Improved Means for Instantly Detaching Horses from Vehicles while the same are in Motion.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 17th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Instantly Detaching Horses from Vehicles while
the same are in Motion.
WILLIAM CHARLES BUSHBY 3 Stanbridge Road Lower Richmond Road
Putney London S. W. Electric Light Fitter do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
A lever is placed in a position easy accessible to the person controlling the
horses, which when used, acts upon certain other levers and rods which are
connected to the trace holders or other arrangements of attaching the animals to
the vehicle, and releases the said traces or connections, thereby instantly detaching
them from the said vehicle.
Dated this 26th day of May 1809
WILLIAM CHARLES BUSHBY.
WILLIAM CHARLES BUSHBY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Instantly Detaching Horses from Vehicles while
the same are in Motion.
I WILLIAM CHARLES BUSHBY of 3 Stanbridge Road, Lower Richmond Road,
Putney, London, S. W. Electric Light Fitter 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:-
My invention relates to an improved means for instantly detaching horses from
vehicles while the same are in motion, and has for its object the construction of an
apparatus by means of which a horse or horses may be instantly released from a
carriage or like vehicle in the event of the said horses bolting or falling.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I have appended the
accompanying two sheets of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a front view of my invention as applied to a two horse vehicle. Fig. 2
is an end view of the same and Fig. 3. a plan thereof.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the clips or device by means of which the horses are secured
to the pole.
Fig. 5 is a side view of a link or coupling to which the traces are secured.
Fig. 6 Sheet 2 is a plan partly in section shewing the links above mentioned in
position for releasing the horses.
Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively an elevation and plan of a modified form of my
invention as applied to a one horse vehicle.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a slotted bar a supported upon
a second bar of wood or other material e by means of two guides bb', to the centre
of the bar a above mentioned is attached a pin or other suitable device e which
pin passes through a lever d shewn in Figs. 1 2 3 and 6. At suitable intervals
apart and supported by the bar e are four upright brackets ffff having
slots formed in the projecting portions thereof the object of said brackets being to
retain and support the links 9 by means of which the horses are secured to the
carriage.
The links g are formed as shewn at Fig. 5 with a hook or equivalent g¹ at one
end while the other end is slotted as shewn at h and a pin ' is passed through the
lugs or cheeks thus formed. Underneath the bar e and in the centre thereof is
secured the pole i at the end of which is the spring clip j shewn more particularly

page_text: at Fig. 4 the object of which is to allow the vehicle to be backed at the same time
to release the horses in their forward motion when desired.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:
'
When it is desired to couple the horses to the vehicle the lever d is moved over
to the position shewn bringing with it the bar a until the slots formed therein and
the slots in the brackets fff" fill are opposite one another as shewn, the links
or couplings are then inserted and the lever moved over to the position shewn by
the dotted lines Fig. 6 when the links and bar will be locked together. To release
the horses while the carriage is in motion it is only necessary to pull the lever d
from right to left when the couplings will be withdrawn and the chains at the head
of the animals sliding under the springs upon the clip j will instantly release .them
from the vehicle.
In applying my invention to a one horse vehicle instead of employing the
slotted bar a I use the brackets kk' shewn in Figs. 7 and 8 Sheet 2 which with the
supports or guides K" K" is attached to the under part of the carriage or
the like so that the bolts may be passed through the said bracket and supports
to retain the shafts m of the vehicle and the hooks n n' to which hooks are attached
the traces. Thus it will be seen that upon the bolts being withdrawn, which
may be effected by means of the two chains o o¹ and lever p, the vehicle is
immediately freed from the horses.
In some instances the uncoupling of the vehicle may be effected by means of a
cranked lever in combination with the levers d and p at the side of the drivers seat
instead of in front thereof.
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 1
claim is :-
1° In a device for releasing horses the combination of a slotted bar a operated
by means of a lever or levers d with the upright slotted brackets ffff and
couplings or links g substantially as herein set forth and shewn in the accompanying
drawings.
and
2° In a device for releasing horses the combination of the bolts
brackets kk operated as herein described and shewn in the accompanying sheets of
drawings.
3° The improved means for releasing horses from a vehicle while the same is in
motion as herein set forth and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of February 1893.
WILLIAM CHARLES BUSHBY.