AN IMPROVED SADDLE-BAR
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Passmore and Elias
Court Cole at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd June
1883.
JOHN PASSMORE and ELIAS COURT COLE, both of Exeter in the County of
Devon, "AN IMPROVED SADDLE-BAR,"
"
According to this invention the bar is suspended from two staples preferably
placed one towards each end of the upper limb of the bar and secured to the plato
attached to the saddle-tree.
The thumb piece or spring clip, pivotted at the outer end of the lower limb of
the bar, is in the form of a crank, and one arm thereof normally lies below the
stirrup leather, the other arm projecting upwards at the outer end of the lower
limb of the bar.
In obedience to the strain caused by dislodgement of a rider thrown over the
saddle, the whole bar turns upwards on the hinges formed by the staples, and the
thumb piece, yielding to the pressure exerted on its outer arm, turns outwards on
its pivot, and the leather is released.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Passmore and Elias Court Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th December 1883.
JOHN PASSMORE and ELIAS COURT COLE, both of Exeter in the County of
Devon, AN IMPROVED SADDLE-BAR
According to our said invention the bar is suspended from two staples, preferably
placed one towards each end of the upper limb of the bar, and secured to the plate
attached to the saddle-tree.
The thumb-piece or spring clip pivotted at the rear end of the lower limb of the
bar, is in the form of a crank, and one arm thereof normally lies below the stirrup
leather, the other arm projecting upwards at the rear end of the lower limb of
the bar.
In obedience to the strain caused by the dislodgement of a rider in a backward
direction, the thumb-piece opens outwards on its pivot, and the leather becomes
- released.
Should the rider be thrown over the saddle, the bar turns upwards on the
staples, and the leather is released by the turning outwards of the thumb-piece as
aforesaid.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood and the mode
or manner in or under which the same is or may be used or practically carried into
effect, we now proceed more particularly to describe the same with reference to
the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings and the figures and letters marked
thereon.
Fig. 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings reprosents a side view of a saddle-
bar constructed and arranged in accordance with our said invention.
The stirrup leather A is shown in its normal position on the lower limb of the
.bar B.
The bar is suspended from the staples c, c', passed through its upper limb and
secured to the plate C. Towards the rear end of the lower limb of the bar B is
pivotted the crank-shaped thumb-picce D, one arın of which normally lies below
the stirrup leather A, the other arm projecting vertically upward, as shown. A flat
spring d is rivetted in place in the lower limb of the bar and bears against the heel
of the thumb-piece D.
To prevent the thumb-piece D being displaced by any twisting action exerted by
the leather A, lying over one arm thereof, the said arm is provided with a central
rib normally lying in a groove or slot in the lower limb of the bar B.
In obedience to the strain caused by dislodgement of a rider in a backward
direction, the leather A is made to bear against the upright arm of the thumb-
piece D which latter is thus caused to turn outwards upon its pivot, and the leather
is released, as illustrated at Fig: 2 of the drawings.
Should the rider be thrown over the saddle, the bar B is first thereby turned
upwards on the staples c, c', and the thumb-piece D then forced, by the leather A,
to open outwards on its pivot, as aforesaid, and the leather is released, as illustrated
at Fig. 3 of the drawings.
Instead of passing both staples through the bar B, as shown at Figs 1, 2 and 3
of the drawings, that staple situated towards the front only may be passed through
the bar, and the rear end of the upper limb may be rounded and retained below
the other staple, extended as shown at Figs 4 and 5.
The rounded end of the upper limb of the bar is free to turn partially round
below the extended staple c', within the limits fixed by tho ends of which the upper
limb of the bar is free to move on the face of the plate C.

page_text: The bar B is thus capable of being turned upwards and forwards in obedience to
a corresponding strain produced by the dislodgement of a rider, and the stirrup
leather becomes released in a manner corresponding to that herein before described
with reference to Figs 1, 2 and 3.
Having now described our said invention and the mode or manner in or under
which the same is or may be used or practically carried into effect, we claim as the
invention secured to us by the herein before in part recited Letters Patent.-
The combination of parts constituting the improved saddle-bar constructed,
arranged and operating as hereinbefore described with reference to and shown in
Figs 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings; also the modification illustrated in Figs 4 and 5.
In witness whereof we the said John Passmore and Elias Court Cole have
hereunto set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of December in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
TATTIT
PIZZARD