CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN HORSE COLLARS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Parbery, Saddler and Harness Maker, of
Northampton, in that County, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE COLLARS."
Sealed the 28th April 1857, and dated the 1st November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Parbery at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st November 1856.
I, JOHN PARBERY, Saddler and Harness Maker, of Northampton, in that
County, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE COLLARS," to be as follows (that is to say):-
My improvement consists in combining the hames and collar together, or
rather making the hames the groundwork and support for the collar, in the
carrying out of which I form the hames of two pieces of iron of a suitable
shape, and unite them together with a hinge joint at the bottom, which, when
made up, covered, and worked into the finished collar, will admit of being
opened and pushed up around the horse's neck, instead of putting it over the
head and twisting it round, which is necessary in applying the ordinary collars,
in addition to which the iron frame or hames (before being worked up with the
padding of the collar) is bent into the proper shape, and curved inwards at the

page_text: top until the side pieces meet and are secured by a strap, thus forming a stop
which allows ample room at that part for the neck of the horse, which is not
the case with ordinary collars.
The draught eyes (of which I prefer using four) are applied to the iron
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Hutton in the Great Scal Patent Office on the
30th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PARBERY, Saddler and Harness Maker, of Northampton, in that County, send
greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Parbery, IIer special license that I, the said John Parbery, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Parbery, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE
COLLARS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Parbery, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Parbery, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in so constructing horse collars that they shall be
more readily placed on and adjusted to the shoulders of the horses to which
they may be applied, and I effect these great desideratums by so constructing
the parts known as the hames that they shall constitute the groundwork of
the collar, and which hames are so formed that they may be united at the

page_text: bottom by a hinge joint, and at the top by an adjustable screw or other suitable
means, so that the finished collar shall be capable of being extended and con-
tracted to suit the neck and shoulders of the horse or horses to which such
collars may be applied, and which collars are also capable of being altered in
the line of draught so as to relieve the shoulder or shoulders of the horses
wearing them from undue pressure at any particular part or parts, as required.
And as my Invention will be best uuderstood by referring to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, I will now proceed to describe the same, reference being
had to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
Figuro represents the front view of a finished collar made according to
these my improvements. The hames, marked A and B, are made of iron, and
here represented as covered with leather, and made up with or forming the
groundwork of the collar; these hames are united at the bottom with a hinge
joint, the construction of the collar being such as to allow of its yielding
laterally from this part. C and D are technically called the draught eyes,
and I prefer using two of them, as the straps in connection with them
can be easily altered for affording relief to horses with tender shoulders by
lengthening or shortening either of them, according to requirements.
The hames terminate at the top with vertical cars, fitted with the screw
marked E, tapped into the ear A; the head of the screw is excentric, and
passes through a vertical slot in the ear B, so that when the screw head is in
the position shewn by the dotted lines the collar may be opened; but I do
not confine myself to uniting the collar by this mode at the top, as it may be
done by a buckle and strap, a strong ring of indian-rubber, or by a metallic loop
and screw, as shewn at Fig. 3, which also represents the iron hames united at
the bottom, similar to those made up in the finished collar, Figure 1, there
represented as covered with leather, the hinged joint being shewn in dotted
lines.
The manner in which the hames are united to the padding of the collar will
be understood by referring to Fig. 2, which is a section of Figure 1, as taken
through the dotted line marked G and II, representing the padding or stuffing
of straw or other suitable material.
I do not propose confining myself to the forging of the hames of solid iron,
as here represented, as they may be formed tubular, or of part wood and part
iron, as represented at Fig. 4, of which Fig. 5 is a section taken through the
dotted lines marked I and J, the iron part being marked K, and the wood L;
the hames thus constructed terminate with a circular or knuckle part to form
a hinged joint in connection with the other, both to be held together by the
pin markod M.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be carried into effect, I wish it understood that what I do
claim as my Invention is, the making or constructing collars for horses in
such a way that the hames, whether made wholly of iron or of part iron and
part wood, shall form the basis or groundwork of the collar, such hames being
jointed at the bottom with a hinge joint, and united at the top by leather,
india-rubber, or metallic straps, as represented in the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Parbery, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
JAMES S. COCKINGS,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
JOHN PARBERY. (L.S.)