An Improved Method of Attaching Breeching-staples to Shafts.
Year: 1885

page_text: An Improved Method of Attaching Breeching-staples to Shafts.
We, WILL HENRY CLIFT and WILLIAM GEORGE KINGTON, of Raven Works,
Ludlow, in the county of Salop, Coachbuilders, do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING BREECHING-STAPLES
TO SHAFTS" to be as follows:-
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The staple is secured in its place by light metal bands which pass round the
shaft, such bands being distinct from the staple and not in one with it. The staple
is thereby attached without piercing the shaft by screws or nails.
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(The following is an Explanation of Drawings accompanying our Provisional
Specification :)
The Breeching-staple (A) is fixed upon the side of the shaft by metal bands (B).
These bands will be made with one end screwed for a nut (E), and the other end
fitted upon a boss (F) raised upon the staple; the band (B) is then passed over and
round the shaft, the screwed end passing through a hole in the centre of the
boss (F). The nut (E) is made with a flange wider than the boss (F), and when
screwed up it thereby prevents the end of the band (B) from slipping off the
boss (F).
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There is also a slat (G.) formed upon the staple (A): the band (B) passes through
this slat (G) for additional security and neatness.
C is the top section of the staple, shewing the slats (G): D is the end section :
E the nut. The staple (A) is shewn with the nut of the band left off on the one
side, to reveal boss.
Dated his fund
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We, WILL HENRY CLIFT and WILLIAM GEORGE KINGTON, of Raven Works,
Ludlow, in the county of Salop, Coachbuilders, do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING BREECHING-STAPLES
TO SHAFTS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and, ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The Breeching-staple (B) is made with a plate (C) from which the staple projects
outwards and downwards in a diagonal direction, and the said Breeching-staple (B)
is secured in its proper place upon the shaft (A) by metal bands (D) which pass
round the said shaft and each of these said bands is made with one end thickened
and turned down at, an angle, in the part of the said band thus turned a hole is
drilled, through which a screw (E) passés. To the other end of the said band a
small clip (F) is fitted, having horns a sufficient width apart for the band (D) to
pass between them, and having also an angular end which is drilled and screwed to
take the screw (E) which passes through the thick end of the said band (D): the
clip (F) is attached to the band (D) by turning back the end of the band which is
then slipped in between the horns of the clip (F): the band (D) is then passed
round the shaft.(A) and pressed against it until the angle of the thick end of the
said band and the angle of the said clip (F) are brought facing and parallel with
each other the said screw (E) is then put through the hole in the band (D) and
into the hole in the clip (F), and the said band is thus screwed tight, and the
Breeching-staple (B) secured to the shaft. The proper length of the band (D),
and the proper distance at which to turn it back into the clip (F), is decided by the
size of the shaft round which the said band has to pass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
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(1.) That by our said Invention the Breeching-staple is fixed to the shaft
without requiring the making of any hole or holes into the shaft.
(2.) That by our said Invention the shaft is kept stronger, is not so liable to
break, and is not so damaged by the accumulation of rust or water.
(3.) That by our said Invention the position of the Breeching-staple upon the
shaft may be easily altered to suit horses of various sizes.
(4.) That by our said Invention the diagonal inclination of the Breeching-
staple from the shaft reduces the risk of the staple coming in contact with any
projection,
-Dated this twenty-third day of October 1885.