AN IMPROVED REIN-HOLDER
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Martin Thornton, of Brooke Street, Holborn,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
REIN-HOLDER."
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Sealed the 7th February 1861, and dated the 8th August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Martin Thornton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 8th August 1860.
I, EDWIN MARTIN THORNTON, of Brooke Street, Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED REIN-HOLDER," to be as follows:-
My said Invention is applicable as a means for holding driving or riding
reins, and consists of two cross arms working on a center pin, which are partly
enclosed in a suitable cover. These arms are held open at one extremity,
(enclosed within the said cover) by a spring, and their extreme or projecting
ends act as a clip for holding the reins. The holder can be attached to the
dash-board, foot-board, or other convenient part of a vehicle, or, in the case of
saddle horses, to the front part of the saddle, for the purpose of holding the
reins when out of use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
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by the said Edwin Martin Thornton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 8th February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
MARTIN THORNTON, of Brooke Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Edwin Martin Thornton, Her special licence that I, the said Edwin
Martin Thornton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Edwin Martin Thornton, 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 REIN-HOLDER," upon the condition. (amongst
others) that I, the said Edwin Martin Thornton, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands 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 calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Martin Thornton, 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 the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto, annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked.thereon (that is to say) :-
My said Invention is applicable as a means for holding driving or riding
-reins, and consists of two cross arms working on a centre pin, which are partly
enclosed in a suitable cover. The said arms having held open or extended at
one extremity (enclosed within the said cover) by a spring or springs, so that
their extreme or projecting ends act as a clip for holding the reins. The said.
holder can be attached to the dash-board, foot-board, or other convenient part
of a vehicle, or, in the case of saddle horses, to the front part of the saddle,
for the purpose of holding the reins when out of use.

page_text: In order that the said Invention may be properly understood, I shall now
proceed to describe the same, and for that purpose, I shall refer to the
Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a front view of a rein-holder constructed according to my said
Invention, and Figure 2 is an end view of the same shown attached to the
front of a dash-board. Letters (a) are the arms; (6) is the pin on which
they work; (c) is a spring causing the arms to act as a clip; (d) is the
external case or cover, the back part being so arranged as to fasten on in
front of a dash-board, as shown at Figure 2. Figure 3 is the front view of a
rein-holder, in which the spring is shown in an inverted position. Letters (e)
are the arms; (f) is the pin on which they work; (g) is the spring, and (h)
is the external cover.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that what I claim
as the Invention secured to me by the above in part recited Letters Patent,
is the use and construction of rein-holders in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Martin Thornton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
W. H. BATEMAN,
71, Fleet Street.
EDWIN MARTIN THORNTON. (L.S.)