An Improved Bar and Safety Hook therefor for Ladies' Saddles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 20th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bar and Safety Hook therefor for Ladies' Saddles.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW of 41 Seymour Place Bryanston Square
London in the County of Middlesex Saddler do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved saddle bar and a safety hook or slide to be
used in connection therewith for ladies saddles, the object being to release the
stirrup leather from the saddle in case of accident. It is made as follows. The
bar is a piece of metal having horizontal edges and is made with one end swelled
and bored to receive a pivot a short distance from the one end, and this end is
connected by a hinged or rule joint to a back plate at that end of the back plate
nearest the cantle of the saddle, the back plate is cut away under the joint and a
flat spring rivetted to the plate in place of the portion so cut away, which spring
pressing upon the jointed end of the bar, keeps the other end of the bar firmly down
upon the back plate over a stud which passes well through it to bear part of the
strain when in use. The back plate mentioned is elbowed at that end which is
towards the front of the saddle to allow a small space between the bar and the back
plate. A shield or other shaped hook or slide is used in connection with the bar
and to which the stirrup leather is in some way attached, and which hook or slide,
opens the bar, or slides off it, or draws itself out of the bar according to the
direction in which the stirrup leather is pulled, should necessity require. The
action of the bar itself is from left to right only, and is held firmly in its place by
the spring described herein.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1893.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bar and Safety Hook therefor for Ladies' Saddles.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW of 41 Seymour Place Bryanston Square
London in the County of Middlesex Saddler 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 saddle bar and safety hook or slide for
ladies saddles, the object being to release the stirrup leather from the saddle in case
of accident. It is made as follows. The bar is a piece of metal having horizontal
edges, one end of which is bored to receive a pivot or stud a short distance from
the front end, the other end is connected by a hinged or rule joint to a back plate,
at that end of the back plate nearest the cantle of saddle, the back plate is cut away
under the joint and a flat spring rivetted to the plate in place of the portion so cut
away which spring pressing upon the jointed end of the bar keeps the other end of
the bar firmly down upon the back plate over a pivot or stud which passes well
through it to bear part of the strain when in use. The back plate mentioned is
elbowed at that end which is towards the front of the saddle to allow a small space
between the bar and the back plate. A shield or other shaped hook or slide, which
has a metal drop piece loosely jointed to it at the top end which drop piece
lifts up or down and to the lower end of which the stirrup leather is in some way

page_text: attached, is used in connection with the bar, which hook or slide opens the bar to
slide off it, or draws itself out from behind the bar according to the direction in
which the stirrup leather is pulled, should necessity require. The action of the bar
itself is from left to right only and it is held firmly in its place over the stud by the
--spring described herein.
In the drawing,
Fig. 1. represents the bar attached to the back plate and shut over the stud as
-described and ready to receive the hook or slide with stirrup leather attached. The
bar is marked a. b. the back plate for attaching to saddle tree. c. the 'rule joint.
d. the portion of plate cut away to allow spring at back to act. e. the pivot or stud
which passes through the bar. F. the elbow in the back plate.
Fig. 2. represents the safety hook or slide used in connection with the bar,
G. being the hook and H. a metal drop piece loosely jointed to the hook at the top
in a manner to allow of it lifting up to the position of the dotted lines, the bottom
end of H. is fastened to stirrup leather..
Fig. 3. shows the bar and back of hook, the bar having opened to allow the hook
to slide off, the rivets that fix the spring to the back of back plate are marked j.
Fig. 4. shows the bar, back plate, and hook or slide complete the hook being upon
the bar in position for use.
Fig. 5. shows the back of the back plate and the spring mentioned marked K.
Fig. 6. is a section shewing the rule joint, the edge of back plate and the spring
behind the same.
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 I
- claim is.
1st. The use of a safety hook or slide in connection with a movable saddle bar.
2nd. The use of a safety bar for ladies saddles as described in the foregoing
-Specification and of the principle shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 20th day of November 1893.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW.