Improvements in the Method of Harnessing a Pair of Horses to Two-wheeled Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1892-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Harnessing a Pair of Horses to
Two-wheeled Vehicles.
I, PHILIP TOWNSHEND SOMERVILLE LARGE, care of Grindlay and Co.,
55 Parliament Street, London, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
:-
I attach in the ordinary way a pole to the body of the vehicle, and also ordinary
splinter bars on either side to the body of the carriage, for making fast the traces
of each horse placed on opposite sides of the pole to.
I provide at the outer end of the pole at about 18 inches from the end, a light
transverse steel bar about 3 feet in length, attached at the centre by means of a
universal joint to a bolt fixed underneath and parallel to the pole, in such a way
that the bar can travel on this bolt forwards or backwards. To this transverse bar
itself, I provide on both ends sockets capable of sliding along the bar, provided with
suitable hooks which are fastened to the hame links of the collars of each horse,
and also connected by ordinary pole chains to the end of the pole. The weight of
the pole is thus borne by the transverse bar and hooks made fast to the hames of
the collars of the horses.
Dated this 30th dex of March 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Harnessing a Pair of Horses to
Two-wheeled Vehicles.
I, PHILIP TOWNSHEND SOMERVILLE LARGE, care of Grindlay and Company,
55 Parliament Street, London, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
I attach in the ordinary way a pole to the body of the vehicle, and also ordinary
splinter bars on either side thereof to the body of the carriage for making fast the
traces of each horse placed on opposite sides of the pole to. I provide at the outer
end of the pole at about 18 inches from the end, two straps round the pole which
carry underneath between them secured by double nuts, a bolt about nine inches
long. On this bolt I provide a sliding block (a) provided with a bolt and nut. To
this latter block I attach at the centre a steel bar (6) about three feet eight inches
long, which is thus free to move in any direction. On this steel bar on either side,
I provide steel sliding blocks (h. h.) provided each with a hook to attach to the
kidney links of the hames of the collar of each horse, and also with an eye to attach
by a chain to the end of the pole. The weight of the pole-reduced to a minimum
by the balance of the vehicle-is thus borne by the steel transverse bar and hooks
made fast to the hames of the collars of the horses, and owing to the universal
motion allowed to the transverse steel bar, no other strain can be put upon the
latter. Thus, when the horses pull back on stopping or going down hill, the bar
slides back, and when going forward the bar travels with them.
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. The method of applying the universal motion to the steel transverse bar in its
attachment to the pole substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The method of providing sliding blocks on the transverse bar for attachment
to the collars and pole chains substantially as described.
3. The impossibility of putting any strain on the transverse steel bar caused by
the motion of the horses and other than that caused by the weight of the pole.
Dated this 21st day of June 1892.
P. T. S. LARGE.