An Improvement in Horse Collars.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application; 16th May, 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 15th Jan., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Horse Collars.
JOSEPH BROOME, Junior, 447 Stockport Road Longsight, West Gorton, Manchester,
Funeral Undertaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Horse-collar, to be made in two parts connected and joined at one end, either top or
bottom, by hinge, joint, or coupling, made of metal, leather or other material, allowing
collar to open and close, and fasten, when closed, at opposite end of collar to hinge, joint
or coupling, with clasp, spring, or strap, made of metal leather or other material,
allowing the collar to be opened on hinge, joint, or coupling, when putting round
horse's neck, instead of putting on over horse's head.

page_text: An Improvement in Horse-collars.
JOSEPH BROOME Junr., 447 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester, Funeral
Undertaker, 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 is an invention for improving and arranging those parts of a horse's harness
which are put round the horse's neck for drawing purposes, known generally as the
collar, or collar etc.-and also for facilitating the putting on of the same.
The way I do this, I make the collar to open and close, by placing an ordinary joint,
known as a hinge or coupling a', at one end, either top or bottom, and at the opposite
end I place a spring catch, known as a clasp or snap a-Figs. 1 & 2 which arrange-
ment allows of the collar to be opened at one end so as to allow it to be put around the
horse's neck, and then by pressing the sides of the collar together it fastens by the
spring catch, clasp, or snap a Figs. 1 & 2. It is unfastened by pressing a button, or
pin which is attached to the spring catch, clasp or snap a.
The joint, hinge or coupling at, and the spring catch, clasp-or snap a, may be
fastened either direct onto the covering or padding c of the collar by any ordinary
means as stitching, rivetting, or by clips etc., or they may be attached to and connected
by means of a rod, or bar d, made of metal or other material, which passes through see
Fig. 3, or round, the padding see Fig. 4 and covering of the collar, and which rod
or bar is fastened to the padding or covering e, or to both, by any ordinary means-as
stitching, rivetting, or by clips etc., which latter method of attaching the spring
cateli, clasp or snap, and the joint, hinge or coupling, (that is by means of the rod.
or bar) I prefer.
Attached or fastened to the above mentioned rod or bar, are the ordinary terretts e
for guiding the reins, and also the ordinary draught tugs, or shoulder tugs f, to which
are attached the traces which are connected with the vehicle, which the horse or
horses pulls or pull. When the spring catch (a) & the hinge (a¹) are not fastened to,.,
or.connected by the rod (d) (as shown in Fig. 5), the ferrets and draught tugs etc..
are attached in the ordinary manner.
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 :-
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1st. To make the collar, with or without the rod or bar and attachments, to open
and close on a joint, known as a hinge, or coupling.
2nd. The attaching a spring catch, known as a clasp, or snap, at the open end of
the collar, for fastening the two sides of the same together when on the horse's neck,
and for unfastening the same, allowing the collar to open, when it is desired to take
the collar off the horse. The spring-catch to be fastened on, either by means of the
rod (or bar) or without.
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Dated this 1st day of October 188S