Improvements in connection with Ladies' Saddles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
Improvements in connection with Ladies' Saddles.
CHARLES STEEDMAN WILLIAMS 9 Clarendon Street, Warwick Square S.W.
Tailor CHARLES EDWARD ROSE 16 Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, W. Tailor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object the prevention of accident to those using side
saddles, through their dress becoming entanglel or caught by the pommels of the
saddles.
To obtain this result, we fit a hinged part to the top pommel of the saddle which
top part (so soon as the rider slips or falls free of the hinged part) will be pulled
over by a very slight pull and release any portion of the habit or dress that would
ordinarily be over the pommel.
We also further fit a self acting releasing stirrup rest to the saddle to release the
foot of the rider by allowing the stirrup to fall to the ground entirely free of the
saddle.
The accompanying drawing shews the method by which the safety of the rider
(through the stumbling or falling of the horse) is secured.
Fig. 1 on Sheet 1 shows the elevation of inside of top pommel with lever B
closed.
Fig. 2 on Sheet 1 dotted lines showing the lever B partly open.
Fig. 3 on Sheet 1 and continued on Sheet 2 elevation of top pommel showing
hinge C. and stirrup rest G & D attached to saddle tree in closed positions.
Fig. 4 on Sheet 2 showing side elevation of stirrup rest D & G. in closed
and open position viz. flap E. raised & rest D open, spring H keeps D in place.
Fig. 5 cn Sheet 2 showing side view of stirrup lever F.
Fig. 6 on Sheet 2 shows view of stirrup rest D, the flap E raised, stirrup
rest D released, allowing stirrup lever F to fall away from D & G.
Fig. 7 on Sheet 3 showing side elevation of centre section of pommel lever B
of Figures 1, 2 and 3 closed and open.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1895.
CHARLES STEEDMAN WILLIAMS.
CHARLES EDWARD ROSE.
We CHARLES STEEDMAN WILLIAMS, of 9 Clarendon Street, Warwick
Square, S.W. Tailor, and CHARLES EDWARD ROSE, of 16 Duke Street,
Grosvenor Square, Tailor do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to prevent accidents to those using side saddles,
through their dress becoming entangled with or caught by the pommels of the
saddles, when they are dismounting, or in the event of their being thrown.

page_text: In order to effect this result, we fit a hinged part to the top pommel of the
saddle, so that, as soon as the rider slips, falls or dismounts, the hinged portion
will be pulled over by a very slight pull, and release any portion of the babit or
dress that would ordinarily be over the pommel.
We further fit a self-acting releasing stirrup rest to the saddle, to release the
foot of the rider by allowing the stirrup to fall to the ground, entirely free of the
saddle.
And in order that our said invention may be clearly understood, we will proceed
to describe the same with reference to the drawings accompanying our Provisional
Specification, in which
Fig. 1, on Sheet 1. shews an elevation of inside of top pommel, with our invention
adapted thereto,
Fig. 2, on Sheet 1, (dotted lines) shews our invention in action, as hereinafter
described,
Fig. 3 on Sheets 1 and 2 shews elevation of top pommel, with our invention
adapted thereto,
Fig. 4 shews detail hereinafter referred to Figs. 5, 6, and 7 also shew details.
The same letters of reference are employed to denote the same parts in all the
views.
B shews a lever or arm hinged at C, the upper part of which arm is rivetted or
otherwise connected to the hinged portion of the pommel. DG shew stirrup rests
in the closed position. F shews stirrup lever, H spring, employed to keep rest D
in position.
It will easily be understood, upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2 that should the
habit or dress catch on the hinged portion of the top pommel, upon the rider being
thrown or upon dismounting, the said portion will be pulled over together with
the arm or lever B (and the habit or dress will be released), the rider's weight
being taken off the latter.
With reference to the releasing of the stirrup. The stirrup rests on hinged
hooks D G which are attached to the saddle tree, and are shewn at Fig. 3 Sheet 2
in their closed position. The stirrup lever or bar F hangs on the rests or
hooks D G which are kept in their closed position, so as to hold the stirrup firmly,
by means of the flap E being pressed against them when the rider is mounted.
Should the rider be thrown the pressure will be taken off the flap E and the pull
on the stirrup consequent upon this causes the hooks or rests D G to open as
shewn dotted at Fig. 4, thus freeing the stirrup.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improvements in connection with ladies' saddles substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.
2. In ladies' saddles, the upper portion of the top pommel being hinged in
combination with the lever or arm marked B on the drawing for the purpose set
forth.
3. In ladies' saddles, the combination of the stirrup rests, marked on the
drawings D and G, flap E and stirrup bar F all substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this Third day of July 1896.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.