CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BREAKING-IN HORSES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comto de Fontaine Moreau, of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR BREAKING-IN HORSES."-A communication.
Sealed the 12th December 1854, and dated the 6th July 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 6th July 1854.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR BREAKING-IN HORSES" to be as follows:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in a new contrivance for.
breaking-in horses, shewn in the accompanying Drawing.
It is placed round the middle of the horse's back, and consists of an ordi-
nary surcingle of leather A, A, and the part answering to the dumb jockey,
which is fixed to it by a plate of wrought irou at its lower part, surmounted
by the rod B of the same metal, carrying 4 cross pieces with rings (c) at their
extremities, serving as terrets.
For general use I make this rod about 15 inches long, and leaning about 4

page_text: inches in the direction of the horse's head. In the breaking-in, the reins are
passed alternately through the rings as required for the work of the horse.
The reins are pulled in as the horse gives way, taking care to allow nearly an
inch for the free movement of its jaws. The horse is held by a running reign.
By means of this improvement the horse may be broken-in in far less time,
and with greater certainty, than in the ordinary methods.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 6th January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reigu,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license that I, the
said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrec
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
RATUS FOR BREAKING-IN HORSES," communicated to me by a foreigner residing
abroad), upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Peter Armand
le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in writing under my band
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calender months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Figures of the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in a mechanical contrivance for
breaking-in horses.
'
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the contrivance fixed to a surcingle;
Figure 2 is a side view of the same.
A, A, is a surcingle, similar to that now employed for breaking-in horses in
liberty. It is surmounted by an iron rod B, of about fifteen inches in length,
to which four cross bars are adapted, and at the extremities of which eight

page_text: rings C, C, are fixed. The iron rod is fastened to the surcingle at its lower
part by means of a plate of the same metal, and at an inclination of about 4
inches towards the head of the horse. The apparatus is placed on the centre
of the saddle. During the breaking-in, the reins are alternately passed through
the rings C, C, on either side, beginning by the upper ones, according to the
position which the work of the horse requires, and descending, to shorten the
reins as the horse comes in hand, taking care to leave always about three-
quarters of an inch of play in the reins, in order to allow the horse of himself
to take the flections of his jaws. The horse is kept by a lounge, but without
resistance, to prevent him from obtaining a support upon it.
By nicans of this apparatus the horse is broken-in much more speedily
and perfectly than by the various methods hitherto used for that purpose.
And having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
mánner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do
not confine myself to the dimensions of the iron rod B, nor to the form or
number of rings C fixed to the iron rod B, although I prefer the arrangement
above described, reserving to myself the right of making such modifications as
experience inay suggest; but what I claim as constituting the Invention is, the
construction of an apparatus and mode of employing the same for breaking-in
horses, as herein-before described and referred to in the annexed Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.
L DE FONTAINE MOREAU. (L.S.)