IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLES AND STIRRUPS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO APPARATUS FOR CARRYING PACKS BY MEN
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BROWNE, of Castle Street, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the second year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Browne, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said John Browne, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Browne, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time'
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLES AND STIRRUPS FOR HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS, PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO APPARATUS
FOR CARRYING PACKS BY MEN;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a'
proviso, that I, the said John Browne, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Browne, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: This Invention consists in certain modes of forming saddles with metallic
springs and straps as hereafter explained. Drawing, Plate A, represents
several saddles, and the proposed advantages to be derived from having the
frame made of steel, and in the form shewn at Figure 1, is to obtain a
certain degree of elasticity that will give ease to the rider, and at the same
time from the nature of its construction will be cooler and less oppressive to
the horse. The steel frame is made in the way or form following:-In Figures
1 and 2, (1,) (1,) are three or more horizontal bars with openings for the straps
of the suspenders and stirrups, a continuation of the centre ones (2) forms the
frame for supporting the valissc, great coat, or portmanteau; (3), are bars
forming part of a circle and joined to the others; (4) are attached pieces in
various forms for supporting the carbine and holsters. Figure 3 is a repre-
sentation of the suspenders composed of two or more straps, the upper or
centre part of which is supported upon arched pieces of iron or steel (4), to
avoid coming in contact with the top of the horse's back. The straps (5) lay
upon frames and padding (6) to prevent them from the danger of friction.
The frames or padding (6) may be composed of pieces of joined wood, cork,
or bars of whalebone, steel, wood, or other flexible substance, to yield to the
movement of the horse; these are to be well padded. Figure 4 is a view of
the steel frame and suspenders, over which is to be put an outward cover to
complete the saddle. Figure 5 is the girth or sarsingale, which is to be much
longer than what is at present used, having to go once round the horse over
the frame padding, then again round the horse over the saddle, and both
ends buckling at the sides of the frame, and I would remark that this
part of my Invention will be--found-a-convenient means of more securely
fastening ordinary saddles.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1839, the aforesaid John Browne came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord.
.One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.