Improvements in Stirrups.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stirrups.
I GEORGE BARKER of 77 Colmore Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention as communi-
cated to me from abroad by William H. Pearson, Sudbury Street Boston in the
United States of America to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention has for its object Improvements in stirrups, and refers particularly
to those which are provided with an attachment for preventing the foot from slipping
nto the stirrup too far, by which I am enabled to adjust the size of the space for
the foot to enter, so as to allow for a larger or smaller foot as the case may be and
by which means also the exact position required for the foot can be adjusted and
this without any danger of the foot becoming entangled in the stirrups should the
rider be thrown.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more. easily carried into
practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawing upon which I
have illustrated a variety of methods of carrying out my improvement.
Figure 1 is a front view of a stirrup A provided with the attachment B.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of figure 1.
Figure 3 is a section through Figure 1 on the line 1-2.
Figure 4 is a front elevation of the top part of a stirrup shewing a modification
of the means of carrying out my improvement.
Figure 5 is a section through figure 4 on line 3-4.
Figure 6 is a similar elevation to figure 4 but showing a modification.
Figure 7 is a section through Figure 6 on the line 5-6.
Figure 8 is a front elevation shewing another modification.
The improved attachment B as shewn in figure 1 is formed by hanging from the
top of the stirrup A the tapped socket B2 into which the screw pin 63 carrying the
guard bar of the attachment is screwed thereby rendering it only necessary to screw
or unscrew the pin 63 into the socket 62 to raise or lower the curved bar 6' higher or
lower as may be required by a larger or smaller foot being inserted. Each end of
the bar is provided with the steel spring 64 and 6 which clip the sides of the
stirrup sufficiently to retain the bar 6₁ in its place but at the same time they are
sufficiently flexible to allow of them being sprung from the sides so as to release the
foot in case of accidents. For the purpose of allowing the springs 64 and 6 to engage
with the side a¹ and a² of the stirrup equally at any point it will be seen that the
sides a and a are formed parallel. In the case of Figure 4 the pin 63 is made to
engage in the thumb screw 66 which revolves upon the end of the socket 62 as shewn
by Figure 4 by which means, the bar b¹ may be raised or lowered without the
springs, 6 and 65 being detached from the sides a¹ and a² of the stirrups A.
further modification is shewn by Figure 6 in which case the pin is made to slide
into the sockets 63 and is secured by means of the small screw pin e engaging with
the sinkins e' on the pin 63. In figure 8 another modification is shewn by which the
bar b' is hung by means of the pivotted cross piece F which is attached to the stirrup
by the sliding sockets f¹ and f' and to the bar & by similar sockets f³ & f* and
is fixed in the position required by the tightening up of the joint by the screw
pivot f.
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page_text: I do not confine myself to the exact details but having particularly described and
ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed I declare that what I claim is
The improvement in stirrups by which the guard bar. 61 of the attachment B is
made adjustable substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn upon
the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of 1000
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant

page_text: A clerical error in the name of the communicator in the original Specification
having been amended by the Patentee, with the consent of the Comptroller, the printed
Specification will now read as shown below:-