Improvements in Saddles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Saddles.
HUGH ROBERT NEWBURGH-STEWART of 21 Great George Street
Westminster Captain R.N. do hereby declare the nature of this inventi in to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide simple cheap and efficient means for
securing the pads to the flaps or paunels of saddles and also to protect the fastening
device froin wear and injury by exposure.
Hitherto the pads of the flaps or pannels of saddles have been connected together
either by sewing or by lacing through holes provided for the purpose in both the
cases containing the padding and the leather flaps or pannels.
According to my invention I provide near the edges of the case containing the
padding a series of loops of leather or other suitable material and ou the inner side
of the flaps or pannels I provide similar loops, the loops on the padding case when
in position on the flap or pannel being situated between the loops on the latter, and
I pass through the several loops, on both the pad and the flap or pannel, a strap or
its equivalent and secure the ends of the said strap or the like to a stud or studs
or otherwise secure the ends to prevent them from becoming detached. The straps
thus securely attach the pads to the flaps or pannels whilst the said strap and loops
are effectively protected from wear and from injury by exposure to wet.
Dated this 24th day of August 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agente.
I, HUGH ROBERT NEWBURGH-STEWART of 21 Great George Street,
Westminster, Captain, R.N. 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 :-
My invention has for its object to provide simple cheap and efficient means for
securing the pads to the flaps or panuels of saddles and also to protect the fastening
device from wear and injury by exposure.
Hitherto the pads of the flaps or pannels of saddles have been connected to the
said flaps or pannels either by sewing, or by lacing through holes provided for the
purpose, in both the cases containing the padding, and in the leather flaps or
pannels.
According to my invention I provide near the edges of the case containing the
padding a series of loops of leather or other suitable material and on the inner sides
of the flaps or pannels I provide similar loops, the loops on the padding case, when

page_text: in position on the flap or pannel, being situated between the loops on the latter, and
I pass through the several loops, on both the pad and on the flap or pannel, a strap
or its equivalent and secure the ends of the said strap or the like to a sturi or studs,
or otherwise secure the said ends to prevent them from becoming detached.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing is a side view of a pack saddle pannel
with a portion broken away to shew the means according to my invention for
-connecting the pads or padding to the leather flap, and
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the pannol shewing the padding partly separated
from the leather flap to illustrate more clearly my improved means for connecting
the padding to the flap.
According to my invention I provide near the edge on the inner side of the
leather flap A a series of loops B and near the edge of the pads or case C containing
the padding material, I provide similar loops, D, arranged so that when the pad or
padding case C is placed in position against the leather flap A the loops B will be
situated between the loops D. To connect the pads or padding to the flap A a
leather or other strap or thong E or the equivalent thereof is passed through the
loops B and D as shewn and the ends e ot the said strap, thong, or the like, are
attached to studs or buttons F or secured by other suitable meaus so as to prevent
the said strap or the like E from becoming disengaged from the loops B and D.
The loops and interlocking strap or the like being situated between the pad and the
leather flap are effectively protected from damago by rain and from wear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what inauuer the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In saddles for horses and other animals, loops on the inner sides of the flaps or
pannels in combination with loops on the pads or cases containing padding, and
straps, thongs, or their equivalents, passed through the loops, substantially as and
for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting means for attaching
the pads or padding to the flaps or pannels of saddles substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
حمون
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.