IMPROVEMENTS IN GIRTHS OR PADS FOR RETAINING SADDLES IN THEIR PLACES"
Year: 1853

page_text: : LETTERS PATENT to the Honorable William Erskine Cochrane, of
Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, and
William Marshall Cochrane, of Kingston, in the County of
Surrey, Esquire, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GIRTHS OR
PADS FOR RETAINING SADDLES IN THEIR PLACES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Honorable Wil-
liam Erskine Cochrane and William Marshall Cochranc, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the
10th March 1858.
We, the Honorable WILLIAM ERSKINE COCHRANE, of Albany Street,
Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM MARSHALL
COCHRANE, of Kingston, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GIRTHS
OR PADS FOR RETAINING SADDLES IN THEIR PLACES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of interposing a strap or piece of vulcanized
india-rubber at the middle or central part of a pad, and two hooks in
the upper surface, which prevent the saddle from going forward.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said lionorable William Erskine Cochrane and
William Marshall Cochrane, in the Groat Soal Patent Office, .on
the 9th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc.
WILLIAM ERSKINE COCHRANE, of Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the
County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM MARSHALL COCHRANE, of Kingston
on Thames, in the County of Surroy, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing dato the Tenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth
year of Her reign, did, for Ierself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William Erskine Cochrane and William
Marshall Cochrane, Her special licence that we, the said William
Erskine Cochrane and William Marshall Cochrane, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William
Erskine Cochrane and William Marshall Cochrane, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS
I GIRTHS OR PADS FOR RETAINING SADDLES IN THELE PLACES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, tho said William Erskine Cochrane
and William Marshall Cochrane, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and causo the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, tho said William Erskine Cochrane, for
myself and on behalf of William Marshall Cochrane, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object the retaining of saddles in their
proper places on the backs of horses, and will be readily understood
by reference to the annexed drawing. A, A is a pad, made of webbing
or other fit material, with a common girth attached to it; B, is a piece
of vulcanized india-rubber, the ends of which are strongly stitched to
the pad in the inside, so as when in use to come first in contact with
the horse's back, and take the strain from the upper part of the pad;
C, is a piece of leather, attaching a hook D, to the pad; another
similar hook being fixed in the same way on the opposite side.
In applying the "girth or pad," the front part is to be placed where it
is desired; the fore part of the saddle should be fixed. The middle of
the india-rubber spring is to be placed exactly over the ridge of the
horse's back, and the girth is to be tightened till that part of the pad
above the spring comes nearly in contact with it, but not so as to take
any of the strain. Then put on the saddle, placing the front of the
pannel in the hooks, and girthing rather loosely, so as not to slacken
the "girth or pad."
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that
we make no claim to the pad or girth as heretofore used; but what
we claim is the combination of apparatus herein described for
"retaining saddles in their places."
In witness whereof, we, the said William Erskine Cochrane and
William Marshall Cochrane, have hereunto set our hands and
seals, this Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
WILLIAM ERSKINE COCHRANE. (L.B.)
Witness, WILLIAM HARRISON jr., 116, Chancery Lane.