Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1895-Accented, 5th Oct.. 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Checking Runaway
Horses.
1, PABLO ARRIARAN, of P.O. Box 631 Buenos Aires, in the Argentine
Republic, Manufacturer, 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 invention relates to apparatus for checking runaway draught horses its
object being to construct apparatus capable of being thrown into action by the
driver of the drawn vehicle to operate by the movement of the vehicle to check
the horses attached thereto.
According to one mode of carrying my invention into practice I provide upon
the vehicle a clutch which when put into action causes a pulley to rotate and
tighten a rope noose around the hind legs of the horses. Instead of a rope noose
I may use a belt or any other checking device or appliance.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shows the right-hand fore-wheel of a carriage provided with the
checking device which is in its normal stationary position, the sleeves forming the
clutch being disconnected.
Figure 2 shows the apparatus in action with the sleeves connected and the rope
about to be tightened.
Figure 3 shows the apparatus with the rope wound up.
Figure 4 is the noose or lasso which is inade by the rope N one end of which is
made into an eye near the ring which is fixed under the whipple-tree, the other
part of the rope passes through the eye and the ring.
Figure 5 shows the device as applied to a two-horsed carriage, under normal
conditions.
Figure 6 shows in perspective the same arrangement but without the horses.
Figure 7 shows separately three details employed in the apparatus.
Figure 8 represents the click or stop and the central bush C in which it is
held.
Figure 9 is the central bush C with its stop and the stop springs all
connected up.
Figure 10 is part of the apparatus shown in Figure 1 but is drawn to a larger
scale than Figure 1.
Figure 11 is a longitudinal central section of Fig. 10.
Figure 12 is a detached view of a stationary hollow sleeve C hereinafter
referred to.
In all these figures A is a sleeve fixed centrally on the inner side of the right-
hand fore-wheel. G are slots in the sleeve A. B is a rotatable sleeve on the axle
opposite the sleeve A. The two projections H on the sleeve B are adapted to
euter the slots G in the same way as tenons fit into mortises.
The button K on
the sleeve B is for receiving and holding one end of the rope. The sleeve B
covers almost entirely the central bush C; a spring M and the end of a stop D
the tooth D of which penetrates into a groove R (Fig. 7) which is made in the
inner face of the sleeve B. The stop D is supported by two additional springs S
on the axle F which bear on projections T of the stop. J is the string which
commands or regulates the stop D. The said string is within reach of both the
coachman and the passenger. N is the rope which becomes a noose near Q being

page_text: fixed at one end to button K.
oo are thin elastic bands fixed on the harness-
traces to hold the rope at a suitable height and break when the rope N begins to
get reduced to lasso or sling the legs of the horses. U is the shaft under which is
held a support X through which passes the rope N. Q is the ring fixed to the
whipple-tree to support and guide the rope.
The rope
When stopped the apparatus is in the position shown in Figure 1.
one of the ends of which has been passed through the loop made by the other end
and within the guide-ring Q is fixed at K and is now ready to work. Let us
suppose that the horses run away. The passenger or coachman pulls the string J
and causes the tooth D' of the stop D to leave the groove R. The spring M is
then able to expand; the sleeve D now free causes under the action of the
spring M the projections H to lodge in the slots G thus connecting the sleeves A
and B.
Assuming the vehicle to be travelling the rope which is then drawn tight by the
sleeve B breaks the elastic bands and begins to be wound up as shown in
Figure 3. On the rotary motion continuing, the belt is finally wound up on the
connected sleeves and tightens the bight of the rope round the horses that can no
longer advance and generally fall to the ground, precluding any danger.
I do not limit my invention to the arrangements shown in the drawings by way
of example.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what [
claim is ;-
1. In apparatus for checking draught horses the combination with a check-rope
belt or other checking device of gearing adapted to actuate it and means for
readily putting such gearing into or out of operative connection with one of the
wheels of the drawn vehicle substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for checking draught horses the combination with a check-rope
belt or other checking device of a clutch adapted to actuate it and means for
readily putting such clutch into or out of gear with one of the wheels of the drawn:
vehicle substantially as described.
3. Apparatus for checking draught horses constructed arranged and operating
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.