NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM GETTING SHY
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki, Proprietor of the
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firm of J. Brandt & G. W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer, of
124 Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, Germany, for an Invention of NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM GETTING SHY a communication
from Georg Wille, of Hildesheim, in the German Empire
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von
Nawrocki at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st May
1883.
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the firm of J. Brandt &
G. W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer, of 124 Leipzigerstrasse,
Berlin, Germany, "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING. HORSES FROM
GETTING SHY a communication from Georg Wille, of Hildesheim, in the German
Empire,
"
This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus to be applied to the
horse's head and set in action by the driver, when there is any danger that the
horse may get shy. `
For this purpose I provide a flap, for each eye, which flap is attached at one
end to a spiral spring mounted with its axle on a frame secured to a strap behind
the horse's eye, while the free end of the flap is connected with a string passing
through a ring attached to the central strap (between the eyes). The free ends of
the strings attached to the two flaps are connected with a string or rein passing
over the horse's head to the driver.
When no pull is exerted on the strings each of the flaps is coiled up by its spiral
spring into the cylindrical casing forming part of the frame; when the string is
pulled, the flaps are uncoiled and drawn towards eachother, so as to cover the eyes
of the horse.
The flaps are made of leather or other solid and flexible material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th October 1883.
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, Proprietor of the Firm of J. Brandt and
G. W. v. Nawrocki, Patent Solicitor and Civil Engineer, of 124 Leipziger Strasse,
Berlin, Germany, "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM
GETTING SHY a communication from Georg Wille, of Hildesheim, in the German
Empire."
"
The present invention has for its object to provide flaps or a sort of blinkers for
horses that are apt to become shy, which flaps can be drawn over the eyes from
the drivers seat by means of a simple pull on a string or rein.
The drawing shows in Figs 1 and 2 the apparatus in its application. The other
figures show details.
The principal parts of the apparatus are the two flaps a'made of leather or other
Bolid and flexible material, which when the apparatus is not in activity are coiled
up into a metal casing b., In the casing 6 there is an axle c resting on a metal
frame of the casing, on which axle, the flap a is coiled up. The axle is connected
at its lower part to one end of a spiral spring'd, the other end of the spiral spring
being fastened to the cap which overlaps the casing b, see Figs 3 and 6, which
latter is a section through A-A. The spring d tends to keep the flap a coiled up.
On the casing b at top and bottom are fixed two pieces of sheet metalf with the
aid of which the casing can be attached to a strap g of the head gear behind the
horse's eye, see Figs 1 and 2.
The casing 6 is provided with a longitudinal slit in order to admit the flap which
is connected with the string h by means of a ring.
As shown in Figs 1 and 2, the strings extending from the flaps are drawn
through a ring k which is fastened to the longitudinal strap m applied between
the head-piece and the nose-band; the string his then connected to the string or
rein i, which extends over the head and back of the horse to the driver's seat.
It is evident that, when an adequate pull is applied by the driver to this linė i,
the flap a will be drawn over the horse's eyes, and that as soon as the pull: ceases,
the flaps will automatically snap back into the casing b.
The eye-flap represented in Figs 7 to 10 is a modification of the above described
construction, in as much as that instead of fastening a casing containing a flap, to
the head gear behind each eye of the horse, only one casing is applied containing
both flaps.
'
This combined case must be attached in the middle between the two eyes of
the horse to the connecting strap between the nose-band and the head-piece, as
shown in Fig. 1., and both flaps will be drawn out of the casing by means of
the strings d, which are united into a common string or rein behind the head,
see Fig. 8.
The construction of the casing A is essentially the same, with the difference that
instead of one flap, two flaps a and'a are coiled, on the shaft c within the casing,
which flaps can be drawn from the casing in opposite directions through the slits b
Fig. 8 and 9.
be coiled
1
Instead of coiling both flaps a and a¹ on a single shaft, each flap can be
on a separate shaft, these shafts being however confined within a common casing A
as shown in Figs 10.
As for the rest the management and effect of these flaps are the same as those of
the flaps already described,

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to a carriage without attendance; as well as for preventing horses from getting
shy, when the carriage waits for the passing of the train at railway crossings.
CLAIMS
1. An apparatus for preventing horses from getting shy, which consists of the two
casings b secured to the side straps of the head-gear behind the horse's eye, and
containing the coiled eye-flaps a, adapted to be drawn over the horse's eyes by a
pull on the string i and the strings h h guided by the ring k, and to be auto-
matically withdrawn by means of the springs d, substantially as illustrated by
Figures 1, 2 and 3.
2. The use of a combined casing A, on the axle c of which are coiled two flaps a
and a adapted to be uncoiled in opposite directions through slots 6 of the casing
(Figs. 8 and 9), or of a casing containing two flaps a and a¹ coiled on two separate
shafts and adapted to be uncoiled in opposite directions. (Fig 10.)
In Witness whereof I the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 23rd day of October A D 1883.