A New or Improved Safety Stirrup-bar for Riding Saddles.
Year: 1895

page_text: A New or Improved Safety Stirrup-bar for Riding Saddles.
I, WILLIAM HENRY DENHAM of 100, Lichfield Street, Walsall in the County
of Staffordshire, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be..
as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved stirrup-bar for riding saddles...
designed and constructed to ensure a safe and substantial hold of the upper loop of
the stirrup leather under normal conditions, but which will allow of the immediate
release of the stirrup leather in case of the rider being thrown, whatever be the
angle at which the unseating may take place yet no detachment can occur in the
action of mounting or dismounting.
In carrying the invention into effect there is employed a plate (which is per--
manently fixed to the saddle-tree) the stirrup bar proper, and a hinge-pin in.
vertical position upon the saddle tree plate passing through snugs on the said plate.
and through a hole in the said stirrup-bar so that said bar is hinged to the saddle
tree plate and may swing horizontally in an arc of about one half of a circle.
The snugs on the saddle tree plate swell out from the flat of the plate and are
rounded so as not to present any harsh projection to the saddle flaps or saddle-
skirt.
This saddle-tree-plate and hinged stirrup-bar is placed in position under the
"skirt" of the saddle and will, when upholding the stirrup leather (i.e. in normal.
condition of use), have the. hinged portion forward in direction of the head of the
horse, and the free end of the stirrup-bar will extend backward and lie against the
saddle flaps supporting the loop of the stirrup-leather under the saddle skirt, and
will be securely held from turning on its hinge pin or swivelling whilst the rider is.
mounting, is seated or is dismounting, but in case of accidental unseating of the
rider and entanglement of the foot with the stirrup the drag on the stirrup-bar
will cause it to swivel to any position of the arc of its movement and the loop of
the stirrup leather will at once slip off the stirrup-bar and release the same while.
rider from further liability of being dragged along and from further injury arising-
from such cause.
The hinge pin is screwed and the hing snug or snugs on the saddle-tree-plate is-
or are tapped so as to securely hold the hinge pin.
By this mode of fitting there is secured the advantage that the stirrup-bar may-
be replaced if damaged or say, if one of larger size is required to be substituted.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1895.

page_text: A New or Improved Safety Stirrup-bar for Riding Saddles.
WILLIAM HENRY DENHAM, Saddle Manufacturer, 100, Lichfield Street,
Walsall, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
:
The stirrup bar as shown in accompanying drawing, Fig. 1, is made in two
parts, viz. Fig. 2, stirrup leather rest, and Fig. 3, tree plate. The stirrup leather
rest A is fixed to tree plate C by placing pivot B underneath flange D and into
pivot hole in crank E, flange Ď is then turned round pivot B to form a bed for
pivot B and allowing stirrup leather rest A to swing round on pivot B in case of
the rider being pitched or thrown off his horse in any direction, instantly releasing
the stirrup leather and freeing the rider. The crank E is raised up from tree
plate C to throw the pivot B further out from the tree plate C at the bottom than
the top so as to keep the stirrup leather rest A in closed position as in Fig. 1.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. A stirrup bar for riding saddle for releasing the rider in case he should be
thrown or falls from his horse and so preventing him from being dragged at the
horses heels.
Dated this 2 th day of March 1896.
WILLIAM HENRY DENHAM.