Improvements relating to Blinders or Blinkers for Horses.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Blinders or Blinkers for Horses.
: I, ADRIEN PAUL EMILE BONNARD, of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
•
Various apparatus serving to facilitate the controlling of horses have heretofore
been devised which are adapted to obstruct the sight of the animal as soon as it
cominences to kick, rear or move irregularly. These apparatus are inconvenient and
cumbersome, and their action is uncertain.
The apparatus constructed according to my invention is very simple in its con-
struction and operation, and its employment does not. necessitate any change in the
horse's head gear.
This invention consists in providing pockets on the inside of the eye-flaps, these
pockets being fitted to be blown up so as to apply them over the horse's eyes for the
purpose of obstructing its sight.
The said pockets, are arranged in such a manner that when blown up their central
part will not press upon the horse's eyes and fatigue them. If the central part were
blown up, the pockets would moreover be liable to slip from the eyes and wear out
in a short time.
For these reasons the pockets which consist of india-rubber or other suitable elastic
material are made of such a shape that on introducing air into them their central part
shall not come in contact with the horse's eye, whilst the whole of their outer part
shall be applied to the skin all around the eye, thus completely obstructing the sight
without exerting pressure upon the eyes.
The pockets are set in communication with tubes serving to conduct air which is
compressed by means of a piston, a Richardson-pear, bellows, or the like.
Dated thin 19th JL.... 1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Blinders or Blinkers for Horses.
I, ADRIEN PAUL EMILE BONNARD of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,
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 :-
Various apparatus serving to facilitate the controlling of horses have heretofore
been devised which are adapted to obstruct the sight of the animal as soon as it
commences to kick, rear or move irregularly. These apparatus are inconvenient and
cumbersome, and their action is uncertain.
The apparatus constructed according to my invention is very simple in its con-
struction and operation, and its employment does not necessitate any change in the
horse's head-gear.
This invention consists in providing pockets on the inside of the blinders or blinkers
these pockets being fitted to be blown up so as to apply them over the horse's eyes for
the purpose of obstructing its sight.
The said pockets are arranged in such a manner that when blown up their central
part will not press upon the horse's eyes and fatigue them. If the central part were
blown up, the pockets would moreover be liable to slip from the eyes and wear out in
a short time.

page_text: I obtain better results by the arrangement of the pocket which I have devised and
which is represented in the accompanying drawing in which
Figures 1 and 2 are a side view and a front. view showing how the improved
apparatus is applied.
Figures 3 and 4 represent to an enlarged scale an interior view and a section of a
blinder or blinker having an extensible pocket.
The pocket P which consists of India-rubber or other suitable elastic material is
.made of a single thickness in the middle at O so that when blown out it shall not
come in contact with the horse's eye, whilst the whole of its outer part will be blown
up in the form of a ring as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 4 so as to be applied
to the skin all around the eye, as indicated in Figures 1 and 2 thus completely
obstructing the sight without exerting pressure upon the eyes.
The pockets P are cast in folds as shown in Figure 4 so that the said pockets
have a tendency to return to the folded position naturally after having heen
blown out.
The said pockets P are set in communication by thin pipes a with tubes 6 serving
to conduct air which is compressed by the driver through the medium of a piston, a
Richardson-pear, bellows or the like.
The aforesaid tubes are arranged in the leather reins, or, as shown in Figure 5,
are independent of the same. In this latter case these tubes bb terminate in a single
tube c which has at its end a bell mouth'd of bone, ivory, wood or other material, by
means of which the driver can compress air with his mouth. This bell mouth is
provided with a cock r for preventing the escape of air and keeping the pockets of
the blinders or blinkers blown up.
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 1
claim is :-
The improved blinders or blinkers having extensible pockets which are applied, if
blown up, around the eyes of the horse, when it runs away, kicks or rears, so as to
completely obstruct the sight of the restive animal without fatiguing its eyes, as
herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.