AN INSTRUMENT TO BE AFFIXED TO THE SADDLE TREE, BY THE APPLICATION AND USE OF WHICH INCONVENIENCE AND DISTRESS TO THE HORSE MAY BE AVOIDED
Year: 1823

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
,CONSTANTINE JENNINGS, of Devonshire Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-
bone, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of September, One thousand eight hundred and
twenty-three, in the fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Constantine Jennings, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry
Constantine Jennings, my exors, adñors, and assigns, during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, with in England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN INSTRUMENT TO BE AFFIXED TO THE SADDLE TREE, BY THE
APPLICATION AND USE OF WHICH INCONVENIENCE AND DISTRESS TO THE HORSE MAY BE
AVOIDED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if
.I, the said Henry Constantine Jennings, shall not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and

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by the same, relation being thereunto bad, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Constantine Jennings, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-
My said instrument or means of preventing inconvenience and distress to the
horse, consists of a pair of springs affixed to the saddle tree, and applied
underneath the girths in such a manner as by their expansive power outwardly
to prevent the girths from pressing upon the sides of the horse, and thereby
afford him more liberty to breathe than when the girths press upon those parts
as usual; and I hereby claim as my Invention any and every of the various
methods by which springs can be applied to saddle trees, so that this said
beneficial effect may be produced. As, however, I am required to afford an
example of a method of carrying this my said Invention into effect, I shall
'do so by a description of and a reference to the Drawing which, as aforesaid,
accompanies this Specification, and in which Drawing the same letters of
reference indicate the similar parts in all the Figures.
left side of
The saddle
the stirrup
Fig. 1 is a plan of a saddle tree, viewed on its upper side. A, A, the saddle.
tree; B, B, the springs applied to it. Fig. 2, the springs of the
Fig. 1, shewn separately; and Fig. 3, an edge view thereof.
'tree has in addition to the usual loops or staples C, C, for
leathers to be affixed to, others D, D, also, upon which the springs B, B, rest
near their inner ends, grooves E, E, as shewn in Fig. 3, being made in
the springs to receive the said additional loops between them, and the
inner ends of the springs being lodged underneath the saddle tree A, as seen
in the section Fig. 3. Each spring is composed of one, two, or more .parts,
as may be found necessary to give it strength and yet permit it to play freely.
Those here shewn consist of two parts rivetted together at F, F; the outer ends
of the springs may be either made broader at first, or have additional pieces
rivetted to them afterwards; and, as shewn at G, G, these are for the girths
'to rest upon. The springs after being hardened and tempered should be
varnished, in order to prevent them from rusting, and be partly enclosed
within a sheath of hempen webbing, to guard against their rubbing the leather
parts they are placed in contact with. Fig. 4 represents part of the saddle
tree A, A, a staple D, two of the girth straps H, H, affixed to the saddle
tree, and one of the sweat flaps I, the hempen webbing sheath of the

page_text: springs being connected with the broad end of the sweat flap, within which
the outer end of the spring is enclosed and secured by stitching around it.
Fig. 5 represents a section through the body of a horse, with parts of the
saddle upon it, shewn on the left side; A, part of the saddle tree shewn in
section; B, B, the springs; D, section of the loop or staple upon which the
springs lodge and rest underneath the saddle tree, as above described; H, H,
the girth straps; I, the sweat flap; J, J, the girth; K, the pannel. The
white space between the spring B and the pannel K, shews the girth to be
prevented from pressing upon the horse's side by the action of the spring, as
before mentioned. The dotted lines on each side of the Figure shewn the
positions of the springs B, B, before being beat from the action of the girths
upon them; L, part of the cantle of the saddle; M, the skirt; N, the flap.
The right-hand side of the Figure shews a section of part of the saddle tree
A, the staplo D, the springs B, the sweat flap I, the girth straps H, and
the girths J.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Constantine Jennings (party hcreto)
have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
HENRY CONSTANTINE (Ls.) JENNINGS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1824, the aforesaid Henry Constantine Jennings came
before our said Lord the King in Ilis Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and speci-
fied, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.