US201132A - Improvement in gig-saddle trees - Google Patents

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G.. THEOBALD. Gig Saddle-Tree.

No. 201,132. Patentedwlarch12,1878.

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GEORGE THEOBALD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CHAS. B. SMITH AND BENJAMIN A. BOURN, OF HART- FORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN GIG-SADDLE TREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Fatent No. 201.132, dated March 12, 1878; application filed November 1-9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE THEOBALD, of Newark, in the county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful 11nprovement in Gig-Saddle Trees, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specitication and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is an edge view. Fig. 4 shows a form of cutting the skirt; and Figs. 5, 6, 7 and S are views of a modified form of the invention, showing the' terret plate removable.

The object of my invention is to so construct a saddle-tree that the section of it in the vicinity of the terret, and forming a terret-plate,

- shall project above the plane of the frame, up

through the skirt or the top piece of the saddle, and in sight, and be suitably finished, and become an additional element of utility and ornamentation, and having a recess on the under side of it, with an open lower end, to provide a convenient place for connecting the back-strap with the saddle, and, withal, providing for adjusting and changing the terret or back-strap after the saddle is completed.

With this in view, I construct the frame A of metal, with a raised plate, C, so that it appears in sight when the saddle is nished, and forms a bed or seat for the terret H 5 and this plate has a recess, B, on its under side, with a bar, D, across the lower end and an opening in the end, so that into the recess over the bar a section, E, of the skirt F may be slipped, and over this section, in the recess, the end of the back-strap G having in it the nut a is slipped, so that the terret may lbe screwed into position, with the shank turning in the nut; or it may be changed or repaired, or the back-strap be changed after the saddle is iinished, and Without any taking apart.

In some cases, for convenience in manufacture or use, it may be desirable to make this plate C removable, and this does not aect the general principle of my invention, as stated above, for, whether fixed or removable, the plate having the recess stands out to sight above or on a level with the skirt, and receives the back-strap below.

When made removable, the plate may be slipped through an aperture in the frame A from the lower side, and the iianges be fitted to the under side of the frame, as seen in Fig. 7 or it may be fitted onto the upper side of the frame, (see Fig. 8,) and the ange on either side of the plate may rest on or be riveted to the frame direct, or with the skirt intervening. This plate raised up to sight becomes an added element of nish for a saddle, besides greatly improving the saddle-tree in construction and use. Therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The saddle-tree having the terret-plate C, constructed as described, and adapted to pro ject through the skirt above the plane of the frame A, so that the upper surface shall be visible, and having a recess on its under side for the reception of the back-strap G, sub stantially as and for the purposes specified.

GEORGE THEOBALD.

Witnesses HORACE HARRIS. GEORGE E. TRAsK.

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