Improvement in Harness, viz., a Safety Rein for Riding or Driving.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improvement in Harness, viz., a Safety Rein for Riding or
Driving.
I WILLIAM HENRY SERJEANT of Oakdene, Fulham in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A Rein attached to the tail by means of a band passing round the tail (such as a
Crupper) and thence passing freely through rings attached to each side of the girth
or belly band of saddle-thence to the head, running freely through rings on the bit
or headstall & back to the hand of the rider or driver.
Dated this 16th day of May 1889.
WILLIAM HENRY SERJEANT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Harness, viz., a Safety Rein for Riding or
Driving.
WILLIAM HENRY SERJEANT of Oak Dene, Fulham, London S. W. Gentleman 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:-
My Invention relates to an improved rein for the more efficient control of a horse
or horses when riding, or driving than obtains with the employment of such reins as
hitherto made and used, and I attain my object by causing the pressure exerted by
the rider or driver upon said reins to act simultaneously upon the tail and head of
the horse, or the tails and heads of the horses, if more than one be driven.
I attain these objects by moans of the appliances illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, in which the rein a is shewn attached to one side of the crupper b, or other
part of the harness or horse furniture that may pass under the tail. Said rein a then
is passed through a ring c attached to the lower part of the girth, or other equivalent
portion of said harness, and from thence through a ring d upon the bit, or where
this is not deemed requisite through a ring attached to the headstall, or any other
suitable attachment to the nose of the horse. The rein then passes upwards to the
rider or driver in the usual manner, and the same arrangement is carried out in an
exactly similar manner upon both sides, so that the free ends of said reins after
passing through the bit, headstall, halter, or other rings d, may be joined to form a
pair of reins to be manipulated in the usual way, but when made and placed
according to my invention, are more offective than those in general use, as hitherto
made and adopted.
It is essential that the only fixed portions of said reins should be the ends that are
attached to the crupper b or its equivalent, and that the movement thereof should be
perfectly free through the rings c and d.
Having now particularly described 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,
In a safety rein for horses, applicable to riding or driving, the attachment of said

page_text: reins a, to the crupper or equivalent b, and passing them through rings c and d
substantially as described and shewn by the accompanying drawing for the purposes
herein specified.
Datad this 15th day of June. 1889.
FREDK. WALKER & HYDE,
4, Little Moorfields, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.