Improvements in Hobbles for Casting Horses and other Animals, parts of which are applicable to Slings, Bandages, and other Veterinary Articles.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hobbles for Casting Horses and other Animals,
parts of which are applicable to Slings, Bandages, and other
Veterinary Articles.
1, JAMES ARNOLD of the firm of Arnold and Sons, of West Smithfield in the
City and County of London, Surgical Instrument Makers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The primary object of this invention is to facilitate the means heretofore employed
for securing and disengaging hobbies for horses and other animals and at the same
time to make the hobble straps themselves more suitable for the purpose than those
beretofore made, also to dispense with buckles while increasing the strength and
reducing the weight, parts of the invention being applicable to slings, bandages, and
other veterinary articlos.
According to my invention the hobbles, slings, bandages and such like veterinary
articles are made of a combination of leather and hair, for which purpose a piece of
woven hair fabric of or about the width of the strap is secured by stitching or other
suitable means to the strap proper and thereby forms a surface for the strap.
As applied to hobbles, the metal loop at one end has the strap passed through it
and after being turned round through the strap-eye it is stitched over the hair fabric
through to the strap below; at the other or what I may call the loose or securing and
disengaging end, the strap is passed through the slot in loop and brought back under
or through a loop on the strap. The top of the strap has apertures formed in it which
on being passed over a stud constructed as hereafter described secured to the strap,
the aperture fitting over the said stud, the stud is turned at right angles the hond of
which prevents it passing through the slot. The shank of the stud is free to turn in
a socket which is securely held in the strap and preferably between the hair fabric
and the leather portion; for this purpose the socket is splayed out or made star shaped
for example to provide for it being very firmly socured to the strap. By the employ-
ment of a fixing or securing stud as before described, the greater the strain is, the
more the shank of the stud is pressed against the end of the slot, while to release the
hold all that is necessary to do is to turn the head of the stud, when the stud head
passes through the hole in strap end, and the hobble is released.
The aperture in the strap may be of keyhole shape and with or without metal
oyelets.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is an elevation, Figure 2 is a plan
and Figure 3 is a perspective view of a hobble constructed according to my inven-
tion, Figure 4 is a detached view of the securing and disengaging stud shown in
horizontal section.
A A are the hobble loops; B the strap proper and C the horse hair fabric; D is
the shank of the revolving stud; D' the head thereof preferably made of oval shape
as shown. This stud may however assume the form of a button, or other suitable
form, and with roughened edges, to facilitate holding same, and it may have a longer
shank. E shows the base or step in which the shank D turns. The securing and
disengaging stud is applicable to hobbles no matter of what material they are
made and the strap portion is applicable to slings, bandages, and other veterinary
articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
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page_text: the combination of leather and woven horsehair fabric or equivalent material
substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Second. In hobbles for horses and other animals, the rotary engaging and
disengaging stud constructed and acting substantially as herein before described and
illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Third. In hobbles for horses and other animals the rotary engaging and disengaging
stud, in combination with hobbles, such as those claimed under claim 1, substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
OVERDER V.
JAMES ARNOLD.
By Brewer & Son,
33, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.