Improvements in Means for Preventing Horses and other from Kicking when Harnessed to a Cart or other Vehicle.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 11th May, 1889
Improvements in Means for Preventing Horses and other
from Kicking when Harnessed to a Cart or other Vehicle.
I PATRICK COLE of Campsie in the county of Derry, Ireland Farmer, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for PREVENTING ANIMALS, HORSES, &C. FROM
KICKING WHEN IN HARNESS to be as follows:-
I hook or buckle sufficiently strong straps on to the harness on each side of the
These two straps
horse's shoulders i.e. where the trace or draught is hooked on.
starting from the draught point of the harness are carried back over the horse's rump
until near the root of the tail, where they meet and from thence form one strap which
extends to the point of the tail where it terminates with a strong ring. The strap is
kept straight on the tail by means of a broad piece of soft leather attached to it &
which is buckled round and thereby encases the tail. An ordinary kicking strap (but
with an eyelet or loop on it, for the longitudinal strap to pass through, is buckled
across from shaft to shaft.
From the ring at the point of the tail a chain passes back to the axle of the vehicle,
where it is securely fastened; it will be understood that this attachment must be
made, so, that it will leave the animal full liberty of action; so long as that is
confined, to the ordinary pull or draught, but sufficiently tight to restrain the animal,
should it attempt to raise its hind quarters for the purpose of kicking. By these
means (if he attempts kicking) he cant; as he brings the whole weight of his effort on
his shoulders, and over his hind quarters in such an overpowering way, that he is
powerless for kicking.
11
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1000
PATRICK COLE,
Applicant.

page_text: Improvements-in... Means. for. Preventing Horses and other Animals
from Kicking when Harnessed to a Cart or other Vehicle.
1 PATRICK COLE of Campsie in the county of Derry Ireland farmer 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:
The invention has for its object improvements in means for preventing horses and
other animals from kicking when harnessed to a cart or other vehicle.
For this purpose I hook B or buckle B sufficiently strong straps A on to the hames
on each side of the animal's shoulders viz. where the traces or draughts are hooked or
buckled on, these two straps starting from the draught point of the hames are carried
back, along, up, and over the animals rump until near the root of the tail where they
meet; and from thence form one strap D which extends, down to the point of the tail
where it terminates with a strong ring G. It is kept straight on the tail by means of
a'broad piece of soft leather E attached to it and which is buckled F F round and
thereby encases the tail.
A strap C similar to the ordinary kicking strap but with a loop or eyelet on it
through which my longitudinal strap passes on to the point of the tail, is buckled
from shaft to shaft across the animal's rump and this cross strap is kept from slipping
down over the root of the tail by means of a little strap and buckle on the longitudinal
strap
From the ring G at the point of the tail a chain H passes back to the axle of the
vehicle where it is securely fastened, it will be understood that this attachment must
be made so that it will leave the animal full liberty of action so long as that is confined
to the ordinary pull or draught but sufficiently tight to restrain the animal should it
attempt to raise its hind quarters for the purpose of kicking.
Two straps K (with holes on one end of each, and a ring L on each of the other
ends,) are attached one on each side on top of the animal's rump, by putting the ends
with the holes in them into the buckles which attach straps A to strap D. These
two-straps K are carried forward and down one on each side of the animal to the
front of the usual shaft bearers and passed back through the shaft bearers; and to the
rings L (which have come back through the shaft bearers), the animal is britchened
with the usual britchen.
Two straps Jare fastened from A to A over the animal these are kept in their
places by little straps fastening them to the usual crupper where they pass over it.
By these means if he attempts kicking he cant as he brings the whole weight of his
effort on his shoulders and over his hind quarters in such an overpowering way that
he is powerless for kicking.

page_text: 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.
That the straps going back from the hames and up and over the animal's hind
quarters and joined together near the root of the tail and from thence passing down
over to the point of the tail; and the keeping of the said strap straight on top of the
tail, with the attachment to the britchen, and from the point of the tail to the vehicle
to be my invention.