An Improved Bit for Animals.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
Rangoon, in the Province of Burma, Bank Manager.]
An Improved Bit for Animals.
JOHN PALMER, Junior, 50, Finsbury Square, London, E.C. in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct bits for animals in such a way that,
whether the animals be ridden, driven, or led, the position of the port in the mouth
remains the same.
According to my invention I provide each of the cheek bars of the bit,-
preferably made with a recess within which the rein lies, with a curved forward
extension, preferably more or less semicirclar in form,--and affixed to oue or
both of its ends.
I may further use the bit as a snaffle by means of a similar backward extension,
preferably affixed partly to the upper end of each of the cheek bars, and partly to
the inner extremity of the recess before mentioned.
When therefore the reins are behind the animal's mouth, they rest in the recesses
made in the cheek bars, or in the snaffle bars, but when it is desired to lead the
animal the reins slip round the curved forward extension, and automatically adjust
themselves to the position of the animal's head, whether it be high or low, the pull
always forming the same angle with the port.
21st Mouch 1001
JNO. PALMER, JR.
An Improved Bit Ior Animais.
I, JOHN PALMER, Junior, Ceylon House, 49 and 51, Eastcheap, late of
50 Finsbury Square, London, E.C., in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to construct bits for animals in such a way that,
whether the animals be ridden, driven, or led, the position of the port in the mouth
remains the same.
According to my invention I provide each of the cheek bars of the bit,-
preferably made with a recess within which the rein lies, with a forward
extension, preferably more or less semicircular in form, and affixed to one or
both of its ends.
I may further use the bit as a snaffle by means of a similar backward extension,
preferably affixed partly to the upper end of each of the cheek bars, and partly to
the inner extremity of the recess before mentioned.
When therefore the reins are behind the animal's mouth, they rest in the recesses
made in the cheek bars or in the snaffle bars, but when it is desired to lead the

page_text: animal the reins slip round the forward extension, and automatically adjust
themselves to the position of the animal's head, whether it be high or low, the pull
always forming the same angle with the port.
In Fig. 1, the cheek bar AECD, with its forward extension A HD, and its
backward extension A G C, represents in outline the plan of each end of a bit
which embodies the several features of my invention, the two ends being united at
the point F by a port of any suitable pattern, as indicated in profile by Fig. 2,
wherein FJ shows the direction in which the port extends from each end.
When the animal is being ridden or driven from behind, the rein rests in the
recess ECD B, and is pulled against the bar CD; but when it is desired to lead
the animal, the rein may be slipped round the point D without being unbuckled,
and it at once automatically adjusts itself to some part of the extension DHA,
against which it pulls, according to the position of the animal's head. When the
bit is used as a snaffle, the rein rests in the backward extension A G C, against
which it pulls.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
.claim is :
1. The introduction of a recess into the central rod of the cheek bar in a bit, to
be used when riding or driving, substantially as described.
2. The attachment to the cheek bar by one or both of its extremities of a forward
extension, substantially as described.
3. The attachment to the cheek bar by one or both of its extremities of a
backward extension, substantially as described.
4. The combination in a bit of a recess, and one or both extensions, substantially
as described.
Dated this 28th December 1894.
JNO. PALMER, JR.