IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HALTER HEADS AND ROPE REINS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Goodrick, the younger, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Rope Maker, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF HALTER HEADS AND ROPE REINS FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Goodrick at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th April 1881.
JOHN GOODRICK, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Rope
Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HALTER HEADS AND ROPE
REINS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
My Invention has reference to those parts of halter heads and rope reins for
horses and other animals called the eyes, and my said Invention consists in
constructing and attaching the eyes to the said halter heads and rope reins in
the ways hereinafter described.
I will first describe my Invention as applied to the manufacture of a halter
head.
In the ordinary method of making a halter head, a length of web is woven in a
frame, loops being left at the ends of the said web. By means of these loops the
ends of the web are joined together so as to form a halter head, and the said loops
made into the eye of the halter head.
Instead of making the eye in one piece with the woven web as described, I make
the eye and attach it to the web in the following ways:-
I take a piece of web or other flexible material of a length somewhat greater
than double that of the halter head to be made, and I fold or double back the ends
of the web for about two inches, so as to strengthen the web at its ends. I bring
the doubled or folded ends of the web together face to face, and pass through them
a piece of cord, horse hide, or other flexible material, so as to form a loop or loops
on each side of the doubled ends of the web. These loops are brought together
into the plane of the doubled ends of the web, and by means of the wrapping
process called "whipping” the loops are bound together and an eye thereby formed,
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page_text: the formation of the eye at the same time connecting the ends of the web together
and making it into a halter head.
The doubled or folded ends of the web may be further secured together if
necessary by stitching or by rivetting.
Or instead of binding the loops together and forming the eye by a whipping
process as described, the cords of which the loops are made may themselves be
twisted together so as to form the eye.
Instead of forming and attaching a cord or flexible eye to the doubled ends of
the web or other material, a rigid metallic eye may be attached to the ends of the
web. In this case a wire loop or open ring is used and attached to the ends of the
web by the ends of the loop or open ring being passed through the doubled parts
at the ends of the web from the one side, and turned or doubled back upon the
web on the other side.
Although I prefer to double back the ends of the web or other material to be
joined together, yet the doubling may be dispensed with, and the eye fixed to the
plain or undoubled ends of the web or material.
In applying my Invention to rope reins, I form a flexible eye at the end of the
rein by passing a cord through the end of the rein, so as to form a loop or loops,
from which loop or loops the eye is made in either of the ways hereinbefore
described with respect to the flexible eye of a halter head.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Goodrick in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
October 1881.
JOHN GOODRICK, the younger, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Rope
Maker. "IMPROVEMENTS IN. THE MANUFACTURE OF HALTER HEADS AND ROPE
REINS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
My Invention has reference to those parts of halter heads and rope reins for
horses and other animals called the eyes, and my said Invention consists in
constructing and attaching the eyes to the said halter heads and rope reins in
the ways herein after described.
I will first describe my Invention as applied to the manufacture of a halter
head.
In the ordinary method of making a halter head, a length of web is woven in a
frame, loops being left at the ends of the said web. By means of these loops the
ends of the web are joined together so as to form a halter head, and the said loops
made into the eye of the halter head.
Instead of making the eye in one piece with the woven web as described, I
make the eye and attach it to the web in the following ways:-
I take a piece of web or other flexible material of a length somewhat greater

page_text: than double that of the halter head to be made, and I fold or double back the ends
of the web for a short distance so as to strengthen the web at its ends. I bring
the doubled or folded ends of the web together face to face, and pass through them
a piece of cord, horse hide, or other flexible material, so as to form a loop or loops
on each side of the doubled ends of the web.
These loops are brought together into the plane of the doubled ends of the web,
and by means of the wrapping process called "whipping" or other binding process
the loops are bound together and an eye thereby formed, the formation of the eye
at the same time connecting the ends of the web together and making it into a
halter head.
The doubled or folded ends of the web may be further secured together if
necessary by stitching or by rivetting.
Or instead of binding the loops together and forming the eye by a whipping
process as described, the cord or cords of which the loops are made may be twisted
or plaited together so as to form the eye.
Instead of forming and attaching a cord or flexible eye to the doubled ends of
the web or other material, a rigid metallic eye may be attached to the ends of the
web. In this case a wire loop or open ring is used and attached to the ends of the
web by the ends of the loop or open ring being passed through the doubled parts
at the ends of the web from the one side and turned or doubled back upon the web
on the other side.
Although I prefer to double back the ends of the web or other material to be
joined together, yet the doubling may be dispensed with, and the eye fixed to the
plain or undoubled ends of the web or material.
In applying my Invention to rope reins I form a flexible eye at the end of the
rein by passing a cord or cords through the end of the rein, so as to form a loop
or loops, from which loop or loops the eye is made by a whipping process, as herein
first described with respect to the flexible eye of a halter head.
I will now proceed to describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawings,
the manner in which my Invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front, and Figure 2 in side elevation (partly in section), a.
portion of a halter head, the eye of which is constructed and attached according to
the first described part of my Invention.
a is the doubled or folded length of web or other flexible material of which tho
halter head is made, and b, b, are the folded or turned back ends of the same for
strengthening the parts to which the flexible eye c is attached.
In forming the eye c I bring the doubled or turned back ends b, b, of the web a
parallel to and upon one another, and pass several times through them a piece of
cord or other flexible material, so as to form on each side of the doubled ends b, b,
of the web a a loop of one or other number of cords, as illustrated in Figures 3
and 4, where the loops thus made are marked d, d. The two loops d, d, are next
brought together, and by the wrapping process called "whipping," or other binding
process, the said loops d, d, are bound together and the eye c is formed. By the
binding together of the two loops d, d, to form the eye, the folded or turned back
ends b, b, of the web are connected together so as to form the length of web
into a halter head, as will be understood by an examination of Figures 1
and 2.
The connection of the loops d, d, with the folded or turned back ends b, b, of the
web may be strengthened by passing the cord or cords forming the said loops
around the edges of the ends of the web in addition to passing them through the
holes near the edges of the ends, as before described, or the cord or cords may be
passed through a single hole in the middle of the ends of the web instead of
through two holes near the edges of the ends of the web.
Figure 5 represents a halter head in which the flexible eye e is formed by
twisting together the cord or cords during the formation of the eye instead of
binding the loops together by the whipping process, and Figure 6 represents &
halter head in which the eye f is formed by plaiting the cord or cords.

page_text: Instead of making the eyes of cords in the ways described horse hide or other
strong flexible material or metallic wire may be used, the said metallic wire being
worked in the manner described with respect to cords or other flexible non-metallic
material.
Figure 7 represents in front elevation, and Figure 8 in edge view (partly in
section), a halter head, in which the eye consists of a rigid metallic loop or open
ring; g is the metallic loop or open ring, the ends h, h, of which are flattened.
The flattened ends of the loop are passed through the turned back or doubled
ends of the web a from the one side and closed or doubled back upon the web
on the other side, as best seen in Figure 8. The eye is thus securely connected
to the doubled ends of the web.
Figure 9 represents the flexible eye of a rope rein made according to my
Invention, and Figure 10 represents the eye in the course of manufacture. The
eye of the rope rein i is marked k, and is made in the manner before described
with respect to the eye of the halter head represented in Figures 1 and 2, that is
to say, the end of the rope rein is opened and a cord is passed several times
through it, so as to form a loop m, as illustrated in Figure 10, and the said
loop m is converted into an eye by the whipping process, as illustrated in
Figure 9.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself
to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my Invention.
But I claim as my Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Halter
Heads and Rope Reins for Horses and other Animals,"
First. Forming and attaching the eyes of halter heads in the several ways
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the accom-
panying Drawings.
Secondly. Forming and attaching metallic eyes of halter heads in the manner
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Thirdly. Forming and attaching the flexible eyes of rope reins in the manner
herein before described and illustrated in Figures 9 and 10 of the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Goodrick, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JOHN GOODRICK, JUN. (L.S.)