AN IMPROVED DUMB JOCKEY' FOR BREAKING OR TRAINING HORSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Henderson, of No. 15, Bark Place, Bayswater
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Trainer of Horses, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED DUMB JOCKEY' FOR BREAKING OR TRAINING HORSES."
Sealed the 16th July 1861, and dated the 22nd January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Henderson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd January 1861.
I, ROBERT HENDERSON, of No. 15, Bark Place, Bayswater Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Trainer of Horses, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED DUMB JOCKEY' FOR BREAKING OR TRAINING
HORSES," to be as follows:-
In training horses by means of a "dumb jockey," it is a great desideratum
so to construct and arrange the instrument as to cause its action and effect
to be as near as possible that of a man's hands, and more especially so to
dispose and arrange the same that the "hands" (as they may be termed)
of the "jockey" may be raised or lowered, placed together or far apart, or
either of them extended whilst the other is central or nearly so, according
to the fault to be corrected or the particular carriage of the horse's head
desired to be attained, and it is to effect this object that the present Invention
is designed.
The "jockey" is constructed as follows: -A metal clamp or frame properly
padded on the inside and covered with leather or other material is furnished
with girths for attaching the same to the body of the horse, and a "crupper,"

page_text: the sides of the clamp being hinged so as to adapt themselves to the ribs
of the animal, and its apex being provided with an arch to take the pressure
off the spine. In the centre of the said arch is fixed a vertical bar of metal,
upon which slides a transverse bar, which may be considered the arms of
the jockey. The vertical bar is provided with countersunk holes, and the
transverse bar with a set screw to adjust and fix the latter to any height
required. Upon the vertical bar are mounted two slides furnished with
springs and shackles (which may be termed the "hands" of the jockey), to
which the reins are attached; these slides have set screws, and the transverse
bar has countersunk holes, so that the "hands" to which the reins are
attached may be adjusted in any required position, and there fixed by tightening
the set screws, and hence the head of the horse can be held firmly in any
required position:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Henderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
HENDERSON, of No. 15, Bark Place, Bayswater Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Trainer of Horses, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Henderson, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Henderson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Robert Henderson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED DUMB JOCKEY' FOR BREAKING OR TRAINING HORSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Henderson, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Henderson, 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 tho:
following statement in writing, and on reference to the accompanying:
Drawings, that is to say:-
In training horses by means of a "dumb jockey," it is a great desideratum"
so to construct and arrange the instrument as to cause its action and effect
to be as near as possible that of a man's hands, and more especially so to:
dispose and arrange the same that the "hands" (as they may be termed)
of the "jockey" may be raised or lowered, placed together or far apart, or
either of them extended whilst the other is central or nearly so, according
to the fault to be corrected: or the particular carriage of the horse's head
desired to be attained, and it is to effect this object that the present Invention
is designed.
The "jockey" is constructed as follows:-A metal clamp or frame covered
with leather or other material (or uncovered) and having a pad on the
inside is furnished with girths for attaching the same to the body of the'
horse, and a crupper, the sides of the clamp being hinged so as to adapt
themselves to the ribs of the animal, and its apex being provided with an
arch to take the pressure off the spine. In the centre of the said arch is
fixed a vertical bar of metal, upon which slides a transverse bar, which may'
be considered "the arms" of the jockey. The vertical bar is provided
with countersunk holes, and the transverse bar with a set screw to adjust
and fix the latter to any height required. Upon the transverse bar are
mounted two slides furnished with springs and shackles (which may be
termed the "hands" of the jockey), to which the reins are attached; these
slides have set screws and the transverse bar has countersunk holes so that
the "hands" to which the reins are attached may be adjusted in any required
position, and there fixed by tightening the set screws, and hence the head
of the horse can be held firmly in any required position.
.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention for "An Improved
Dumb Jockey 'for Breaking or Training Horses," I will now proceed to
describe the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect. And in order that the same may be distinctly
understood I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof,
and bave marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding
with those in the following explanation thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: In the annexed Drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a
"dumb jockey"
constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a side view of the same;
and Figure 3 is a plan view of the transverse bar and its appendages.
a, a, is a metal clamp or frame having hinges at b, b, and provided with
a pad on the inside, and furnished with girths c, c, for attaching the same
to the horse's body. To the arch d, d, at the upper part of the frame is
fixed a vertical bar of metal e, e, which may be called the body of the
jockey, and upon which the transverse bar (or arms) f, f, slides. The vertical
bar is provided with countersunk holes 9, 9, and the transverse bar with
a set screw h so as to adjust and fix the latter to any height required.
Upon the transverse bar or "arms "f,f, are mounted two slides i, i, furnished
with springs k, k, and shackles 1, 1, which act as the hands, and to which
the upper reins m, m, are attached. These slides have set screws n, n, so
that the hands may be adjusted and fixed in any required position. If
requisite the transverse bar f, f, may be furnished with countersunk holes
similar to the vertical bar e, e; upon removing either of the slides i, i, and
reversing its position on the bar f, f, its corresponding "hand" be
brought close up to the vertical bar e, e, or into nearly a central position.
o, o, is the crupper, which may be attached to the transverse bar as shewn in
the Drawing, or to an independent slide, or to the clamp a, a, as preferred,
and p, p, are the lower reins.
may
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"An Improved Dumb Jockey for Breaking or Training Horses," together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion, that I claim as my
Invention the general construction and arrangement of the "dumb jockey,"
as shewn in the Drawings and above described; and especially I claim the
binged clamp or frame with the arch at the top to take the pressure off the
horse's spine the vertical bar upon which slides up and down a transverse
bar or "arms," and the sliding "hands" capable of horizontal adjustment
on the latter.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Henderson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
ROBERT HENDERSON. (L.S.)