A NEW OR IMPROVED PROTECTIVE LEGGING FOR HORSES AND OTHER LIKE ANIMALS.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Archer, of Jenkinstown, in the County
of Kilkenny, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PROTECTIVE
LEGGING FOR HORSES AND OTHER LIKE ANIMALS.
Sealed the 17th February 1874, and dated the 10th September 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Archer at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th September 1873.
I, HENRY ARCHER, of Jenkinstown, in the County of Kilkenny,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED PROTECTIVE LEGGING FOR HORSES AND OTHER LIKE ANIMALS," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of a protective
legging to be worn by horses, mules, and such like animals in order
to preserve their hind legs from injury when they are travelling over
rough country, when they are being trained, and under other circum-

page_text: stances in which protection to the animal's leg is necessary or ex-
pedient.
The legging is composed mainly of leather or other flexible but
strong material, so shaped that it shall accommodate itself to the form
of the animal's legs, and so as to wrap round them without in any
way impeding the action or motion of the knec, fetlock, or ankle,
and hoof. Necessarily the shape must differ for the off side hind leg
and near side hind leg.
A strip of some rigid or stiff substance may be introduced into or
combined with the flexible material to act as a sort of hinge.
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The free edges of the wrapper lap or fold over or meet together,
and are connected together by laces or other convenient attachments,
so as to be fastened over the horse's limb, and while still leaving to
such limb full freedom of action yet protect it as above described, strips
of elastic material being inserted to secure necessary resilience when the 1
animal moves its limbs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Archer in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th March 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
ARCHER, of Jenkin's Town, in the County of Kilkenny, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Archer, Her special license that I, the
said Henry Archer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henry Archer, 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 King-

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Figure 1 is an elevation of a legging constructed according to the
Invention, and shown in an open and extended state before being applied 1
to the animal's leg..
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the legging closed and fastened on the
horse's leg; Figure 3 is a front elevation of the same.
Figures 2 and 3 are drawn on a smaller scale than Figure 1.
A is the legging; it is usually made of leather, and it is so shaped
(as shewn in the Drawing) that it protects the leg without interfering
with the free motion thereof, or of its joints, articulations, or parts,
such as the fetlock, the knee, and the hoof. For this purpose the
upper and lower edges of the legging are rounded off, as shown at a,
to suit the contour of the leg. Of course the form must be modified,
though on the same principle of configuration, according as to which of
the hind legs the near or off leg the legging is made for. The legging
shewn is for the off hind leg.
The legging is stiffened at the side by a band or strip of leather b.
The body of the legging is sufficiently flexible to fold comfortably
round the leg, and when thus folded the edges of the legging are
brought together at c where one laps over the other, and they are
fastened by cords or laces C passing through holes d protected by
metal eyelets, and formed in bands or strips e let into the legging on each
side; ff, are strips of india-rubber webbing let in between the strips e
and the body of the legging for additional resilience; or other con-
venient means of attachment may be used, but they must not be so
rigid as to interfere with the necessary elasticity of the limb's motion.
In Figures 2 and 3 L is the leg of the horse...

page_text: tective legging constructed and arranged substantially in the manner
and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Archer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-
four
Witness,
E. J. MAHER,
Jenkinstown,
Kilkenny,
Land Agent.
HENRY ARCHER. (L.S.)