US130994A

US130994A - Improvement in bridles and bits for horses

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Publication number: US130994A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1872-09-03
Anticipated expiration: 1889-09-03

Description

F, L. HASKELL.

`Improvement in Bridle-Bits for Horses.

N0. 130,994, Patented Sep. 3, 1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

FRANKLIN L. HASKELL, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRIDLESAND BITS FR HORSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.1309954, dated September 3, 1872.

To allpersoas to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN L. HAsKELL, of Leominster, of the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness for Horses; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing making part thereof, of which- Figure l is a perspective view of a harness headstall and martingale provided with my invention. l Fig. 2 is atop view; Fig. 3, arear elevation; and Fig. 4, an end view of the toggle-check hereinafter described.

The object of my invention is to dispense with a bit as usually employed'in the mouth of a horse for guiding and checking him.

Serious injury occasionally results to a horse from the bit, laceration cr abrasion of. the gums or jaw being a common occurrence; besides, in very cold weather the mouth is liable to be more or Vless frozen, and thereby rendered sore by the bit.

In carrying out my invention I combine with the headstall a nose-piece orloop to extend around the nose of the animal, and I also combine with such loop or. nose-piece and the hea'dstall and driving-rein, or with all such and a standing martingale, what I term the toggle-check.

In the drawing, the said toggle-check is,

shown at A. It consists of two levers, a a, and two f cheek-pieces, b b, the two levers-being hinged together at their inner ends and extended through and pivoted, respectively, to the cheek-pieces, each cheek-piece being made or `provided with eyes c d or c d e, arranged Each lever at its outer end is also provided with such an eye for reception of the dri ving-rein E.

The toggle-check A is applied to the headstall B in the same manner as a common bit is usually connected .with it, the nose-piece or loop C being buckled into and extended from the cheek-pieces of the toggle-check, in man- Furthermore, the standing martingaleD is also buckled to the said cheekpieces. The inner arms of the two levers or toggles are to go just in rear of and embrace the lower lip and jaw of the horse, but without going into his mouth asa bit does when in use. On the driving-rein E being pulled back the toggle-levers and the nose-loop will be drawn simultaneously closely up to the nose and lower jaw ofthe animal, so as to compress the lower part of his head between between such loop and the toggles, whereby he may be checked to much better advantage than he can by abit in his mouth, the disc`omfort occasioned him by thebit being completely avoided. The martin'gale serves to keep the toggle-cheek from rising too high upon the head, and generally speaking would be necessary to the check; but in some cases it may be dispensed with, particularly with such horses as are not likely to throw up or out the head while being driven, or those which donot require a martingale to keep the head down.

I have found by experience the above-described invention to be very effectual in driving and checking a horse and to be very much more com t'ortable to him than an ordinary bridle-bit.

I claim as my inventionl. The toggle-check A, substantially as and and for use as described.

2. Also, the combination of the nose-loop O and the toggle-cheek A with the headstall B.

3. Also, the combination ot' the nose-piece or loop C, the headstall B, the toggle-check A, and the driving-rein E.

4. Also, the combination of the nose-loop C, the headstall B, the toggle-check A, and the standing martingale D.

5. Also, the combination of the nose-loop G, the headstall B, the toggle-check A, the'driving-rein E, and the standing martingale D, al1 being arranged substantially as and for use with a horse, substantially in manner as described.

FRANKLIN L. HASKELL. Witnesses: i

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