IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, of
No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier,
Paris, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY. -A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Armand le Comte
de Fontaine Moreau at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 20th November 1855.
I, PETER ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of No. 4, South
Street, Finsbury, London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY, to be as follows,
that is to say:
The Invention consists in constructing a metallic eye-flap or blinker, double
jointed and hinged, provided with a spring, which may be adapted to any kind
of bridle. A small cord fixed to the moveable part, and passing through two
rings placed on the frontal and headstall of the bridle serves to regulate its
action. By drawing it backwards it shuts out from the sight of the horse any
object which might frighten him. When the horse is quiet, the cord is let go,
and the blinker re-opens by the action of the spring.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
ARMAND le Comte DE FONTAINE MOREAU, of No. 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, and 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, Her special license
that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Peter Armand le.
Comte de Fontaine Moreau, my executors, administrators, and assigns,.should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channels Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY,"
communicated to me from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine Moreau, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing a metallic eye-flap or blinker with a
hinge acted upon by a spring, and which may be adapted to any kind of bridle.
A strap fixed to the moveable part, and passing through the rings placed in
the front and headstall of the bridle, serves to regulate its action. By drawing
the strap back the blinker is closed, and shuts out the sight of the horse when
about to run away.
When the horse has beconie quiet, by letting. go the

page_text: strap the spring forces the blinker to open. A, metallic blinker; B, hinge;
C, internal spring; D, piece to be rivetted to the bridle by means of the
holes e, e; F, hole receiving the guide; G, hole for the strap passing over
the pins in front of the horse's head, and communicating with the hand of the
driver or rider; H, pivot for adjustment. A spiral spring may be adapted
and concealed in the hinge of the blinker, and thus replace the visible stem
spring maintaining the moveable part.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is the employment of a hinge acted upon by a spring, in the construc-
tion of blinkers, to prevent horses from running away.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Armand le Comte de Fontaine
Moreau, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day
of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six.
L' DE FONTAINE MOREAU.
(L.S.)