A METHOD OF FORMING AND MAKING A SADDLE UPON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION, ON WHICH THE RIDER MAY PERFORM LONGER JOURNEYS ON A ROUGH-TROTTING HORSE, AND WITH GREATER FACILITY AND COMFORT, THAN ON ANY OTHER SADDLE HITHERTO EXTANT, AND THE STIRRUP BARS ARE SO CONTRIVED, THAT SHOULD THE RIDER BY ACCIDENT BE THROWN OFF OR FALL FROM HIS HORSE, HE WILL IMMEDIATELY UPON FALLING BE DISENGAGED AND FREE
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
INGLIS, of Chelmsford, in the County of Essex, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-first day of May now last past, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Walter Inglis, my exors,
admors, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Walter Inglis, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term
of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OF FORMING AND MAKING A SADDLE UPON
A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION, ON WHICH THE RIDER MAY
PERFORM LONGER JOURNEYS ON A ROUGH-TROTTING HORSE, AND WITH GREATER
FACILITY AND COMFORT, THAN ON ANY OTHER SADDLE HITHERTO EXTANT, AND THE
STIRRUP BARS ARE SO CONTRIVED, THAT SHOULD THE RIDER BY ACCIDENT BE
THROWN OFF OR FALL FROM HIS HORSE, HE WILL IMMEDIATELY UPON FALLING BE
DISENGAGED AND FREE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, that if I, the said Walter Inglis, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
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page_text: within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should determine and be
void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Inglis, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do,
by these Presents, and the Drawings in the margin hereof, describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, that is to say :-
The nature of my Invention. is to give elasticity to the seat of the saddle,
and consequent ease to the rider, by means of a spring introduced into the
long straining web; and to attach the stirrup bar to the saddle by means of a
bolt or fastening connected with the rider in such a manner that on falling
off or being thrown, he draws the bolt or fastening, and detaches the stirrup
from the saddle. The manner in which this is performed is as follows:-
Take a common saddle-tree, and being provided with a strong spring of steel
or other metal (Fig. 2), instead of fixing the long straining web in the usual
manner, take a piece of a sufficient length when doubled, and put over one arm
of the spring, as at a, and nailed to the head of the tree in the usual manner,
will just suffer the spring to clear the head and work free; the other part of the
web is to go over the other arm of the spring at b, and instead of being nailed
down on each side upon the bar of the saddle-tree within side the cantle, is to
be passed thro' two slits, to be cut in the two sides of the cantle, about three
quarters of an inch above the bar, and nailed on the lower part of the outside of
the cantle, as described in (Fig. 3). By the web being thus elevated and passed
through the cantle, it will be allowed to play with the elasticity of the spring
without being pressed down upon the tree; and in fixing this part of the long
web, care must be taken that the spring be not stretched in doing it, nor the
web left slack, but it must be drawn and fixed in a workmanlike manner. The
spring will then rest in a horizontal position over the gullet of the saddle
immediately behind the head, and the long web will receive its elastic effect
therefrom. The saddle in this state is represented in the Drawing, Fig. 1. The
steel spring, as seen naked in this Drawing, is then to be covered with two
pieces of web, each three qnarters of an inch broader than the distance
between the parts of the web already on the spring at a and b, and of sufficient
length to nail on each side on the bar of the tree; one of these pieces must be
strongly sewed underneath the spring to each part of the web at a and b, and
the other piece over the spring to the web in the same manner, which will not
only prevent the spring being over-stretched, but will also prevent the stuffing

page_text: of the saddle from interfering with it. Then sew a piece of small but strong
cord or string round and over the spring through the parts of the web, drawing
the string or cord tight, and fasten both ends on the under side of the web,
which will prevent the spring from being stretched during the cross-straining.
Then cross-strain the long to a proper form in the usual manner; except that
the cross-straining must not be brought quite so forward as the spring, but
must be sewed behind, and not upon the spring, so as not to interrupt its
motion. Then proceed to finish the saddle as usual, and immediately previous
to putting in the pannel, remove the cord or string from the spring, and suffer
it to have its freedom. This description is equally sufficient to enable a work-
man to make a lady's saddle, as the spring is to be fixed in the same manner.
The stirrup bar consists of three parts: Fig. 4 is an open box rivetted on
the bar of the saddle-tree a little higher than the bar on a common tree;
Fig. 5 is the stirrup bar, which supports the stirrup, with a short shank to be
introduced into the box, where it is bolted by a double spring bolt, Fig. 6,
the two prongs of which pass through two corresponding holes in the bar and
box, and thus attach the bar and stirrup to the saddle. To this bolt (Fig. 6)
a small strap is sewed. The rider, being then seated, is to button the straps
round his thighs a little above each knee, and should he fall or be thrown from
his horse, the straps will draw the bolts, and the stirrups will immediately drop
from the saddle. Before he dismounts he must unbutton the straps, or if be
wishes to try the effect of the Invention he may dismount with the straps on,
when the spring bolts will be drawn and the stirrups disengaged from the
saddle. Instead of the straps going round the thighs, they may be attached to
the body in any other manner, so as to draw the bolts on falling or being
thrown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Inglis, have to these Presents set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the forty-first year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace
of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and one.
ioned sealed. and delivered in presence of
WALTER (L.S.) INGLIS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1801, the aforesaid Walter-Inglis come before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in 'form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was-stampt according to the tenor of the 5
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and one.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
INGLIS, of Chelmsford, in the County of Essex, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-first day of May now last past, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Walter Inglis, my exors,
admors, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Walter Inglis, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term
of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my
Invention of "A METHOD OF FORMING AND MAKING A SADDLE UPON
A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION, ON WHICH THE RIDER MAY
PERFORM LONGER JOURNEYS ON A ROUGH-TROTTING HORSE, AND WITH GREATER
FACILITY AND COMFORT, THAN. ON. ANY OTHER SADDLE HITHERTO EXTANT, AND, THE
STIRRUP BARS ARE SO CONTRIVED, THAT SHOULD THE RIDER BY, ACCIDENT BE
THROWN OFF OR FALL FROM HIS HORSE, HE WILL IMMEDIATELY UPON FALLING BE
DISENGAGED AND FREE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso, that if I, the said Walter Inglis, should not particularly describė
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
1.

page_text: within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should determine and be
void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Inglis, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do,
by these Presents, and the Drawings in the margin hereof, describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, that is to say:-
The nature of my Invention is to give elasticity to the seat of the saddle,
and consequent case to the rider, by means of a spring introduced into the
long straining web; and to attach the stirrup bar to the saddle by means of a
bolt or fastening connected with the rider in such a manner that on falling
off or being thrown, he draws the bolt or fastening, and detaches the stirrup
from the saddle. The manner in which this is performed is as follows:-
Take a common saddle-tree, and being provided with a strong spring of steel
or other metal (Fig. 2), instead of fixing the long straining web in the usual
manner, take a piece of a sufficient length when doubled, and put over one arm
of the spring, as at a, and nailed to the head of the tree in the usual manner,
will just suffer the spring to clear the head and work free; the other part of the
web is to go over the other arm of the spring at b, and instead of being nailed
down on each side upon the bar of the saddle-tree within side the cantle, is to
be passed thro' two slits, to be cut in the two sides of the cantle, about three
quarters of an inch above the bar, and nailed on the lower part of the outside of
the cantle, as described in (Fig. 3). By the web being thus elevated and passed
through the cantle, it will be allowed to play with the elasticity of the spring
without being pressed down upon, the tree; and in fixing this part of the long
web, care must be taken that the spring be not stretched in doing it, nor the
web left slack, but it must be drawn and fixed in a workmanlike manner. The
spring will then rest in a horizontal position over the gullet of the saddle
immediately behind the head, and the long web will receive its elastic effect
therefrom. The saddle in this state is represented in the Drawing, Fig. 1. The
steel spring, as seen naked in this Drawing, is then to be covered with two
pieces of web, each three quarters of an inch broader than the distance
between the parts of the web already on the spring at a and b, and of sufficient
length to nail on each side on the bar of the tree; one of these pieces must be
strongly sewed underneath the spring to each part of the web at a and b, and
the other piece over the spring to the web in the same manner, which will not
only prevent the spring being over-stretched, but will also prevent the stuffing

page_text: of the saddle from interfering with it. Then sew a piece of small but strong
cord or string round and over the spring through the parts of the web, drawing
the string or cord tight, and fasten both ends on the under side of the web,
which will prevent the spring from being stretched during the cross-straining.
Then cross-strain the long to a proper form in the usual manner; except that
the cross-straining must not be brought quite so forward as the spring, but
must be sewed behind, and not upon the spring, so as not to interrupt its
motion. Then proceed to finish the saddle as usual, and immediately previous
to putting in the pannel, remove the cord or string from the spring, and suffer
it to have its freedom. This description is equally sufficient to enable a work-
man to make a lady's saddle, as the spring is to be fixed in the same manner.
The stirrup bar consists of three parts: Fig. 4 is an open box rivetted on
the bar of the saddle-tree a little higher than the bar on a common tree;
Fig. 5 is the stirrup bar, which supports the stirrup, with a short shank to be
introduced into the box, where it is bolted by a double spring bolt, Fig. 6,
the two prongs of which pass through two corresponding holes in the bar and
box, and thus attach the bar and stirrup to the saddle. To this bolt (Fig. 6)
a small strap is sewed. The rider, being then seated, is to button the straps
round his thighs a little above each knee, and should he fall or be thrown from
his horse, the straps will draw the bolts, and the stirrups will immediately drop
from the saddle. Before he dismounts he must unbutton the straps, or if he
wishes to try the effect of the Invention he may dismount with the straps on,
when the spring bolts will be drawn and the stirrups disengaged from the
saddle. Instead of the straps going round the thighs, they may be attached to
the body in any other manner, so as to draw the bolts on falling or being
thrown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Inglis, have to these Presents set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the forty-first year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1801, the 'aforesaid Walter Inglis come before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the 'Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification-aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of thie
Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of June, in.the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and one.