IMPROVEMENTS IN PILCH SADDLES OR SADDLE PILCHES to be as follows
Year: 1885

page_text: I OLIVER GEORGE MOWAT of N° 87 Bristol Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PILCH SADDLES OR SADDLE PILCHES to be as follows:-
"
Pilch saddles or saddle pilches to which my invention refers are flexible saddles
or saddles without trees and my invention consists in making the said pilch saddles
or saddle pilches in the manner herein after described.
The seat and skirts of pilch saddles or saddle pilches of the ordinary kind are
made of two pieces of leather joined along the middle of the seat and in the sides
of the skirts pockets or depressions are inade in which the stirrup bars to which
the stirrup leathers are fastened are situated the said pockets or depressions and the
stirrup bars being. covered by nearly semi-circular flaps made from the skirts of
the pilch saddle.
In making a pilch saddle or saddle pilch according to my invention I use the
seat and skirts herein before described but I cover the seat part with an additional
piece of leather and attach it thereto by sewing thus concealing the junction of
the leather of the seat and between the upper covering leather and the seat stuffing
of horse hair or other material is inserted. I dispense with the pockets or
depressions in the ordinary skirts and fix on the outside of the said skirts the
stirrup bars for carrying the stirrup leathers and in order to cover and conceal
the said stirrup bars I join to each side of the seat covering leather a small or
supplementary skirt which last named skirts hang over the ordinary skirts of the
pilch saddle and cover portions thereof and also cover and conceal the stirrup bars.
The pilch saddle thus made has a better appearance than an ordinary pilch
saddle and resembles more or less an ordinary riding saddle.
Pilch saddles made according to my invention may be without "rolls" or
furnished with "rolls" and my improvements are applicable to non-reversible
or non-convertible pilch saddles and to reversible or convertible pilch saddles for
use by ladies gentlemen and children.

page_text: I OLIVER GEORGE MOWAT, of 87 Bristol Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Saddler, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for THE IMPROVE-
MENT IN PILCH SADDLES OR SADDLE PILCHES, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
Pilch saddles or saddle pilches, according to my invention, are flexible saddles
with a seat and skirts attached, the same as an ordinary riding saddle, one on each
side of the seat according to sketch (a) as side view shown in the accompaning
drawing, in the making of the pilch saddle or saddle pilch, according to my
invention, I use a seat (b) as shown in the accompaning drawing for the centre
made of one peice of leather in the place of and above the two peices of leather
sewn together up the middle of the seat as usually made.
I therefore dispense with the pockets or depressions in the ordinary pilch saddle
and I fix a skirt (c) "as shown in the accompaning drawing" one on each side sewn
to the seat, and attached to under seat flaps thereby concealing the seam up the
middle the skirts are used for covering the stirrup bars and made so as to
resemble an ordinary riding saddle used by ladies, gentlemen and children.
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 "
I make a pilch saddle or saddle pilch without a tree as follows:-(a) in the
accompanying drawing is the pilch saddle or saddle pilch when made (6) and
(c) in the accompaning drawing is the seat and skirts attached together, that is the
particular part or section which I claim to be my invention, as entirely new in the
making of the aforesaid pilch saddle or saddle pilch.
Dated this 10th day of Tune 1000
OLIVER GEORGE MOWAT.