IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE COLLARS
Year: 1836

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LUKE
HEBERT, of No. 20, Paternoster Row, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
5 date at Westminster, the Ninth day of May, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Luke Hebert, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Luke Hebert, my exors, adñors, or assigns, or such others
as I, the said Luke Hebert, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE COLLARS," communicated to me by a
certain foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, that I, the said Luke Hebert, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the. said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Luke Hebert, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the

page_text: manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists in the construction of a horse collar provided with
facile means of being extended or contracted both lengthways and breadthways,
so as to fit the necks and chests of different horses, however various may be
their sizes, and likewise in such a disposition of the parts of a collar as will
adapt it to the various shapes of horses. The contrivances by which these
important changes in the dimensions and form of a horse collar are effected
will be readily understood by the following explanation in reference to the
annexed Drawings:-
Figure 1 exhibits a front view of the bow (which is of wood), with its iron
work thercon not elongated. a, a, is the bow part; 6 is a band of iron, which
may be sunken flush into the wood, to which it is either screwed or rivetted;
c, c, are hooks for the traces; d, a hinge, composed of two parts shown in
separate pieces in plan at d', d', and in profile or edgeways at d", d"; e is an
hinge at the top of the collar, for the purpose of opening or closing it; f, staple
or key; g, lengthening pieces, the details of which are described hereafter.
Figure 2 is a side of the bow with its own work thereon, exhibiting the same
parts as in the preceding Figure. At Number 1 and Number 2 are given the
several parts of the lengthening pieces, No. 1 showing them in plan, and
No. 2 in profile or edgeways. h is a plate pierced with holes, for gradually
extending or contracting the collar; i is a bridle or loop, through which the
plate passes when it is desired to extend or contract the collar lengthways;
k, plate through which passes the stopping or pressing screw m, the extremity
of which enters the hole in use in the plate h.
h
The key or staple f, if formed into a screw at its end, may be used as a
substitute for the screw m, by putting that part of the plate h which is
pierced with holes upon the part a¹ of the bow, that is to say, by turning the
iron work in such a manner that the plate will slide into the upper instead of
the lower part of the collar.
Figure 3 exhibits the inside of the bow, showing that it is then provided
with a strap of iron 7, sunk into it for the purpose of strengthening it. n is a
ring or key, by which the two pieces d, d, are fastened together.
Figure 4 represents the front of the finished collar; Figure 5 exhibits the
same sideways.
Figure 6 shows the same collar on the inside.

page_text: O is the upper part of the complete collar, which covers and slides over
the lower when the collar is lengthened or shortened.
In order that the bow (which forms the foundation of the collar) may be
made accurately to envelope every part of the neck of a horse, from the
withers to the breast, it is to be duly padded with a stuffing of horsehair,
wool, or other supple elastic material.
As it would be practicable to construct a horse collar that shall be capable
of being extended or contracted by means of parts different in their form yet
acting in a similar manner to those described, I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I consider all modifications of the said Invention by which
similar results may be obtained to be included under this Patent right.
In witness whereof, I, the said Luke Hebert, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of November, in the year of our