Improvements in the Manufacture of Spurs.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Spurs.
We, SAMUEL WITHERS and JADEZ GRIFFIN, trading together as Withers & Griffin,
of Pleck Road, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Malleable Iron Founders and
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of spurs which have heretofore
usually been made by forging or of malleable cast iron and in some cases from
sheet metal. By this invention we reduce the cost of manufacture of the spurs
and this invention is carried out as follows:-
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We make the bow part of the spur of a piece of wire or rolled or drawn strip
metal of flat or half round or other suitable shape in cross section, which is bent
to the bow shape, and to the centre of this bow the ordinary neck (which at its
outer end is forked and carries the rowel) is rivetted brazed or otherwise fixed.
The ends of the bow are pierced or have holes drifted in them to fix the usual
studs in; or the ends of the bow are otherwise suitably formed.
By making the bow part of the spur from wire or other rolled or drawn metal
strip as above described there is practically no scrap and the cost of dressing and
filing and finishing is saved.
Instead of employing the usual neck and fixing the same to the bow part as
above described, we may make the neck of two pieces of the said wire or other
rolled or drawn metal strip which are placed side by side with the rowel between
them and where they meet the bow the said strips are bent outwardly to form feet
which are rivetted or otherwise fixed to the bow.
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Instead of making the bow part separate from the neck as above described, the
bow and neck may be formed together. In this case we employ two pieces of
the said wire or other rolled or drawn metal strip each of which is bent to
correspond with the neck and one half of the bow. These are then secured
together by brazing at the neck or by rivets passing therethrough.
The wire or other rolled or drawn metal strip may be any metal or alloy and
may have a pattern rolled or otherwise impressed upon it proferably before being
bent into the bow shape.
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Improvements in the manufacture of spurs.
We, SAMUEL WITHERS and JABEZ Griffin, trading together as Withers & Griffin,
f Pleck Road, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Malleable Iron. Founders and
Price 8d.]

page_text: Manufacturers, 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 has reference to the manufacture of riding spurs which have
heretofore usually been made by forging or from castings of brass nickel and
malleable iron and in some cases from sheet metal. By this invention we reduce
the cost of manufacture of the spurs and this invention is carried out as we will
describe by referring to the accompanying drawings on which Fig. 1 is a front
elevation and Fig. 2 is a side view of a riding spur constructed according to this
invention; Fig. 3 shews the rolled or drawn metal strip from which the bow part
of the spur is formed; Fig. 4 is a front elevation and Fig. 5 is a side elevation
of a spur similar to that represented by Figs. 1 and 2 but provided with a
strengthening plate at the base of the neck as hereinafter described and Fig. 6
shews the said strengthening plata separately; Fig. 7 is a front elevation and
Fig. 8 is a side elevation of another spur constructed according to this invention;
and Fig. 9 shows separately one of the parts of the spur represented by Figs. 7
and 8; Fig. 10 is a front elevation and Fig. 11 is a side elevation of another
riding spur constructed according to this invention; Fig. 12 shews separately
one of the pieces of wire or rolled or drawn metal strip to form one of the sides
of the said spur; Fig. 13 is a separate view of a part of the said spur shewn by
Figs. 10 and 11; Fig. 14 shews a modified form of the spur illustrated in Figs. 10
and 11; Figs. 15 and 16 show two other sections of wire or drawn metal strip
suitable for forming spurs in accordance with this invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
In carrying out this invention we make the bow part A of the spur of a piece
of wire or rolled or drawn strip of metal of flat or half round or other suitable
shape in cross section such a strip as shown for instance by Fig. 3 which is bent
to the bow shape of the spur and to the centre of this bow the ordinary neck B
(which at its outer end is forked and carries the rowel C) is rivetted brazed or
otherwise fixed preferably by the neck having a short tooth at the base which
passes through a corresponding elongated hole a¹ at the centre of the bow and
is rivetted over on the inside of the same. The ends of the bow are pierced
at a a³ or have holes drifted or otherwise formed in them to fix the usual studs
in; or the ends of the bow may be otherwise formed.
By making the bow part A of the spur from flat or other wire or rolled or
drawn metal strip as above described there is practically no scrap and the cost
of dressing filing and finishing is saved. At the base of the neck B we may
strengthen the bow A by a plate D as shewn in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 which, is a piece
of the flat section wire or rolled metal strip rivetted or otherwise fixed to the
bow A and through which the tongue 6' of the neck B passes.
Instead of employing the usual neck B and fixing the same to the bow part &
as above described, we may make the neck of two pieces E¹ Es of the said wire
or other rolled or drawn metal strip (see Figs. 7, 8 and 9) which are placed side
hy side as shown in Fig. 7 leaving a space for the rowel between them and
where they meet the bow A the pieces E¹ are bent outwardly to form feet a¹ ª
which are rivetted or otherwise fixed to the bow A.
Instead of making the bow part of the spur separate from the neck as above
described with reference to Figs. 1 to 9 both inclusive the bow part and the neck
of the spur'may be formed together as we will now describe by referring to Figs. 10,
11, 12 and 13. In this case we employ two pieces A' A' of the said wire or other
rolled or drawn metal strip such as represented by Fig. 12. One of these strips
is bent so as to form one half E3 of the neck and one half A¹ of the bow, and the
other strip is bent to form the other half As of the bow and the corresponding
half E of the neck. These two strips A' A have fitted between them a block_f
to keep the ends E E at the proper distance apart to receive the rowel. The

page_text: strips AA are then secured together and to the block F by brazing or by rivots g
passing through the strips A' A' and through the block .
The block may be omitted and the two bars A¹ A be cranked inwardly
at n (see Fig. 14) where they are rivetted together this cranking thus forming
the proper space for rowel between the sides 1³ E'.
The spurs shewn upon our drawings are represented as being formed of wire or
drawn or rolled metal strips of a flat rectangular cross section, but it will be under-
stood that other sections may be employed without departing from the nature
of our invention for instance as shewn by Fig. 15 which is of a flat rectangular
section with two of the corners rounded off, or such as shewn by Fig. 16 which
is oblong in cross section.
The wire or other rolled or drawn metal strip may be of any metal or alloy
and may have a pattern rolled or otherwise impressed upon it if desired preferably
before being bent into the bow shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
wo claim is:-
Riding spurs having their bows or bows and necks made from flattened wire or
from rolled or drawn strip metal in any of the soveral ways substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
1000.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.