Improvements in Harness for Stopping Runaway Horses.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 8th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harness for Stopping Runaway Horses.
I, CHARLES BENJAMIN FRENCH, of 5 Wootton Street, Cornwall Road,
Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Cutler, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to harness, its object being
to afford a ready and effective means of stopping runaway horses.
According to this invention I provide a suitable pressure band, which I suspend,
by means of a strap connected to the throat strap of the bridle and to the bottom
of the hames, in front of the horse's throat. To the ends of the said pressure
band I attach a pair of reins which pass through a ring secured to the head strap
of the bridle and may then be united to form a single rein which passes over the
horse's back to the driver.
On the horse becoming unmanageable it is only necessary for the driver to pull
the single rein when the pressure band is drawn against the animal's windpipe
thereby stopping its breathing and reducing it to a state of subinission and
control.
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1000
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harness for Stopping Runaway Horses.
1, CHARLES BENJAMIN FRENCH of 5 Wootton Street, Cornwall Road,
Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Cutler, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to harness, its object being
to afford a ready and effective means of stopping runaway horses.
According to this invention I provide a suitable pressure band which I suspend,
by means of a strap connected to the throat strap of the bridle and to the bottom
of the harness, in front of the horses throat. To the ends of the said pressure
band I attach a pair of reins which pass through a ring secured to the head strap
of the bridle and may then be united to form a single rein which passes over the
horses back to the driver.
On the horse becoming unmanageable it is only necessary for the driver to pull
the single rein when the pressure band is drawn against the animals windpipe,
thereby stopping its breathing and reducing it to a state of submission and
control.
And in order that my invention may be more readily understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings, of which
Figure 1 shows a device constructed according to this invention in use and
Figures 2 to 5 illustrate the pressure band on a larger scale; Figure 2 being a
back elevation Figure 3 a front elevation and Figure 4 a transverse section on the
line A B at Figure 3 and Figure 5 a plan of the device.
This device is approximately of T section and is constructed of stout leather
bands stiffened by a crescent shaped iron bar inserted therein as shown in section of

page_text: Figure 4 and is provided with an eye at each end to which are connected the ends
of the supplementary rein b by means of which the device is brought into use as
hereinbefore described. The said reins are led upward and passed through a ring
or eye c secured to the head strap of the bridle. The pressure band is provided
with two slots d situated one above the other at the centre of the front of the
device and through which is passed a strap e connected at one end to the throat
strap of the bridle and at the other to the bottom of the hames or other suitable
part of the harness. It is by means of this strap that the pressure bar is supported
and upon which its position may be adjusted in a manner that will be well under-
stood from an inspection of the drawings.
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 herein before described improvements in harness for stopping runaway
horses, consisting of the pressure bar supported in front of the animals throat and
connected to bar auxiliary rein or reins substantially as hereinbefore set forth
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated thie 7th day of March 1802
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.