IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO FACILITATE THE APPLICATION AND DISCON- NECTION OF PARTS THEREOF
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Martin Kosminski, of Aldermanbury, in the City of
"
London, Furrier, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN HARNESS FOR
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO FACILITATE THE APPLICATION AND DISCON-
NECTION OF PARTS THEREOF.”
Sealed the 5th November 1878, and dated the 31st May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Martin Kosminski at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st May 1878.
MARTIN KOSMINSKI, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Furrier.
PROVEMENTS IN HARNESS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO FACILITATE THE
APPLICATION AND DISCONNECTION OF PARTS THEREOF.'
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16 IM-
The object of this Invention is to afford facility for ready application, separation,
and replacement of parts of harness; and the improvements are particularly
applicable to cases in which the animal falls whilst attached to some vehicle, and
when great difficulty is often experienced in releasing such animal owing to the
difficulty of releasing parts of the harness.
In carrying out my Invention the parts of the back band are connected together,
and to the saddle or back band by a bolt in the saddle or back band, and this bolt
is covered, if need be, by the upper portion of such saddle or back band, and it is
held in position by a screw or other pin or catch readily releasable for the release
of the bolt when required.
The collar with its hames is formed to be capable of opening at the top, and is
jointed at the lower part. The upper parts are retained in correct relative position
for use by a projection or projections from one entering a socket or sockets or such
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page_text: like parts in the other, and these parts being connected together by a bolt. This
connection of the parts of the collar is also aided by a lever turning on an axis
applied to one part of the collar and embracing a projection or suitable part of the
other part of such collar whilst this lever is held in position by a catch.
To release the collar with its hames, and the traces or connections thereto, the
catch and bolt have to be removed when the lever will be free to be turned on its
axis and thereby set free the parts of the collar with the connections thereto. This
part of the Invention will also be found useful in the application of collars to the
animals.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Martin Kosminski in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
November 1878:
MARTIN KOSMINSKI, of Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Furrier. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HARNESS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO FACILITATE THE
APPLICATION AND DISCONNECTION OF PARTS THEREOF."
$
The object of the Invention is to afford facility for ready application, separation,
and replacement of parts of harness; and the improvements are particularly
applicable to cases in which the animal falls whilst attached to some vehicle, and
when great difficulty is often experienced in releasing such animal owing to the
difficulty of releasing parts of the harness.
The improvements are also applicable to cases of the animal taking fright and
running away or "bolting.".
In carrying out my Invention the parts of the back band are connected together,
and to the saddle or back band by a bolt in the saddle or back band, and this bolt
is covered, if need be, by the upper portion of such saddle or back band, and it is
held in position by a screw or other pin or catch readily releasable for the release
of the bolt when required.
The collar with its hames is formed to be capable of opening at the top, and is
jointed at the lower part. The upper parts are retained in correct relative position
for use by a projection or projections from one entering a socket or sockets or such
like parts in the other, and these parts being connected together by a bolt.
But that the Invention may be the better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying the
same into effect.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a side view of a saddle or back band with my improvements
applied to it.
Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 show parts separately..
In each of the Figures the same letters indicate corresponding parts.
a, a, represents in outline the saddle or back band, the form of which may,
however, be varied; b is the band which ordinarily passes through the saddle or
forms part of it or of the back band to support the shafts of a vehicle or for
connection with the traces. This band at its junction with the saddle is formed'in
separate parts, and these parts are connected to the plate c, c; and at cl, c³, these
parts c, c, are formed to lock one into the other, and by holes in. them they are
capable of being held together by a bolt d passing through them and through the
holes in the lugs e, e, standing up from a plate e' affixed to the top of the saddle a.
One end of the bolt d is formed with a neck d to receive and be held by the forked
lower end of the stud or pin f. The stud or pin f is borne upon by a spring g
with a tendency to retain it locked on the neck d' of the bolt d when that bolt is
in position in the saddle; and the bolt may be released by lifting the pin f by hand
or by a lever h, one end of which lever rests in a step provided for it, whilst the
other end is formed with an eye for the passage of a chain or band i, by pulling
which that end of the lever h may be raised sufficiently to release the bolt f, as
indicated by Figures 1 and 6, when the bolt d will, by the motion or strain of the
animal acting on a band di connected to the end of the bolt d (forming the
crupper loop), have a tendency to be withdrawn to release the parts of the band b.
The chain or band i is continued to within reach of the driver or attendant, so as
to be readily acted upon in case of need.
The improvements may be applied both to the collar and to the hames by forming
both to turn on hinge or link joint at the lower part or that part of them under
the neck, and to be connected by bolt at the upper or opposite part thereof; but in
practice I find it sufficient to apply the improvements to the hames only, as shewn
by front view at Figure 7, and by portion of side view at Figure 8. In this case a
bolt & passes through parts of and lugs applied to the collar, and also through eyes
in the upper ends of the hames j, and it is there held by a spring catch f until that
spring catch is released.
Figure 7 also shows the improvements applied as a means of connecting the ends
of the traces to the hames.
Figure 9 shows parts separately on a larger scale. In this case the traces k are
each connected to a plate c, and these plates c are each formed at c¹ with an eye to
pass between corresponding parts 1, 2, formed on the hames j to receive such
parts c¹; and each hame is also formed to receive a sliding bolt 7 operated upon by
a spiral or other suitable spring m, which has thereby a constant tendency to pass
through and hold the parts c¹and ',, together. When it may be desired to release
these parts for reasons such as already referred to each of the bolts / may be lifted
a short distance by pulling on the chain or band i.
I find it convenient to apply stops on the band i, so that when that band i is
drawn upon, to release the parts of the harness; the bolts may be first withdrawn,
then the bolts d to the hames and to the saddle in succession.
o, o, are other chains or bands, one end of one of which is, as shown, formed with
a ring o¹, by which it is capable of being looped on to a part ja of one hame, and of
being there held by the part c² of the trace, whilst the corresponding end of the
other chain o is by its ring o' similarly connected to the other hame.
The opposite or outer ends of the chains o are connected to the opposite ends of
a link p which carries a ring p₁, and this ring p¹ is, by a chain or band q, or by
other suitable means, connected to the outer end of the pole, so that when the traces
are released from the hames by the withdrawal of the bolts 1 the chains o will be
also released both from the hames and the traces.

page_text: Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in carrying the
same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is the improvements
in harness for horses and other animals to facilitate the application and disconnection
of the parts thereof by the use of connecting bolts and parts arranged to act there-
with, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martin Kosminski, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
ALFRED G. BROOKES,
37, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
London.
MARTIN KOSMINSKL. (L.S.)
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