Improved Means for Disconnecting Runaway Horses from Vehicles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 8th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Disconnecting Runaway Horses from Vehicles.
RICHARD PROSSER Springhill House Kingsdown Bristol Grocer & Dairyman
EDWARD SEYMOUR 70 Horfield Road Kingsdown Bristol Joiner & Cabinet Maker
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is chiefly intended for preventing runaway carriages &c. for
this purpose we attach a bearing plate to bottom part and close to center pin where
the carriage is attached to the front wheels &c. the lever is so constructed that
the fulcrum of it when fastened to the top part over the bearing plate with the
handle running under coachmans seat into the carriage, there is also a arm
attached to lever which runs under bearing plate and fulcrum of lever on top close
to center pin acts as a holdfast in place of nut of center pin, the handle of lever in
the carriage is secured by a plate and spring when turned will free the lever and
by pressing inwards the fulcrum pressing on bearing plate and frees the center pin,
while the horses bolts with the front wheels, there is also a foot attached to the
lever which supports the carriage when the front wheels are taken away.
Dated this 24th day of October 1891.
RICHARD PROSSER.
EDWARD SEYMOUR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Disconnecting Runaway Horses from Vehicles.
We RICHARD PROSSER Spring Hill House Kingsdown Bristol Grocer &
Dairyman, EDWARD SEYMOUR 70 Horfield Road Kingsdown Bristol Joiner &
Cabinet Maker 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 is chiefly intended for preventing runaway carriages &c. for this
purpose we attach a bearing plate No. (1) to bottom part and close to the center pin
where the carriage is attached to the front wheels &c. the lever is so constructed
that the fulcrum (2) of it when fastened to the top part over the bearing plate with
the handle (3) running under the coachmans seat into the carriage there is also
a arm (4) attached to lever which runs under bearing plate and fulcrum of lever on
top close to the center pin acts as a holdfast in place of the nut of the center pin,
the handle of lever in the carriage is secured by a plate (5) and spring (6) when
turned will free the lever and by pressing inwards the fulcrum pressing on bearing
plate and frees the center pin while the horses bolts with the front wheels, there
is also a foot (7) attached to the lever which supports the carriage when the front
wheels are taken away.
A bearing plate fixed to the bottom table of the front wheels close to the center
pin where the vehicle is attatched to the front wheel for the purpose of resisting the
fulcrum (2) of the lever when in action by pressing the handle 3 of the lever
downwards in the vehicle this action will raise the front of the vehicle and center
pin free from the front wheel while the fulcrum bearing on No. 1 until the front
wheels are free from the vehicle.
The lever is so constructed that when the fulcrum of it when fastened to the top
table over bearing plate, with remainder of the lever handle running under coach-
mens hox into the vehicle

page_text: There is a arm (4) to the lever which runs under the bearing plate which acts
together with the fulcrum on top as a holdfast instead of the nut of the center pin.
There is also a foot (7) attached to the lever when out of action it falls back-
ward towards the front of the vehicle but when in action becomes upright which
keeps the vehicle in position when the front wheels are taken away this foot is
forked with castors to prevent sudden stop and unstediness.
The handle of lever in the vehicle is secured with a plate (5) and spring 6
which locks the lever on top when out of action and does the same at the bottom
when in action this plate has a handle when turned will unlock the lever when
required.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of our invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is
The disconnecting of vehicles from runaway horses.
Dated ch 1
1001
RICHARD PROSSER.
EDWARD SEYMOUR.