IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SADDLES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, Patent Agent, of the
British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in
the Empire of France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF SADDLES."-A communication from Laurent Cogent,
Manufacturer, residing at 127, Rue Lafayette, Paris, in the Empire of
France.
Sealed the 22nd May 1868, and dated the 30th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th December 1862.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF SADDLES," a communication from Laurent Cogent,
Manufacturer, a person residing at 127, Rue Lafayette, Paris, in the Empire
of France, to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in applying on the front of the bows of saddles
two iron stays A, A, fixed at the sides, and united by a steel spindle B, B,
of which the ends are made with screw threads, which have an inverse
direction and turning in two moving nuts C, C, fixed on the extremities of

page_text: the two iron stays. A shoulder piece D in the middle of the spindle, made
with holes in to afford facilities in turning it either way, and consequently
to approach or recede the extremities of the two stays A, A, and thus to
enlarge or decrease the compass of the saddle bow.
The Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed Drawing represent the saddle bow,
seen from the front and from the side. The Figure 3 represents the stays,
the spindle, and the nut separately. In these Figures the same parts are
indicated by the same letters of reference.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrian Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SADDLES," a communication from
Laurent Cogent, Manufacturer, a person residing at 127, Rue Lafayette,
Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in an improved apparatus, which offers the advantage
of being able to employ the same saddle for horses of different sizes.
This apparatus may be applied to all saddles whatever may be the 'mode
of construction of the saddle tree, as well as to pack saddles of other beasts
of burden placed before and bebind.
The changes to be made in the apparatus in order to adapt it to the above
purposes are to unite the stays in a different way, by a double hinge in cases
where these parts are placed edgeways, or by a single binge when they are
placed flat.
The different Figures of the annexed Drawings, in which the same letters
of reference indicate similar parts, represent,-
Figs. 1 and 2 a view in plan and a side view of an ordinary saddle, the
stays of which are placed flat; Figs. 3 and 4 a front view and an underneath
view of a military saddle bow on which the stays are placed edgeways;
Fig. 5 is a front view of a ladies saddle bow; Fig. 6 is a view of the iron
stays, the spindle and the screw nuts separately. The bow of the saddle is in
pine, cut in the length of the tree from M to N and cylindrically, so that the
grain is lengthways of the saddle. It is covered with raw hide and lined
with walnut or other suitable veneer which is placed crosswise with the grain
of the pine forming the saddle tree, so that the grains of the two woods
cross. This forms a combination which assures the solidity of the whole.
Two stays A, A, in angle iron are applied behind the front arch of the
saddle bow, to the sides of which they are strongly reveted, two moveable
screw nuts C, C, are fixed to the upper extremities of these two stays, which
are united by a screw spindle in steel B, each extremity of which is worked
with a screw thread in an inward direction which work in each screw nut.
The centre of this rod is somewhat larger than the rest, and forms a shoulder
D, provided with holes in order to permit of its being turned one way or the
other, and thus to remove or approach the two stays and consequently increase
or diminish the span of the saddle. In the ladies and troop saddles the
apparatus is partially hidden in the saddle tree. The screw nuts for the
troop saddles, instead of being placed at the extremities of the stays, turn in
two iron bands G, G, which are fixed edgeways on the front arch of the
saddle bow before and behind the apparatus, and which give greater strength
to it.
In the apparatus for ladies' saddles the screw nuts are strengthened by the
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page_text: Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which it is to be carried into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details above given, which may obviously be
modified without departing from the principle of the Invention; but what
I claim is the construction and disposition of the different parts of the
apparatus, such as it is above-described and represented in the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)