Improvements in Horse Hitching Devices.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
Improvements in Horse Hitching Devices.
A communication by ISIDOR VON RISCH, of 19, Kärntnerstrasse, Vienna, in the
Empire of Austria, Lieutenant in the Austrian Army.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester
both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil 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 relates to an improved hitching or picketting device or strap for
horses, and is shown in the accompanying drawings.
Figures 1 to 1B show the entire device by itself;
Figures 2 to 5 the method of using it.
The hitching or picketting strap shown in Figures 1, 14 and 1* consists of a
long strap a on which a snap hook b is fitted by means of its rectangular part c.
The buckle e (which has no spike and is sewn on the other end d) prevents
the sliding snap hook from dropping off, whilst near the other end an ordinary
buckle is attached in which the remaining part g of the strap may be buckled,
thus forming a loop.
The peculiarly formed snap hook b, as shown in Figure 1^ partly in longitudinal
section, contains the spring h arranged within the movable part i, so that it is
impossible for the spring to get damaged from the outside.
When in use the strap is buckled up in the manner shown in Figure 1, the loop g
being passed through the halter ring m, Figs. 1 & 2, and the snap hook b is snapped
into the ring of the tethering peg n which is carefully packed up and carried along
with the rider on the horse. In this case as in the following examples, it is assumed
that the horse is a cavalry horse saddled in the usual manner.
If on a short journey the peg be not carried, the snap hook b is hooked in the
strap o of the holster buckle, Figure 3.
If the horse has to be fastened up, the snap hook is merely disengaged from
the peg, the latter driven into the ground, and the snap hock again attached to it.
as shown in Figure 4, so that thus the horse is tethered in the quickest manner
possible.
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If the peg should have been left behind, the snap hook may be merely hung on
a doorbell handle, wall hook, tree, or fence, whichever may happen to be the most
convenient.
If the strap a be used alone, the loop may be unbuckled at f, the strap g drawn out
of the halter ring m, the buckle e released, and the strap again fastened with the
loop g in the halter ring, Figure 1B.
The snap hook b is prevented from dropping off as already stated by the part e.
Figure 44 shows the mode of fastening the strap to a post or a railing.
If two or more horses are to be fastened together by means of this strap, the
snap hook b of the one horse is merely hooked into the halter ring of the other
horse, which operation may easily be done by the rider sitting on one of the
horses. In this way several horses may be connected together very easily and be
guided by one man.
In this way also the snap hook 6 instead of being engaged in the halter ring of
the next horse, may be hooked in the snaffle ring which is of special advantage.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the 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. An improved hitching strap or device for horses, more particularly for saddle
horses employed for military purposes, consisting of a strap a having a sliding snap
hook b arranged thereon, a buckle without a spike fixed at one end d and retaining
the said snap hook on the strap and a buckle f secured to the strap near the other
end, which latter end g may be fastened up into a loop by means of the said
buckle substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
2. In a hitching strap or device of the kind described a snap hook b, having its
spring arranged within the hollow movable part i, substantially as and for the
purpose described and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of October 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.