Improved Means for Holding Animals Attached to Vehicles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Holding Animals Attached to Vehicles.
I, GEORGE HANDY. of 11, Grafton Road, Worthing in the County of Sussex,
Coal Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is for the purpose of securing animals in any vehicle, and
effectually preventing them running away, when left unattended in the street or
elsewhere.
In carrying out this object, a grooved bond is fixed on round the inner side of the
with a
nave of each front wheel of the vehicle, and framed on each side of the groove
row of ratchet teeth. A strong steel band is provided to work in this groove, fitted
with a pawl, and having an eye in the top of it, to which the rein, as hereinafter
mentioned, can be easily and readily attached when required.
A strong rein is made in two parts; attached to the bit of the bridle on each
side, and fitted along the shafts, or over the back of the horse, as most convenient,
and of sufficient length to reach, and be attached, to the ratchet on each front
wheel as before mentioned.
The pawls will be made so as to run perfectly free with any backward movement
of the vehicle, when the rein is attached, and without giving any strain upon the
rein. If the horse and vehicle should move on, when the rein is attached to the
ratchet, the motion of the wheels would draw the rein tightly round the nave of
the wheels, and the strain acting directly upon the mouth of the horse, it would be
immediately checked. Horses secured in this manner may be safely left unattended.
The rein can be detached from the ratchets, and buckled to the harness, or shafts,
to be ready for use when required.
1000
GEORGE HANDY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Holding Animals Attached to Vehicles.
I GEORGE HANDY of 11 Grafton Road Worthing, in the County of Sussex
Coal Merchant, 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 for improved means for holding animals attached to vehicles has
for its objeet to secure animals in any vehicle and effectually prevent them from
running away when left unattended in the street or elsewhere; and consists essentially
in mounting on the nave of each front wheel a ratchet wheel, which, when the
vehicle moves forward engages with a pawl to which a rein, connected to the bit of
the bridle, is attached and winds up the said rein and stops the animal.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
:-
Figure 1 is a diagramatic or skeleton plan of a vehicle showing the mode of
attaching the reins to the ratchet apparatus.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the ratchet and pawl apparatus secured to the
nave of a wheel, and Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same.
A band or ring a of channelled cross section, having ratchet teeth 6 formed in its
outer flanges or lips, is secured to the nave of each front wheel of the vehicle by means
Between the toothed flanges b, and on the base or groove of the
ring a, is loosely mounted a sliding band d whose ends are secured together by a
bolt e,
and attached to this band is a bracket f carrying a pawl g which, when the
of screws c.

page_text: wheel is rotated in the forward direction as indicated by the arrow engages with
the teeth b in the ratchet ring a and is thereby caused to rotate with it.
When it is required to prevent the animal from going forward one end of one
rein is attached to the pin h in the pawl g and the other end to the bit of the
bridle through the ordinary reins or separately as shown in Figure 1, so that the
ratchet ring a rotating with the wheel of the vehicle carries the pawl with it and
tightens up the reins connected to the bit and thereby stops the animal.
When the pawl is not in use a slotted sliding plate I mounted on the bracket fis
slidden under the teeth m of the pawl to hold them free of the ratchet teeth, and is
clamped in position by the nut n as will be readily understood. A spring hook o
is also provided and secured to the band or ring d for the purpose of holding the
pawl out of engagement with the ratchet wheel a when not in use.
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. A means or apparatus for holding animals attached to vehicles comprising a
ratchet wheel secured to the nave of a wheel and capable of engaging with a pawl
for attaching to the rein or reins connected to the bit of the bridle substantially as
described.
2. In means or apparatus for holding animals attached to vehicles the com-
bination of the ratchet ring a secured to the nave of a wheel of the vehicle with
the pawl g and sliding ring or band d substantially as described.
3. The combination of the various parts constituting my improved means for
holding animals attached to vehicles, arranged, constructed and operating
substantially as described with reference to the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 10th day of February 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.