Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1897--Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
I, WILLIAM EDWARD BLYTH, Managing Director of Brace, Windle, Blyth & Co.,
Limited, of Goodall Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Saddlery Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of the herein described improvements in leather horse
collars (as distinguished from metallic horse collars) which according to this Invention
are so constructed as to answer also as the hames so that the employment of the usual
separate hames is obviated and the collar is rendered more flexible and therefore
a more comfortable fit on the horse than is an ordinary horse collar provided with
the usual rigid metal hames.
A horse collar constructed according to this Invention has the outer or front part
made from stout leather cut to the required shape and padded inside to fit the
horse's neck and throat. The collar is strengthened by a stout leather strap which
is sewn or otherwise fixed to the outside of the same and extends round the throat
and up the two sides of the collar. The top of the collar is or may be divided and
when so divided the two divided parts are secured together by a strap which passes
over the division from side to side and through loops fixed on the collar and is
buckled to one or both sides of the collar. This strap at the top of the collar may
be fixed to a pad which covers the division in the top of the collar. There is or
may be a thin leather or like flap within the division at the top of the collar to bear
on the horse's mane and fixed to one side of the collar and strapped or otherwise
fixed to the other side.
The rein rings are fixed respectively to the sides of the collar by any convenient
means as by each ring having a screwed shank which passes through the outside of
the collar and is screwed on to a plate or nut fixed inside the same.
The two hame drafts are respectively fixed to the two sides of the collar by any
convenient means as by rivets or screws passing through the hame draft and through
the said outer strengthening strap and outside leather part of the collar, into plates
or nuts or sockets inside the same.
The hamne draft may be a two armed lame draft or a straight metal piece or be
made of leather.
When the collars are made for a pair of horses there is fixed by a cross bolt an
ordinary breast collar D at the centre of the throat.
Dated this 21at day of October 1896
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Cena provements in Horse Comars.
1, WILLIAM EDWARD BLYTH, Managing Director of Brace, Windle, Blyth & Co.
Limited, of Goodall Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Saddlery Manufacturers,
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 consists of the herein described improvements in leather horse
collars as distinguished from metal horse collars. A horse collar constructed
according to this Invention is made without the usual rigid rim or wale and is
strengthened by a stout leather strap which is sewn or otherwise fixed to the
outside of the collar and extends round the throat and up the two sides of the same
and carries the drafts and rein rings and also the centre dee for the pole strap when
used for pair horse harness. Thus the usual hames are dispensed with and the
collar is rendered inore flexible and a more comfortable fit on the horse's neck than
is an ordinary collar provided with the usual rigid metal hames.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a side
elevation of a horse collar constructed according to this Invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
The said horse collar has the outer or front part A made from stout leather cut to
the required shape and padded inside at B to fit the horse's neck but, as will be seen
by the drawing, the usual rim or wale which receives the hames is dispensed with,
as the hames are not required. C is the stout leather strap which I provide
according to this Invention and which is sewn or otherwise fixed to the outside of
the front part A of the collar and extends round the throat of the collar and up the
two sides of the same to the top of the collar which latter is by preference divided
as shewn and the two divided parts are secured together by the strap D which passes
over the division at the top of the collar from side to side thereof and through
leather loops E¹ E2 which are sewn on the collar and the ends of this strap D are
at d d buckled to the sides of the collar. Or the strap D may be permanently
fixed to one side of the collar and buckled to the other side of the same. F is a
leather pad which covers the division of the collar and is by preference fixed to one
side of the collar and passes through the loop E2 at the other side of the same. G is
the usual thin leather or like flap within the division at the top of the collar to bear
on the horse's mane which is fixed at one side g' to the collar and strapped at the
other side g². The two hame drafts H' H2 are respectively fixed to the strap C and
to the two sides of the collar outside the strap C by any convenient means as by
screws which pass through the strengthening strap C and leather part A of
the collar into ordinary plates or nuts or sockets inside the collar. It will thus be
seen that by constructing a collar as above described the collar is rendered very
strong and at the same time flexible and therefore more comfortable on the horse's
neck than when hames are used.
Any other kind of hame drafts may be substituted for those marked H¹ H2 such
for instance as straight metal hame drafts or such as are made of leather.
When the collars are made for a pair of horses there is a breast collar dee marked J
fixed at the centre of the throat as by the plate K which embraces the dee J and is
fixed to the strap C and to the front A of the collar as by the rivets or
bolts kkkk; or the breast collar dee when used may be fixed to the collar by
other means as will readily be understood.

page_text: L' L' are the two rein rings which are respectively fixed to the sides of the collar
the strap C passing through the loop parts of the rein rings.
When my improved horse collar is used with what is known as Cape harness for
a pair of horses the neck bar strap (whose lower ends carry the neck bar) passes
round the top of the collar and under the leather loops E¹ E2 and through the
loops of the rein rings L L as will readily be understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A leather horse collar made without a rim or wale for the hames and made
with the leather strap C fixed to the outside of the collar round the throat and up
the sides of the collar for strengthening the collar and receiving the hame drafts and
rein rings substantially as described.
2. The combination with a leather horse collar, inade without a rim or wale for
the hames, of the strengthening strap C fixed to the outside of the collar round the
throat and up the sides of the collar, and the hame drafts fixed to said strengthening
strap and collar substantially as described.
3. The combination with a leather horse collar, made without a rim or wale for the
hames, of the strengthening strap C fixed to the outside of the collar round the
throat and up the sides of the collar, the hame drafts and breast collar dee fixed to
said strengthening strap and collar the loops E1 E2 and rein loops all substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
4. The improved leather horse collar constructed substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings whether made with or
without the breast collar dee J.
Dated this 17th day of In... 1907
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.