AN IMPROVED MODE OF ATTACHING HORSES TO CARRIAGES OR OTHER VEHICLES AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, Patent Agent, of the British
and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the
Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF ATTACHING
HORSES TO CARRIAGES OR OTHER VEHICLES AND APPARATUS THEREFOR."—A
communication from Jean François Frederic Beguin, residing at the
Rue Neuve Popincourt, France.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 3rd September 1868, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
ATTACHING HORSES TO CARRIAGES OR OTHER VEHICLES AND APPARATUS THEREFOR," &.
communication from Jean François Frederic Beguin, a person residing at the
Rue Neuve Popincourt, Paris, in the Empire of France, aforesaid, and
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn.
Declaration that it is a communication.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which it is to be performed, that is to say:-:
This Invention consists in the suppression of the shafts and pole usually
employed for carriages drawn by one or two horses, and in replacing them by
a mode of attaching the horses which is much less costly than the ordinary
system, and which prevents the horse from kicking, rearing, or becoming
broken kneed, and the reins from entangling with the horse's tail or the
harness, and which renders the wounds which the horse receives in falling
less dangerous.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a horse attached on this
principle, and the other Figures represent detached or accessory parts of the
apparatus.
Fig. 1. A is an ordinary saddle with the inner stays in iron, in which is
firmly fixed or soldered an iron tube B, intended to receive the front end of
the new apparatus. This apparatus, which is placed an inch or two above the
horse is made of iron, or of wood and iron; its front part C, from the withers to
the loins of the horse is round; the extremity of this part, which is placed in
the tube B, in which it can be moved an inch or more backwards and forwards,
carries a screw nut D, round and moveable, the diameter of which being a
little larger than that of the tube B, it serves to hold the part C in the tube.
Between this tube and the screw nut is placed a leather washer for the purpose
of preventing the contact of the metal. The screw nut carries a fixed ring E,
which for a carriage drawn by two horses receives a leather band for the
purpose of connecting two apparatus. Behind the tube B-the front part of
the apparatus carries two bent branches F, which, without being in contact
with the saddle, affect its form. The extremities of these branches are
provided with fixed rings intended to receive a band which attaches them to
the saddle, the latter being covered at this part with a brass plate G, on which
these extremities night by accident press. The hinder part of the apparatus
is divided from the 'loins of the horse into two half round branches H, H,
covered from I to J with a stuffed lining for preserving the horse from all
wounds. These branches have a curve corresponding to that of the horse's
croup. Their hinder parts are joined at the point N, N, to the furchel K of
the carriage 'by the ordinary means. At the point J of each branch exists a
fixed ring which receives one of the extremities of the bracings, and at the
point Lanother ring, intended to receive the end of a band attached to the
axle, the spring, or the furchel of the carriage in order to prevent the horse

page_text: from rearing. At the point of separation I of the apparatus, and at the
point J of the two branches H, H, is screwed a light carcass M, M, M, in
iron or wood, covered with leather or sheet iron, for the purpose of partly
hiding the hinder part and the tail of the horse. As it is independant of the
apparatus it may or may not be used. For a vehicle with two horses, cach
horse carries a similar apparatus. to that above described, the branches H, II,
of which are held in the mortices H, H, H, I, of a splinter bar represented
in Fig. 2, which is attached to the furchel of the carriage at O, O, in the
ordinary way. This splinter bar has at its centre a cross or appendix P,
which enters the socket existing in every carriage. The Figures 3, 4, and 5,
represent an accessory piece which is attached to the branches H, H, and to the
furchel or to the splinter bar, Fig. 2, and serves to raise or lower these branches
according to the height of the horses, and which purpose is effected by placing
the piece in the positions indicated by the Figures 3 and 4.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which it is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details above given; but what I claim is the
suppression of the shafts and poles by means of the arrangement of the different
parts composing the apparatus above described and represented in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, 'I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)