Improvements in Saddles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
Improvements in Saddles.
1, CHARLES ALFRED LARSSON, of 32 Victoria Street, in the City of
Westminster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a saddle that can be conveniently
adjusted to fit the back of any horse or other beast of burden, and is more
particularly applicable to pack saddles.
According to my invention the "tree" of the saddle comprises a pair of side
plates having near their ends, bent or arched arms, which are capable of sliding
one against or upon the other by the operation of a suitable adjusting device.
The arched arms are arranged in pairs, and, for effecting the aforesaid adjustment,
I prefer to provide each arm near its extremity with a lateral pin or bolt which
extends through a curved slot formed in the contiguous arm. These bolts connect
together each pair of arms and are themselves connected by a right and left handed
screw which can be revolved-in one or other direction to cause them to travel along
the aforesaid curved slots. As the bolts approach each other the curvature
produced by the arched arms is increased and the said side plates are also extended
further apart, the reverse of this action taking place when the bolts are caused to
recede from each other. After the saddle tree has been adjusted in the required
manner, it may be locked in such position by tightening the nuts on the aforesaid
lateral pins or bolts. If desired each curved arm may be furnished with a lip
which may be so arranged as to lie above the upper surface of the said arms to
impart additional rigidity thereto.
In
some cases the ends of the curved or arched arms may be adapted to slide
telescopically in a curved socket; or one of the said arms may be forked to receive
the other.
Sometimes I provide the surfaces of the said arms where they lie one against
the other with serrations or teeth which will firmly engage and hold the arms
securely in position, when the nuts on the lateral pins or bolts are tightened.
Dated this 16th day of July 1896
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Saddles.
I, CHARLES ALFRED LARSSON, of 32 Victoria Street, in the City of
Westminster, Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide a saddle that can be conveniently

page_text: adjusted to fit the back of any horse or other beast of burden and is more
particularly applicable to pack saddles.
According to my invention the "tree" of the saddle comprises a pair of side
plates having near their ends, bent or arched arns, which are capable of sliding
one against or upon the other by the operation of a suitable adjusting device.
The arched arms are arranged in pairs, and, for effecting the aforesaid adjustment,
I prefer to provide each arm near its extremity with a lateral pin or bolt which
extends through a curved slot formed in the contiguous ar.n. These bolts connect
each pair of arms and are themselves connected by a right and left han lel screw
which can be revolved in one or other direction to cause them to travel along the
aforesaid curved slots in opposite directions. The screws thus form rigid connections
or stays between the arms. As the bolts recede from each other the said sile
plates separate or move further apart, the reverse of this action taking place when
the bolts are caused to approach each other. In some cases the parts. are sɔ
arranged that the reverse of these operations takes place: that is to say as the
bolts are caused to approach each other the said plates recede from each other.
After the saddle tree has been adjusted in the required manner, it may be locked
in such position by tightening the nuts on the aforesaid lateral pins or bolts.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
effect I will proceed to describe the same by aid of the accompanying drawings
in which
Figure 1 is an end view and
Figure 2 a side view of one form of tree for my, improved saddle, having beat
or arched arms arranged so that the side plates separate as the bolts recede from
each other.
Figure 3 is a transverse section of the bent or arched arms, ou the line of
Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an inner side view shewing the arms of another form of tree so
arranged that the side plates separate as the bolts recede from each other, and
Figure 5 is an edge view of the said arins.
Figure 6 is a section on the line y, y, of Figure 4.
Figure 7 is an inner side view of an arrangement of the arms in which the sile
plates separate as the bolts approach each other, and
Figure 8 is an edge view of the said arms.
Throughout the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
a a¹ are the side plates of the saddle tree, and 6' are the bent or arched arms
thereof, which are arranged in pairs near each end of the side plates and are
connected thereto by bolts or rivets passing through flauges &. These arms are
arranged to overlap and slide against each other for a certain distance, and the
centre of curvature 6* of the overlapping portions forms a virtual pivot around
which the parts of the saddle tree move when being adjusted. c c are the lateral
pins or bolts with which the arms bare respectively provided, these pins or bolts
having nuts and heads c. d d are the curved slots in which the said pins or
bolts work, these slots being concentric with the overlapping portions of the arms.
e are the right and left hand screws by which the pins or lolts c c can be caused
to approach towards or recede from each other and which engage in screw-threaled
holes in the heads of the said pins or bolts. f,f are hooks with which the arms are
provided for the attachment of various articles intended for transport.
Referring now more particularly to the arrangement shown in Figures 1 to 3 it
will be seen that the two arins bare held together partly by the nuts and
heads of the pins or bolts, and partly by lips or lateral projections with one
of which each arm is proviled at its extremity, and which overlap the opposite
arm as seen more clearly in Figure 3, these projections being formed respectively
on the inner and outer edges of the arms. The right and left hand screws e are in
this case operated by a loose handle e similar to a vice handle, working in an eye e
formed on the end of one of the said screws.
The action of this form of my improved saddle is as follows:-When th

page_text: handle e (Figure 1) is turned in a right handed direction the pins or bolts c c¹ are
gradually forced apart and the arm b is caused to move in a right handed direction
round the point 6x, the arm b' at the same time moving in a left handed direction
around the same point, thus causing both of the side plates a a¹ to move apart.
equally as indicated in dotted lines. By this construction therefore the required'
capability of adjustment in width to suit different animals, is imparted to the siddle
tree, and the curved arms are at the same time kept constantly in rigid connection.
by means of the right and left hand screws.
In the arrangements shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6, the lips or lateral projections g-
are formed on both the inner and outer edges of one of the bent arms bbl and the
right and left hand screws are operated by means of a tool inserted into apertures e
in a nut or boss e situated between the two screws and forming part thereof.
In this arrangement moreover the flanges 6 to which the side plates are secured,
instead of extending on each side of their respective arms as in the preceding
arrangement, are situated on one side only thereof, but in other respects the two-
arrangements are analogous.
Referring now to the arrangement shown in Figures 7 and 8 it will be seen
that the overlapping portions of the arms b b are inverted relatively to the
corresponding parts in the previous arrangements, the two overlapping portions
being in this case of semicircular form their upwardly directed extremities
forming as it were a pair of horns or tips between which a gun barrel or other
article or articles can be secured in a very convenient manner. The centre of
curvature 6* of these portions, which is situated midway between the horns or
tips, forms as in the previous arrangements the virtual pivot or centre about
which move the arms 6 b' and the plates a a' connected with them.
Owing however to the extent to which the arms overlap each other in this case,.
it is unnecessary to provide them with lips or projections such as before referred to,
but a guide pin is provided on each projecting into the slot in the other.
It will be seen that with this arrangement when the screw e is turned so as to
draw the pins cc together the arms 661 are turned respectively in a left.
handed and right handed direction about the centre 6x and the plates a a' are
thus separated.
The turning of the screws e is effected by means of a nut or boss e as in
the arrangement shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6. It will be obvious that instead
of this nut baving holes such as e³ for the insertion of a tool, it might be
provided with a handle such as e¹ (Figure 1) or it might be made of hexagonal
or other form capable of being turned by an ordinary key or spanner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An adjustable saddle tree having arched arms formed with concentrically
curved slots within which lateral pins carried by contiguous arms, are adapted to
slide simultaneously in opposite directions substantially as described and for the-
purpose specified.
2. An adjustable saddle substantially as described with reference to one or other
of the arrangements illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of Anril 1897
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.