Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 18th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1887.
JOHN HAWKINS Carlton Terrace Hornsey Road London N. Bit & Stirrup Maker
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to give riders and drivers more controlling power
over restive and runaway Horses-In carrying my Invention into effect, I place on
either side of an ordinary Bit another side or lever pivitted or jointed at or near the
mouthpiece. The lower ends of these Levers are buckled or attached to the ends of a
check rein. The upper and shorter ends of the levers are attached to two straps
which then reeve or run through slots holes or rings in the overends of the Bit, then
pass the one over the nose and the other under the lower jaw of the Horse. The
consequent action being that when the check rein is pulled the levers tighten the
straps the one over the nasal bone and the other under the jaw-at the same time.
In place of the two straps I can use a single continuous strap passing round the nose
and under the jaw, reeving it through the holes in the overends before taking hold of
the ends of the Levers. The noseband may be made with metal bearing pieces either
flat rounded V shaped or a number of balls sewn into the leather also a curb chain
may be used in lieu of the strap under the jaw-1 can also use a pair of checks
without a mouth obtaining my object by attaching the curb to the upper end & the
noseband a little below.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bits for Horses.
JOHN HAWKINS 504 Hornsey Road London, N. Manager of Works do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to he
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of my Invention is to give riders and drivers more controlling power
over restive and runaway Horses. In carrying my Invention into effect I place on
either side of an ordinary Bit another side or Lever pivitied or jointed at or near the
mouthpiece. The lower ends of these Levers are buckled or attatched to the ends of a
check rein. The upper & shorter ends of the Levers are attached to two straps which
then reeve or run through slots, holes, or rings in the overends of the Bit, then pass
the one over the nose and the other under the lower jaw of the Horse. The consequent
action being that when the check rein is pulled the Levers tighten the straps the one
over the Nasal bone and the one under the jaw at the same time. In place of the two
straps I can use a single continuous strap passing round the nose and under the jaw,
reeving it through the holes in the overends before taking hold of the ends of the
Levers. The noseband may be made with metal bearing pieces either flat rounded
V shaped or a number of balls sewn in the leather also a curb chain may be used in
lieu of the straps under the jaw.
I can also use a pair of checks without a mouth obtaining my object by attatching
the curb to the upper ends and the noseband a little below.
In order to make my Invention more particulary understood I shall now refer to
the drawing accompanying this specification.
Fig. 1 represents a driving bit made in accordance with my Invention, where A. A
represents the extra sides, cheeks, or Levers, pivitted at A¹ on the ordinary sides or
cheeks B. X is the mouthpiece which is shown moveable or sliding on the checks B.
but it may be fixed or allowed to revolve at or near the pirits A¹. The upper ends of
the Levers A are made with a slot through which passes the strap or noseband C. after
being rove through the double slots B₁ B3 on the ordinary cheeks B. the ends of the
strap or noseband C is buckled to a curb or strap D which passes under the lower jaw
of the Horse.
Attatched to the eyes at the top of the cheeks B is a strap E which I call a back-
strap, or a chain may be substituted answering the same purpose. This strap buckled
under the lower jaw of the Horse keeps the sides or cheeks B in their proper position
when the reins are pulled.
The action of the Bit is that when the reins which are buckled at the slots in the
lower ends of A are pulled the upper ends are thrown over in the direction of the
arrows, drawing the strap C through the double slots B¹ B₁, and thereby tightening
and closing the noseband C and curb D at one & the same time round the jaws of
the Horse.

page_text: Fig. 2 shows my arrangement of Bit without a mouthpiece where a pair of sides or
cheeks F. F. are buckled at F F to a noseband G. also the upper eyes are attached to
a backstrap or curb H. which passes under the lower jaw of the Horse as previously
discribed for E Fig. 1.
The action of this arrangement is somewhat similar to that discribed for Fig. 1.
inasmuch as when the reins attatched to the rings I are pulled the noseband G tightens
on the nasal bone and the backstrap or curb H presses on the underside of the jaw at
the same time.
Having now particularly discribed and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1st. The double action or tightening of the noseband and curb at one and the same
time by Levers as A A substantially as shown and discribed in Fig. 1.
2nd. The arrangement of a pair of cheeks or Levers to give a tightening action on
the noseband and backstrap or curb at one and the same time substantially as shown
and discribed in Fig. 2.