Improvements in Horse Collars.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 21st Nov., 1892-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Collars.
WILLIAM THOMAS FELL 558 Fulham Road Fulham S.W. Painter &
Decorator do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to a spring which is made in steel, or any other suitable
metal, which entirely dispenses with the stuffing of the forwell of the collar.
This spring is inserted in the said collar and forms the forwell; and foundation of
the collar. This spring opens at the top of the collar, and fastens with a catch,
lock or other suitable fastening. This said collar is entirely covered with leather
in the ordinary way.
1000
WILLIAM THOMAS FELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Collars.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS FELL formerly of 558, Fulham Road, Fulham, S. W., and
now of 60, Grove Lane, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, Painter and
Decorator, 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 the construction of horse collars and has for its principal
object to facilitate the harnessing and unharnessing of vicious and timid horses by
enabling the operation to be performed without passing the collar over the animal's
head.
The invention consists in constructing an open-topped collar upon a steel spring
as a frame which occupies the position of the fore wale and which also serves the
purpose of the hames. The spring is formed of a steel rod bent to the desired
shape and whose ends are brought together at the top of the collar and united by a
fastening, the usual padding and covering being built up on, or applied to, the steel
frame, the open-topped collar being capable of springing open at the upper part
to admit of slipping it on or off the animal's neck without passing it over the head
or removing the halter. The normal tendency of the collar being to open as above
described, the operation of harnessing and unharnessing may be easily performed.
The fastening by which the upper ends of the collar are united, must, of course, he
such as to resist the bursting strain upon it due to the pressure of the animal's
shoulders and yet be capable of being readily fastened and unfastened. The spring
frame would have forged upon it the usual pulls for the traces and the loops or
attachments for the terrets.
The improved construction of collar is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,
forming part of this Specification, wherein Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 a
central vertical section. Figure 3 is a section of the lock on line 1-1 Figure
a is the spring frame formed of a rod preferably of round section bent to a U form
and forged with broad ends 6 of the form shewn to which are affixed the two
parts c c of a spring latch fastening by which the ends 6 of the spring a are united.
The spring a occupies the position of the stuffing of the forewale and is covered
It is
with leather, the afterwale d being padded and covered in the usual manner.
preferred to make the spring a also answer the purpose of the hames and for this
purpose to forge upon it the pulls e and bosses to receive the stems of the terrets f.
The fastening c c¹ is a spring snap lock and in order to guard against its accidental

page_text: release, a cover plate g is provided sliding in a dovetail groove in the top of the
lock and adapted to both cover the push piece h and hold it in its locked position
by inner flanges on the cover engaging in notches formed on the push piece h, as
seen in Figure 3..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
An open-topped horse collar having a steel spring as a frame which occupies the
position of the forewale, substantially as and for the purpose specified, in combina-
tion with a locking device uniting the upper ends of the spring and closing the top
of the collar, as described.
Dave on day of November 1892.
W. T. FELL,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.