An Improved Appliance for Picketting Horses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Picketting Horses.
I, JOHN ARTHUR TORRENS, of Somerset Coleraine, in the County of
Londonderry, Ireland, Major Scots Greys, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an appliance for picketting horses so arranged that the
horse cannot twist up the head rope nor get his leg over it, and that, if frightened,
he cannot rear and fall on the post to which he is attached.
For this purpose, I drive into the ground a short post or peg, and to the part of
this which stands above the ground I clamp by rectangular hinged rings, driven
obliquely over the peg, a post which extends about 5 feet high, this post being
prevented from shifting lengthwise by a pin inserted partly into it and partly into
the peg between the clamping rings. By thus making the post separate from the
peg and attached to it, I am enabled to dispense with the staging which would be
required to drive a post of the desired height into the ground. Upon the post,
which is round except where it is clamped to the peg, just above the top of the peg,
I provide two loose rings which are free to turn and to move a little up or down
between stops, and between these rings there is free to turn an eye formed at the
end of a bar which extends up about 2 feet parallel to the post and terminates in
another eye also embracing the post.
To the lower eye, the head rope is attached by a swivel, and on the upper èye is
mounted a pulley over which passes a rope, having at its one end a ring embracing
the head rope, and at its other end a weight guided along the vertical bar. As
the horse approaches the post, the weight descends taking up slack of the head
rope, and as the horse moves away from the post the weight ascends allowing the
head rope to become straightened. The eyes of the bar being free to turn round
the post, the horse can move round it, grazing over a circle having its radius
determined by the length of the head rope, the strain of which being directed on
the lower part of the post, exerts little leverage to disturb the peg.
Dated this 18th day of June 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance, for Picketting Horses.
I, JOHN ARTHUR TORRENS, of Somerset Coleraine, in the County of
Londonderry, Ireland, Major Scots Greys, 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 :-
My invention relates to an appliance for picketting horses so arranged that the
horse cannot twist up the head rope nor get his leg over it, and that, if frightened,
he cannot rear, and fall on the post to which he is attached.
For this purpose as shewn in side view in the accompanying drawing, I drive
into the ground a short post or peg A, and to the part of this which stands above
the ground, I clamp by rectangular hinged rings B dropped over the peg, a post C
which extends about 5 feet high, this post being prevented from shifting lengthwise
by a pin D inserted partly into it and partly into the peg A between the clamping
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page_text: rings. By thus making the post separate from the peg and attached to it, I am
enabled to dispense with the staging which would be required to drive a post of
the desired height into the ground. Upon the post C, which is round except
where it is clamped to the peg, just above the top of the peg, I fix collars or
rings R, and between these collars there is free to turn an eye E formed at the end
of a bar F which extends up about 2 feet, parallel to the post C and terminates in
another eye G also embracing the post.
To a rope K extending obliquely up from the lower eye E, the head rope H is
attached by a swivel, and near the upper eye G is mounted a pulley P, over which
passes a rope L attached at its one end to the swivel for the head rope, and at its
other end to a weight guided along the vertical bar F. As the horse approaches
the post, the weight W descends taking up slack of the head rope, and as the
horse moves away from the post the weight ascends allowing the head rope to
become straightened.
The eyes of the bar being free to turn round the post the horse can move round
it, grazing over a circle having its radius determined by the length of the head
rope, the strain of which being directed on the lower part of the post, exerts little
leverage to disturb the peg.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An appliance for picketting a horse, consisting of a peg driven into the ground,
an upright post clamped to the peg, an upright guide bar attached to the post by
eyes free to turn around the post, a rope from the lower eye connected by a swivel
to the head rope, and a rope attached to the swivel and passing over a pulley to
a weight free to slide on the guide bar, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
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Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.