A SADDLE BAR ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, WHICH I DENOMINATED THE MOTION SADDLE BAR
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DOBBS DAVIES, of New Compton Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gen-
tleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day
of January, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said John Dobbs Davies, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence that I, the said John Dobbs Davies, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A SADDLE BAR ON
AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION, WHICH I DENOMINATED THE MOTION SADDLE BAR;'
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
John Dobbs Davies, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Dobbs Davies, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a saddle bar

page_text: on an improved construction is described and ascertained in manner following;
that is to say:-
My motion saddle bar consists of a clam or brace which swings on a cross
bar, and is fastened to the side of the saddle. This bar is supported by an
upright shaft, to the bottom of which is fixed a hollow bar, upon which the
stirrup leather is suspended, and being insected, a small lever which acts as a
spring is placed in the insection, and has its motion in it. The base of the
lever is horizontal, the source of motion is perpendicular, both of which
constitute it. The motion produced counteracts that of the horse; and, in
case of accident, the immediate object is, that the stirrups clear the lever,
and the rider is instantaneously extricated from the danger of being dragged,
breaking his limbs, or losing his life, whether he fall right or left, upward or
downward, as the lever acts with equal effect in every of these positions.
This Invention is without the least difficulty in its operations; its action is so
simple, easy, and certain, that it precludes every possibility of failing, and is
the best calculated hitherto known to increase the pleasure of riding, by
lessening the danger.
And in order more clearly to shew the nature and principle of my
Invention, I have annexed a Drawing, with references thereto; but I would
have it to be understood that I do not mean thereby to confine myself to
manuacture my Invention strictly to such Drawing, but I do intend, and I do
manufacture the same with such variations as the nature of the Invention
will admit of, and which every intelligent workman must well understand.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Dobbs Davies, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and six.
JOHN DORDS DAVIES