Improvement in Saddles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 29th Nov, 1990
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Saddles.
I, JOHN RITCHIE of 37 McAslin Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark North
Britain, Saddler and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENT IN SADDLES," to be as follows:-
"
My said invention has for its object by means of metal guards to prevent wear in
the back parts of saddles such as are used in cart and van harness. In such saddles
the parts on each side of what is, among saddlers, known as the "bar," is subjected
to great wear and the saddle is consequently disfigured such wear being caused by
the rubbing of the crapper chain hearers.
In carrying out my invention I provide on the top of back part of saddles such
as those herein before mentioned metal plates of any suitable form and device one
on each side of the "bar."
Dated this Twenty-third day of January 1890.
JOHN RITCHIE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Saddles.
I JOHN RITCHIE of 149 Firpark Street, Dennistoun, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Saddler,
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:
My said invention has for its object by means of metal guards to prevent wear in
the back parts of saddles such as are used in cart and van harness. In such saddles
the parts on each side of what is, among saddlers, known as the "bar" is subject to
great wear and the saddle is consequently disfigured, such wear being caused by the
rubbing of the crupper chain bearer.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
an explanatory sheet of drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the after part of a horse with the harness on it,
and showing my improved metal guard plates a as fitted to the back end A' of the
saddle A. Figure 2 is a back end view, and Figure 3 a plan broken away, of the
saddle A, to an enlarged scale showing my improved guard plates a as applied
thereto. Figure 4 is an edge view of one of the improved guard plates a as formed
with paps or screw sockets a¹ on their under side for being secured by internal
screws a², screwed into these paps a' at the back end A¹ of each side of saddle A.
And Figure 5 is a similar view in which screws all are cast or secured on the lower
side of the guard plates a for being secured to the saddle A by screw nuts a³. And
Figure 6 is a plan view of one of these guard plates a.
Referring to these drawings, the new or improved guard plates a are preferably
made of brass and rounded on the top surface, and are each secured to the upper back
edge A' of the saddle A on each side of the "bar" A² by having the paps a¹ or
screws a passed through holes formed in the leather and secured on the underside
by screws a² or nuts a preferably with washers on the underside of the leather, or
with the screws passed through a thin plate of metal on the underside of the saddle
at b. The wear which usually takes place at the back parts A' on each side of the
bar A2 of the saddle A by the rubbing of the strap of the crupper chain bearer B is
by these improvements obviated as the strap of the crupper chain bearer B now rests
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page_text: and glides over the new or improved metal plates a, as shown in Figure 1 and
indicated by dotted lines at B¹ in Figure 3, which take up all the frictional action.
These guards a are preferably made of brass or steel of the shape shown particularly
in Figures 2 to 6 of the drawings, but they might be made of other shapes, and of
other equivalent material such as of hard wood, vulcanite, or of leather which
would also protect and prevent the wearing action on the back edge A¹ of the
saddle A.
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
First. The fitting and use of saddles for cart and van harness and the like with
plates or guards which will prevent wear by the harness on the back parts of same,
substantially as herein described, in reference to and by way of application shown in
the accompanying drawings,
Second. The construction of guard plates and means of attaching same to the back
paris of saddles to protect same against wear, substantially as herein described in
reference to and shown in Figures 2° to 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 23rd October 1890.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.