IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER DRAUGHT ANIMALS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Lambert, of Sunk Island, in the East Riding
of the County of York, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER DRAUGHT ANIMALS."
Sealed the 14th January 1859, and dated the 19th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Lambert at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
July 1858.
I, CHARLES LAMBERT, of Sunk Island, in the East Riding of the County
of York, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS FOR HORSES AND OTHER DRAUGHT ANIMALS," to be
as follows:
My Invention consists in constructing collars of iron or any other metal,
wood, or other hard substance in two halves or parts, united at top by a hinged
joint, and secured at bottom by a thumbscrew passed through two projecting
pieces, one from each half of the collar, or by other equivalent means; tug
pins or eyes are formed in a piece with or are attached to the sides of the
collar; the traces are connected to these pins or eyes.
My collar forms at once a collar and hames, and by shaping the inside of
the two side pieces in conformity with the shoulder of the animal for which
the collar is intended, little or no padding will be required.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Lambert in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
LAMBERT, of Sunk Island, in the East Riding of the County of York, Farmer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Lambert, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Lambert,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Lambert, my executors, administrators, 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 FOR
HORSES AND OTHER DRAUGHT ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Charles Lambert, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Lambert, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing collars of iron or any other metal,
wood, or other hard substance, in two halves or parts, united at top by a hinged
joint, and secured at bottom by a thumbscrew passed through two projecting
pieces, one from each half of the collar, or by other equivalent means. Tug
pins or eyes are formed in a piece with or are attached to the sides of the
collar; the traces are connected to these pins or eyes.
My collar forms at once a collar and hames, and by shaping the inside of
the two side pieces in conformity with the shoulder of the animal for which the
collar is intended, little or no padding will be required.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front elevation, and Figure 2
a side elevation of a horse collar constructed according to my Invention. The
collar is formed in two parts A and B, united at top by a hinge joint a, and
fastened at bottom by a collar b. The position of the parts of the collar when
placing it on or removing it from the animal is indicated by the dotted lines.
The sides of the collar are made of the shape shewn in section in Figure 3,
which is taken through the line x, y, of Figure 1; this form is adapted to suit
the shoulders of the animal. C, C, are eyes or sockets on both sides of the
collar, which I prefer to cast with the collar, and to place at right angles or
nearly so thereto; in these sockets I fix the tug hooks D, D, by screws or
springs; E, E, are hooks attached to the sockets C, C; F, F, are holes in the
collar to pass the reins through.
At Figure 4 I shew in front elevation a modification of the collar just
described; here the collar is made of tubular steel for the sake of lightness;
it does not open at bottom, as in the former case, but is free to open at top
by means of the hinge G. In other respects the collar is similar to that first
described.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the constructing
of collars for horses and other draught animals of iron or any other metal,
wood, or other hard substance, essentially in the manner herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Lambert, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
CHA LAMBERI. (L.S.)