AN IMPROVED STIRRUP
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Luke and William Luke, trading at
No. 98, Mott. Street, Birmingham; as Wholesale Saddlers, under the
Firm of G. & W. Luke, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED STIRRUP."
Sealed the 21st April 1863, and dated the 25th October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Luke and Williamı
Luke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 25th October 1862.
We, GEORGE LUKE and WILLIAM LUKE, trading at No. 98, Mott Street,
Birmingham, as Wholesale Saddlers, under the Firm of G. & W. Luke,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
STIRRUP," to be as follows:-
This Invention is applicable to all kinds of stirrups, in whatever metal they
may be made, and consists in doing away with the buckle in the ordinary
stirrup leather, and substituting for it a moveable tongue or pin of iron, steel,
or other metal fitted into, on, or upon the lower bar of the eye or loop in the
stirrup itself, (as shewn in the accompanying Drawing,) so as to provide for
the shortening or lengthening of the stirrup leather when or as may be
required.

page_text: A represents the stirrup eye or loop; B, the upper bar of the said eye or
loop; C, the lower bar of the same; D, the moveable tongue or pin fitted on
to the lower bar C, thus forming a buckle for the adjustment of the length
of the stirrup leather.
Among the advantages to be derived from this Invention, we mention the
following:-
1st, the stirrup leather can be used single instead of double, and therefore
much shortened without affecting its efficiency, thus considerably cheapening
its cost.
2nd, rendering unnecessary any buckle attached to the stirrup leather.
3rd, encreasing the ease and comfort of the rider arising from the absence
of the stirrup leather buckle under the saddle skirt, as now in ordinary
use.
4th, its great simplicity and neat appearance..
Having described and illustrated the "buckle-eye stirrup," we claim as of
our Invention, the moveable pin or buckle tongue in the eye or loop of the
stirrup itself, or any modification thereof, by means of which the stirrup
leather is or may be fixed, fastened, or held in the position required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Luke and William Luke in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
LUKE and WILLIAM LUKE, trading at No. 98, Mott Street, Birmingham,
as Wholesale Saddlers, under the Firm of G. & W. Luke, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said George Luke and William Luke, Her special licence that we, the
said George Luke and William Luke, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Luke and William Luke,
our 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED STIRRUP,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Luke and
William Luke, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, 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 performed, 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 we, the said George Luke and William Luke,
do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 is applicable to all kinds of stirrups, in whatever metal
they may be made, and consists in doing away with or rendering unnecessary
the buckle used with the ordinary stirrup leather, and substituting for it
a moveable tongue or pin of iron, steel, or other metal fitted into, on, or
upon
the upper or lower bar of the eye or loop in the stirrup itself, (as
shewn in the accompanying Drawing,) so as to provide for the shortening,
lengthening, or fastening the stirrup leather when or as required.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
A, the stirrup eye or loop; B, the upper bar of the said eye or loop; C, the
lower bar of the said eye or loop; D, the moveable tongue or pin, fitted on
to the lower bar C, thus forming a buckle for the adjustment of the length of
the stirrup leather.
Note. The moveable tongue or pin D may be fitted on to the upper bar B
of the stirrup eye or loop, if required.
Among the advantages to be derived from this Invention, we mention the
following:-
First, the stirrup leather can be used single instead of double, therefore
much shortened without affecting its efficiency, and considerably cheapening
its cost.
Second, rendering unnecessary any buckle attached to the stirrup leather.
Third, encreasing the ease and comfort of the rider arising from the
absence of the stirrup leather buckle under the saddle skirt, as now in ordinary
use.
Fourth, its great simplicity and neat appearance.
Having described and illustrated the nature of the improved stirrup, we

page_text: claim as of our Invention, the moveable tongue, buckle tongue, or pin in the
eye or loop in the stirrup itself, or any modification thereof, by means of which
the stirrup leather is or may be fixed, fastened, or held in the position
required.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Luke and William Luke, have
heretofore set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third day of April
1863.
Witness to the signatures of
George Luke & William Luke,
THOMAS SMITH, Wood Turner,
GEORGE LUKE.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM LUKE. (L.S.)
19, Mott Street, Birmingham.