Improved Horse Collar.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th May, 1895-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
Improved Horse Collar.
I FREDERICK WARNER of No. 57 Lower High Street Wednesbury in the
County of Stafford Saddler do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention consists of a forged galvanized or plain iron tube inserted in the
forewhale of a horse collar in substitution for straw whereby the use of the hames.
may be avoided and the shape of the collar is preserved.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1895.
Improved Horse Collar.
I, FREDERICK WARNER of 57 Lower High Street Wednesbury in the County
of Stafford, Saddler 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 :-
The object of my invention is an improved horse collar which is constructed in
such a manner that the draft hooks are a part of the collar and hames are not
required when my collars are used. My collars maintain their shape perfectly
and are superior in every respect to the collars now in use and upon which hames
are necessary.
The invention consists of a forged galvanized or plain iron tube inserted in the
forewhale of a horse collar in substitution for straw whereby the use of hames may
be avoided and the shape of the collar is preserved.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried.
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings showing a
collar made up according to my invention, but the general shape and design may be
varied.
Figure 1 is a front view of one of my collars A.
Figure 2 is a side view of same.
My invention consists in a horse collar made up with a metal fore-wale B instead of
forming the fore-wale with straw or other stuffing which is very difficult and
laborious work besides when the collar is made with a stuffed fore-wale, it easily
wears out of shape. By forming my fore-wale from metal I am enabled to provide
fastenings attached to the fore-wale to hold the draught hooks K which entirely
dispenses with the necessity for hames. Referring to the drawings A is the collar
and B is my new tube or metal fore-wale which is securely bedded in the collar in
making it up. Indeed this metal tube forms the foundation upon which the collar
is made and stuffed and may be of any desired cross section but I prefer a tube of
sufficient strength to allow the eye pins b*, 6, 6* 6 to be so securely attached to the
tube that the draught hooks K are strongly and sufficiently attached thereto by
the bolts 6° so as to bear all the necessary strain in drawing heavy loads. The
fore-wale B may be coated with brass or other metal and may be shaped in any

page_text: desired manner so long as sufficient strength is obtained. In the manufacture
I take a welded or solid drawn tube and bend it round upon suitable blocks or
moulds and flatten the top ends 61 and 6 and then secure them by a rivet 6³. The
metal part is then covered by leather or other material in making up the collar A.
The advantages are great as no hames are required and when the collar is
worn the general shape is still maintained and the fore-whale B may be recovered
and made up again time after time besides which collars thus made up are much
lighter than an ordinary collar and a set of hames combined as is now the custom.
Besides this the hard labor in making collars is saved as well as much time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what. I
claim is :-
The improved horse collar A having the fore-wale B made up with and as an
integral part of the said collar substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth
and shown upon the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1896
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.