Improvements in the Manufacture of Roller Bands for Animals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 20th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Roller Bands for Animals.
We, WILLIAM RICHARDSON and JOSEPH RICHARDSON trading as Richardson
Brothers of Cox Street, Coventry in the County of Warwick Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of roller
bands for horses and such like purposes which are so made that they allow a
certain amount of expansion while they at the same time maintain a firm hold in
either the expanded or contracted condition.
The elasticity is equally distributed and there is no rucking as the elastic web is
quite flat when not in use as well as when in its working position.
Our roller bands are made at the centre or upper part to fit the back of the
horse or other animal and of any suitable material but preferably from such
material as will not stretch and is rigid. The elastic part continues downwards on
each side, with one side longer than the other so that the buckle or fastening is at
the side.
The weaving of the elastic portions of our roller bands is carried out by using
extra threads at each side or edges of the fabric instead of forming the edges
around a wire and we thus obtain an even fabric which lies perfectly flat the
manufacture of this portion being carried out in the same manner as that described
for horse girths in our Specification No. 21,806 A.D. 1895.
Dated this 30th day of March 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Roller Bands for Animals.
We WILLIAM RICHARDSON and JOSEPH RICHARDSON trading as Richardson
Brothers of Cox Street, Coventry in the County of Warwick Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of roller
bands for horses and such like purposes which are so made that they allow a
certain amount of expansion while they at the same time maintain a firm hold in
either the expanded or contracted condition the elasticity is equally distributed and
there is no rucking as the elastic web is quite flat when not in use as well as when
in its working position.
For the purpose of more clearly understanding our inventica and that the same
may be easily carried into practical effect we have annexed hereto a sheet of
drawings upon which we have illustrated an example of a roller band both attached
and detached.

page_text: Figure 1. is a perspective view of a roller band applied to a horse and secured in
approximate position thereon.
Figure 2. is an enlarged perspective view of the same roller band detached from
the horse.
Our roller bands A consist of elastic webbing woven in such a manner as before
explained that they lie quite flat and do not ruck when taken off the tension being
well distributed all over the same and they are made at the part a' so as to fit the
back of the horse or other animal and of any suitable material but preferably from
such material as will not stretch and is rigid.
On the underside of the part al we provide suitable padding a² a³ which fits
comfortably on either side of the horse's spine.
The elastic portion a' a' of the said roller band continues downwards on either
side of the non elastic or rigid portion a' the end a being longer than the end a³ so
that the buckles or fastenings as a7 are at the side when the band is strapped in
position on the horse as shown at Figure 1.
Instead of continuing the elastic portion of the roller band all round we may if
desired connect the ends at a to the non stretching portion a¹ at as and a³.
The weaving of the elastic portion of the band is carried out substantially as
set forth in the Specification of our previous Patent No. 21806 A.D. 1895. The
drawings Figure 1 show a horse having a cloth or rug R held easily and elastically
on the horse by the roller band A in such a manner that the rug or cloth R will
not slip round and at the same time there is ample freedom for expansion.
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
The improvements in the manufacture of roller bands for horses and other
animals by forming the portion which rests upon the animal's back rigid or
non stretching and the ends and remaining portion which passes down the sides
and under the belly from elastic material by which means the said roller bands
maintain the cloth or rug R tightly and yet easily in position substantially as set
forth and shown.
Dated this 1st day of April 1896.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.