Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Releasing the Traces of Fallen Horses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Releasing the Traces of
Fallen Horses.
I, HENRY WALTON, of Upton Park, Essex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
1
According to this invention the traces are made with a ring at the end for
attachment, and in place of the usual trace studs on the cross bar, a double acting
bolt is fitted. Each end of the bolt secures the ring of each trace, the end of
the bolt that secures the ring passes through two eyes, the ring of the trace coming
between the two eyes. The handle to move the bolt is secured in any convenient
manner, such as by a spring clip. To release the trace the handle is removed from
the clip and the bolt shot first one way and then the other.
Dated this 11th day of February 1895.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Releasing the Traces of
Fallen Horses.
I, HENRY WALTON of Upton Park, Essex, Gentleman, 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 refers to means, as hereafter described, whereby the traces of
horses, especially fallen horses, can be more conveniently released from the trace
bar than heretofore, whatever degree of strain there may be at the time upon the
said trace or traces, and such release is effected in a mechanical and somewhat
automatic manner, being operated by turning and sliding a double acting bolt by
means of a suitable handle, the latter being normally retained in an inoperative
position. Such motions of the bolt have the effect of instantaneously releasing
the traces.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I will describe same with
reference to the accompanying drawings, whereon:
Figure 1 is a plan view of part of a trace bar having the invention fitted
thereto.
Figure 2 is a rear elevation of same.
Figure 3 is a transverse section on line X, Y, of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a transverse section on line X, Y, of same figure.
A is the trace bar fitted with brackets A' to carry the double acting bolt B,
each bracket A' being formed with double ears, between which a ring or the like
may be placed and secured by the bolt B passing through same. Such a ring
might in some cases be attached direct to the trace itself, but as I prefer to
construct the device, I make such a ring in the form of a perforated ear C, formed

page_text: with or fixed to a part C¹, hinged at C2, to the front of the trace bar A, and upon
the part C is fixed or formed a trace stud as shewn and marked C³. The hinged
part C¹ is similar for each trace. It will now be seen that the traces D may be
hooked or looped onto the trace studs C³ in the ordinary manner as is now cominon,
when the studs C³ are in the position (as in full lines Figure 3, and held fixed by
the bolt B. At a point in the bolt generally centrally, I fix a handle E, which
is dependent downwards by gravity and held in position by a guide frame F, in the
position shewn at Figure 2, the upper part of the guide frame, Fig. 1, being
wider so that when the handle E is turned up as at Fig. 4, it may be slidden
laterally. By so turning the handle upwards and sliding same first in one direction
and then in the other, the bolt B will be caused to release first one trace and then
the other, and the studs C³ will, by the pull on the traces D, be caused to assume
the position shewn in dotted lines at Fig. 3, and the traces will be instantaneously
released, whatever degree of tension there may be on same at the time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. In means or apparatus for releasing the traces of fallen horses, a transversely
sliding bolt and an operating handle for same, means for governing the travel of
the bolt, guide brackets for each end of the bolt, and a part of, or connection, with
the traces, through which part the bolt passes, and whereby upon a reciprocation
of the bolt in both directions, both traces are released, substantially as described.
2. The trace releasing devices, all substantially as and for the purposes described
and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of December 1895.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
37 Cursitor Street, London, E,C., Agent for Applicant.