IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE- RADO
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Oldmeadow, of Cheltenham, in the county of
Gloucester, Whitesmith, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE-
RADO"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Oldmeadow at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th March 1882.
JAMES OLDMEADOW, of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, Whitesmith
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE BARS."
This invention has reference to further improvements on the safety saddle bar
for which Letters Patent were granted to Sir Thomas Dancer, Baronet, and
Edwin Chappell, No. 5477 dated the twenty ninth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, the present improvements having for object to lessen
the number of parts of the bar and thereby to reduce the cost of manufacture and
increase the efficiency of the bar.
In carrying out the improvements I dispense with the spring in the vertical bar
as described in the specification of the said former Letters Patent, and consequently
with the slot or recess in the said bar in which the spring was placed; I slot or
split longitudinally the cranked or horizontal bar from its free or pointed end
to a sufficient distance to enable the same when the parts are slightly opened out
to form a spring.
By this improvement the pointed and grooved end of the horizontal bar may be
pushed into the eye of the vertical bar and will then spring outwards and the
groove in the bar and the interior of the said eye being suitably shaped the two
parts will be securely locked together but in such a manner that the parts will
become unlocked from any undue pressure or strain.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Oldineadow in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th September 1882.
_JAMES OLDMEADOW of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, Whitesmith.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SADDLE BARS
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This invention has reference to further improvements on the safety saddle bar
for which Letters Patent were granted to Sir Thomas Dancer, Baronet, and
Edwin Chappell, No. 5477, dated the twenty ninth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, the present improvements having for object to lessen
the number of parts of the bar and thereby to reduce the cost of manufacture and
increase the efficiency of the bar.
In carrying out the improvements I dispense with the spring in the vertical bar
as described in the specification of the said former Letters Patent, and consequently
slot or
with the slot or recess in the said bar in which the spring was placed;
split longitudinally the cranked or horizontal bar from its free or pointed end
to a sufficient distance to enable the same when the parts are slightly opened out
to form a spring.
In order to enable the present improvements to be better understood I will now
proceed to describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
figure 1, represents a front view of a saddle bar (for the left hand or near side)
constructed according to my improvements; figures 2, and 3, end views of the
same; figure 4, an elevation shewing the saddle bar opened by the backward
action of the stirrup leather and figure 5, is an elevation shewing the parts of
the bar in the position they would occupy just before opening in the event of the
rider being thrown on the off side of the horse. Similar letters in all the figures
represent similar parts.
a, is the plate rivetted to the saddle; b; is the vertical bar hinged or jointed as
shewn at c, near the back end of the plate a;; d, is the projection or cam of the
said bar; e, is the horizontal bar cranked or curved at the end f, where it is hinged
or jointed to the front end of the plate a, as shewn; g, is the eye in the lower end
of the vertical bar b,; h, is the pointed or rounded end of the bar c, formed with
a curved groove i.
All the said parts are constructed similarly to the corresponding parts described
in the specification of the said former Letters Patent except that the spring in the
vertical bar b, is dispensed with and also the slot in the said bar in which the said
spring was placed, and the horizontal bar e, is according to the present improve-
ments, formed with a longitudinal slot or split e¹, extending from its free or pointed
or rounded end h, to a sufficient distance to enable the same when the parts are
slightly opened out as shewn in figure 3, to form a spring. k, is the stirrup leather
placed over the horizontal bar e.
By this improvement the pointed or rounded and grooved end h, of the horizontal
bar e, may be pushed into the eye g, of the vertical bar b, and will then spring
outwards into the position shewn in figure 3, and the groove i, in the bar e, and
the interior of the said eye g, being suitably shaped the two parts will be securely
locked together but in such a manner that the parts will become unlocked from
any undue pressure or strain.
The action of the bar will be substantially the same as that described in the
specification of the said former Letters Patent and therefore needs no further
description.
Having thus described my said invention and the manner of performing the
same What I claim is :-
Firstly. The improved safety saddle bar having the cranked or horizontal bar

page_text: slotted longitudinally and constructed substantially as herein described and shewn
in the drawings annexed.
Secondly. The use in saddle bars constructed as herein described of a cranked
or horizontal bar slotted longitudinally as and for the purposes above mentioned.
In Witness whereof I the said James Oldmeadow have hereto set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one
⚫ thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
JAMES OLDMEADOW. (L.S.)
ILS Commercial Agency, Gloucester, England,
Aug 16th 1882.
Aug 16th 1882.
I Charles Edwin Portlock Vice Commercial Agent of the United States at
Gloucester England do hereby certify that the signature of James Oldmeadow as
above is his true and genuine signature made and acknowledged in my presence
and that the said is personally known to me.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
Commercial Agency at Gloucester England this day and year next above
written and of the Independence of the United States