Improvements in Riding Saddles for Ladies.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Saddles for Ladies.
We, ALICE HAYES, of 87 Newgate Street in the City and County of London,
Riding Mistress, and WILLIAM HAMPSON and JOHN SCOTT, trading as Hampson
and Scott at Clarence Works, Whittimere Street Walsall, in the County of
Stafford, Wholesale Saddlery Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in riding saddles for ladies.
The object of these improvements is to adapt one saddle for use without incon-
venience by different persons.
With the ordinary arrangement of fixed crutch a lady abroad receiving a saddle
from England and finding that the position of the crutch is unsuitable to her length
of leg or physical proportions, must either reject the saddle or use it with great
inconvenience, not having a proper grip on the crutch; again, a lady is often
precluded from lending her saddle to a friend because the position of this part
would render it unserviceable to her.
We obviate all these inconveniences by making the crutch movable; and we
effect this either by fitting it so that it may slide along the saddle tree backward or
forward to suit the rider, being arrested automatically or otherwise in that position;
or we may place screw holes, say four or five, at certain distances apart for
securing the crutch in the desired position; a sliding crutch would however permit
more exact regulation.
We may use our movable crutch in combination with a fixed or with a movable
leaping head and we prefer this latter combination as the ordinary relative position
of crutch and leaping head may be thus preserved.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of May 1893.
GEDGE & FEENY,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Riding Saddles for Ladies.
We, ALICE HAYES of 87 Newgate Street in the City and County of London,
Riding Mistress, and WILLIAM HAMPSON and JOHN SCOTT, trading as Hampson
and Scott at Clarence Works, Whittimere Street, Walsall, in the County of
Stafford, Wholesale Saddlery Manufacturers, 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 relates to improvements in riding saddles for ladies.
The object of these improvements is to adapt one saddle for use without incon-
venience by different persons.
With the ordinary arrangement of fixed crutch a lady abroad receiving a saddle
from England and finding that the position of the crutch is unsuitable to her length
of leg or physical proportions must either reject the saddle or use it with great
inconvenience not having a proper grip on the crutch; again a lady is often
precluded from lending her saddle to a friend because the position of this part
would render it unserviceable to her.

page_text: We 'obviate all these inconveniences by making the crutch movable, as shewn
upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, upon which
Figure 1 represents a side view or elevation of a saddle fitted with our improve-
ment, the dotted lines indicating the altered position of the crutch and leaping
head.
Figure 2 being an enlarged view shewing the general construction of the
slide.
Figure 3 is an end view of same.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a front and end view of a modification of the above
arrangement for operating the crutch A.
We effect this movement of the crutch A by fitting it so that it may slide along
the saddle tree B backward or forward within a suitable slide bar or rail C to suit
the rider, being arrested automatically or otherwise in that position by means of a
set screw D; or we may arrange for the crutch A to be operated by means of a
screw F secured within the bar or rail C and engaging with a nut G formed or
attached to the lower end of the crutch A the screw F being turned by means of
a nut H fixed upon its outer end. Or in lieu of the above we may place screw
holes say four or five at certain distances apart for screwing the crutch in the
desired position; a sliding crutch would however permit more exact regulation.
We may use our movable crutch A in combination with a fixed or with a
movable leaping head E as shewn in Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of
.drawings.
We prefer this latter combination as the ordinary relative position of crutch A
and leaping head E may be thus preserved.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In riding saddles for ladies the use of a sliding and adjustable crutch in com-
bination with a fixed or movable leaping head for the purposes described and
substantially as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this Ninth day of December 1893.