Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Holding and Controlling Reins for Use in Driving.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 18th Feb., 1887.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Holding and Controlling
Reins for Use in Driving.
I WILLIAM CLEMENT ROBERTS of The Waterworks, Bradfield Dale, in the Parish
of Ecclesfield, in the County of York, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND CONTROLLING
REINS FOR USE IN DRIVING to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to facilitate the use of reins in driving and to
enable the user to better adjust, hold and control the same.
The invention consists of a handle for adjusting, holding and guiding the reins.
This handle has two loopbolts one at each end and these bolts are formed with right
and left hand screws for adjustment.
These loopholts work to and fro in slots at each end of the handle and screw into
nuts fastened inside the handle or socket. There are two small springs applied in
each of the slot pieces to raise the bottom inside of loopholts level with top of slots.
To each slot piece is attached a set screw to prevent the loopbolts from screwing out
further than the level of top of slot or further than is desired and so that by turning
the handle (when adjusted in position on the reins) towards the user it brings the
bottom inside of loopbolts about one sixteenth of an inch below top of slot piece,
and by turning the handle from the user raises the bottom inside of loopbolts level
with top of slot piece.
To cach loopbolt is attached a thumb or like screw or wedging piece so as to enable
the user to fasten either rein whilst preparing to adjust or adjusting the other.
By turning the handle from the user he releases the reins in the loop-bolts and by
that means he is able to slide the handle to any position along the reins as may be
desired.
By turning the handle towards him the user is able to fasten the reins in the
loopbolts thereby fixing the handle to the reins.
By increasing the number of loops, holes or slots in the bolts and providing suitable
screws or wedge pieces to lock the reins temporarily therein as described the invention
may be made applicable for more than one pair of reins held in the hand and for
driving four or other number of horses.
TUY DDAQ
C. sex
WM BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said William Clement Roberts,

page_text: Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Holding and Controlling
Reins for Use in Driving.
I WILLIAM CLEMENT ROBERTS of The Waterworks Bradfield Dale in the Parish
of Ecclesfield in the County of York Engineer 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:-
This invention has for its object to facilitate the use of reins in driving or guiding
and controlling horses or other animals whether the user is mounted on the animal or
on a vehicle or whether one or more animals are being guided or controlled by the
reins, and to better enable the user to adjust, hold and control the reins so as to avoid
slipping thereof through the hand, sudden jerks arising from shifting of grasp and in
then recovering them, shocks to the animal's mouth, as well as the loss of power often
arising from the present manner of grasping the reins, and so as to obtain a firmer
grasp thereon, certain and powerful, even, accurately adjustable, readily alterable and
easy and simple in use. The improved rein holder consists of a handle held before
the user horizontally and substantially at right angles to the line of road. This handle
has two loopbolts, one located at each end of the handle and working each in a slot
one at each end of the handle formed in a slot piece each loop bolt having a threaded
siem passing into and engaging a correspondingly threaded nut secured in a passage
for that stem to turn in, in the handle, the one stem being right hand threaded and
the other stem left hand threaded so as to give simultaneous extension or withdrawal
of the loopbolts with like simultaneous relaxation of hold on, or grip of, the reins.
A spring or springs applied in each slot piece serve to raise the inner side of the rein
slot level with the top of the slot in the slot piece whilst an adjustable set screw or set
screws prevent the loop-bolts from being serewed out further than level with the
top of the slot or farther than is desired and so that by simply turning the handle,
when the parts have been adjusted in position on the reins, towards the user it brings
the line of the hoop or rein slot about one sixteenth of an inch below the edge of the
slot piece and nips the reins whilst the reverse action releases them from nip.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a horizontal section of my improved rein holder a as it would
usually be held in the hand so as to nip the reins in the grips but to simplify the
drawings I have not thought it necessary to do more than indicate the outlines
sectionally of the reins where they pass through the holder a. Figure 2 is an exterior
view of the same. Figure 3 is an end view Figure is a separate view, taken at
right angles to Figure 1, of one of the loop bolts and shewing sectionally the
springs applied in the slot piece 7 to raise the bottom inside of the loop bolt level
with the top of the slot in the end of the rein holder. Figure 5 is an end view of
one end piece the loop at being removed and so shewing the springs Figure 5"
is the separated bolt Figure 6 shews a horizontal sectional view of the rein holder but
with the loop bolts not gripping the reins so that in the absence of nip thereon when
the parts are in this position and the screws a drawn out the reins may slip freely in

page_text: the loops. Figure 7 shews a horizontal section of a rein holder modified so as to he
adapted to hold two pairs of reins at once by means of a double pair of slots in the
loop bolts as a Figure 8 is an external view of same, Figure 9 an end view and
Figure 10 a sectional view of one of the loop bolts at with double rein receiving slot
holes a, a, and the spring connections, a a¹³ being the corresponding slot holes in
the opposite loop boli. Figure 11 is an end view of one of the slot pieces い corre-
sponding to thai in Figure 1 but which has the holi a removed so as to shew the
under springs and the bolt is shewn separately by Figure 11".
Figure 12 shews a similar view to Figure 7 except that no grip on the reins will
be exerted when the bolts and slot pieces are thus coincidently placed and the screws o
withdrawn into their recesses.
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In use, employing the single pair rein holder Figures 1-1 each rein is passed
through one slot a¹ or a in the loop bolts ³, and locked therein at the adjusted
length rein by the thumb screw d. By turning handle of rein holder towards or
from the user axially the screws are drawn inwards or forced outwards so far as
the lock screws engaging the recesses will permit by means of the corre
spondingly threaded internal nuts a fixed therein, engaging those screws, and the
reins are nipped between the edges of the sliding loop bolt slots a a² and the edges of
the slots in the slot pieces b, the protrusion of the loop bolts a³ from the slot
12 is controlled by the guiding and controlling screws whilst edges of
the slots exteriorly are kept level with the inner edges of the loop holt slot a¹ or a².
By these screws the loop bolts are prevented from screwing out further than the
level of the top of the slot 2 or 63 or further than is desired. By turning the rein
holder handle a, when these parts are adjusted suitably in position on the reins,
towards the user the bottom inside edges of the loop bolts are brought each about one
sixteenth of an inch below the top of the slot piece, and by turning the handle a
from the user the bottom inside surface of the loop bolts are raised level with the top
of the sloi piece, in the former case putting a firm nipping hold on the reins at the
adjusted parts and in the latter case relieving the hold on the reins.
The thumb or like screw or it may be a wedging piece is intended for use to
enable the user to fasten either rein whilst preparing to adjust or whilst adjusting the
other rein.
By turning the handle a towards him the user is able to fasten the reins again in
the loop bolts by the rewithdrawal of the screwed stems within the handle a,
the respective screws turning on their threads of right and left inclination in their
respective nuts as a as already explained c, e, are ferrules or strengthening encircling
pieces of metal or other suitable material to prevent straining or splitting of the
handle in use.
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By providing a number of loops, holes or slots in the bolts a³, at with modified
number of slotted parts proportioned to the number of reins to be manipulated
and providing suitable screws or wedge pieces to lock the reins during adjustment or
temporarily holding of same therein (as described and shewn in Figures 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 11 and 12, like letters indicating like parts as in the preceding figures) the
improved rein holder may be adapted to various numbers of reins other than one pair
to be held in the hand and for driving various numbers of horses.
Having now 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 combination or arrangement of parts and use in riding and driving of rein
holders as and for the purposes substantially herein set forth.