A NEW SHIELD FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS OF ANIMALS USED FOR RIDING OR DRAUGHT PURPOSES FROM INCLEMENT WEATHER."
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Charles Selby, of No. 183, Drummond
Boad, Bermondsey, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of
"A NEW SHIELD FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS OF ANIMALS
USED FOR RIDING OR DRAUGHT PURPOSES FROM INCLEMENT WEATHER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Charles Selby
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th November 1872.
I, THOMAS CHABLES SELBY, of No. 183, Drummond Road, Bermondsey,
in: the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW SHIELD FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS
OF ANIMALS USED FOR RIDING OR DRAUGHT PURPOSES FROM INCLEMENT WEATHER,”
to be as follows::-
This Invention consists of a shield to cover or partly cover the chest
of horse, cob, pony, ass, or mule, male or female, made of leather,
gutta percha, vulcanized india-rubber, waterproofing, or any serviceable
material, to be suspended in front of the chest from the collar or over

page_text: the neck or withers by straps or other appliances, or to saddle, or to any
part of the harness, and held down or under by straps or other appliances
through the fore legs to saddle band, belly band, or girth, or by springs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Charles Selby in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
CHARLES SELBY, of No. 183, Drummond Road, Bermondsey, in the
County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her :
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Charles Selby,
Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Charles Selby, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Charles Selby, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "A NEW SHIELD FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHEST
AND LUNGS OF ANIMALS USED FOR RIDING OR DRAUGHT PURPOSES FROM INCLEMENT
WEATHER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Charles Selby, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Charles Selby, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-

page_text: This Invention consists of a shield to cover or partly cover the chest
of horse, cob, pony, ass, or mule, male or female, made of leather,
gutta percha, vulcanized india-rubber, waterproofing, or any serviceable
material, to be suspended in front of the chest from the collar or over
the neck or withers by straps or other appliances, or to saddle, or to any
part of the harness, and held down or under by straps or other appliances
through the fore legs to saddle band, belly band, or girth, or by springs.
This Invention protects the chest and lungs of an animal from the
inclemency of the weather when driving about or standing about, and by
being loosely suspended admits of free perspiration, keeps the chest
warm and dry, protecting it from snow, sleet, rain, and pierceing winds.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Charles Selby, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
THOMAS CHARLES SELBY. (L.S.)