AN APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF STOPPING UNGOVERNABLE HORSES
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES.
ROBERT WILLSON, of the Parish of Saint Saviour, Southwark, in the County
of Surrey, Plaisterer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of January,
in the forty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Charles
Robert Willson, His especial licence that I, the said Charles Robert Willson,
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF
STOPPING UNGOVERNABLE HORSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Charles Robert Willson, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Robert Willson, -do hereby declare that my said Invention of An Ap-
paratus for Stopping Ungovernable Horses is performed by blinding of than,

page_text: and the method of doing the same is described and ascertained by the Drawings
and explanation thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Robert Willson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.
Fig. 1st, the apparatus as fixed, or fastened, in place of the face-piece of a
bridle, with the shades or blinds E, E, drawn out for the purpose of blinding a
horse. A, a tube about nine inches long, more or less, and one inch diameter,
more or less; for containing the shades or blinds E, E. The tube is placed
where the face-piece is fixed to a bridle, and fastened to the same at top and
bottom in a perpendicular direction, with a slit or opening on each side of the
tube, of a convenient width and length, as seen at letter A, Fig. 2d. d, d, d, d,
the barrels containing the springs, as seen at d, d, d, d, Fig. 3d; D, D, the
bridle front; e, e, e, e, the reins, fastened to the shades or bridles, for the pur-
pose of drawing out the same when wanted; f, f, f. f, the nose band; g, the
lid; h, the top of the tube, fastened to the front, as in Fig. 2d.
Fig. 2d, another view of the tube. A, the slit; D, D, the barrels containing
the springs, as in Fig. 3d; O, the loop where the nose band passes through;
h, the top of the tube.
Fig. 3d. B, the roller or barrel arbor, on which the blinds are fastened, by
sewing them down the middle or otherwise, as seen by the several dots thereon;
C, C, the barrels containing the springs, for the purpose of rolling or unrolling
the blinds or shades; d, d, d, d, studs, for preventing the barrel containing the
springs from turning round in the tube; i, a thumb piece, for winding the
blinds up in case the springs should become weak, or inadequate for the
purpose.
Fig. 4, another of the tube. A, the front of the same, as in Figure 1.
e, e, e, e, the ends of the reins, as in Fig. 1; E, E, the edges of the blinds, as
in Fig: 1, when rolled up on the roller and contained in the tube; h, the top,
as in Figs. 1 & 2.
Figs. 1 & 2.
Fig. 5, the spring. d, d, the studs, as in
The operation of blinding a horse may be effected by drawing the shade or
blind from the side or sides, or by placing a shade on each side, to draw and
meet in the middle of the face or otherwise; but the above-described apparatus
I conceive by far the best calculated to answer the intended purpose.
This apparatus is also made without springs, and may be used without being
fixed to the bridle.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Ninth day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Charles Robert Willson came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of Fobmory in the
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