Appliance for Hoppling Mares.
Year: 1896

page_text: Appliance for Hoppling Mares.
I, TOM CASTLE of Childwick Stud Farm, St. Albans, Stud Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an appliance for hoppling mares whilst being covered
and it comprises a pair of padded bands or loops adapted to be buckled or otherwise
secured around the shanks of the hind legs, the bands being attached by loops or
other flexible connections to a pair of ropes or straps which may or not be twisted
together or otherwise connected and which are adapted to pass between the forelegs
and up the chest where they have thick pads of felt attached to avoid galling the
chest and terminate in rings, loops, or other means of ready connection by means of
a buckled strap with a collar formed by a rope encircling the neck of the animal.
The said rope is made of cotton or other soft fibre so as to be very flexible and it is
provided at one end with a loop through which the other end may be passed and be
secured by a knot, the looped end also having a thick pad of felt or soft material
attached to prevent the knot or loop galling the neck.
Dated this 14th day of March 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
I, TOM CASTLE of Childwick Stud Farm, St. Albans, Stud Manager, 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 appliance for hoppling mares whilst being covered
and is illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.
It comprises a pair of leg ropes A A terminating at their rear ends in loops or
eyes a a and provided with thick soft pads of felt B stitched to the ropes so as to
lie between the ropes and the legs of the animal when the ropes are looped around
the hind legs as shewn. The ropes A are preferably twisted together or otherwise
connected and pass between the forelegs and up the chest (where they may have
thick pads of felt attached to avoid galling the chest) and terminate in metal rings
or loops e or other means of ready connection by means of a buckled strap D with
a collar E formed by a rope encircling the neck of the animal. The rope E is
made preferably of cotton so as to be very flexible and it is provided at one end
with a loop or eye e through which the other end of the rope may be passed and
secured by a slip knot tied as shewn so as to enable the release of the collar to be
effected by a single pull from in front by the attendant standing at the animal's
head.

page_text: It will be obvious that the collar rope when thus untied will at once fall clear off
the animal's neck, there being no long end or ends of rope liable to become entangled
as in the form of hoppling appliance generally in use.
The ropes A are preferably leather-covered and should run freely through the
loops a and be elastic enough to slacken from around the legs and fall off
immediately the collar rope is released. The strap D has a permanent loop dat
its upper end through which the collar rope E is passed, its buckled end forming a
second loop after being passed through the eyes c of the ropes A and being secured
to a buckle which provides the necessary means for adjustment to adapt the
appliance to animals of various sizes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described appliance for hoppling mares consisting of a pair of leg
roj es, a separate collar rope, and a strap of adjustable length connecting the leg
ropes together and to the collar rope all substantially as shewn and described.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.