A SADDLE UPON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, DANIEL
THOMAS PIDGEON, of the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of May,
in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Daniel
Thomas Pidgeon, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence that I,
the said Daniel Thomas Pidgeon, my exors, adññors, and assigns, during the
term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A SADDLE UPON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said
Daniel Thomas Pidgeon, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be 'performed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Daniel Thomas Pidgeon, do hereby declare that the novelty of my Invention
consists in so constructing, forming, or making a saddle, that there shall be in
the inside of it a receptacle or cavity for the purpose of putting or depositing

page_text: such articles or luggage that may be thought necessary, thereby in many
instances doing away the necessity of saddle bags, and which is described in
the above Drawings and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Thomas Pidgeon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
Fig. 1 represents the tree of a saddle cut open, as at A, A, A; B, B, the
pannels cut open to correspond with the saddle-tree, and, by being left without
stuffing, forms a hollow or cavity. The whole of the pannels are to be lined with
serge or other fit material, and interlined with oil skin if thought necessary;
but I think oil skin best, as it prevents, in a great measure, prespiration from
penetrating into the saddle, and then to be covered with leather or other fit
material; a border of leather, or other fit material, is made to go round close
withinside the hollow or cavity of the tree, which forms the pannel necessary to
support the whole of the saddle.
Fig. 2, C, C, C, C, represent a tree which may be made of cork, wood, iron, or
of either of them, or of any two of them, or of all three of them, or of other
any
fit material or materials, but I think wood the best, which is to be placed upon
and fitted to Fig. 1 by means of the pins F being put into the sockets g, g, in
Fig. 1. The cover of Fig. 2 must be made of very strong hide leather, and drawn
on so as to form the seat compleat with or without webs, but I think webs will
answer the purpose best, by which the necessity of stuffing is precluded, but may
be stuffed if required, the whole to be covered in the usual way with hogs' skin,
neats' leather, or any other fit material to resemble a common saddle. The
cantle piece is made to cover the cantle, Fig. 1, which makes a complete
finish. D is a strong rim of hide leather (more clearly shewn by D, D, Fig. 3,)
stitched to the hide leather that forms the seat, which rim falls into the cavity
of the tree and pannel of Fig. 1, thereby forming a receptacle or case. The
receptacle or case is to be covered with leather or any other fit material (as
at E, E), stitched or otherwise fastened to rim D, and may be secured either by
lock, strap, or in any other convenient way. The hind part of the upper tree
has a plate with two iron pins E projecting out of it, and the fore part a
plate with one iron pin projecting out of it, shewn at F, in Fig. 3, which are
exactly to fit and fall into the sockets or apertures g, g, in Fig. 1. The two
fronts are to be tied or otherwise fastened together in any convenient way,
either by a leather string or otherwise.
Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2, the better to shew the rim D, D. Fig. 4
shews Fig. 2 cut in two crossways, as at the dotted line. The receptacle H, H,

page_text: from end to end, as in Fig. 1 and 2, and from side to side, as in Fig. 4, is,
upon an average through the whole extent, about three inches in depth, except
in the centre (see K, Fig. 1), where it is about two inches, in order to give
liberty to the horse's backbone. I, the leather that covers the receptacle (see
E, E, Fig. 2). The above saddle forms a convenient and useful receptacle or
case for carrying various articles necessary in travelling.