Improvements in Muzzles for Dogs and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1890.
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1890-Accepted; 8th Nov. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Muzzles for Dogs and other Animals.
I, ARTHUR GARSTIN, of Queen Square, Aldersgate Street in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to muzzles used for dogs and other animals, and it has for
its objects novel methods of making such muzzles, by which they are very simply
and cheaply made of leather or other material, and are very effective for the purpose
required:
I take a strip or piece of leather of suitable thickness and size, and at or near its
centre I stamp or cut out an opening which, when the muzzle is completed, is situated
at its front end.
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This opening is more or less triangular in shape, and at its smaller end I cut the
strip of leather into three narrow parallel strips of considerable length.
At the other end of the opening and at some distance from its wider end, I cut
the leather into four similar narrow parallel strips, and I also cut a similar strip
upon each side of the opening, but starting from points about opposite to its wider
end, and parallel with the three first described.
I bend the part of the leather containing the triangular opening, and the part
adjoining the wider end of the latter, round so as to form the nose of the nozzle, and
I twist and bend the two side strips last mentioned back, so as to form two horizontal
side bars. I then bend the central one of the three strips first described up and
curve it so as to form a top longitudinal har to the muzzle, and I bend the two strips
parallel with that just described, outward and downward so as to form vertical side
bars which I pass through openings made for the purpose in the horizontal side bars,
and I then bend them backward and diagonally under the muzzle and pass them up
through similar holes in the opposite horizontal side bars, and I pass one of them
through another similar opening in the thickness of the top curved horizontal bar
close to the end of the latter, and I provide their two ends with buckles by which
they can be fastened or unfastened when putting on or taking off the muzzle.
Of the four other parallel strips above described, the two outer ones are twisted and
bent upward and pass through holes in the thickness of the two horizontal side bars,
and they are then bent inward and their ends inserted into openings in the thickness
of the leather strips which form the sides of the triangular openings at the nose of the
muzzle. The other two inner strips are bent outward and backward, and are then
brought upward (one upon each side) and curved inward, their ends being inserted
into a hole in the thickness of the upper horizontal bar already described. They are
also provided with suitable holes through their thickness at the bottom of the muzzle,
through which the two outer strips of the three first described pass. Where the
strips pass through holes in the thickness of other strips as described, they are fixed
by rivets passing through them, or by stitches or other equivalent means; and in
some cases instead of the strip passing through holes in other strips as described
they may simply cross each other and be fastened in the same way by rivets or
other means.
The number and position of the several strips may be varied more or less according
to the size and shape of the muzzle.
Muzzles made in the way described are very simple, durable, and effective, and
little or no waste of material takes place in making them. The leather is preferably
bent and twisted as described when damp, and is afterwards allowed to dry.
Instead of the method described, the muzzle may be made by stamping or piercing
flat pieces or sheets of leather or other suitable material, such as what is known as

page_text: xylonite, with openings leaving strips or pieces of suitable width between them, and
then bending the sheet so pierced into the proper shape to form the muzzle, and
fixing it in such shape by rivets or other equivalent means. Instead of one such
pierced sheet or piece, two or more may be used, bent to the proper shape and
fastened together by the means described.
Dated this 6th day of February 1890.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Muzzles for Dogs and other Animals.
I, ARTHUR GARSTIN, of Queen Square, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, 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 and accompanying drawings, that is to say :-
My invention relates to muzzles used for dogs and other animals, and it has for its
objects novel methods of making such muzzles, by which they are very simply and
cheaply made of leather or other material and are very effective for the purpose
required.
In the accompanying drawings, which are in illustration of my invention,
Figure 1 represents a dog muzzle, and
Figure 2 the material out of. which it is formed.
Assuming the muzzle to be made of leather, I take a piece of suitable thickness
and quality, as shewn in Figure 2, and at or near its centre I stamp or cut out an
opening a, which when the muzzle is completed is situated at its front end, as shewn
in Figure 1. This opening is made more or less triangular in shape as shewn, and
at its smaller end I cut the strip of leather into three narrow. parallel strips, b, c, d,
of considerable length.
At the other end of the opening a and at some distance from its wider end, I cut
the leather into four similar narrow parallel strips e, f, g, h, and I also cut a similar
strip i, k, upon each side of the opening a, but starting from points about opposite to
the wider end of the latter, and parallel with the three strips b, c, d.
I bend the part of the leather containing the triangular opening a, and the part a¹
adjoining the wider end of the latter, round so as to form the nose of the muzzle,
(Figure 1), and I twist and bend the two side strips i, k, back, so as to form two
horizontal side bars. I then bend the central strip 6 up, and curve it to form a top
longitudinal bar to the muzzle, and I bend the two strips c and d outward and
downward so as to form more or less vertical side bars which I pass through slits or
openings made for the purpose in the horizontal side bars i and k, and I then bend
the strips c and d backward and diagonally under the muzzle, and pass them up
through similar holes or openings made for them in the opposite horizontal side bars i, k,
and I pass one of them, d, through an opening or slit at in the thickness of the top
curved horizontal bar 6 close to the end of the latter, and I provide the ends of the
two strips c and d with buckles or other attachments (not shewn in the drawing) by
which they can be fastened or unfastened when taking off the muzzle.
Of the four parallel straps e, f, g, h, the two outer ones e and fare bent and twisted
upward, and after passing through holes or slits at m, n, in the thickness of the two
horizontal side bars i, k, are bent inward and their ends inserted into a hole or holes
in the thickness of the strip b or of the strips which form the sides of the triangular
opening a. The other two, or inner, strips g and are bent outward and backward
and are then brought upward (one upon each side) and curved inward, their ends being
inserted into a hole in the thickness of the upper horizontal strip b, at n. They pass
through holes or slits in the side horizontal strips i and k, and are provided with
slits through which the strips c and d pass.

page_text: Where the strips pass through holes in the thickness of other strips as described
and shewn, they are fixed by rivets passing through them, or by stitches, or other
equivalent means, and in some cases instead of the strips passing through holes in
other strips as described, they may simply cross each other and be fastened together
in the same way by rivets or other means.
It is evident that the number, position, and shape, of the several strips may be
varied more or less according to the size and shape of the muzzle which they are
to form.
Muzzles made in the novel way described are very simple, durable, and effective.
The leather is preferably bent and twisted as described when damp, and is afterwards
allowed to dry.
In a modified method of putting my invention in operation as illustrated in
Figures 3, 4, and 5, the muzzle is made by stamping flat pieces or sheets of leather
or other suitable material, such as what is known as xylonite, with openings leaving
strips or pieces of suitable width between them, and then bending the sheet, so pierced
and cut to the proper shape, into the form to form the muzzle, and fixing it in such
shape by rivets or other equivalent means.
Figure 3 represents such a sheet of leather of suitable thickness and quality cut
and pierced into the proper shape to form such a muzzle as is shewn in Figure 5.
In Figure 4 the piece shewn in Figure 3 is represented stretched, when damp,
which may be done so as to bring the perforations in it to the proper size and
shape.
The several parts are then bent to form the finished muzzle (Figure 5), the several
projecting ends shewn in Figures 3 and 4 being fastened together by rivets or other
equivalent means. The several parts in the three figures are indicated by the same
letters of reference.
One or more additional strips may be provided below the nose of the muzzle, as
shewn in dotted lines at A, and projecting pieces may also he left at B, B, the ends
of which when rivetted together form another strip at the bottom of the muzzle as
shewn at B in Figure 5.
The shape of the muzzle just described may be modified and varied in any desired
way by varying the shape of the perforated sheets shewn in Figures 3 and 4, in
accordance with the intended design.
By my invention, as described and illustrated, muzzles are made in a single piece
of leather or other suitable material, but it is evident that instead of being made in
one piece they may be made in two or more pieces, each of which is cut to the
necessary shape and then bent into the required form as described, the several pieces
being then rivetted or otherwise attached together.
Moreover, the muzzles may be made partly of leather, or other flexible material,
in the manner described, and partly of metal. For instance the upper part of the
muzzle may be made of leather as described, and the lower part of wire bent in
the nsual way and attached to the leather part by rivetting or other equivalent
means.
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. The methods of making muzzles in a single piece, of leather or other suitable
flexible material, bent to the desired shape, substantially as described and shewn.
2. The method of making nuzzles in two or more separate pieces of leather or
other suitable flexible material, bent to the desired shape and attached together,
substantially as described.
3. The method of making muzzles of leather or other flexible strips bent and fixed
in the desired shape, substantially as described, and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings.
4. The method of making muzzles from a sheet or sheets of leather or other

page_text: flexible material, cut and perforated to the required form, and then bent and fixed
in the proper shape, substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4, and 5,
of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of Ostchen 1400
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.