IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS AND SADDLES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Stockbridge, of Bishops Stortford, in the
County of Herts, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS AND
SADDLES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Sealed the 10th September 1870, and dated the 15th March 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Stockbridge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th March 1870.
I, CHARLES STOCKBRIDGE, of Bishops Stortford, in the County of
Herts, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COLLARS AND SADDLES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as.
follows:
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This Invention consists in using india-rubber or india-rubber combined
with leather or other suitable material in the manufacture of horse
collars and saddles.
The description of india-rubber I propose to employ is that patented
by Thomas Forster and John Heartfield, on the 20th day of October
1868, Numbered 3215, and known commercially as patent india-rubber

page_text: sponge. This spongy material I so unite to leather or other suitable
material, and to the inner side of a collar and saddle as that those
articles when in use the spongy material or india-rubber shall be next
to the coat or skin of the animal, and is designed to prevent chafing
and be cooler than collars and saddles as heretofore lined. If desirable
I use the aforesaid india-rubber or spongy material as a stuffing for
collars and saddles as well as for lining them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Stockbridge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
STOCKBRIDGE, of Bishops Stortford, in the County of Herts, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Stockbridge, Her special licence that I,
the said Charles Stockbridge, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Charles Stockbridge, my executors, admini-
strators, and 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS AND SADDLES FOR
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Charles Stockbridge, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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 Charles Stockbridge, do hereby
déclare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in using india-rubber or india-rubber combined
with leather or other suitable material in the manufacture of horse
collars and saddles.
The description of india-rubber I propose to employ is that patented
by Thomas Forster and John Heartfield, on the 20th day of October
1868, Numbered 3215, and known commercially as patent india-rubber
sponge. This spongy material I so unite to leather or other suitable
material, and to the inner side of a collar and saddle as that those
articles when in use the spongy material or india-rubber shall be next
to the coat or skin of the animal, and is designed to prevent chafing and
be cooler than collars and saddles as heretofore lined. If desirable I
use the aforesaid india-rubber or spongy material as a stuffing for
collars and saddles as well as for lining them.
I would here remark that saddles and collars manufactured according
to my said Invention, as above described, may be stuffed in the manner
usually practised of stuffing such said articles, and the india-rubber be
affixed thereto externally as a lining by sewing or other convenient
and suitable means, or the said articles may be both stuffed and lined
with the aforesaid spongy material. In all other respects the saddles
and collars are made in the usual manner.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
my said Invention for "Improvements in Collars and Saddles for Horses
and other Animals," together with the means by which it may be carried
into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare
my Invention to consist in and I claim the use of india-rubber sponge
in the manufacture of horse collars and saddles as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stockbridge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy