AN IMPROVED RIDING SADDLE BAR.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1897-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1897
THOMAS OSMENT Saddler Jesamine Villa High Street Beaulieu Hants do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
AN IMPROVED RIDING SADDLE BAR.
This saddle-bar is similar to the old style, but the bar is divided and the stirrup
leather is thrown out by the action of a steel spring-thus allowing the rider liberty
of liberating himself from the saddle, if necessity may require. The bar is
manufactured from steel or iron-or any hard metal and the advantages are that
the said bar will not unfasten unless the rider is accidentally unseated from the
saddle. The bar can be attached to any riding saddle.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SADDLE BAR.
The stirrup leather is supported on the bar which is groved to allow of the
thumb piece. The thumb piece is secured to the end of the bar by a rivett. A
spring bearing on the arm prevents it from moving in ordinary circumstances.
If the rider is thrown the thumb liberates the stirrup leather, the thumb
piece being virtually-part of the saddle bar-and may be described as a trigger-
inade at an angle say at 45-or there-about-the front part of the thumb piece
being round-and is intended that the stirrup should rest upon this round part of
the same the back part of the thumb piece being of almond shape and is easily
called into action if required-to liberate the stirrup leather-the arm or front piece
is intended for the stirrup leather to rest upon.
Dated this Tenth day of August 1896
THOMAS OSMENT Saddler Jesamine Villa, High Street, Beaulieu, Hants 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 consists of an improved safety saddle bar, for riding saddles, the
advantages of which are, that it will not open unless required, it is of simple
construction and can be described as follows. It is a thumb piece b added
to the old style of saddle bar a, the thumb piece is made at an angle

page_text: of say 45-on one arm of which the stirrup leather rests, or is supported.
The other arm of thumb piece is of almond shape. Should the rider be
thrown he could not be dragged by the horse, the stirrup leather having liberty to
leave, and is thrown out by the thumb piece, the stirrup leather is supported on the
bar, which is groved to allow of the thumb piece, which is secured to the end of the
bar by a rivett, a spring bearing on the arm prevents it from moving in ordinary
circumstances the bar is manufactured from steel-iron or any hard metal--the front
piece of the or part of the thunb piece being round it is intended that the stirrup
leather should rest upon this round part. If the rider is thrown, the thumb liberates
the stirrup leather, the thumb piece being virtually part of the saddle bar, and may
be described as a trigger.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
That the features of the novelty claimed being the thumb piece, the simplicity of
the thumb piece, together with the action and the safeness in liberating the stirrup
leather, the thumb piece being well down, away from the thigh of the rider, that
there is no other saddle bar, or ever has been, like the bar, described as above.
This 10th day of Tune 1897