AN IMPROVED ROLLER FOR HORSES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS.
COLEMAN, of St. Alban's, in the County of Herts, Training Groom, send
greeting.
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-ninth day of March, in the first year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, givo and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Coleman, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Thomas Coleman, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Coleman, my exors, adñors, 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 mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVED ROLLER FOR HORSES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that I, the said Thomas Coleman, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to bo 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 there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Coleman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):--

page_text: The roller for horses, as usually constructed, is a tight band employed to
keep the clothes worn in the stable by-young horses of the superior breeds for
racing, hunting, &c., in their places, but in consequence of such tightness the
-structure-of-the-chests of such horses becomes materially injured, the due play
of the muscles and ribs is thereby prevented, and horses so ill treated become
unfit for use at a much earlier period than would have been the case had they
not bad their chests so contracted by tight bandaging. Now, the object of
my_said improvement on rollers, for horses is to give them elasticity, in order
to afford that free play to the lungs so requisite to the healthly condition of
horses; and I hereby claim every means of producing such-elasticity in the
rollers. As, however, it is desirable to afford an example of a method of
producing such elasticity in rollers for horses, I shall proceed to do so by a
reference to and a description of the Figures contained in the Drawing, which,
as aforesaid, is annexed to this Specification, not thereby meaning or intending
to limit or confino myself; to the use or employment of that method only, but
to avail-myself, of every other mode by which the property of elasticity may
be given to the rollers for horses.
In the said Drawing, Fig. 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 an under view, of
that part of a roller which contains the springs, whereby the clasticity is pro-
duced in this roller. These springs are enclosed within the parts marked A, A,
in both Figures in the following manner:-Fig. 3 is an under view, and
Fig. 4 an edge view,, of a stout leather enclosure, formed of the piece of
leatlier B, B, upon which are secured by stitching or otherwise, in the usual
manner of collar and harness making, the thick middle pieces C, C, Fig. 3,
the side pieces D, D, and the end pieces E, E, which are shown by dotted
lines in one half of this Figure; four grooves are thus formed upon the piece
of leather B, B, within which said grooves four hardened and tempered steel
flat worm springs, similar to those shewn at F, F, in Figs. 3 and 5,-are to be
lodged, and each is to be furnished with leather straps G, G, &c., in the
following manner:-Fig. 6 is a single strap G, around one end of which the
narrow slip of leather H is passed, and secured by stitching. This slip of
leather H, when the strap G is drawn through the spring F, in the manner
shewn in Fig. 8, prevents it form being drawn, through the spring; the other
end of the strap G is then passed through a slit or gap I, which is made just
wide enough for the strap G to pass through it, but not wide enough to suffer
the spring F to pass, and which said spring has the coil of wire next to the
⚫ said. groove widened on each side, as shewn at J, J, in Figs. 3 and 5, and in
the end view of the spring, Fig. 7, so as more effectually to prevent it from
passing through the slit. I. When the four springs are thus lodged within
°

page_text: their grooves, and the straps G, G, G, G, are passed through the slits made in
the piece of leather B, B, the grooves are to covered over with two other
pieces of leather, one of which is shewn in Fig. 3, at K, and both are shewn
at K, K, in Fig. 4, and which are to be secured by stitching; the two ends of
the piece of leather B, B, are then to be turned over the ends of the two
enclosures B, B, as shewn by the dotted lines L, L, in Fig. 3, and in the edge
view, Fig. 4, and be likewise secured by stitching, and the enclosures with
their springs and straps are then ready to be applied to the middle part of the
webbing of the roller A, A, and to be secured thereto by stitching or other-
wise, the sides being also to be covered, and the underside to be padded or
stuffed in the usual manner, and as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. The other part
of the webbing of the roller M is then to be united with the middle part A
by the short straps G, G, Fig. 1, being stitched to one end of it, as shewn by
dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the longer straps G, G, Fig. 1, are to have holes
formed in them, in order to be attached to buckles affixed upon the other end
of the webbing M. N, N, Figs. 1 and 2, are rings affixed upon one side of
the middle part A of the roller, in order to affix the breast web O to it by
means of straps and buckles, and as shewn in Fig. 8, which is a view of both
webs drawn upon a smaller scale. In this state the springs, on being pulled
closer by means of the straps, resist, and thus afford the necessary elasticity to
the roller.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Coleman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand oight bundead end this