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R. E. WHITMAN.

Saddle.

' No. 242,175. Patented May 31, 1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROYAL E. WHITMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 242,175, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed March 13, 1880.

junction with comfort both to the rider and V mel.

horse; and this I obtain by a structure entirel y of wood, having the bearing-bars as well as the riders seat of such configuration that no padding of any kind in either is required to form a complete saddle, which in the ordinary process of construction of saddles would occupy astage corresponding to the saddletree, but which in this case, though a complete saddle, is comparatively a skeleton, in having only bars to conform to the horses back, so as to evenly bear throughout every portion of their surface, and the seat provided by a thin sheet held in the position to afford an easy, safe seat to the rider, and the two so combined as to enable both to require but little stock to have all requisite strength.

In the drawings, Fig. I is a front view, and Fig; II a side elevation, of my side-saddle.

Upon side bars, B, formed to evenly bear over their surface upon each side of the ridge of the horses back, while leaving the backbone to extend between them, are secured at points opposite each other, and near the rear ends of the bars, supports 10, as shown in Fig. II, to form in effecta false cantle presenting an upper bearing-surface nearly in a horizontal plane and nearly at a level with the pom- Upon the elevated fiat bearingsurface thus presented by supports w is firmly secured one end of a wooden sheet, which, being secured at its other end to the pommel, forms the saddle-seat W, offering a wide nearly flat surface,

(ModelJ which, when the saddle is on thehorse, extends from pommel to false cantle in a proper horizontal line to prevent the rider from slipping in either direction.

Upon the bars B at the pommel are secured the horns common to side-saddles.

By thus giving the bearing-surface of the bars B the configuration shown, and by thus elevating and forming the surface of the seat W, these parts are only given the weight consisteut with the strength requisite to sustain the weight of the rider, and by obviating the necessity of padding in any part of the structure the minimum of weight is secured, together with cleanliness and an exemption from the effects of atmospheric causes.

Although the component parts of this saddle may consist of sections of wood of any shape, joined in any convenient manner to give the saddle its peculiar form, in practice I prefer to attain the greatest strength, as well as perfect exemption from subsequent change of form through warping or other causes, by building up the bars, as well as the seat, of layers of shaving-board, which, when united by glue or otherwise and arranged to have the grain of their wood cross, efl'ectually serve these purposes. 4

In Fig. II the letters d cl b indicate the laminations of the shaving-board sections in a saddle thus built up.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In side-saddles, the side bars, B, support 20, and seat W, all combined and arranged, as shown and described, to form a complete wooden saddle, to dispense with padding both in the seat and bars.

R. E. WHITMAN.

Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE, T. M. BROWN.

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