CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SADDLES AND STIRRUP IRONS
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
EDWARD DUNN, of the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the County of Middle-
sex, Sadler, and WILLIAM JACKSON, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in
the same County, Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Nineteenth day of July, in the thirty-first year of His reign,
give and grant unto us, the said Edward Dunn and William Jackson, His
special licence that we, the said Edward Dunn and William Jackson, should
and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, an
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SADDLES AND
STIRRUP IRONS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging us, the said Edward Dunn and William Jackson, under our hands
and seals, to cause a particular description of the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, thic said
Edward Dunn and William Jackson, do hereby declare that our said Inven-
tion is described in the Plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Dunn and William Jackson,
have hereunto set our hands and soals, this Eighteenth day of August,
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
JN SPRANGER.
W JACKSON. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of
August, in the year above written, the aforesaid Edward Dunn and William
Jackson came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
abovo written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Eighteenth day of August, in the year above mentioned. 1

page_text: The Printed plates of the Saddle with the Improvements. _
The side parts betwixt the Joints bevil'd off
giving motion to the Plates
оч
on the under and upper sides, reversed for the purpose of
The Rivet that goes through the Joints of the Plates with Screw on its middle that gives motion to a nui
some what in the form of a double Dovetail reversed G and screws
A Collar or Shoulder on Rivet C. with a
Wedge
turning round.
on the Rivet..
Square Hole Socket or pin for Keys to fit for the purpose of
A small Collar to go on when the Rivit is fixed in the plates and Next or Wedge to prevent the Rivit
from draiving it through when the plates and Next are in motion ..
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A Scrived Nutt or Wedge somewhat in the form of a double Dovetail reversed that Screws on the middl
of the Rivit when fixed in the Somited plates the upper part of the wedge or nut bevelled off towards the.
Key and the lower part the Reverse that when fitted to the Bevels of the jointed plates by turning
round the Key the Wedge or Nut Stides backwards. or forwards and expands or contracts the jointed ploite
so as to fit Horses of all sizes
of the Saddle
The Keys to fit and turn the kivit with screw in middle
A view of Saddle plates when compleat-
A Description of the new invented patent Improvements on the construction of Stirrup Irons . __
A Joint on each side of the Stirrup Iron. –
About
one third part of the Stirrup Iron above the Soints ___
a
plain
The whole substance of the Stivicup Iron joined to (N°2) founing on the inside of the Stirrup
edge nothing visible to the the Points doubling towards the Ive by the pressure of the inside part of the Foot
piece and the outside part of the Toe piece throws back the inside edge (N°2) and relieves the Eye of the Stirrup .
The Somited Eye of the Shirup Iron . -
The pin
pin or Catch that Keys the Eye down
The various ways of relieving, when entangled in the Shiccup. -
The Eye of the Shirup Iron. -
A Widge that Heys the Eye to the Stinup Iron whin press'd back by the fore part of the Foot forces out?.
the wedge and relieves the Eye from the Stirrup
A Spring bow without Joints or a solid bow (N:10) with Joints when pushed back by the fore part of the
Got forces out the wedge (8) and relieves the Eye from the Stirrup .