Year: 1895

page_text: We, SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER and JOHN OWEN NICHOLLS, both of Littleton
Street East, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Coach and Saddlers' Ironmongers
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of a new or improved safety saddle bar, the parts of
which are constructed, combined and act as hereinafter described. The said
invention has for its object to permit of the immediate release of the stirrup
leathers of the saddle, which stirrup leathers are supported by the saddle bars,
should the rider be thrown or accidentally fall from his horse.
The foundation plate by which the saddle bar is carried and attached to the
saddle has at its lower edge a book shaped part which hook shaped part we will
hereinafter call the latch. To about the middle of the said foundation plate a
quadrant arin is pivoted the lower end of which terminates in an eye.
The lower or eye end of the said quadrant arm is linked to the stirrup bar, the
said stirrup bar consisting principally of a cylindrical pin having an eye at one end
for effecting its engagement with the quadrant arm referred to. The body of the
said cylindrical pin has upon it a tubular anti-friction roller on which the stirrup
leather rests. The free end of the stirrup bar is flattened at opposite sides and
seats itself when in its normal or horizontal position in the latch of the foundation
plate, the middle of the stirrup bar being situated immediately underneath the
pivot of the quadrant arm carrying it. The free end of the stirrup bar is prevented
from accidentally rising from the latch by a hemispherical stud or projection carried
by a plate spring on the back of the foundation plate the said stud projecting
through a hole in the foundation plate immediately over the free end of the stirrup
bar. A similar hemi-spherical spring stud or projection projects through a hole in
the foundation plate and bears on the upper edge of the quadrant arm.
The springs carrying the studs or projections which bear on the stirrup bar and
quadrant arm respectively are of sufficient strength to prevent the accidental
disengagement of the said parts when the stirrup leathers are in their normal
position but on the rider being thrown or accidentally falling from his horse one or
other of the spring studs, according to the direction of the pull of the stirrup
leathers on their bars, readily yields and permits of the immediate release of the
said jointed stirrup bars and leathers and thereby prevents the dragging of the
rider along the ground.
The several parts of the saddle bar being jointed together no portion can be
lost.
The said new or improved saddle bars are applicable to ladies and to gentlemen's
saddles and to saddles of various kinds.
Dated this Twentieth day of February 1895
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER, and JOHN OWEN NICHOLLS, both of
Littleton Street East, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Coach and Saddlers'
Ironmongers, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The said invention consists of a new or improved safety saddle bar, the parts of
which are constructed combined and, act as hereinafter described. The said
invention has for its object to permit of the immediate release of the stirrup
leathers of the saddle which stirrup leathers are supported by the saddle bars
should the rider be thrown or accidentally fall from his horse.
The foundation plate by which the saddle bar is carried and attached to the
saddle has at its lower edge a book shaped part which hook shaped part we will
hereinafter call the latch. To about the middle of the said foundation plate a
quadrant arm is pivoted the lower end of which terminates in an eye.
The lower or eye end of the said quadrant arm is linked to the stirrup bar the
said stirrup bar consisting principally of a cylindrical pin having an eye at one
end, for effecting its engagement with the quadrant arm referred to. The body
of the said cylindrical pin has upon it a tubular anti-friction roller on which the
stirrup leather rests. The free end of the stirrup bar is flattened at opposite sides
and. seats itself when in its normal or horizontal position in the latch of the
foundation plate, the middle of the stirrup bar being situated immediately
underneath the pivot of the quadrant. arm carrying it. The free end of the
stirrup bar is prevented from accidentally rising from the latch by a hemispherical
stud or projection carried by a plate spring on the back of the foundation plate,
the said stud projecting through a hole in the foundation. plate immediately over
the free end of the stirrup bar. A similar hemi-spherical spring stud or projection
projects through a hole in the foundation plate and bears on the upper edge of the
quadrant. arm.
The springs carrying the studs or projections which bear on the stirrup bar and
quadrant arm respectively are of sufficient strength to prevent the accidental
disengagement of the said parts when the stirrup leathers are in their normal
position but on the rider being thrown or accidentally falling from his horse, one or
other of the spring studs, according to the direction of the pull of the stirrup
leathers on their bars readily yields and permits of the immediate release of the
said jointed stirrup bars and leathers and thereby prevents the dragging of the
rider along the ground.
The several parts of the saddle bar being jointed together no portion can
be:lost.
The said new or improved saddle bars are applicable to ladies' and to
gentlemen's saddles and to saddles of various kinds.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing represent respectively in front
and back elevation a safety saddle bar constructed, according to the said invention,
the saddle bar represented being for the. near side of the saddle; Figure 3 is an
edge view of the same partly in vertical section and Figure 4 is a plan of
underside, a portion being in horizontal section.
Figures 5 and 6 represent the saddle bar released by the pull of the stirrup
leathers in different directions as hereinafter explained.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
a is the foundation plate fixed by rivetting or otherwise, to the leather of the

page_text: saddle. One part of the said plate a is formed into a depending hook a² herein-
after called the latch. In the said foundation plate a and just above the latch a²
is a circular hole a³ and in the upper part of the said plate is a second hole a*
Through the said holes a³, a nearly hemispherical studs b, 6 project the said studs.
being carried by springs 2 2 rivetted to the back of the foundation plate a (see
Figure 2).
Jointed to the foundation plate a at as is the quadrant lever c to the lower end of
which the horizontal stirrup bar d, supporting the stirrup leathers, is jointed by a
wivelling eye connection at d² the free end of the said stirrup bar resting in the
normal position of the parts in the latch a of the foundation plate a and being
preserved in that position by the stulb projecting through the hole a³ bearing on
the top edge of the stirrup bar and by the upper stud b projecting through the
hole a bearing on the upper edge of the quadrant lever c. The stirrup bar d is
provided with an anti-friction roller d³ which is retained on the said stirrup bar by
the collar e shrunk on it.
The action of the safety saddle bar is as follows:-Should a rider be thrown or
accidentally fall from his horse the stirrup leather acting on the underside of the
stirrup bar or partly on the stirrup bar and partly on the quadrant lever causes
one or other of the hemispherical spring studs to yield and release the said stirrup
bar (see Figures 5 and 6) when the said stirrup bar falls or hangs vertically, the
stirrup leather escaping therefrom.
When the releasing pull of the stirrup leather acts wholly on the stirrup bar the
said bar swivels upon the quadrant lever, the parts afterwards taking or falling
into the full line position represented in Figure 5; but when the releasing pull acts
on the quadrant lever or partly on the quadrant lever and partly on the stirrup bar
the said quadrant lever turns on its joint a and withdraws the stirrup bar d from
the latch a² by a sliding motion, the parts taking the positions represented in
Figure 6.
The rider's release is thus ensured and the dragging of the rider which
frequently takes place in accidents of the kind hereinbefore referred to is
prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim as the said invention ;-
The new or improved safety saddle bar herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing, the said saddle bar consisting essentially of a
horizontal stirrup bar carrying the stirrup leathers, the said stirrup bar being
loosely jointed at one end, preferably by an eye connection, to a quadrant lever
pivotted to the foundation plate, the free end of the stirrup bar engaging in a
hook shaped part or latch on the foundation plate, the said stirrup bar and
quadrant lever being retained in their normal positions by spring studs one or
other of which spring studs yields when the rider is thrown and liberates the
stirrup leather substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
Dated the Eighteenth day of October 1895.
SAMUEL ARTHUR COOPER.
JOHN OWEN NICHOLLS.