Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application (in the United Kingdom), 16th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1996
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
proved
Trup Dar
I, GUSTAVE BIEBUYCK, of 52 Rue de Spa, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
The new or improved stirrup-bar, the subject of the present invention is composed
of a plate suitably fixed to the saddle-bow, and a piece in which is a long hole or
slot to receive a button is mounted so that it can move longitudinally or turn round
an axis or button rivetted or fastened in any other convenient manner to the
aforesaid plate and engaging in the said slot.
The outer end or nose of the said piece is attached to the said plate by a part
of the said plate bent into a hook or support and the stirrup-leather is supported
by the said piece the said leather being preferably situated between two projections
from the upper side of the said piece.
In its normal position the said piece rests, on one side on the button, and on the
other on the hook. If the rider fall with his foot in the stirrup the stirrup-leather
by bearing on one of the projections on the upper side of the piece which carries
the stirrup-leather will cause the said piece to move longitudinally sufficiently to
enable the said piece to free itself from the hook or support on which its nose end
rests and the said piece will then turn on the button and the stirrup-leather will
thus be easily freed from the saddle.
If the rider is thrown transversely over the horse, the stirrup-leather by pulling
upwards on the said piece will cause it to turn upwards on the button and the
leather will be released by slipping off the said piece.
Dated this 16th day of January 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
I, GUSTAVE BIEBUYCK, of 52 Rue de Spa, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, 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 consists of a new or improved stirrup bar essentially composed
of a fixed plate with a hook or support to which plate is secured by a button and

page_text: slot attachment, one end of a movable piece, the other end or nose of which
normally rests in the said hook or support and carries the stirrup leather, so that
if the rider should fall or be thrown, the said moveable piece is released from the
hook or support and slides longitudinally owing to the button and slot attachment
and turns so that the stirrup leather becomes at once detached and the rider is
released from the horse or other animal although his foot be still engaged in the
stirrup.
I will describe with reference to the accompanying drawing a stirrup bar
constructed in accordance with this invention, Figures 1 and 2 being views of a
stirrup bar at right angles to each other and Figure 3 representing a modification
on the same principle as hereinafter described. A is a plate which is fixed to the
saddle in any convenient way. A piece B is carried by the said plate A, it being
connected thereto by means of a button a secured by rivetting or otherwise to the
plate A, and engaging in a long slot b in the piece B so that the piece B is secured
to the plate A but can move longitudinally on the said button and turn thereon,
when the nose or end of the piece B is removed from the hook or support a¹ upon
which it is normally supported. The said hook or support a¹ may be turned up
from the metal of the said plate or it may be secured thereto in any convenient
way so as to form the requisite support or hook. The stirrup leather is passed
onto the part B, the said leather being preferably situated between the
projections 61 and 611 from the upper side of the piece B.
In order to retain the piece B in position during the normal movements of the
rider I may secure to the back of the plate A, a spring C carrying a projection c
which passes through a hole in the plate A, the spring C pressing it against the
end or nose of the piece B as shewn in Figure 2. Or the end or nose of the piece B
may be bent inwards as shewn in Figure 3, so that there is sufficient friction
between the piece B and the hook or support a¹ (or the plate A or both) to keep
the part B in position normally.
In Figure 3 I have illustrated a slight modification in construction the button a
being on the part B and engaging with a long slot in the plate A, the attachment
being made by rivetting the button a over after the part B is put in place, or in any
other convenient way. In its normal position therefore the said piece B rests at
one end on the button a and at the other end on the hook or support a', but in the
event of the rider falling with his foot engaged in the stirrup, the stirrup leather
by bearing on the projection 6' on the piece B causes the said piece B to move
longitudinally so that its end or nose is freed from the hook or support al and the
said piece B will then turn with the button a as a fulcrum, into the position shewn
in dotted lines at I in Figure 1, and the stirrup leather will slip and be freed, from
the part B, whilst, if the rider be thrown sideways or upwards the stirrup leather
by exerting an upward pull on the piece B will cause it to turn upwards on the
button a as shewn by the dotted lines at II, and the leather will then likewise be
released by slipping from the piece B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A stirrup bar having in combination a fixed plate with a hook or support and a
moveable piece such as B (for carrying the stirrup leather) secured to the said
plate by a button and slot attachment and resting on the said hook or support in
such a way that, when the rider falls or is thrown, the moveable piece is removed
from the hook or support, and turns so that the stirrup leather is released from
the said moveable piece substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 19th day of September 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.