Year: 1886

page_text: We ALFRED JAMES EDNEY of N° 11, Hillary Road, Rodney Road, Walworth,
in the county of Surrey, Silk Cutter and HENRY STANNING of N° 25, Charles
Street, Walworth, also in the county of Surrey, Leather Cutter do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of an improved muzzle for dogs and
other animals the object of the invention being to provide a muzzle which will
allow the animal to which it is applied to open its jaws for eating or drinking but
which will at the same time prevent the animal biting.
In carrying out our invention we form the muzzle of a wire or other suitable
frame adapted to fit over the upper part of the animal's head and the nose; to the
underpart of this frame we adapt what may be termed a spring jaw which fits
under the lower jaw of the animal the spring.always keeping the jaw against the
jaw of the animal but at the same time allowing of the animal opening its mouth.
The said spring jaw is guided and limited in its movements by a rectangular frame
hinged or jointed to the front of the upper part of the muzzle and through which
rectangular frame when the parts of the muzzle are opened the animal can take in
food or drink but cannot protrude his jaws for biting. The muzzle is connected to
the animal in any suitable manner.
We propose to call our improved muzzle the "Climax muzzle.”

page_text: We ALFRED JAMES EDNEY of N° 11, Hillary Road, Rodney Road, Walworth,
in the county of Surrey, Silk Cutter and HENRY STANNING of N° 25, Charles
Street, Walworth, also in the county of Surrey, Leather Cutter, 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 invention relates to the construction of an improved muzzle for dogs and
other animals the object of the invention being to provide a muzzle which will
allow the animal to which it is applied to open its jaws for eating or drinking
but which will at the same time prevent the animal biting.
In carrying out our invention we form the muzzle of a wire or other suitable
frame adapted to fit over the upper part of the animal's head and the nose; to the
underpart of this frame we adapt what may be termed a spring jaw which fits
under the lower jaw of the animal, the spring always keeping the jaw against the
jaw of the animal but at the same time allowing of the animal opening its mouth.
The said spring jaw is guided and limited in its movements by a rectangular frame
hinged or jointed to the front of the upper part of the muzzle and through which
rectangular frame, when the parts of the muzzle are opened, the animal can take
in food or drink but cannot protrude his jaws for biting.
We propose to call our improved muzzle the "Climax muzzle."
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1,
represents a side view and figure 2 a front view of a muzzle for dogs constructed
according to our invention. Figure 3 is a plan view of the underside of the lower
jaw part of the muzzle. Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a, a, a, is the frame of the muzzle adapted to fit over the upper part of the
animal's head and nose the said frame being formed of wire which may be covered
with leather, india rubber or be enamelled or otherwise coated; b, is the spring jaw
which fits under the lower jaw of the animal; c, is the spring keeping the jaw b,
closed but not strong enough to prevent the animal opening its mouth; d, is a
plate on the lower jaw against which the front part or lip of the lower jaw of the
animal rubs in opening bis mouth, the said plate preventing the animal being
chafed as would be the case without the plate; e, is the rectangular frame hinged
or jointed at f to the upper part of the muzzle; g, g, are usual connections to
allow of the muzzle being attached to the animal by straps.
If a muzzle of this construction be applied to a dog it will be obvious that the
spring jaw b, will allow of him opening his mouth, the spring jaw being thereby
moved into the position shewn in dotted lines at figures 1 and 2; the opening of
the said jaw also allows the hinged frame d, to fall forward, the space between the
sides of the said frame being sufficient to allow the animal to take small portions
of food or to drink but to prevent the animal protruding his jaws for biting.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
The manufacture and use of the improved muzzle for dogs and other animals
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.