Improvements in the Saddle-plates and Backbands of Harness.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Saddle-plates and Backbands of Harness.
I PRICE ROBINSON, of Field's Farm, Lord Lane, Failsworth near Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
These improvements are intended principally to be applied to the harness of
cart or wagon horses, but it may in some cases be used also with advantage in
other kinds of harness where a back ban or chain running over a grooved saddle
plate is employed to support the shafts.
The object of the invention is to reduce the friction of the back band or chain
in the groove of the saddle plate and thus to prevent the side pull upon the latter,
which besides causing an unnecessary strain is a frequent cause of sore backs.
For the purposes of my invention instead of allowing the back band or chain to
slide to-and-fro across the saddle plate, I mount in the groove of the latter a series
of friction rollers upon axles placed transversely, so that the back band or chain
when passing over the groove in the saddle plate, rests and works upon these
rollers, thereby greatly reducing the friction and consequently the side strain upon
the back of the horse or other animal.
Sometimes instead of mounting the friction rollers in the groove of the saddle
plate I make the chain with a certain number of square links and in each of such
links I mount a roller provided with two axial projections or "paps" which are
passed into holes formed in the side bars of the links in the process of manufacture,
so that each roller and its axis is one solid piece and requires no drilling through
the centre and no pin bolt or rivet to revolve upon.
Dated this 12th day of May 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
PRICE ROBINSON Farmer Fields Farm Lord Lane Failsworth near Manchester
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 relates to improvements in saddle plates and backbands of harness
and its purpose is to overcome the tendency of the of the backband to pull the
saddle from side to side on the the horses back.
In the saddle plate I fix a number of antifrictional rollers supported on axles
inserted in and across and resting on the sides of the saddle plate which when
pressed upon by the backband will turn upon the axles and allow the backband to
move backwards and forwards without friction.
This part of my invention applys to where an ordinary backband is used and not
to the other part of my invention.

page_text: Having now perticularly 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
1. The insertion of antifrictional rollers on axles fixed in, and across, and resting
on the sides of the saddle plate or groove, where an ordinary or a leather backband
is used.
2. The combination of a bar or plate of iron, or steel as a frame, with two axles
running through, or riveted to frame, and with wheels either fixed or loose on the
ends of the axles to run on each side of the frame, to make a bogie or carriage.
3. A link with antifrictional roller in centre to connect bogies together, thus to
a backband, or chain, as before described.
Dated this 21st day of July 1806
PRICE ROBINSON.