CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS UPON BITS OF BRIDLES
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CHIFNEY, of Newmarket, in the County of Suffolk, Rider, 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 Sixteenth day of January,
in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Chifney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence that
I, the said Samuel Chifney, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
during the term of 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS UPON BITS OF BRIDLES;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging "me, the
said Samuel Chifney, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's 'High
Court of Chancery within one calender 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
Samuel Chifney, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Certain Improve-
ments upon Bits of Bridles is described and ascertained in the above Drawings
and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Chifney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and five.
SAMUEL CHIFNEY. (L.S.)

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a curb with two
mouth hang on the swivels B, B.
lower one has a substance C, C, to give a bearing on each side of the horse's
tongue, on the lower jaw, and the lower jaw acts singly in the purchase with
great force when pulled, and as low down in the mouth as the tush in the
lower jaw will allow, and acts with or without the upper bit. D, a holdfast
which acts at the same time under the jaw, to keep the part in the mouth
when pulled down to the proper place. E, E, eyes for a martingale to run in,
with one or more bars for one or more very narrow rollers b, b, b, b, placed on
each bar, to permit the reins to run back very light. The holdfast D may go
either on the part in the horse's mouth or on the cheek or cheeks of the bit
or bits, as required to act under the lower jaw. a, a, catches to fall on the
cheek each side the bit under the swivel, which cause the lower bit and hold-
fast to act at the same time. The eyes and rollers may go on either the
snaffles or curb, as most convenient. The lower bit, which I call the purchase,
may hang on the lower part of the swivels, or on the bit above, or on any
convenient part of the cheeks.
snaffles; the bit or bits A, A, in the horse's
They are common snaffles, only that the
Fig. 2, an end view of Fig. 1.
My improvements may be made up in either snaffles or curbs, and I use
one, two, or more snaffles, if necessary. The purchase may go on the bit or
cheeks, to act on each side of the tongue, with bend, length, or breadth.
My new improvements consist in the purchase, the holdfast, and the very
narrow roller or rollers for the reigns to run on or through.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixteenth day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Chifney came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Sixteenth day of February, in the year above written.