US11083A - Bridle-bit - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`EBEYEZER N. PRICE, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRIDLE-IBI'I.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,083, dated June 13, 1854.

T0 all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, EBENEZER N. Pinon, of Salem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bits for Horses Bridles; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, letters and figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1, represents a top view; Fig. 2, a side elevation, and Fig. 3, a perspective view of one of my improved bridle bits. 1

My improvement is applicable to the oominon sua-tHe bit as well as to various others.

It consists in extending from each of the bars o, a, of the bit a nipper or jaw, l), and so as to project rearward from the bar and against the side of the lower jaw or under lip of a horse when the bit is placed in his mouth. i These nippers or jaws are short pieces of metal to be made generally about three inches in length, and they may be each provided with an eye or hole, c, for the re-4 ception of a chain or a leather strap, cl, made to extend through both of the eyes and to have its ends connected together by means of a buckle.

The bit shown in the drawings to which my improvement is applied is an ordinary snatlie bit, having its two bars, a, a, hinged together as seen at, e. 4

In the use of my improved bit, the jaws or nippers lay closely against and inclose the under jaw or under lip of the horse, so that when the bridle rein is pulled for the purpose of stopping the horse or arresting his motion, these nippers or bars by the leverage of the bit are crowded or borne firmly operation as to arrest a horse` with' far greater facility and less liability of injury to the jaw than is the case with the curb bit universally known.

The great superiority of my bit over the ordinary curb bit will be readily discovered by any one by experimenting with them.

The object of the strap used in oonnectio-n with the nippers or jaws is to conne the bit inplace against the gum of a horse, or between the back and fore teeth of the under jawand so as to prevent him from working itupward and seizing it between the back teeth o-f his jaws.

What I claim as my invent-ion isl.l The improvement of making the bit or providing it with the nippers or jaws made to operate against the jaw or under lip of a horse substantially as specified.

2. And in combination with the nippers or jaws, I claimthe strap as applied to them and made to operate with them substantially as specified; not meaning to claim a strap or its equivalent separate from the jaws; nor the application of such to the bars of a common bit, but meaning to claim combining it directly with the nippers so as not only to keep them from spreading outward, but to preserve the bit in place, or prevent it from rising too high in the mouth of a horse essentially as specied.

vIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature this sixteenth day of March A. D. 1854.

EBENEZER N. PRICE.`

Vitnesses:

R. M. LE FAVOR, BENJN. F. BRowNE.

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