IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUSPENDING HORIZONTAL BARS USED FOR DIVIDING STABLES INTO STALLS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Gysbertus Welling of Camberwell in the County of
Surrey for an Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS FOR SUSPENDING HORIZONTAL
BARS USED FOR DIVIDING STABLES INTO STALLS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gysbertus Welling at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1882.
GYSBERTUS WELLING of Camberwell in the County of Surrey
"IMPROVED
MEANS FOR SUSPENDING HORIZONTAL BARS USED FOR DIVIDING STABLES INTO
STALLS
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When suspended horizontal bars are used for dividing stables into stalls, horses
not infrequently get one of their legs over a bar and get suspended upon it and
whilst so held suspended are very liable to injure themselves by kicking and
struggling.
The object of this invention is to avoid the risk of horses getting injured by
being held suspended upon the bars.
The front end of the bar I suspend by a short length of chain to the front of. the
manger or to the stable wall in the ordinary way. The back end of the bar which
usually is merely held suspended by a chain from the top of the stable I suspend
in such a manner that the weight of a horse hanging upon the bar shall cause the
suspending mechanism to give way and allow the bar to drop so as at once to
release the horse. For this purpose I apply at any desired point in the length of
chain suspending this end of the bar a yielding connection which shall be capable
of yielding if too great a strain comes upon it. This connection I form of an oval
shaped link of spring steel with a cut or division through it at one end. A hook is
made to engage with this link-The hook and the link are connected by chains
one to the bar and the other to the top of the stable. If too great a strain comes
upon the suspending chain the spring link opens and allows the hook to pass out
through the opening and so the hook gets disengaged from the link and the bar
drops.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Gysbertus Welling in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th March 1883.
GYSBERTUS WELLING of Camberwell in the County of Surrey " IMPROVED
MEANS FOR SUSPENDING HORIZONTAL BARS USED FOR DIVIDING STABLES INTO
STALLS
"
When suspended horizontal bars are used for dividing stables into stalls, horses
not unfrequently get one of their legs over a bar and get suspended upon it and
whilst so held and suspended are very liable to injure themselves by kicking and
struggling.
The object of this invention is to avoid the risk of horses getting injured by
being held suspended upon the bars.
The front end of the bar I suspend to the front of the manger or to the stable
wall in the ordinary way. The back end of the bar which is usually merely held
suspended by a chain from the top of the stable I suspend in such a manner that
the weight of a horse hanging upon the bar shall cause the suspending mechanism
to give way and allow the bar to drop so as at once to release the horse. For this
purpose I apply at any desired point in the length of chain suspending this end of
the bar a yielding connection which shall be capable of yielding if too great a strain
comes upon it. This connection I form of an oval shaped link of spring steel with
a cut or division through it at one end. A hook is made to engage with this link.
The hook and the link are connected by chains one to the bar and the other to the
top of the stable. If too great a strain comes upon the suspending chain the
spring link opens and allows the hook to pass out through the opening and so
the hook gets disengaged from the link and the bar drops.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 shews a general view of the above described means for suspending the
horizontal bars.
Figures shew edge and side views of the oval shaped yielding link. Figures 3
shew edge and side views of the hook for engaging with this yielding link and
Figures 4 shew edge and side views of the hook and yielding link hooked together
and with an ordinary split connecting link on the hook and yielding link
respectively for connecting them to the links of a chain.
In Figure 1 a is a bar such as is usually employed for dividing a stable into
stalls, it is connected at its front end to the manger by a link b, and at its back end
it is suspended by a chain c, to a fixed beam. At any desired point the chain is
divided. To one end a yielding link d is connected by an ordinary split link e.
and to the other end a hook fis similarly connected. The yielding link is as
shewn at Figures 2 made in the form of a long oval divided at one end by a cut d³,
this end is as shewn' made thin whilst the other end is thick and the sides of the
link taper gradually in thickness from one to the other.
The yielding link is as above stated made of spring steel-it is hardened and
tempered after being shaped to form.
Preferably I make the yielding link of such a strength that it shall open and
allow the hook to escape from it should a weight of more than say about 8 cwt
come upon it but it might be made stronger or weaker if desired.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said invention and the manner of
performing the same I would have it understood that I claim.-
First The improved means substantially as herein before described for suspending
the horizontal bars used for dividing stables into stalls.
Second. The yielding link of spring steel formed substantially as described and
shewn in the Drawings annexed..
In witness whereof I the said Gysbertus Welling have hereunto set my hand
and seal this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
G. WELLING. (L.S.)