IMPROVEMENTS IN ARRANGING ".
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Earl; of Melbourne, in the County of Derby,
Railway Contractor,. for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARRANGING
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said John Earl at,. the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents,.. with his Petition, on the
11th October 1859...
'I, JOHN EARL, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, Railway" Con-
tractor, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ARRANGING AND APPLYING HARNESS TO THE DRAFT OF CARRIAGES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in arranging and applying
harness for the purpose of facilitating the attaching to and detaching the same
from the shafts or other parts of carriages or other vehicles. For this purpose
I attach the several parts of the harness of a horse or other draft animal' (such
as the back and belly bands, the breechings, and the traces, or other parts of
the harness which are usually employed for connecting the animal with the
carriage), to a tug or instrument on each side of the animal, which instrument
is, suitably formed for this purpose, and these tugs or instruments (attached to
the harness) are also formed so as to be readily attached to the shafts or other

page_text: parts of the carriage (or released therefrom) by a spring bolt or other locking
instrument fixed on to the shafts or other parts of the carriage, so as to obtain
draft thereto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Earl in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th April 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EARL, of Melbourne, in the County of Derby, Railway Contractor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Earl, Her special licence that I, the said John
Earl, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as 'I, the
said John Earl, my 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 IN ARRANGING AND APPLYING HARNESS TO THE DRAFT OF
CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Earl, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause 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, the said John Earl, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention bas for its object "Improvements in Arranging and Applying
Harness for the Purpose of Facilitating the Attaching to and Detaching the
same from the Shafts of Carriages or other Vehicles." For this purpose I
attach the several parts of the harness of a horse or other draft animal (such

page_text: as the back and belly bands, the breechings, and the traces, or other parts of
the harness which are usually employed for connecting the animal with the
carriage) to a tug or instrument on each side of the animal, which instrument
is suitably formed for this purpose, and these tugs or instruments (attached to
the harness) are also formed so as to be readily attached to the shafts of the
carriage (or released therefrom) by a spring bolt or other locking instrument
fixed on to the shafts of the carriage, so as to obtain draft thereto.
Figure 1 shews a side view, r
eage new,
pian,
of apparatus constructed according to my Invention suitably arranged for
applying harness to the draft of carriages, by which a horse or other draft
animal may be more readily attached to or detached from the shafts of a
carriage or other vehicle. Figure 4 shews a transverse section of one of the
instruments, which is fixed to each of the shafts of the carriage or other vehicle
to which the tug or instrument attached to the harness is connected to obtain
draft thereto; and Figure 5 is a vertical section, and. Figure 6 a side view, of
one of the tugs or instruments. which are attached to the harness on each side
of the animal, separate from the part or instrument which connects it with the
carriage or other vehicle. a is one of the tugs or instruments which are
attached to the harness on each side of the horse or other animal, and to
which the several parts of the harness are connected, as shewn; a', a¹, repre-
sent parts of the trace and breeching straps attached to the tug or instrument
a by buckles, or in any convenient manner; and 6 shews one of the spring
bolts or locking instruments which are attached to each of the shafts of the
carriage or other vehicle by means of the bolt c or other suitable fastening;
d is a portion of one of the shafts, shewing the apparatus as fixed thereto; e is
the spring bolt by which the tug or instrument a attached to the harness is
fixed or secured to the instrument b. This bolt is kept in position, as shewn
by a spiral spring f, and when required to be withdrawn for the purpose of
attaching or detaching the tug or instrument a attached to the harness to or
from the carriage, the bolt e is pulled out by the milled head or button at
the end of the bolt e, the spring f acting to move the bolt e into position again
when released. Figures 7 and 8 shew a side view and section of a tug or
instrument a, drawn on a smaller scale, having the spring bolt e connected
therewith, in place of being attached to the part 6 fixed to the shaft, as

page_text: previously described; and Figures 9 and 10 shew a side view and section of
the stud or instrument 6 fixed to the shaft, the stud 6 in this arrangement
being formed with axes, which move in béarings 6' fixed to the shafts of the
carriage or other vehicle. Figures 11 and 12 shew two illustrations of the
mode of applying the tugs or instruments a to the harness of a horse and to
the shafts of a carriage, the one being attached to and the other detached from
the shafts, which arrangement will be readily understood on examining the
Drawing.
Thus, it will be seen that by connecting the several parts of the harness of
a horse or other draft animal to the tugs or instruments a, the horse may be
more readily harnessed and attached to or detached from a carriage or other
vehicle than heretofore.
I would remark that when kicking straps are employed, it will be necessary
to connect them to the shafts of the carriage by additional apparatus, such as
before described, the harness being connected to the shafts by two separate
tugs or instruments a and studs 6 on each side of the animal, or the kicking
straps may be attached in the ordinary manner.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the practical
application of the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of my Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the combination of the tugs
or instruments a with the harness of horses or other draft animals, so as to
facilitate the attaching them to and detaching them from the parts of the
carriages or other vehicles to which they are connected, for the purpose of
obtaining draft thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Earl, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
A. ADCOCK.
JOHN EARL. (L.S.).