for Stopping Runaway Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles and for Preventing Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles from Starting when Left Unattended by their Drivers.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan.,
1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Device for Stopping Runaway Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles
and for Preventing Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles from
Starting when Left Unattended by their Drivers.
JOHN YOUNG WALKER MACALISTER, of 20, Hanover Square, in the County of
London, Esquire, does hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Apparatus consisting of a drum or reel running on an extra axle to be fixed
underneath the vehicle to be geared so that at the will of the driver it can
be made to rotate by means of cogs or friction wheels in connection with the
hubs or axle the cogs or friction wheels being brought into working contact
by means of a lever or handle beside the driver: An extra pair of stopping
reins attached to the horse's head are carried back and attached to the drum so
that when the apparatus is brought into action the rotation of the carriage
wheels will wind up the stopping reins & pull in the horse's head:
The
stopping reins pass through clutches at the sides and are fitted with blocks sp
that when the horse's head is pulled well in the pulling action will be stopped
and the act of stopping will disengage the drum & put it out of action: With
several variations of a similar idea to provide for differents patterns of vehicle &c.
Dated this Sixth day of January 1899.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Device for Stopping Runaway Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles
and for Preventing Horses Harnessed to Wheeled Vehicles from
Starting when Left Unattended by their Drivers.
JOHN YOUNG WALKER MACALISTER, 20, Hanover Square, London, W., Editor,
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:—
To control the special reins or traces referred to in my Provisional Specification
by mechanical means, I can make use of various suitable mechanisms--but here
content myself by describing one method by which the objects I have in view may
be effected. Reference also being made to the accompanying drawings.

page_text: Throughout this specification the term "horse" or "horses" is to be understood
to mean any animal or animals used for draught purposes.
The drawings show the one method referred to above, and this mechanism
and general arrangement of the parts are adapted to a single-horse four wheeled
vehicle, said vehicle having its front wheels carried "bogie" fashion in the
usual way. But, my invention can also be applied to vehicles in general, and
which vehicles are moved by one or more draught animals.
Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1, is a plan of the one method above referred
to, showing the general arrangement of the mechanism. Fig. 2, is a sectional
elevation showing some of the parts drawn in Fig. 1.
In these drawings the mechanism is shown with its parts arranged as they
would be in the act of drawing in the horse's head, and certain of the parts
are also partly shown in dotted lines, to indicate other positions of said parts,
generally when not in action, and specially in described cases where it is necessary
to show certain parts in another position of action.
I prefer to control the head of the horse by means of a rein or reins R R¹,
suitably attached to the head in the most effective position. These reins are
attached at their other ends to two drums, A A', in their turn fixed upon the
shaft B. A drum A2 is fixed upon B to be driven by the drum A³ attached to
the wheel of the vehicle, said wheel being one of the wheels upon which the
vehicle progresses over the ground. The drum A³ is concentric with the said
wheel of the vehicle.
The shaft B is capable of revolution in the bearings B₁ Bs carried respectively
by the supporting brackets CC which brackets are rigidly attached to the axle
of the vehicle, which axle does not revolve. The bearing B¹ is pivotted at D,
having a vertical axis. The bearing B is carried in a slot in which it is free to
move horizontally, in the bracket C, about the centre of the pivot D.
A lever E, pivotted at E¹ to move horizontally about said pivot E¹, engages at
its end in an eye, B on the bearing B, and its other end is provided with an
actuating device, G, through a slot G in which, one rein passes to the drum A
The device is capable of motion about a horizontal axis at G³, allowing said
device to conveniently adjust itself in position for the rein passing to the upper
or lower periphery of the drum A', according to the direction in which the drum
may revolve.
The lever E is actuated by means of the disc H, the periphery of which,
when the mechanism is in action presses the lever E forward and which, when it
draws the lever out of action effects this by means of the pin H¹ which engages
with the slot shown. The centre of the disc H approximates in position, in the
case of four wheeled vehicles, with the centre upon which the "bogie" turns,
thus allowing the bogie to be turned without unduly affecting the mechanism.
The disc is provided with a bar H2 which carries a nut H³ capable of longi-
tudinal adjustment upon said har; a spring for compression H', and a head H³.
The nut is used to regulate the strength of the spring.
A lever J for setting the mechanism in or out of action, pivoted at J¹ has
an eye Ja through which the bar H2 freely passes, the eye Ja being placed
between the head H and the adjacent end of the spring. This arrangement of
parts gives an adjustable resiliency to the force with which the lever E is
arged, and any excess of motion of the eye J above the amount of longitudinal
motion of the bar H³ is allowed for by the free passage of this bar through the
eye.
Upon the rein R which passes through the actuating device G, at the slot G+¹
is affixed a stop K which will not pass through the slot, said stop being adjustable
along the direction of the length of the rein.
The action of the mechanism and the manner in which the said mechanism
may be put out of action, other than by the operation of the lever J, I shall now
proceed to describe.
The upper end of the lever J is moved in the direction shown by the arrow

page_text: in the drawing. This urges the eye J against the spring H+, which in its turn
presses the disc H, through the medium of the adjustable nut H³ and rod H*,
against the lever E. This lever then moves about the pivot E. The end of
this lever engaging in the eye on the bearing 13 moves this bearing in the slot
in the bracket carrying the shaft B and with it the drum A until this drum
presses against the drum A. The motion of the moving wheel of the vehicle
will be transmitted by friction to the drum 3. The drums A A' being fixed
upon the same shaft B, which carries A², will then revolve, and will wind up
upon themselves a portion of the reins R R¹, and will draw in the horse's head.
To secure the automatic discontinuance of pulling in the reins at a previously
determined position of the horse's head, the stop K is adjusted and fixed to such a
position upon the rein that when the horse's head shall have been drawn in to
the position determined upon, said stop K will arrive at the slot G¹ in the
position K. The stop will press against the actuating device G, and, if the
movement of the rein continues, will result in the lever E being moved, and this
motion will be accommodated by the spring H with an accompanying free
passage of the bar H to a certain distance through the eye Ja. But about this
instant the pressure of the drum A³ will be lessened, consequent upon the motion
of the lever E, and this will result in a balance being struck between the pressure
of the stop K against G¹, and the friction between the drums A and A³ and the
friction of the moving parts engaged. Thus the rein would not further be
drawn in, and any slacking out of said rein whereby K left G¹ would be taken up
again by the action of winding-in being for the time renewed.
It will be clear from the foregoing that the mechanism may be put in or out
of action by the person in control, when, the vehicle is in motion, through the
means provided for so doing. Also that said means may be so disposed when the
vehicle is at rest as to come into action should the animal draw or back the
Tehicle when unattended. Also that the horse provides the motive power
whereby his head is drawn in when the mechanism is in action, and as this
drawing in of the head will produce a deterrent effect, the horse's progress will
be modified or arrested. Also that injurious overwinding-in of the horse's head
is provided against by means which come into action automatically.
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:-
An arrangement of reins, traces, or the like in conjunction with parts of
vehicles or and with devices applied to vehicles, such parts or devices deriving
relative motion when said vehicles are moved progressively or retrogressively,
by which horses and other draught animals may be controlled, their heads being
drawn in towards their chests by power supplied by their own movement.
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