Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left. 25th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
A communication from OTTO KARL PLUER, of 12, Nikolaistrasse, and NIS NISSEN
THÖRRING, of 11, Tellkampfstrasse, Hanover, Empire of Germany.
I, Alfred Julius Boult of 323 High Holborn in the County of London,
Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The new saddle-tree is so arranged that its seat or conformation, as compared
with the shape of the saddle-tree hitherto in use, is set so much further back that
complete freedom of movement is given to the horse's shoulder-joint.
The pommel of the saddle bears as usual on the horse's withers: the closing
part of the tree (the bars or bearing) on the other hand, is well arched and not
thickly stuffed so that the muscles of the shoulder may have full and free play.
The end corners of the tree are carried well back, so that the shoulder-joints of the
horse when in motion, are not in any way hampered, whereas, on the contrary these
end-corners of the pommel as hitherto constructed were located just behind the
animal's shoulder-joint, so that the movement of the forelegs was cramped and
confined; and the bones of the shoulder in galloping came in contact with the end
corners and the muscles themselves could only partially find play beneath the
stuffing, so that the horse could not extend its forelegs properly, so as to enable it
to gallop naturally and freely. Consequently there was always a tendency to
overreach, or knock the hind-legs against the fore-legs, resulting in frequent injury
to the fore pastern joint; the horse acquiring a confirmed overreach or falling
permanently lame in the pastern.
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These evils are entirely avoided by the use of this new saddletree which in
accordance with the results of careful trials, allows the horse the free and natural
use of his limbs.
Dated this 28th day of May 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
A communication from OTTO KARL PLÜER, of 12, Nikolaistrasse, and N18 NISSEN
THÖRRING, of 11, Tellkampfstrasse, both in Hanover, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturers.
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 new saddle-tree as illustrated in the accompanying drawings is shown in
Figure 1 in side elevation, and in Figure 2 in plan. It is so arranged that its seat

page_text: or conformation, as compared with the shape of the saddle-tree hitherto in use,
(which is shown in dotted lines in the drawings), is set so much further back that
complete freedom of movement is given to the horse's shoulder-joint.
The pommel k of the saddle bears as usual on the horse's withers; the closing
part of the tree (the bars or bearing) is however well arched and not thickly
stuffed so that the muscles of the shoulder may have full and free play. The
end-corners of the tree are carried well back, so that the shoulder-joints of the
horse, when in motion, are not in any way hampered. These end corners of the pommel
as hitherto constructed (and as shown at f¹ in dotted lines Figs. 1 and 2) were
located just behind the animal's shoulder-joint, so that the movement of the forelegs
were cramped and confined; the bones of the shoulders in galloping coming in
contact with the end corners f¹1, thus the muscles themselves could only partially
find play beneath the stuffing, so that the horse was unable to extend its forelegs
properly, and gallop naturally and freely. Consequently there was always a
tendency to overreach, or knock the hind-legs against the forclegs, resulting in
frequent injury to the fore pastern joint; the horse acquiring a confirmed overreach
or falling permanently lame in the pastern.
These evils are entirely avoided by the use of this new saddle-tree, which in
accordance with the results of careful trials, allows the horse the free and natural
use of his limbs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
A saddle-tree the shoulder bearings of which are so set in relation to the pommel
and the bars so arched that the shoulder joints and muscles of the horse are free in
their movements substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.