Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Girths.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application; 16th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Girths.
We, WILLIAM RICHARDSON and JOSEPH RICHARDSON trading as Richardson
Brothers of Cox Street, Coventry in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
Our invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of horse girths
which are so made that they allow a certain amount of stretch while at the same
time they are equally firm, or almost equally firm at any reasonable position within
their elastic limit. The elasticity is equally distributed and there is no rucking as
the clastic web. is quite flat when not in use as well as when in its working
position.
The advantage is obvious as the saddle is held equally tight both before and after
the horse has fed and in jumping or when the animal is tinder considerable strain the
girth adapts itself casily and equally in all its parts to the strain whether of an
ordinary or exceptional character.
In horse girths as generally made the edges are formed by weaving around a wire
running along each side of the fabric the wires afterwards being withdrawn. By
this method great difficulty is experienced in making the girths so that they lie flat
even when finished. Now in making our improved girths we use instead of the
before mentioned wires extra threads which we weave in at each side of the fabric
by this means we obtain a girth that lies when finished perfectly flat and even in all
conditions without rucking up or bellying.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into effect we have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which we have
shown a complete girth and have given diagrams of a mode of weaving, but it will
be clearly understood that the mode of weaving herein illustrated by the diagrams
may be considerably varied without sacrificing the full effect for instance there may
be two or three separate guts in the warps instead of one only.
Figure 1 is a general view of the girth in its complete state ready for use.
Figure 2 is a diagram illustrating one method of weaving, the diagram being read
from left to right.
Figure 3 is a broken off longitudinal section of the girth fabric with the various
threads indicated upon the drawing the small circles representing the wefts.
Figure 4 is a broken off cross section of the girth fabric showing the india rubber
threads in black dots at the centre thereof.
In weaving our girths we take any number of threads of various materials such
for instance as indicated upon the diagrams the small round circles indicating the
harness in their raised position for the shuttle but the number of threads and the
manner of raising them may be considerably varied.
We form our elastic girths without the use of wires as before explained and so
avoid the curled and frayed edges, our edges being solid which we accomplish by
the use of extra warps on cach side which we weave with the girth, these taking the
place of the wires and we thus secure perfect regularity and flatness whether the
girth is in its normal or stretched condition.
The girth A has the usual buckles B for securing to the saddle.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained. the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is -
The improvements in the manufacture of girths for horses which we weave with
extra threads to form the edges by which means the girths when made are equally 5
flat in all conditions substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 15th day of November 1895.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.