An Improved Method and Means for Controlling Horses.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method and Means for Controlling Horses.
I, GÉZA EGYESY, Director General of the Firm of Országgyütési Konyonyomda, of.
Varmegye utoza 12 Budapest, in the Kingdom of Hungary, 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 :--
Various means have been provided hitherto to prevent the losing of proper control.
over horses, but these have not been as effective as is desirable, because the arrange-.
ments were either too complicated, or they did not act with certainty.
This invention is based upon the fact that horses, like other domestic animals, obey,
only when they feel the physical power of man. For this purpose I do not employ any
automatically acting mechanical arrangements but in my invention the action of the.
reins is supported by a separate control rope or strap which can be drawn more or
less tight in a peculiar manner, so that complete control is obtained over the horses,
and they cannot possibly run away.
The running away of horses is nearly always caused by the horses taking fright,,
and, as the driver generally takes to the whip, the horses become still wilder,
and cause often serious accidents, which are prevented by the use of my invention.
In order that this invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to
the letters and figures marked thereon.
Like letters refer to like parts in the various figures.
Figure 1 is a plan of the control rope or strap.
Figures 2 to 7 show sections and elevations through various parts for guiding the
rope or strap, and Figure 8 shows the invention applied to a horse harnessed to the
carriage.
The control rope or strap a is guided over rollers k and is connected by rings a¹ to
straps 6 attached where desired to the ring d of the snaffle and to the curb bit. The
other end of the control rope a ends in a ring a² which can be hooked on to the
hooks or 2 provided near the drivers seat. The guiding rollers k rest in
holders i and are held in an elongated bow frame in order to allow of the effective
tightening of the control rope and to prevent the same from being thrown off the
roller. The guiding reins are connected to the said control straps & between the bit
ring and curb and the outer roller k.
The action is as follows:-
As soon as the driver notices that the horses become restless, he puts away the
whip, takes the ring a² from the hook hand hooks it into the hook h', thus tightening
the control rope or strap a.
In consequence the head of the horse is held down and
the driver can exert with the ordinary rein much more force than usually, because the
pull of the ordinary reins upon the straightened control straps largely multiplies
the strain upon the bit.
If the horses should not yet have become quiet the rope or strap a is further
tightened and the ring a² hooked over the hook 2 in consequence of which a strong
and very effective pull is obtained. The driver has thus both hands free and can
pull the reins with great force. In this manner he obtains such control over the
horses, that even the strongest animals will be unable to resist this physical force, and
running away of the horses and accident are in consequence entirely avoided by this
preventive measure.

page_text: The control rope or strap is made as follows:-
A rope twisted twice or more times is placed into linseed oil for at least 48 hours
until the hemp is entirely impregnated with oil, when the rope is sewn into good
leather. The impregnation of the rope with oil prevents the lengthening or
shortening of the rope with certainty.
The great advantage of the arrangement consists in its simplicity, its manipu-
lation does not require any intelligence, and it can be operated by any ordinary
driver.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A method for the control of horses in which the action of the usual rein
pulled by the hand is reinforced when the horses become restless, by a control
rope or strap a, which is adjustable as to lightness, so that the driver will have the
strongest and wildest animals completely under his control.
2nd. For carrying out the method claimed in Claim 1 the arrangement of a
control rope or strap a carried over rollers which has at one end a ring a² to be held
in position at various places near the driver's seat, and is connected at the other end
to a ring d of the bit in order to effect the tightening of the control rope or strap
with comparatively little expenditure of force.
3rd. For the guidance of the control rope or strap claimed in Claim 2 the
use of rollers covered by shield frames to prevent the rope or strap from being thrown
off the said rollers.
4th. A process for the manufacture of the control ropes claimed in Claims 1 and 2
in which the twisted rope of hemp is completely impregnated with oil and after-
wards sown into leather in order to prevent it from becoming strained or distorted.
Dated this 15th day of January 1897.
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicant.