AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR CHECKING AND STOPPING FRIGHTENEd and Runaway HORSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sydney S. Pollock, of Wuerzburg, in the Kingdom
of Bavaria (a British Subject), for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPLIANCE FOR CHECKING AND STOPPING FRIGHTENEd and Runaway HORSES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sydney S. Pollock at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th August 1878.
I, SYDNEY S. POLLOCK, of Wuerzburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria
(a British Subject), do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED APPLIANCE FOR CHECKING AND STOPPING FRIGHTENED AND
RUNAWAY HORSES," to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists of an appliance for checking and stopping
runaway horses, which I construct and use in the following manner :—I
connect to the cross strap of the bridle of a carriage or saddle horse a
light tube, inside of which & revolving in the ends thereof is a small

page_text: roller, attached to this roller is a curtain of mackintosh or other light
and flexible material wide enough to reach across the animal's eyes and
long enough to cover the nostrils. At the other end of the curtain is a
light rod to keep it extended. This rod is jointed near each end to
enable the curtain to be returned at the sides so as to partly enclose the 5
head.
Attached to the roller and tube is a spring and lever to hold the
curtain in its place when not in use; a counterpoise is fixed to the rod
for quickly dropping the curtain when released from the spring for the
purpose of covering the horse's face. Another spring and lever is 1
attached to the roller for recoiling, the curtain after use.
From the springs and levers run cords guided thro' rings to the rider
or driver so that the whole apparatus is entirely under his control.
When the horse attempts to run away the release spring is held, and
the curtain quickly falls covering the eyes and mouth of the animal 1
thereby at the same time preventing ingress of light and air and by
the sudden change compelling the horse to stop.
The apparatus may be constructed without the counterpoise by
regulating the strength of the springs, or if preferred it may be actuated
entirely by cords.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sydney S. Pollock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SYDNEY S.
POLLOCK, of Wuerzburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (a British Subject), 25
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant 30
unto me, the said Sydney S. Pollock, Her special license that I, the said

page_text: Sydney S. Pollock, my exectitors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Sydney S. Pollock, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "A IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR CHECKING AND
STOPPING FRIGHTENED AND RUNAWAY HORSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Sydney S. Pollock, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within-six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE!-that I, the said Sydney S. Pollock, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of an appliance for checking and stopping
runaway horses which I construct and use in the following manner :-I
connect to the upper cross strap of the bridle of a carriage or saddle
horse a light tube' of metal, vuldiïte, or other material, inside of which
and revolving in the ends thereof is a small roller projecting through the
end plates of the tube and screwed or otherwise fixed at one end to a cap
used-for-the-purpose of rewinding, and at the other end fastened to a
small ratchet wheel; attached to this roller is a curtain of mackintosh or
other light and flexible material wide enough when extended to reach
across the animal's eyes and long enough to cover the nostrils, at the
lower end of this curtain is a balance rod to draw out the curtain when
the spring is released from the ratchet wheel; this rod is jointed nėar
the ends so as to enable the curtain to be returned at the sides to par-
tially enclose the head when not in use; these ends may be folded over
the central rod and rolled info the projections of the barrel.
On the end of the tube carrying the ratchet wheel is screwed a cap
containing a spring and lever catch for holding the ratchet wheel and

page_text: in manner as herein-before described, and illustrated by the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sydney S. Pollock, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.