An Improved Device for Breaking, Curling, and Training the Manes of Horses.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894
TRUVIDIONAL FECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Breaking, Curling, and Training the Manes
of Horses.
WALTER JOHN GODDEN 1 Clarence Mews Regent's Park London Head
Coachman to Sir J. Blundell Maple M.P. I do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Two rods of steel covered with rubber tubing varying in length according to the
amount of mane to be trained. And in thickness and weight according to the
stubborness of the manc. The rods are screwed tightly together on the mane by
means of a little bolt and thumb screw at both ends. The hair is then rolled up
around the rods to the crest of the neck, and prevented from coming down by a
piece of rubber elastic, passing over the mane and fixing to both ends of the rods.
If a horse was to be turned out to grass two short ones would be required instead
of long one, so as to allow the horse to bend and turu its neck to either side.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1893.
WALTER JOHN GODDEN.
An Improved Device for Breaking, Curling, and Training the Manes
of Horses.
I, WALTER JOHN GODDEN, of 1 Clarence Mews, Regent's Park, in the County
of London, Head Coachman to Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P. 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved device for breaking, curling and training
the manes of horses, which consists of two metal bars covered with india rubber
hinged or pivoted at one end and bolted together at the other extremity. The
device is opened on releasing a thumb screw and pivoted bolt so that the mane or
any part of the mane may be turned round the bottom bar and held thereto by the
top bar and the thumb screw.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a side elevation.
Fig. 2, is a bottom view.
Fig. 3, is a plan of the top.
Fig. 4, is a section of the top and bottom bars on line A. B drawn to an enlarged
scale.
Like letters refer to like parts throughout the figures.
In carrying out my invention I provide a pair of bars a and b pivoted and bolted
together which fit one into the other when the device is closed. The bottom
metallic bar bis half round in section and is provided with a pair of jaws ; to which
I attach a screwed bolt f by a pivot pin y. "On the end of the bolt f I screw a
thumb screw d. The bottom bar is pivoted to the top bar a by means of a pin or
short shaft c. The top metallic bar a is semicircular in section and falls over the
bottom bar when the device is closed. Both the top and bottom bars are covered

page_text: with tubular india rubber e and when the apparatus is closed the portion i assumes
the position of the dotted lines as in Fig. 4.
The bolt operates on a pivot pin g and pass into an opening & and on releasing
the thumb screw d the said bolt and thumb screw is forced in the direction indicated
by an arrow in Fig. 1, in order to open the apparatus or vice versa when it is desired
to fix the apparatus for the purpose herein before described.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and that
the shapes materials and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of my
invention.
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
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1. In a device for breaking, curling and training the manes of horses, the com-
bination of the top bar a and bottom bar covered with india rubber e pivoted
together by a pin c, with the bolt f pivoted to the jaws j by a pin g and the humb
screw d, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
2. In a device for breaking, curling and training the manes of horses, the com-
bination of the top bar a pivoted to the bottom bar b by a piu c and the fastening
together by means of a thumb screw d and bolt f passing in an opening k,
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
3. In a device for breaking, curling and training the manes of horses, the com-
bination of the top bar a and bottom bar band the tubular india rubber e,
substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
4. In a device for breaking, curling and training the manes of horses, two metal
bars covered with india rubber and fitting one into the other, as herein described
and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 8th day of February 1894.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.