Improvement in Metal Fittings for Draught Saddles of Light Harness.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Metal Fittings for Draught Saddles of Light
Harness.
I, HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY 9 Vicarage Place Walsall Commercial Traveller,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This improvement has relation to the hook or pedestal, backband-bed or crank
and crupper-loop of a saddle-tree or 'top' which several parts, usually separate, are
in this improvement joined together.
In place of a hook or pedestal having a leg which penetrates perpendicularly the
head-plates of a saddle-tree or top, this improvement consists of a hook so contrived
that one part of the hook rests upon the head-plates and another part passes under
them, being continued into a horizontal shaft extending along the axis of the 'tree'
and emerging beyond the cantle.
Between the head-plates and the cantle this shaft branches out into two parallel
bars rollered to facilitate the movement of the backband thus taking the place of
the usual backband-bed or 'crank.' This done the bars are converged again into
the shaft which, passing through the cantle of the tree, offers its wormed extremity
to be screwed up by a short barrel upon which is formed a bow or loop, constituting
the crupper-loop.
Dated this 28th day of November 1895.
Improvement in Metal Fittings for Draught Saddles of Light
Harness.
1, HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY Commercial Traveller 9 Vicarage Place Walsall,
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:-
This improvement affects the hook or pedestal and the like, backband-bridge
and crupper-loop of gig or cab saddle "tops "-which several parts are, in this
improvement, altered in construction and adapted to be joined together in one
contrivance, S, for example.
Along the axis of a saddle "top" is suspended a metal bar, A, borizontal in
the middle portion with both ends inclined upwards, one of which is adapted to
hang from the head of the "top" and the other to be supported by the cantle in
connection with a crupper-loop or a 'button' or the like.
One end, B, is furnished with a spur, B¹, which rests on the head of the top, or
this end may be secured to the head, either on the face, back or underside by
means of screw, rivet or other expedient.
This end is continued upwards and bent or shaped
casting in any design to form a pedestal, Bu, hook B
the pedestal, hook and the like may be separately made
by forging, stamping or
or other ornament. Or
and fixed on this end of

page_text: bar by any appropriate means. Or the pedestal, hook and the like may be dispensed
with and leave the backband-bridge and crupper-loop unimpaired.
The opposite end, C, of the bar is led up to the plinth of the cantle and the
plinth is bored to leave an aperture, or a perforated plate is adjusted upon the
cantle, and through this aperture the connection with the crupper-loop is made.
The crupper-loop is formed of an oval ring of metal, or may be forged, cast or
stamped of more ornamental character.
It is alternatively made with or without a stem, and the stem short or prolonged
to B and rollered.
If with a stem, D', the stem is led through the aperture in cantle plinth and
engages by screwing, or riveting or by means of a screw-nut, D, or the like,
with a socket, C', formed on this end of the bar which, in this alternative, is
determined at point of contact with the inside face of cantle plinth.
If without a stem, D", the crupper-loop is tapped on one side to form a socket
within itself and the end of bar after being led upwards is further produced
horizontally, passing through the plinth of cantle to its outside face and sufficiently
beyond for the socket of crupper-loop, D₁, to engage with it.
The crupper loop with long or short stem and nut, D¹", or a loose bolt and nut
may be used conjointly with or independently of other fittings.
So may be used, independently of the crupper-loop, the hook and backband-
bridge by substituting for the crupper-loop a 'button' with or without a stem,
employed substantially in the same manner.
,
The middle portion of the bar, A, forms a bridge for the backband to ride upon.
It may be turned to receive a roller; or subdivided into two or more branches, E,
each of which may be mounted with roller; or expanded and convexed to form
an arched surface, F, in which may be inserted a roller or rollers. In these and
the like ways to provide a smooth path for the backband.
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:
1. To fix the pedestal or hook of a gig or cab or the like saddle by means of a
stem led around the head plates of the tree, and without penetration of the plates,
substantially in manner described.
2. To combine pedestal or hook, backband-bridge and crupper-loop in one
contrivance embracing the saddle 'top' from head to cantle.
3. To suspend from the head and the cantle a bridge for the backband, and to
render the same capable of being mounted with a roller or rollers.
4. To employ a crupper-loop which may be anchored through the cantle to the
tree' head carrying a roller for the backband on its stem.
5. A crupper-loop with stem and nut or a loose bolt and nut which may be
used conjointly with or independently of other fittings substantially in manner
described.
Dated this 25th day of March 1896.
HOWARD ALLPORT STANLEY.