Year: 1887

page_text: We HENRY FROST of 310 Eccles New Road, Manchester in the County of Lancaster,
Traffic Manager and SAMUEL SALKELD of Roundthorn, Cheadle Heath in the County
of Chester, Warehouseman 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 :-
Our invention relates to horse collars and consists in an improved arrangement or
construction of said collars whereby the ordinary hames are rendered unnecessary
and dispensed with and the labour and time required for putting on said collars is
reduced.
Instead of using hames, we make the outer or front cover of the collars of thin metal
plates bent to the shape of the collar, and rivet or otherwise attach the rings or hooks
for the traces and reins to the metal plates. By proference we use iron or steel sheets
but brass or other hard metal sheets may be used for the plates. The inside or back
of the collars we form as usual of leather and stuff the collar with horse hair or any
other stuffing usually employed for horse collars. The metal front of the collars may
be further covered with leather and a small quantity of stuffing placed between the
metal and the leather to bring the latter to a smooth or level surface and hide the
lugs or fret by which the rings or hooks for the traces are attached to the metal plate.
When these leather coverings for the front or outsides are used, the backs or insides
are sewn or stitched to them, while if the metal fronts or outsides are left uncovered,
they are formed with holes along their edges for sewing the backs or insides to
them, or the edges of the metal may be turned over the leather backs in order to
fasten them.
The collars made in this way may be of the ordinary closed type for putting over
the head of the horse, or they may be made in two parts to open at the bottom or at
the top, being connected by hinges or their equivalent at the other end and fastened
together by latches bolts or their equivalent.
On the drawing appended hereunto figure 1 shews a closed horse collar constructed
on our improved plan, figure 2 shews a collar arranged to open at the top and figure 3
a section through the same. Similar letters of reference denote similar parts in the
different figures. The metal plates aa are bent and shaped as shewn to the shape
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page_text: of the outer or front parts of the collar and the trace rings bb and rein rings c c are
attached to them. The metal plates are shewn covered on their outsides with
leather d for the purpose of covering the lugs by which the trace hooks are
rivetted to the plates a a. In the collar shewn by figure 2 the two sides are connected
by hinges e e fixed to the metal plates and held together at the top by sliding bolt f
and catch g. The collar shown by figure 1 is an ordinary collar in one piece. The
backs are of leather as usual and the insides stuffed with the stuffing i.
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
we claim is
Making horse collars with metal plates aa on the front or outside to which the
trace hooks or rings are attached substantially as herein before described and illustrated
by the drawings.