Improvements in Riding Safety Stirrups.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Safety Stirrups.
I, JOHN CARTER, of 86 George Street, in the City and County of Edinburgh,.
Saddler and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as.
follows:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved construction or arrangement.
and combination of the parts of safety stirrups used in connection with saddles for
holding the rider's feet, and which in the event of the rider getting displaced or
falling off his horse, will automatically open up and liberate his feet so that they
shall not get entangled.
The improvements consist in having a stationary outer vertical stirrup bar or open
frame, preferably of inverted U or bridge shape, and a corresponding shaped inner
bar mounted preferably at its upper part on studs on opposite inner sides of the
outer fixed bar so as to oscillate on said studs. A horizontal foot tread or sole
plate is hinged or fulcrumed, at its one end, at the lower part of one of the ends of
the outer fixed bar, and its other end is portably placed to slide in a segmental
groove or race formed on the inner side of the opposite lower end of the oscillating
bar. When in riding position the free end of the tread bar of each stirrup rests in:
a central recess within the slide groove, and the sole of the foot of the rider bears:
on it, but should the rider by any accident fall or be thrown off the horse, the toe
of his boot will bear on the bridge part of the inner bar and oscillate it on its stud
fulcra to either side, and which action will make the lower foot tread plate slide
out of the groove in oscillating bar, and so be freed and fall down to relieve the:
foot of the rider.
Dated the 28th November 1892.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Safety Stirrups.
I, JOHN CARTER of 86 George Street, in the City and County of Edinburgh,.
Saddler and Harness Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement in writing that is to say:-
This invention has reference to a new or improved construction or arrangement.
and combination of the parts of safety stirrups use in connection with saddles for
holding the riders feet, and which in the event of the rider getting displaced, or
falling off his horse, will automatically open up and liberate his feet so that they
shall not get entangled.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an
explanatory sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 represents a perspective elevation
showing a riding safety stirrup in its closed fixed position, and as constructed in
accordance with my improvements. While Figure 2 represents a corresponding
view of the stirrup in its disengaged position for releasing the foot of the rider.
Referring to these drawings
:-
The improvements consist in having a stationary outer vertical stirrup bar or
open frame A preferably of inverted or bridge shape, and a corresponding shaped
inner bar B mounted preferably at its upper part on studs A' on opposite inner

page_text: sides of the outer fixed bar A so as to oscillate on said studs. A horizontal foot
tread or sole plate « is hinged or fulcrumed at its one end at a' at the lower part of
one of the ends of the outer fixed bar A and its other end a² is portably placed to
slide in a segmental groove, slot or race 6 formed on the inner side of the opposite
lower end of the oscillating bar B. When in riding position, the free end a² of the
tread bar a of each stirrup rests in a central recess within the slide groove b, and
the sole of the foot of the rider bears on it, but should the rider by any accident
fall or be thrown off the horse, the toe of his boot will bear on the bridge part of
the inner bar B and oscillate it on its stud fulcra a¹ to either side and which action
will make the lower foot tread plate a slide out of the groove 6 in oscillating bar B.
and so be freed and fall down to the position shown in Figure 2 to relieve the foot
of the rider.
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 :-
First. The fitting and use of riding safety stirrups with a foot tread plate hinged
or jointed at its one end to the fixed stirrup bar and engaging at its other end in
a segmental groove or race formed in an inner oscillating bar, so that the tread
plate can be disengaged from either side of said bar, substantially as, and in the
manner herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. In riding safety stirrups, the formation and use of a slot or groove on
the oscillating bar for retaining and releasing the tread plate, substantially as herein
described in reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated 28th August. 1893.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.