Improvements in and relating to Saddles for Horses.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Saddles for Horses.
I, JACQUES MEYER, of 27 Rue du Colisee, Paris, in the Republic of France,
Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to he performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My invention relates to saddles for horses.
The stuffings with which the underside of saddles for horses have heretofore
been provided have the defect of becoming hard in a little time, in consequence of
which the horses are often wounded on their back. In order to remedy these
inconveniences I provide the under side of saddles with flat and elongated pneumatic
cushions. These cushions, which are furnished with an adjutage enabling a force
pump to be adapted to them, can be inflated more or less in conformity with the
shape of the horse's back according as the latter has projecting or round withers.
The cushious, besides being extremely soft and not liable to wound the horse, are
modelled exactly to the form of the horse, the air being naturally distributed so as
to inflate those portions of the pocket more which are above hollow parts. In
this manner I obtain a saddle which fits well upon the horse's back and cannot
shift.
These pneumatic saddle cushions are much cooler for the horse than the stuffing
of wool and horse-hair heretofore employed.
I have represented my pneumatic saddle in the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the axis.
Figure 2 is a transverse section.
Figure 3 shows a plan of the saddle seen from below.
Figures 4 and 5 are a longitudinal section and a transverse section of a cushion
to an enlarged scale.
Below each of the saddle-tree bars A is arranged a pneumatic cushion B, the
adjutage C of which, having a valve and serving for the inflation by a pump,
traverses the bar and extends to the outside of rear part of the saddle. This
pneumatic cushion is lined with leather D.
The cushion may be formed of a single interior pocket of rubber or rubber cloth
constituting an air chamber and held in a wrapper of cloth, preferably also rubber
cloth. But I prefer to arrange my pneumatic cushion as shown in Figures 4 and 5,
according to which use is made of tubes D or the like of rubber cloth which
occupy in the transverse direction the width of the cushion. These tubes which
are glued one against the other communicate together through holes o formed in
their lateral partitions. The tubes constitute together a flat air chamber which is
enclosed in a wrapper B, B of cloth or canvas preferably proofed with rubber, and
the edges of which are fixed below the bars A of the saddle like ordinary cushions.
E E, Figures 1 and 2, are sheets of leather attached inside the saddle to. the
pneumatic cushions.
I may employ pneumatic cushions of any kind and in particular cushions with an
unpuncturable air chamber.
My pneumatic saddle, which may be made of any desired form, is suitable for
ladies, gentlemen, for the army and for general use.
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 :-
A saddle for horses the lining of which is formed of cushions inflated with ai:

page_text: and constituting a single air chamber or several connected transverse air chambers
communicating together, the said air chamber or chambers being made of rubber
cloth or rubber and enclosed in a wrapper of cloth or canvas covered with leather
underneath.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.