An Improved Method of Preventing Harnessed Horses from Running Away.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec.. 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Preventing Harnessed Horses from
Running Away.
I, CARL GOTTLIEB MILCHSACK of Mülheim an der Ruhr, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved method of preventing horses from running
away and consists in attaching special reins to the snaffle and passing such reins
through rings in the lower part of the collar and thence to a winding or pulling
mechanism to which it is attached and which is placed on the coachman's box, such
winding or pulling mechanism being workable either by hand or by foot similarly to
the manner in which a carriage brake is worked.
When the horse or horses threaten to take the power from the driver he pulls the special
reins by actuating the mechanism, thereby forcing the horses head down towards the
chest, which will cause the horse or horses to arrest speed and become manageable.
London, September 2nd 1889.
CARL GOTTLIEB MILCHSACK.
Per C. R. Bonne & Co.,
41. Eastcheap. E.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Preventing Harnessed Horses from
Running Away.
I, CARL GOTTLIEB MILCHSACK, of Mülheim an der Ruhr, in the Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, 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 method of preventing horses from running
away and the manner in which I prefer to carry my invention into effect is shewn in
the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. represents a carriage and horse provided with the contrivances according to
my invention.
Fig. 2 and 3 are details.
In addition to the ordinary driving reins and bearing reins y there is provided
reins b, b¹, issuing from the bit-eye a and passing through rings c¹ (of which only one
is visible on the drawings), to the lower part of collar c and fastened in hook d
(Fig. 2) of a winding-mechanism which is mounted on the foot-board of the
drivers seat.
The winding mechanism is an ordinary winch, provided with a handle e and with
geared wheels, quite in the usual manner of such contrivances, being however
provided with a click-wheel with pawl 1. Fig. 3 is an end-view of the winch, n is
the foot-board to which the winch is attached and m an extra strengthening support
for the foot-board.
It is well known that when horses run away and have got the mastery from the
driver to such an extent, that they get the neck and head more or less straightened,
then it is then almost impossible to pull the horses head towards its breast, by ordinary
means, but by means of my invention this is effected by turning the winch-handle
which will pull the horses head in the direction of ring c of the collar c. The
pawlf of course prevents the winch from running back, when the hold of handle is
released.

page_text: 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 method of preventing harnessed horses from running away, by means of the
arrangement consisting essentially of special reins issuing from the bit and passing
through a ring or the like attached to the harness and connected with a mechanical
winch, provided with click-wheel and pawl, all substantially in the manner as and for
the purpose described and as shewn in the drawings.
London December 19th 1880
CARL GOTTLIEB MILCHSACK.
Per C. R. Bonne & Co.,
41, Eastcheap, his Agents.