Improvements in Harness and Gear for Carriage and Draught Horses and the like Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., .1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harness and Gear for Carriage and Draught
Horses and the like Purposes.
I, JOHN GODDARD of the Tinsley Steel, Iron and Wire Works, Tinsley, near
Sheffield in the County of York, Traffic Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to strengthen and lighten the traces and gear in
connection with harness by substituting for chain or sling gear, or leather straps or
traces, round flexible metallic wire rope, such metallic rope to be fitted with caps,
couplings, rings, shackles, hooks, and other fittings by which they may be connected
to each other, to the harness and the vehicle.
The rope I employ for this purpose is made entirely of metallic wire, or in some
cases I employ a rope made with a core of non-metallic material, in some cases
I employ ropes made of galvanized, tinned, or plated wire, and in some cases I cover
or serve such metallic rope with hemp or yarn or envelop them in textile material,
leather or other suitable substance.
Rope gear thus constructed I substitute for chain gear for haulage purposes
where a team of horses is employed, and metallic rope traces either separately
or. coupled with gear as above described I employ in lieu of the leather or chain
traces as commonly used.
I wish it to be understood that I lay no claim as to the method of construction
or formation of the metallic wire rope thus employed, the essential feature of my
invention being the application of metallic wire ropes fitted and adapted for the
purposes herein described.
Dated this 7th day of February 1894.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Harness and Gear for Carriage and Draught
Horses and the like Purposes.
I, JOHN GODDARD, of the Tinsley Steel, Iron and Wire Works, Tinsley, near
Sheffield, in the County of York, Traffic Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
my 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 object of my invention is to strengthen and lighten the traces and gear in
connection with harness by substituting for chain or sling gear, or leather straps or
traces, flexible metallic wire rope, or ropes such metallic ropes to be fitted with caps,
couplings, rings, shackles, hooks, and other fittings by which they may be connected
to each other, to the harness and to the vehicle.
The rope employ for this purpose is made entirely of metallic wire, or in some
cases employ rope made with a core of non-metallic material, in some cases
I employ rope made of galvanized, tinned, or plated wire, and in some cases I cover
or serve such metallic rope. with hemp or yarn or envelop in textile material,
leather or other suitable substance.
Rope gear thus constructed 1 substitute for chain gear for haulage purposes
where a team of horses is employed, and metallic rope traces either separately or
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page_text: coupled with gear as above described I employ in lieu of the leather or chain traces
as commonly used.
I wish it to be understood that I lay no claim as to the method of construction
or formation of the metallic wire rope thus employed, the essential feature of my
invention being the application of metallic wire rope or ropes fitted and adapted for
the purposes herein described.
Although my improvements are applicable to a great variety of harness and gear
an illustration as applied to a trace or sling gear will suffice.
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which,
Fig. 1 is a side view of a piece of gear or a trace such as I employ for carriage,
cart or other harness.
Fig. 2 being a top view or plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the clip by which the gear or trace is supported to the
back or hip band.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a, is the flexible metallic wire rope, which I substitute for chain or sling gear or
for leather straps or traces.
b, b, are the caps by which the said metallic rope is secured and provided with
the necessary couplings, rings, shackles, hooks and other fittings.
C, is a hook.
d, is a shackle and ring.
e
is
a clip by means of which the metallic rope, a, may be suspended to the back
or hip band by means of a strap, f.
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.
1. In harness and gear for carriage, draught and the like purposes the appli-
cation of flexible metallic wire rope or ropes fitted with caps, couplings, rings,
shackles, hooks and other fittings by which the same may be connected to, each
other, to the harness and to the vehicle in the manner and for the purposes
substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 21st day of September 1894.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.