Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 20th May, 1887.
I WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of Battersea Park Road, Surrey Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an improved means whereby the rider is freed from
the saddle in the event of his falling or being thrown from Horse back.
In order to permit the freeing of the stirrup strap from the ordinary saddle bar I
place upon the saddle bar an arrangement whereby the stirrup leather is held firmly
in place while the rider is seated but upon the rider falling or being thrown, the
stirrup leather is at once released.
impossible for the
My invention consists in so arranging the safety slip that it
rider to be dragged in the event of his being thrown or falling and it may be applied
to an ordinary saddle without altering the saddle or saddle bar.
In connection with the safety slip is a square hook or loop to which the stirrup
leather is attached. This square hook or loop fits into a turned up tongue or hook,
which slides on or into the saddle bar with a forked arrangement fitting into spring
tongue of saddle bar and so arranged that it will slip out when brought into action.
I also place a small spring in the inside curve of bent tongue of safety slip, so that
it will prevent the aforesaid square hook or loop from jumping out of its place yet at
the same time it will form no barrier to proper working of said arrangement.
Dated this 10th day of Inly 1886
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. S. Simpson.

page_text: I, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON of Battersea Park Road, Surrcy Civil Engineer 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 :-
This invention has for its object an improved means whereby the rider is freed
from the saddle in the event of his falling or being thrown from horse back.
In order to permit the freeing of the stirrup strap from the ordinary saddle bar, I
place upon the saddle bar an arrangement whereby the stirrup leather is held firmly
in place while the rider is seated, but upon the rider falling or being thrown the
stirrup leather is at once released.
My invention consists in so arranging the safety slip that it is impossible for the
rider to be dragged in the event of his being thrown or falling and it may be
applied to an ordinary saddle without altering the saddle or saddle bar.
In connection with the safety slip is a square hook or loop, in which the stirrup
leather is attached, this square hook or loop fits into a turned up tongue or hook,
which slides on or into the saddle bar with a forked arrangement fitting into spring
tongue of saddle bar, and so arranged, that it will slip out when brought into action.
I also place a small spring in the inside curve of bent tongue of safety slip, so
that it will prevent the aforesaid square hook or loop from jumping out of its place,
yet at the same time it will form no barrier to proper working of said arrangement.
My invention is shown in the annexed drawings. In Figure 1 I show an outside
view of a saddle bar A with a tongue or hook B hinged to the lower strip piece A¹ so
that it can be folded up into a fork A" (see Figure 2) of the upper strip A being held
in that position by a spring or by the springy action.
C is the ear and D the tail piece by which the saddle bar is attached to the metal
frame of the saddle.
The lower strip A¹ when the hinged piece B is down as in dotted lines is open for
the reception of a sliding loop or safety slip E (see Figure 3) the front end of which
has a stem F forked as at Figure 4 for the reception of the tongue B as seen more
particularly in Figure 5, which temporarily locks the safety slip in position but loosely
upon the lower bar A¹.
The safety slip has a turned up hook G into which a square or rectangular shaped
loop H takes and hangs therein, this being held by a spring lip I the curva-
ture of which in combination with the curve of the bent tongue G secures the square
loop H in place.

page_text: Figure 6 represents a saddle with my appliance fitted thereto.
Thus if the rider be thrown over the horse's head from any cause the strain upon
the stirrup leathers to which the square loops H are attached will be dragged out from
between the tongues G and I, the rider freeing himself from the animal. But should
the rider be thrown through the fall of a horse, the horse in his struggle to get up
will give an end or pull to the safety slip from the rear of the saddle, which strain
will pull the tongue B from the forks Fi and A" and be released entirely from the
saddle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :—
The safety slip shown at Figures 3 and 4, and its application to a saddle bar
Figures 1 and 5 to enable a rider to be freed on his being thrown from a horse or should
the animal fall, as hereinbefore described.