US110527A - Improvement in seat-guards for hobby-horses - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. l10,527,' dated December 27, 1870 antedated December 17, 1870;

IMPROVEMENT lN'SEAT-GUARDS FCR HOBBY-HORSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent-and making part of the same.

To :all whom it may conce/ru.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. WILLIAMS, of the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Seat-Guards for Hob-l by-Horses, and the following is .hereby declared to be a full and correct description of the same.

Before my present invention a ring or guard had been used to prevent the child falling from the hobbyhorse, the ring being supported' above the horsesback at Ethe front and rear by verticalsnpports' or standards', formed as straps, screwed tothe horse,

with the ring or guard hinged so as to swing and open laterally, to allow the child to be placed upon or re- Amoved from the horse.

My present invention, as distinguished from the above, consists in a ring or guard, hinged to the front support so` that said ring can be passed over the horse-s head and hang around the neclsuspended from the support,to allow the child to be placed upon or removed 'from the horse,.and then turned back, to surround the child, or, when said ring is not to be used as a guard, it is not in the way while around the hobby-horses'neok.

The lower part of the supports are provided with bearing-plates or bases, extending upon each side of the-horsesback and-partially down the sides, and, to

thesegbelts or bands are attached, passing under the horses belly, -and are buckled so-.that the` said support is securely held to place.

Therearsupport is providedwith a spring-catch, to take an eye upon the ring or guard, to prevent the same being accidentally disconnected; and said support is hinged so as to allow the support'to be turned down out of the way when not required for use in supporting theling. By securing the supports" to the horses back by belts or straps passing under the belly of the horse, the necessity of screwing them to the back 'is avoidthe horse by simply unbuckling said belly-bands or belts when no longer required for preventing the child falling.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hobby-horse tted with' my improvement, the parts being in position to allow a child to be placed upon the horse;

. Figure 2 is an elevation; and

Figure 3 is a plan of the supports and ring detached, the ling or guard being shown as connected to its rear support.

The hobby-horse a and rockers b may be of any usual. or desired character, and, I remark that my improvement can 'be applied to the spring or any othercharacter of hobby-horse. The front standard-c and bearing-plate or base l are made so that the bearing-plate or base d will conform, generally, to the shoulders of the horse, as shown-in fig. '1, so that the vsame cannot turn upon the horse when the belt or strap e, which is fastened tothe respective ends of the. metallic plate d, is tightened andbuckle'd. l The guard-ring f is hinged at g to the upper part of the standard c, so that it can hang suspended from its support, asshown in ,ig 1, when the child is be ing placed upon or removed from the horse, 'or when the ring is not in use, or be turned back from around the horses neck so as to surround the child.

-";l.`l1e rear 'standard huis provided withV a base or bearing-plate, aud a belt, l, similar to those for the front support o; but isaid standard is -hinged at m to"the supporting-based so that the standard can be turned down out of' the way and allow of' the child being more easily placed upon the horse. `r Ihis standard is provided with the projection mtu support the ring f, and, with the spring-latch p, taking anveye, q, upon said ring to prevent the ring becoming disconnected accidentally from its support.

' By this arrangement the guard-ringmay be disconnected from its rear support aud-swung upon its hinge over the childs head when the child is to be removed from the horse, or said"ring may be passed over the horses head, and hang suspended from its support and the rear support down, as shown in tig-1," when it is desired to ride the horse without the guard-ring'in place, or both supports and ring may be removed from the horse by merely unbuckling the `belts e e.

1. The ring-guard j, hinged to the front standard e, so as to be thrown over the head of the hobby- A horse, as and `for the purposes specilied. ed, and the supports and ring can be removed from 2'2 The standard h, hinged at m, and provided with a latch, p, in combination with the .ring f, hinged so as to turn over toward the, head of the hobby-horse, substantially as and for the purposesset' forth.

3. The standard c, (or h,) provided withal bearingplate or base and straps, to pass around the hobbyhorse, in lcombination with the ring-guard, for the purposes specified.

Dated J une 2, A. D. 1870.`

s W. L. WILLIAMS.

. Witnesses: A

OHAs. H. SMITH,

GEO. T. PLNCKNEY.

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