Improvements in Gig Harness and Riding Saddles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gig Harness and Riding Saddles.
I, LIONEL BARNETT of 59 Tenby Street North, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager (a communication to me from abroad by Dexter Curtis of Madison,
Wisconsin, United States of America) do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the novel construction and application of zinc
saddle pads or plates to gig harness and riding saddles.
For this purpose according to this invention those parts of the inner surfaces of gig
harness and riding saddles, which bear upon the back and sides of the animal are lined
with a zinc pad or plate (advantageously hollow) the bearing edges of such pads being
rounded off to prevent the chafing of the skin. The outer edges of such zine pads or
plates are rivetted or otherwise fixed to the inner bearing surfaces of the harness or
riding saddles to prevent sores caused by pressure and friction or to cure same should
they exist.
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L 1000
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gig. Harness and Riding Saddles.
I LIONEL BARNETT of 59 Tenby Street North Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager (a communication to me from abroad by Dexter Curtis of Madison,
Wisconsin, United States of America) 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 for its object the novel construction and application of zinc
pads or plates to "gig" or other harness saddles and riding saddles.
For this purpose according to this invention parts of the inner surfaces of "gig"
or other harness saddles and riding saddles which bear upon the back and sides of the
animal are lined with a zine pad or pads (advantageously hollow) or plate or plates the
bearing edges of such pads or plates being rounded off to prevent the chafing of
the skin. Such zinc pads or plates are rivetted or otherwise suitably fixed to harness or
riding saddles-their object being to prevent sores or sore backs hitherto often caused
by the pressure and friction of the saddle or to help to cure same should they exist,
and having other advantages.
And in order that this invention (communicated to me) may be clearly under-
stood and readily carried into practice I will proceed to describe the drawings
hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a harness saddle
plate a applied to the inner bearing surface thereof in
invention.
having a zinc pad or
accordance with this
Figure 2 is a separate view of the zinc saddle pad (shown in Figure 1)
detached-same being suitably shaped to fit over the neck and shoulders of a
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a harness saddle having a zinc pad or
plate a applied to the inner bearing surface thereof in accordance with this
invention.
horse.
Figure 2 is a separate view of the zinc saddle pad (shown in Figure 1)
detached-
-same being suitably shaped to fit over the neck and shoulders of a
Figure 3 suows another form of harness saddle having a zinc pad a¹ applied in
the form of a hollow pad to the inner surface of each side flap 6 and Figures 4, 5

page_text: and 6 show respectively an inner side view, a longitudinal section and a transverse
section of the detached zinc pad a¹ such as is shown secured in position in Figure 3.
The foregoing will serve as illustrations of the manner of carrying this invention
into practice-but it will of course be understood that zinc pads or plates may be
applied to harness or other saddles in any other suitable form and manner and secured
therein or thereto in any suitable way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. :
1. The use and application of zinc as a pad (or pads) plate or lining to the inner
surface of "gig
or other harness saddles and riding saddles.
"
1.
2. A pad plate or lining of any suitable shape constructed of zinc-or that part of
it constructed of zinc which when in use comes in' contact' with the "animal-and
applied in any suitable manner to the inner surface of "gig" or other harness saddles and
riding saddles substantially as'and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth'and illustrated
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
:
"Dated this and t
1000
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.