Improvements in Knee-caps for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 18th Aug., 1891-4ccepted, 3rd Oct.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by FERDINAND MARTINOT, of 9, Rue de Florence,
Paris, in the French Republic, Engineer.]
Improvements in Knee-caps for Horses and other Animals.
I, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to knee-caps for horses and other animals and has for its
object the avoidance of the objections inseparable from the use of these articles as
at present constructed by securing permanence of form in the pad, full pliability,
and elasticity, and great durability.
A knee-pad constructed according to these improvements consists of one or more
suitable tubes or cushions of indiarubber secured to the leg of the animal by means
of a strap or straps. In order to prevent the part of the strap or straps between
the ends of the tube or cushion from coming into contact with the leg of the
animal and possibly causing a wound, it may have a short double tube threaded
upon it in such a manner that one part of the double tube forms a pad or cushion
between the strap and the leg.
Dated this 17th day of November A.D. 1890.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knee-caps for Horses and other Animals.
1, WILLIAM EDWIN HEYS of 70 Market Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, 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 relates to knee-caps for horses and other animals and has for its
object the avoidance of the objections inseparable from the use of these articles
as at present constructed by securing permanence of form in the pad, full pliability
and elasticity, and great durability.
A knee pad constructed according to these improvements consists of one or more
suitable tubes or cushions of indiarubber secured to the leg of the animal by menus
of a strap or straps. In order to prevent the part of the strap or straps between
the ends of the tube or cushion from coming into contact with the leg of the
animal and possibly causing a wound, it may have a short double tube threaded
upon it in such a manner that one part of the double tube forms a pad or cushion
between the strap and the leg.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have appended
hereto a sheet of drawings reference to which is hereinafter made.
Figure 1 illustrates a section of a horse or other animal's leg Z fitted with the
indiarubber pads or tubes B attached to a leather or other cap K. In order
to avoid the risk of wounding the animal's leg by the tightening or fixing strap L
constantly pressing on one part as indicated by the dotted lines L', I furnish
this strap with a short double indiarubber tube M preferably of the form shewn
in end elevation Figure 2. The contact at N is thus increased and the pressure
upon the leg of the animal is lessened. By the employment of these improved

page_text: knee caps the movements of the animal's leg are not impeded and the colour of the
hair is not affected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is,
1. A knee-cap for horses and other animals constructed, substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated.
2. In a knee-cap for horses or other animals the combination with the fastening
strap or straps of an indiarubber pad or pads constructed and arranged substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 14th day of August A.D. 1891.
"STTT TTAVIA