IMPROVEMENTS IN BITS FOR HORSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fenner, of Fletching, near Uckfield, in
the County of Sussex, Saddler, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BITS FOR HORSES."
Sealed the 3rd December 1869, and dated the 7th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fenner at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th June 1869.
I, GEORGE FENNER,. of Fletching, near Uckfield, in the County of
Sussex, Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BITS FOR HORSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in so constructing bits that the head strap
instead of being connected to the cheeks of the bit, as commonly
practised, are connected to an independent piece formed of a tube of
metal with a short lever fixed on each end thereof. This tube with its
levers is mounted loosely on a rod, to the ends whereof the cheeks of the
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page_text: bit are fixed. The head strap being connected to the outer end of each
of the aforesaid short levers, it follows that when the cheeks of the bit
are pulled by the reins the rod that passes through the tubular bar will
move therein and have no effect upon the head strap, whereas by the
old method the head strap by reason of its being connected to the
cheeks moves therewith, and the object and intention of this Invention
is to obviate this movement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fenner in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GRORGE
FENNER, of Fletching, near Uckfield, in the County of Sussex, Saddler,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Fenner, Her; special licence that
I, the said George Fenner, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Fenner, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BITS FOR
HORSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Fenner, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Fenner, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion. that I hereby declare my Invention
to consist in, and I claim, constructing bits for horses in the manner
above described with reference to the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fenner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
GEORGE FENNER. (L.S.)