Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th Mar., 1888
I FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW of 41 Seymour Place Bryanston Square London
in the county of Middlesex Saddler do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in the shape of Saddle Trees for ladies,
the object being to improve the fitting of what is known as the New Pattern or
French Tree and others, by taking away or dispensing with the bearing of that part
of the tree known as the bearing of the forepart on the off side and putting the
off point further back, or towards the cantle, and bringing the off point down in a line
with the bridge, or forward or backward as cases may require on what is known as
the New Pattern or French Tree and others. Should a tree require an off pommel or
head it is put on in such a manner that there is no bearing taken by the tree below it,
thus to prevent sore or wrung withers. Attached to the tree on the off side in front
is a diagonal metal chape or loop for a girth strap to be attached to, which strap when
buckled to girth will lay in front of the off point.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW..

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ladies' Saddle Trees.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW 41 Seymour Place Bryanston Square London in the
county of Middlesex Saddler 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 :—
My invention relates to an improvement in the shape of saddle trees for ladies, the
object being to improve the fitting of what is known as the New Pattern or French
tree and others by taking away or dispensing with, or manufacturing a tree without
that part of the tree known as the bearing of the forepart on the off side and putting
the off point farther back or towards the cantle and bringing the off point down in a
line with the bridge, or forward or backward as cases may require on what is known
as the New Pattern or French tree and others. Should a New Pattern or other tree
require an off pommel or head it is put on in such a manner that there is no bearing
taken by the tree below it thus to prevent sore or wrung withers. Attached to the
tree on the off side in front is a metal chape or loop for a girth strap to be attached to
which strap when buckled to girth will lay in front of the off point. At the same
time either leaving a portion of the tree above the bearing of the off side in front or
else putting on an arm separately as a support for the safe or knee pad of the saddle
to rest upon, my object in making a tree in which the bearing of the forepart on the
off side does not come out level with that of the near side is that the weight of the
rider being on the near side, the off side bearing in front is frequently violently pulled
into the Horses wither crushing & wounding the muscles of the animal. By
terminating the bearing in a line with the bridge on the off side in front freedom is
given to the shoulder and the crushing avoided.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 represents in side elevation the fore part and
part of the bars of the New Pattern or French tree as now made. Fig. 2 represents the
new pattern or French tree with my inventions carried out, it will be seen that the off side
bearing of the forepart of the tree marked (b) instead of being out level with the near
side, marked (c) terminates in a downward line, (but I do not bind myself to this
particular line) with the bridge marked (d) that connects the two bars marked (E) of
the tree, at the same time there is a strong support marked (F) left, or put on
separately, by that part of the tree which is above the off side bearing in front, for
the safe of the saddle to rest upon but which takes no bearing whatever on the Horse.
The off point marked (G) is seen put farther back or towards the cantle of the tree.
The metal loop is marked (a).
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1st. The manufacture and use of a ladies saddle tree on the New pattern or French
principle or other constructed with the improvements I have hereinbefore described
and as shewn in the accompanying drawings (viz.) the cutting away or the manu-

page_text: facturing of a tree in which the bearing of the off side in front, is not brought out
level or opposite that of the near side but terminates in a downward line with the
bridge in the New pattern or French tree and others at the same time either leaving
on a support for the safe to rest upon or the putting of a support on separately, after
the bearing has been taken away or the tree made without the bearing in front of the
bridge on the off side.
2nd. The feature of novelty being that the off side bearing of the tree in front
terminates in a line level with the bridge of a new pattern or French tree instead of
coming out level with the front of the near side bearing although I do not bind
myself to this particular line, so long as the bearing on the off side is farther back or
less than that of the near side. The putting of the off point farther back in a line
with the bridge at the same time that part of the tree above the bearing on the off
side in front is either left on or put on separately to support the safe or to carry an
off pommel if desired by the rider.
3rd. I claim the use of a ladies saddle tree made on the New pattern or French
principle in which the bearing of the off side in front is farther back or less than that
of the near side with the off point carried down in a line with the bridge and with no
bearing on the off side in front beyond the bridge and which has that part of the tree
above the off side bearing in front left on in the manufacture of the tree or else put
on separately afterwards to support the safe or carry an off pommel but so as there is
no bearing on the horse below it in front of the bridge which connects the two bars
of the tree.
Deted this 97th day of January 1888
FREDERICK WILLIAM MAYHEW.