cases setting the saddle straps at an
angle as if being drawn backwardly from the pommel socket or slip.
Now according to my invention, I make the stop carrier plate and the stop
separately from each other, and so shape the plate which is fixable to a shaft by
screws that the stop can be slid along it, and be temporarily set by a spring
pin engaging in one or other of a series of holes made in the plate for that
purpose.
The plate has a flat under surface with the edges chamfered or undercut, and
the stop has lips to engage in said undercuts, the base of the stop is shaped to the
curve or form of the exposed part of the plate and has a tail piece bearing on the
plate to offer resistance to a pull over strain of the saddle tug. The stop is hollow
and has a spring pin within it the head being exposed to enable the pin to be
withdrawn from a hole in the plate to be slid along for engagement in a fresh hole
when desired.
Dand his 10.1.
1005
H.
GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Taylor, Junior.
I, ALFRED TAYLOR Junior, of 38 Princes Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, Carriage
Builder, 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 :-
This invention relates to a side stop and plate affixable to the shaft of a road
vehicle, the side stop being adjustable to suit horses of different lengths of bodies
or varying positions of a harness saddle on a horse.
According to the present system, the side stop is affixed immovably on the side
of a shaft by an extension from either end of the stub, the stop and extensions
being in one article secured to the shaft by screws. This plan is often at a
disadvantage where borses are changed from time to time, the differences in the
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page_text: length of horses bodies or the position at which the harness saddle is carried,
making the turnout unsightly and in many cases setting the saddle straps at an
angle as if being drawn backwardly from the pommel socket or slip.
Now according to my invention which I show on the annexed sheet of drawings,
I make the stop carrier plate A and the stop B separately from each other, and so
shape the plate A which is fixable to a shaft C by screws D, D, that the stop B
can be slid along it, and be temporarily set more or less forward or backward by a
spring pin E engaging in one or other of a series of holes F, F, made in the plate A
for that purpose.
The plate has a flat under surface with the edges chamfered or undercut, and
the stop B has lips G, G, to engage in said undercuts. The base of the stop is
shaped to the curve or form of the exposed part of the plate A and has a tail
piece H bearing on the plate A to offer resistance to a pull over strain by the
saddle tug. The stop B is hollow and the spring pin E is within it, the head I of
the pin E being exposed to enable the pin E to be withdrawn from a hole in the
plate A for the stop B to be slid along in order that the pin E may engage in a
fresh hole of the plate when desired.
Figure 1 represents so much of a shaft as is necessary to show my invention, and
with the plate and stop in section.
Figure 2 a transverse section of same.
Figure 3 an exterior elevation looking on the head of the pin and stop.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
As my improvement connected with shafts of road vehicles, the holed plate A,
adjustable stop B, with tail piece H, said stop B having a spring locking pin E
within it for engaging in either of the holes in plate A for temporarily fixing said
stop, as and for the purpose described.
The 19th day of December 1905.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Taylor, Junior.