Improved Means for Controlling Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Controlling Horses and other Animals.
1 JOHN TATE of 8 Oxford Street Bolton in the County of Lancaster Sadler
and Harness Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention relates to improved means for controlling hard pulling or restive
horses and other such animals as are used for riding or driving purposes and to
prevent rearing, bolting and other vices, and at the same time acting as a bearing
rein or martingale and to improve the carriage of the head.
The riding or driving reins instead of being attached direct to the bit or bit rings
as usual are passed through roller loops on the bit and noseband and the ends
attached to the saddle or to the girth.
Two or four loops with rollers can be attached to any kind of bit one or two on
each side, and a corresponding loop on each side to the noseband on the bridle.
For a hard pulling horse or other animal the ends of the rein are preferably
carried upwards and attached to the bearing rein hook or pin on the saddle,
and to prevent a horse from rearing and at same time to act as martingale,
bearing rein and driving rein all in one the ends of the rein are carried downwards
passed through a ring or loop in the centre of the collar in front and attached to
the saddle girth.
For riding purposes I prefer to attach the ends of the rein to metal "dees
fixed in front of the saddle for a hard pulling horse, or to the saddle girth to
check a rearing horse.
In all cases the driver or rider has full and complete control over his horse or
horses the arrangement on the bit and noseband giving him an amount of leverage
that cannot be obtained in the ordinary way of attaching the reins to the bit or
bit-rings.
Dated this 10th day of Dasamakav 1900
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Controlling Horses and other Animals.
I JOHN TATE of 8 Oxford Street Bolton in the County of Lancaster Saddler
and Harness Maker, 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 improved means for more efficiently controlling hard-
pulling or restive. horses and other such animals as are used for riding or driving
purposes, and to prevent rearing, bolting and other vices, and at the same time
acting as a bearing rein or martingale, or both, and to improve the carriage of
the head.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practicable effect will be readily understood on reference
to the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1. on the drawings illustrates the application of my invention as a driving
rein, safety, and bearing rein combined.
Fig. 2. shows the same arranged as a driving rein, safety rein and martingale, and
Fig. 3 as a driving rein, safety and bearing rein and martingale combined.

page_text: Fig. 4 shows detached views of the bit and roller loops drawn to a larger
scale.
According to my invention the riding or driving reins a, instead of being attached
direct to the bit or bit rings as usual are passed through roller loops made on the
bit (see Fig. 4.) and on the noseband (if preferred see Fig. 3) and the ends of the
rein a' are attached to the saddle or to the girth.
Two or four loops with rollers (see Fig. 4) can be attached to any kind of bit,
one or two to each side and a corresponding loop or loops on each side of the
noseband on the bridle if preferred (see Fig. 3).
For a hard-pulling horse or other animal the ends a' of the rein after passing
through the roller loops are preferably carried upwards and attached to the bearing
rein hook or pine on the saddle as shown at Fig. 1. and to prevent a horse from
rearing and at the same time to act as a martingale and safety rein, all in one
the ends a of the rein are carried downwards through a ring or loop of in the
centre of the collar in front and then attached to the centre of the saddle girth as
shown at Fig. 2. or, if preferred the reins may be drawn through a loop e at the
front end of the ordinary martingale and then through loops on the hames and
their ends attached to the bearing rein hook or pine on the saddle as shown
at Fig. 4.
For riding purposes I prefer to attach the ends of the rein to metal "dees" or
similar fixtures in front of the saddle for a hard-pulling horse or to the saddle-girth
to check a rearing horse, or they may be passed through the martingale (if worn)
as above described.
In all cases the driver or rider has ful and complete control over his horse or
horses the arrangement on the bit and noseband giving him-an-amount of leverage
that cannot be obtained in the ordinary way of attaching the reins direct to the
bit or bit rings.
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I may here remark that I am aware that it has been proposed to pass the reins
through rings-on the bit or headstall-and-to fasten their ends to the crapper or
other band passing round the tail of the animal; so that the pressure exerted-by.
the driver acts simultaneously upon tl head and tail of the animal, and I wish
it to be understood that I lay no claim to such method of fastening the reins, which
I consider-to-be-a-barbarous and unnecessarily painful means of controlling the
animal, whilst my improved arrangement combines humanity-with-perfectly efficient
control.
Having now particularly 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.―
The improved means for controlling horses and other animals
First. By passing the reins through roller loops on the bit and noseband, and
attaching their ends to the bearing rein hook or pin on the saddle for driving, or
to "dees" fixed in front of the saddle for riding.
Secondly. By passing the reins through roller-loops on the nosebit and noseband
then-downwards through a ring or loop in the centre of the collar in front and
then attached to the centre of the saddle girth, and-
Thirdly. By passing the reins through roller-loops on the bit and noseband,
then through a loop or loops on the front end of the ordinary martingale, then
through loops on the hames or collar and their ends attached to the bearing rein
hook or pin on the harness saddle, all substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings annuxed.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. A 's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.