Improvements in Saddle Bars.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
Improvements in Saddle Bars.
I, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOws, of the Firm of Alfred Bullows and Sons, of
Long Street Works, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to saddles, my object being
to produce a strong and effective saddle bar in a more convenient and inexpensive
manner than is possible with the present methods of construction.
My improved saddle bar consists of a wrought iron, malleable cast iron, or
other metal body part having the ordinary central slot or aperture with one end
open, and provided with lugs for attachment to the saddle in the usual manner.
The metal in such body part is not cored or bored or drilled out in construction
as with ordinary saddle bars but left solid, as the usual spring arranged within the
body is dispensed with, and I am thus enabled either to forge, stamp, or cast the
body in an expeditious and inexpensive manner.
The hinged guard or "thumb bit" at the open end of the slotted bar, I provide
with a self contained spring so arranged that its action is to keep the guard or
thumb bit in its closed or open position.
By arranging the spring within or upon the "thumb bit" as herein before
described, I am enabled to mount a roller upon the body part which in the ordinary
construction is made hollow to receive a spring.
Dated this 16th day of October 1897.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.
improvements in Saquie Dars.
I, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWs, of the Firm of Alfred Bullows and Sons, of
Long Street Works, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, 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 consists of improvements relating to saddles, my object being
to produce a strong and effective saddle bar in a more convenient and inexpensive
manner than is possible with the present methods of construction.

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In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan of a saddle bar constructed
in accordance with my invention.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the saddle bar with the "thumb bit" removed,
and Figure 4 is a sectional plan of the thumb hit on the line a Figure 1.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
My improved saddle bar consists of a wrought iron, malleable cast iron, or
cther metal body part having the ordinary central slot or aperture A with one end
open, and provided with lugs B1 for attachment to the saddle in the usual
manner. The metal in such body part is not cored or bored or drilled out in
construction as with ordinary saddle bars but left solid, as the usual spring
arranged within the body is dispensed with, and I am thus enabled either to forge,
stamp, or cast the body in an expeditious and inexpensive manner,
The hinged guard or thumb bit C at the open end of the slotted body, I provide
with a self contained spring D and an engagement peg E which is caused by the
spring to engage with the apertures or recesses e ord of the saddle bar and thus
to secure the thumb bit respectively in its open or closed positions until a sulli-
cient force is applied to press back the peg E against the action of the spring D.
The thumb bit is shown in its open position by the full lines at Figure 1, and in
its closed position by the dotted lines.
By arranging the spring within or upon the thumb bit as hereinbefore described.
I am enabled to mount a roller if desired upon the body part which in the
ordinary construction is made hollow to receive a spring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is:-
1. In saddle bars, the combination of a hinged guard or thumb bit with a
retaining spring arranged within the guard itself, substantially as described.
2. The construction of saddle bars with a solid body part, substantially as
described.
3. The improved saddle bar having a solid body part and a hinged guard or
thumb bit with a spring and an engagement peg arranged within it, substantially
ns described and as illustrated.
Dnted this 10th 1
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1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.O., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.