Horse-collar Protectors.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Horse-collar Protectors.
WALTER WILLIAMS Saddler Merthyr Road Pontypridd in the county of Glamorgan
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A plate or plates of metal or some other hard material which is to be affixed to the
ring of the collar by means of nails, screws, clamps, rivetts, plugs or by means of
projecting points or lugs cast or formed in the said plate. The form of the plate or
plates to vary if necessary to suit any shape or size of collar. It is intended to be
used more particularly on collars worn by horses in nines and other underground
work where the collars are liable to rub against the roof.
Dated this 02nd day of Anni 1880
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Horse-collar Protectors.
I, WALTER WILLIAMS, of Merthyr Road, Pontypridd, in the county of Glamorgan,
sadler, 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 invention consists in the use on horse collars of a metallic plate fixed to the
collars for the purpose of protecting the same and to assist in preserving the shape
thereof, as hereinafter more particularly set forth.
This invention is specially applicable to collars used on horses employed under-
ground in collieries and other mines. The protecting plate is fixed by screws, or
otherwise, to the collar at the top thereof, that is to say, to that part which when the
collar is placed on a horse is highest. Consequently, the protector receives the
friction and shocks caused by occasional contact with the roof of the passages and
ways" in mines, and thus the leather covering of the collar is shielded from friction
or blows hitherto received by it.
The protector serves also as a rigid arched frame preventing the collar.from parting at
the top seam and from spreading or widening and, consequently, from injuring the
horse's neck.
Again, the bearing surface for the hames at the top of the collar being more
permanent the hames do not become so readily displaced at that point.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents a front view and Fig. 2
an edge view of one form of horse collar protector comprised in this invention, Fig. 3
is a section on the line a, x, Fig. 1.
The protector consists of a metallic plate arched to correspond approximately with
the shape of the upper part of a collar. The plate is curved. so as to present a concave
underface and is provided with spikes b by means of which, and screws or nails passed
through the holes c and driven into the collar, the plate is secured on the latter, as
seen at Fig. 4. The attachment may be otherwise made.
At Fig. 4 the collar is shown inclined approximately at the angle which it takes
when placed on a horse's neck, and it will be seen that the protecting plate a is at the
highest point and, therefore, shields the ring e of the collar against friction caused by
occasional contact with the roof of the passages and ways of a colliery or other
mine.
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The plate also prevents the collar from spreading or widening at the top.
Consequently, an uniform bearing on the neck of the horse is obtained and injury

page_text: Again, the plates serves as a more permanent bearing surface behind the hames
which are thereby prevented from being tilted on to the horse's neck.
Fig. 5 is a front view, Fig. 6 an edge view, and Fig. 7 a section on the line, x,
Fig. 5, of a modified form of protector curved to fit further over and partially envelop
the ring e of the collar, as shown at Fig. 8.
Fig. 9 is a front view, and Fig. 10 a section on the line xx, Fig. 9, of a further
modification in which the plate a is furnished with a hood a' for protecting the collar
housing, as seen at Fig. 11. In the modification shown at Figs. 12 and 13 the
plate a is provided with arms a² which are designed to be bent down upon the collar
ring prior to being secured thereto. By this provision the protecting plate is
rendered more easily adaptable to collars with differently shaped rings and of otherwise
varied pattern and also to collars which have been more or less abraded prior to
attachment of the plate.
Fig. 14 illustrates a modification in which the protector is made in sections.
The sections are secured to one another and to the collar after adjustment, or
approximate adjustment, to the angle or degree of opening at the top of the collar.
By this arrangement provision is made for applying the protector to collars having
different degrees of curvature.
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 :-
In a horse collar, the provision of a metal plate or plates secured to the collar at the
top thereof as an external shield thereto, substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to the accompanying drawings and for the purposes set forth.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.