An Improvement in Fittings Used to Mount Draught Saddles of Various Kinds.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 21st June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Fittings Used to Mount Draught Saddles of
Various Kinds.
I, HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY of 9 Vicarage Place Walsall Saddler's
Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This improvement consists in forming a loop between the leg and upper part of
each of the "territs" and of the "hook" used to mount draught saddles of various
description, which loops are designed to receive the back band and allow it to play
therein; and in the provision, where necessary, of suitable adjuncts the better to
utilize the loops for various kinds of saddles respectively.
The loop may be cast, forged or stamped in process with the territs and hook or
be separately made and afterwards joined (permanently or at will) with the upper
parts of them.
It may carry one or more legs fixed in centre, at one or both ends, and these
may be supplemented with, or substituted by, shoulders formed at either or both
ends of the loop by means of which the loop may be bolted or screwed down to
the saddle-tree, or the sides of loop may be hollow and made to receive a screw
or bolt.
It may be mounted with rollers at any point, particularly at its base.
For cab or van saddles, caps may be made to fit the ends of the loop in addition
to or dispensing with the shoulders, and where beading is employed a modified
form of van-end plate-consisting of caps and plate combined-is used to add to the
security of loop and to fasten down and cover up the ends of the beading.
Van-end plates thus formed with caps may be used where other fittings are
not employed.
Dated this 20th day of June 1896.
An Improvement in Fittings Used to Mount Draught Saddles of
Various Kinds.
I HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY 9 Vicarage Place Walsall Saddler's
Ironmonger 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:-
This improvement relates to frames of metal or other hard substance, designed
to carry the harness back-strap upon the top-covering of a harness saddle or the
like.
In this improvement several oblong frames a of sufficient interior dimensions to
allow the back-strap to run to and fro are mounted upon the saddle by means
either of a single leg or a single plug to each frame.
If a leg b the leg proceeds downwards from the bottom bar of the frame and
engages by means of screwing or locking with a socket 61 placed in the foundation
of saddle.

page_text: If a plug e the plug is embedded in the said foundation and proceeds upwards to
be received into the said bottom bar constructed to form its socket c¹.
The frame, with or without the leg, may be stamped, cast or forged in metal or
other hard substance, or be made partly in metal and partly in other hard
substance as vulcanite and the like.'
When the saddle requires rein-terrets d or a bearing-hook e or both these,
except sometimes the hook, surmount the top bar of the frame. Such terret aud
book respectively are either cast with the frame or attached to it by screwing,
soldering, riveting or the like. The hook however may take its rise from the
side of the frame as f and the frame may also carry a crupper loop g.
The frame with terret or hook; or frame, hook and crupper-loop together with
the leg of frame may be cast in one solid piece. This is done by laying the
pattern on the tilt in the "mould" and "banking up" to it, or by twisting pattern
and subsequently restoring the casting, or by means of a core or cores.
In mounting a saddle a series of frames is used. Normally there are two frames
each surmounted with a teriet; one with a hook; two without any surmounts.
This series may be taken from or added to.
For heavy draught saddles some of the frames are furnished with shoulders h
which project from the extremities of the bottom bar of frame. These shoulders
are made to receive a screw to secure them to the saddle foundation. The
shoulders of the lowest frame on each side of saddle may be covered by a suitable
plate extending from shoulder to shoulder and spreading out downwards as j and
the like, or by caps or ornamental finials each covering one shoulder. Such plates,
caps finials and the like may be made so as to receive and secure the ends of
"beading" which may be employed.
The manner of surmounting a terret upon such a frame as described in this
improvement may be similarly applied to any frame of suitable design. In case
of surmounting a hook upon any frame the hook and frame are stamped, cast or
made together in one piece.
The frames may be furnished with rollers at certain points to facilitate the
movement of the back-strap.
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 :-
1. To mount upon a draught saddle of any kind a series of frames each secured
to the saddle foundation by means of a single leg or of a single plug as described.
2. To surmount a frame such as described with a rein-terret or with a bearing-
hook by making or casting either of such in one piece with the frame.
3. To make or cast in one piece with the frame a hook rising from the side of
the frame and also a crupper loop in the same piece.
4. To surmount a frame as described with a terret or with a hook by attaching
same to frame in any efficient manner.
5. To surmount with a terret or with a hook a frame of any suitable con-
struction by making or casting such in one piece with the frame, or in the case of
the terret by screwing, soldering, riveting or the like to the frame.
6. To put when desirable shoulders as described to each extremity of the bottom
bar of a frame.
7. To cover shoulders as described with a plate caps or finials as described.
8. To adapt the plate caps and finials to receive and secure the ends of beading
which may be employed.
9. To furnish the frames described with rollers at suitable points.
ALL: 0 3 SML 1005
HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY.