US233631A

US233631A - Bridle

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Publication number: US233631A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 1897-10-26

Description

D. MAGNER. Bridle.

No. 233,631. Patented Oc't. 26, |880.

UNTTan STATES PATENT Ormea.

DENNIS MAGNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BRIDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,631, dated October 26, 1880,

Application filed January 28, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DENNIS MAGNER, residing in Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bridles for the subjection and control of vicious, runaway, or kicking horses while driving, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar construction and combination of the various parts of a bridle especially adapted to restrain heads'trong and vicious horses, as more fully set forth and described in the following specification and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective view of a bridle, bit, reins, Sie., embodying myinvention. Fig. 2is an enlarged view of the bit detached from the bridle. invention when placed in position on the head of a horse.

a is a bit with a common straight or slightly-curved shank passing through the mouth of the animal. At each end ofthe bit a are pivoted rings d d., formed large enough to allow the loops e, holding the pulleys p and attached to the staplef, to swing clear and free within the ring d.

A loop or band, b, formed ot' wire, cord, or chain, and covered with rubber, leather, or some suitable substance to prevent the needless cutting or bruising of the horses lip, is attached by links c c around the ends of the straight bar of the bit a. The bar a of the bit is placed in the usual manner in the mouth of the animal. The loop or band bis placed over the upper teeth of the animal and beneath his upper lip, so that any pull ot' the reins on the bit brings the pressure on the lip-band b. (See Fig. 3.)

The rein r is attached first to the ring d. From the ring cl the rein passes upward over the pulley q, thence downward again under the pulley p in the loop c, and thence to the drivers hands. The pulley q is secured to a narrow oval strap passing over the head of the horse and beneath the cap or head-strap ofthe bridle, which also passes over the horses head.

The head-piece or` cross-strap over the upper portion of the bridle is large and broad, as

Fig. 3 shows a bridle embodying my' both the blinder-strap and the throat-strap are usually secured thereto. This head-piece, being a broad strap, must of necessity rest upon the bones on each side of the unprotected portion of the spinal cord and prevent the required pressure upon this vital nerve-center.

The strap s s, to which the pulleys gare attached, is formed quite narrow and of tleXible, soft, or yielding material, so as to be capable of being drawn down between the atlas and occipital bones of the head, to bring a direct pressure upon the uncovered portion of the spinal cord. This narrow stra p s, passing over the horses head and supporting the pulleys q q, is formed oval or thick in the center and thin on the edges whereit passes over the head ofthe horse, to more perfectly accomplish the desired pressure on the unprotected portion of the spinal cord.

By passing the reins from the ring d over the pulley q and beneath the pulley p on the ends of the shank of the bit, a threefold power is obtained on the bit and mouth of the horse, and a double leverage is secured upon thestrap which passes over the head of the horse and supports the pulleys q q.

Should it be deemed expedient, after once reducing the animal to subjection, to reduce the controlling power, the end of the reins can be secured directly to the pulley q, and thence passed beneath the pulley p to the drivers hand; but this only would be advisable after the animal had been once subdued. When the animal has been subdued the lip-band b can also be removed, it' desired, and the bit and bridle used as a common bridle.

When the reins and bridle are constructed and applied as described, and as shown in the accompanying drawings, whenever suflicient pressure is brought upon the reins r it will result in bringing the desired pressure as described upon the unprotected portion of the spinal cord, which will at once affect the whole nervous system of the animal, reducing him easily, safely, and quickly to subjection, while at the saine time pressure is brought upon the most sensitive portion ofthe animal, under the upper lip, causing a pain which the most vicious and headstrong horse cannot resist.

I do not claim, broadly, the lip-hand b, neithera strap passing over the head of the horse IOO to bring a pressure thereon, nor pulleys for pulleys placed near the cheeks of the bridle multiplying the power of the reins, when these upon a strap passing over the head of the anivarious devices are used separately; but mal, and the driving-reins adapted to pass 15 What I do claim as new, and desire to searound said pulleys to multiply the powerof the 5 cure by Letters Patent, isrestraining force, all combined and arranged The combination, in a bridle for controlling to give the driver more complete control over vicious or headstron g horses, of the extra the animal, substantially as described. mouth-piece extending over the upper jaw and beneath the upper lip of the animal, the main DENNIS MAGNER. 1o shank of Jthe bit adapted to pass through the Witnesses:

horses mouth, the friction-pulleys attached to EDWIN A. HILDRETH,

the ends of the main bit, and other friction- OHAS. H. SHEPARD.