Improvements in Apparatus for Tightening the Girths of Saddles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Tightening the Girths of Saddles.
A communication to me from BARON BEAULIEU MARCONNAY, of Wehlheiden, near
Cassel, in the Empire of Germany.
J. EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Chartered Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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, and accompanying drawing, that is to say:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for tightening the girths
of saddles, and it has for its object to provide a girth, so constructed and arranged,
that the rider may easily tighten it without alighting from the horse.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of the invention,-
Figure 1 is a view of a saddle provided with the new girth;
Figure 2 is a view of the tightening device;
Figure 3 is a section on the line x-y of Figure 2, the device being locked;
Figure 4 is the same section, the device being opened;
Figures 3 and 4 are views of a modification of the tightening device.
The girth a, attached to the left side of the saddle by means of buckles, is
and f are
provided at its end with three straining-rollers d, e, f. The rollers
cylindrical, whilst the roller c is excentric, and resembling in its cross section a
click pall, its surface being corrugated or the like, in order to hold fast the girth g
which is so manufactured as not to be damaged by the ribs of the roller's surface.
The girth g, coming from above, is passed between the rollers in the manner shown
in Figure 3.
The girth g is attached to the right side of the saddle. To tighten the girth a,
the rider draws his right foot out of the stirrup, takes up the bow i attached to the
girth g and draws it forcibly upwards (Figure 4), whereby the girth a is
tightened. When the bow is released the girth a tends to go back, and locks
thereby the roller e by pressing it towards the roller f.
Instead of three rollers, only two may be employed, as shown in Figures 3ª
and 4. The cylindrical rollers d and f of Figures 3 and 4 are here replaced by
an excentric roller p pivotted at o and provided with a corrugated inner surface
like the roller e. As the girth g, passed between the two rollers, tends to go
back, it presses the roller p towards the roller e, whereby it is pinched between the
two rollers, any slackening of the girth being consequently prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A tightening device for girths, characterized by two excentric rollers so
constructed and arranged that the girth passed between the two rollers presses,
by its effort to go back, two rollers one towards the other, producing thereby a
pinching of the girth between the rollers, whilst a further tightening of the girth

page_text: may be easily effected by drawing upwards the free end of the girth, substantially
as described.
2. In devices of the kind mentioned in Claim 1, the application of the tight-
ening device to saddle girths the free end of the girth being provided with a bow,
whereby the girth may be tightened without alighting from the horse, by drawing
the bow upwards, substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of March 1898.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.