Improvements in and connected with Harness for Horses and other Beasts of Burden.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan.. 1897-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Harness for Horses and other
Beasts of Burden.
We, EDMOND GARNIER of 309 Camberwell New Road, Engineer and SAMUEL
JAMES PRESCOTT of 33 Church Street, Pawnbroker, both in Camberwell,
London S.E. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to a device or apparatus for quickly and easily attaching
the traces and draft chains to, and detaching them from, the lugs or equivalent
portions of the hamies or supporting frame of the collars of horses and other beasts
of burden, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective means whereby
the one may be instantaneously released or disconnected from the other for the
purpose of freeing such animals from their harness when fallen or otherwise
incapacitated.
For the purposes of our invention we cast or otherwise produce from any
suitable metal or alloy of metals a pair of elongated links, loops or rings, each
having lugs or projections at one end, in the form of eyes or loops, arranged to
receive a screw, bolt or pin by which these may be pivotally attached to the lugs
or equivalent portions of the hames or supporting frame of the collar, or the lugs,
rings or equivalent portions of the breast strap when a collar is not used.
A gap or opening is formed in one of the long or straight portions of the said
link or loop, which may be that intended to be the upper or lower when in use,
and occupying the said gap or opening we provide a lip or tongue, hinged or
pivotally connected at one end to the said link or loop, the opposite or free end of
which is tapered to correspond with, and be seated upon, a like tapered portion of
the said link or loop, when the said lip or tongue is occupying the said gap or
opening and forming a continuation of the link or loop, which may be effected
automatically by the weight of the said lip or tongue only, or by the tension of a
suitable spring, the raising of the said lip or tongue being all that is needed to
effect the attachment of the ring, or eye upon the end of the trace or draft chain
with the said link or loop, to detach the same therefrom.
In certain harness, the said tongued loops or links may be in like manner
pivotally connected to the breeching lugs upon the shafts of the vehicle, and
receive the chains of the breeching in the same manner as the rings or eyes of
the traces or draft chains, which may as easily be detached when needed to release
the auimal.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for Applicants.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Harness for Horses and other
Beasts of Burden.
We, EDMOND GARNIER of 309 Camberwell New Road, Engineer, and SAMUEL
JAMES PRESCOTT of 33 Church Street, Pawnbroker, both in Camberwell,
London S.E. 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 :-
Our invention relates to a device or apparatus for quickly and easily attaching
the traces and draft chains to, and detaching them from, the lugs or equivalent
portions of the hames or supporting frame of the collars of horses and other beasts
of burden, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective means whereby
the one may be instantaneously released or disconnected from the other for the
purpose of freeing such animals from their harness when fallen or otherwise
incapacitated.
To enable our invention to be more easily understood, we have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one method or design of constructing the said device
constituting our invention, detached and out of use.
Fig. 2 is a like view but illustrating an alternative method of construction and
use to that of Fig. 1..
Fig. 3 is a perspective view shewing the device Fig. 1 in connection with the
lug upon the hame or supporting frame of the collar or the like, and the trace or
draught chain of the vehicle.
For the purposes of our invention we cast or otherwise produce from any
suitable metal or alloy of metals, an elongated link, such as A, having a connecting
stay or bridge piece A¹, by means of which the said link is formed into an eye or
loop A² at one end, and a pair of lugs B and B at the other end, the ends of the
latter being enlarged and bored to receive a screw, bolt, or pin C, thus forming two
distinct loops or eyes, and by means of the said bolt, screw, or pin the said lugs
may be connected to the lugs, eyes or equivalent portions D of the harness or
supporting frame E of the collar, or the lugs, rings or equivalent portions of the
breast strap, when a collar is not used.
A gap or opening is formed in the eye, link, or loop A2, which may be in either
that intended to be the upper or lower surface when in use, as shewn in Figs. 1
and 2, and occupying the said gap or opening we provide a lip or tongue F, hinged
or pivotally connected at one end to the said link or loop A, the opposite or free
end of which is tapered to correspond with, and be seated upon a like tapered
portion a of the said link or loop A2, when the said lip or tongue F is occupying
the said gap or opening, and this forming a continuation of A2 as shewn, which
may be effected either automatically by the weight of the said lip or tongue
only, as at Fig. 2, or by the tension of a suitable spring such as 6 Figs. 1 and 3.
the raising of the said lip or tongue being all that is necessary to effect the
attachment of the ring or eye G upon the end of the trace or draft chain H with
the said link or loop A2, or to detach the same therefrom expediously.
The second or raised portion of the lip or tougue F is illustrated in all the views
by dotted outline.
In certain harness the said device, constructed in either of the manners shew
by Figs. 1 and 2, may be in like manner pivotally connected by the means of the
bolt or pin C, to the breeching lugs upon the shafts of the vehicle, while the loop
or links A may receive the chains of the breeching or vice-versa (in the sam
manner or substantially so as the rings or eyes G of the braces or draft chain

page_text: shewn in Fig. 3) and which may be as easily detached when needed to release the
animal when fallen or otherwise.
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 :-
1st. The improved device or apparatus for easily and quickly connecting and
disconnecting the traces or draught chains of vehicles to and from the lugs or eyes
upon the hames or supporting frames of the collars, or and the breeching lugs upon
the shafts of vehicles with the breeching straps of the harness of horses and other
beasts of burden, substantially as herein described and shewn.
2nd. In a connecting device for the harness of horses and other beasts of burden
the combination of a link or loop such as A³, with bridge piece or stay A', the said
link having a gap a for the reception of a tongue or lip F, pivotted at f, and with
or without a spring 6, for keeping the said tongue or lip closed, and lugs such
as B B¹ for receiving a bolt, pin, or screw such as C, substantially as and for the
purposes stated and shewn by the drawings.
T
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.