IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPERTAINING TO COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Loveday, of Islip, in the County of Northampton,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPERTAINING TO COLLARS FOR
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Loveday at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1881.
THOMAS LOVEDAY of Islip in the County of Northampton.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND APPERTAINING TO COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Horse collars as now constructed are usually built up of leather tightly packed
with straw; these have a tendency to excoriate the animal as they cannot always
bed themselves truely to the surface of the skin.-Over the collar the hames are
fitted and the difficulties felt in making a good fit are often considerable.-If the
fit be not true they look unsightly and are apt to slip off.
Now by my Invention I insure the collar fitting comfortably and also I can do
without the hamies altogether.
The Invention consists in making the collar of a light metal or other strong
tough frame or base and affixing thereto on the part next the animal a series of
springs upholstered over like an ordinary spring mattress or clean botton-The
part where the greatest strain comes I make of stronger springs than the other part
or stuff it with hair wool or other like material at this point so as to give more
resistance. To the metallic framing I attach a hook or other equivalent attachment
for the traces to be attached to. Thus doing away with the bames.-The frame can
be covered with leather or other material or painted but with carriage harness
I prefer to leave it bare and silver plated or of brass when it presents a véry
handsome appearance.-I do not confine my Invention to hameless collars as in
some cases I may use hames on my metallic frame. In other cases I may embed
a strong wire or rod all round the collar round which wire the metallic frame
may be bent and attach the trace fastening to this wire instead of the frame. In
this case the wire becomes as it were a hames embedded in the collar.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Loveday in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th June
1882.
THOMAS LOVEDAY of Islip in the County of Northampton. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND APPERTAINING TO COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Horse collars as now constructed are usually built up of straw tightly packed
and sewn together and covered with leather. Such collars have a tendency to
excoriate the animal as they cannot always bed themselves truly to the surface of
the skin-Over the collar the hames are fitted and the difficulties felt in making
a good fit are often considerable. If the fit be not true they look unsightly and
are apt to slip off.
Now by my Invention I insure the collar fitting the animal comfortably and also
I am enabled to do without the hames altogether.
There are several ways of carrying-out-my-Invention differing in small degree
from each other I will therefore describe the three slight variations which I at
present prefer.
This
1st plan I make a firm body of straw quilted flat with a forewale as usual to
hold the hames-upen the body are fixed a series of steel springs as set forth in
Fig 1, which is a view of the body of the collar C and springs B with the covering
removed. Figs 2 and 3 front views and sections of modifications of same.
collar is neatly covered with leather but to prevent the springs being felt through
the leather I insert between the springs and the leather in all cases, those yet to
be described as well as this a layer or pad of hair, cotton, wool, or other materials
as used by upholsterers.
The 2nd plan is shown in section in Fig. 2; in this in place of the straw body C
I have a metal frame Cl.and in place of the forewale a series of hooks A rivetted
to the iron or steel body at intervals round the collar to hold the hames. This
collar has springs and pad as in the last and is neatly covered with leather.
In the 3rd plan I make a handsome polished metal body, do without hames
altogether and use two draw hooks D for the traces mounted on the metal
collar. Here again I use springs and hair pad as in the other cases but only
have leather on the side next the animal, the collar on the outside showing the
metal-silver plated or otherwise and having a very ornamental appearance for
carriage harness. It will be seen at once that though I have described three
varieties these again can be made to vary so that one variety shall insensibly run
into another. Thus all three kinds can be made hameless by affixing a drawhook
on to the body. To enable this to hold securely in the straw body of the first
variety one could if desirable have a metallic bar or skeleton embedded in the
straw.
Having now described my Invention and three representative modes of carrying
it into effect. I claim as my Invention
1st. The manufacture of horse collars capable of being used without hames and
having a metallic framing to which the trace hooks or buckles are attached
substantially as described.
2nd. The manufacture of collars for horses with a base or frame partially or
wholly of metal against which are affixed a number of springs to provide a soft
and elastic surface against the animal substantially as and for the purposes
described.

page_text: 3rd. A collar for horses or other animals built up with springs on a hard or
tough frame substantially as described and shown.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Loveday have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelth day of Juue in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
THOMAS LOVEDAY. (L.S.)