IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SADDLE-CLOTHS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Harris Lake, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake
"
& Co, Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SADDLE-CLOTHS communicated
to him from abroad by Gustav Hüttemann, Chief Imperial riding-master, and
Carl Wackerow, both of Vienna, Austria
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Harris Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th June 1883.
HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & C° Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SADDLE-CLOTHS" [A communication to him from abroad by Gustav Hüttemano,
Chief Imperial riding-master, and Carl Wackerow, both of Vienna, Austria]
The object of the present invention is to provido an improved saddle-cloth.
Heretofore saddle-cloths have been made either of leather or of felt; it has also
been attempted to make them of felted camel's hair. But all these saddle-cloths
are more or less inconvenient. The leather saddle-cloth prevents the free trans-
piration which is more considerable under the saddle, than on any other part of
the body of the horse; it causes therefore frequent inflammation of the skin,
resulting in scars, falling out of the hair and other inconveniences. The felt
saddle-cloth heats too much the portion of the skin below it and is liable, as well as
the leather saddle-cloth, to form folds, whereby saddle-galls ensue.
All these inconveniences are avoided by the use of my improved saddle-cloth
which consists of woven or braided fabric made of horse-hair of sufficient length
and bordered with leather, cloth, or india-rubber tissue, in order to prevent the
horse-hair fabric from becoming loose or unwoven.
In carying the said invention into practice I take for the weft as well as for the
warp of the texture, yarns composed of several single horse-hairs; the braiding is
also effected easier and quicker when each yarn is composed of several single
hairs.

page_text: In order to enable the application of short horse-hair for the manufacture of
these saddle-cloths, they are generally made of two pieces or halves, joined together
by means of a seam or by pasting upon them a band of cloth, leather, or india
rubber; when the horse is saddled the said seam or band lies along the median line
of the horse's back. In order to obtain a solid and durable join of both halves of
the saddle-cloth, the straight edges of both halves of the cloth are placed one along
the other; over these edges is then pasted, preferably by means of india-rubber
putty, a band of some strong texture or braiding, having the breadth of about a
finger; above this band is thereafter pasted a strip of india-rubber tissue of the
same breadth. The under surfaces of the edges of both halves of the saddle-cloth
are then submitted to the same operation, after which both strips of india-rubber
and both cloth bands are sewn to the said edges, and in this manner both halves
of the saddle-cloth are securely fastened together.
These borse-hair saddle-cloths, as compared with all other saddle-cloths which
have heretofore been in use, have the following advantages.
They are of very small weight and exceedingly elastic, so that the folds which
might have been made in the cloth through carelessness during the saddling, are
smoothed out by the movements of the horse.
They admit a free and easy access of the air to the skin, whereby the portion of
the horse's back under the saddle is constantly kept cool, the perspiration
evaporates freely and consequently all dangerous accumulation of the same is
prevented.
They do not slip as easily from their place as other saddle-cloths, because,
through the movements of the horse, the hair of the horso's back enters the
apertures of the suddle-cloth-texture, whereby the saddle-cloth is kept in its place.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Harris Lako in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th December 1883.
HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SADDLE-CLOTHS."- -a communication to me from abroad by Gustav Hüttemann,
Chief Imperial Riding-master, and Carl Wackerow, both of Vienna, Austria.
This invention relates to the manufacture of saddle-cloths.
Heretofore saddle-cloths have been made either of leather or of felt; attempts have
also been made to make them of felted camel's hair, but all these saddle-cloths aro
more or less inconvenient. The leather saddle-cloth prevents the free transpiration,
which is more considerable under the saddle, than on any other part of the body
of the horse; it causes therefore frequent inflamations of the skin, resulting in
scars, falling out of the hair and other inconveniences. The felt saddle-cloth hents
too much the portion of the skin below it and is liable, as well as the leather
saddle-cloth, to form folds, whereby saddle-galls ensue.
The object of this invention is to avoid all these inconveniences by the use of a
saddle-cloth which consists of woven or braided fabric made of horse-hair of
sufficient length, and bordered with leathor cloth or india-rubber tissue, in order to
prevent the said horse-hair fabric from becoming loose or unwoven.
In carrying the said invention into practice I take for the weft as well as for
the warp of the texture, yarns composed of several single horse-hairs; the
braiding is effected easier and quicker when each yarn is composed of several
single hairs.
In order to enable the application of short horse-hair for the manufacture of
these saddle-cloths which are of the usual shape they are generally made in two
pieces, or in halves, joined together by means of a scam or by pasting upon them
a band of cloth, leather or india-rubber. When the horse is saddled, the said seam
or band lies along the median line of the horse's back.
In order to obtain a secure and durable joint between both halves of the saddle-
cloth, the straight edges of the said halves are placed one along the other; over
these edges is then pasted, preferably by means of india-rubber putty, a band of
some strong texture or braiding, having the breadth of about a finger; above this
band is pasted a strip of india-rubber tissue of the same breadth. The under
surfaces of the edges of both halves of the saddle cloth are then submitted to the
same operation, after which both strips of india-rubber and both cloth bands are
sewn to the said edges, and in this manner both halves of the saddle-cloth are
securely fastened together.
These horse-hair saddle-cloths, as compared with other saddle-cloths which have
heretofore been in use, have the following advantages.
They are of very small weight and exceedingly elastic so that the folds which
might have been made in the cloth through carelessness during the saddling, are
smoothed out by the movements of the horse. They admit a free and easy access
of the air to the skin, whereby the portion of the horse's back under the saddle is
constantly kept cool and the perspiration evaporates freely and consequently all
dangerous accumulation of the same is prevented. They do not slip as easily from
their place as other saddle-cloths, because, through the movements of the horse, the
hair of the horse's back enters the apertures of the saddle-cloth texture, whereby
the saddle-cloth is kept in its place.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to me by
my Foreign Correspondents, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it
understood that I Claim.
First. A saddle-cloth made of horse-hair fabric, whether woven or braided,
substantially as described.
Second. Å saddle-cloth made of horse-hair, and consisting of two halves joined
together and forming one single piece, substantially as described.
Third. Joining the two parts of a horse-hair saddle-cloth by pasting over the
edges thereof strips of cloth and india-rubber or the like which are subsequently
sewn together, substantially as set forth.
In Witness whereof I the said Henry Harris Lake have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Eighteenth day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
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