US343424A

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Publication number: US343424A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1903-06-08

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(No Model.)

W. H. BENNET.

HARNESS PAD.

No. 343,424. Patented June 8, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BENNET, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HARNESS-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,424, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed March 25, 1886. 'Serial No. 196,717. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BENNE'I, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness Pads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to pads 0r lining for harness, and has for its object the provision of a lining durable in use, easily cleaned, and which will prevent all galling or injury to the animal on which harness is used provided with my improved pads or lining.

To attain the desired end my invention consists, essentially, in a lining or pad the exposed surface whereof, coming in contact with the animal, is covered or lined with sponge-rubber, said rubber being impregnated with vasaline, sulphur, and alum,'keeping the rubber soft and pliable, while giving a medicinal action to the pad, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a saddle provided with my improved lining. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of a pad, showing the arrangement of the parts. Fig. 3 is aview of a collar wherewith' my improved lining is employed, and Fig. 4 isacross-sectional view of said collar. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the under side of a pad designed to be placed beneath an ordinary saddle.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In preparing the rubber for use, it is impregnated with vasaline, sulphur, and alum, and then so treated as to make the well-known It is cut into plates or sponge-rubber.

slabs about one-half an inch thick and is secured directly to the part of the harness it is desired to pad or line, either by a suitable cement or other preferred means.

A represents a saddle, and B my improved sponge-rubber pad or lining.

C shows a strip of canvas or leather, to which a pad, B, is secured, preferably by cement.

D is a collar, having lining B.

E is a saddle-pad, to which lining B is secured, said pad being provided with a loop, 6, A

for passing over the hook h in a saddle, A.

The advantages of my improved pad or lining are many. From the nature of the material of which it is made it is very soft and yielding, the vasaline keeping it soft and pliable, and together with the sulphur and alum acting to soothe and heal any abraded spot upon the skin of the animal that the lining may come in contact with. It is easily kept clean, as dust and sweat may be readily washed therefrom, and I have found by careful experiment that my improved pad or lining prevents galling, and is very durable.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to seen re by Letters Patent, is-

A harness-pad or other analogous article formed with an inner face of sponge-rubber, medicated, substantially as set forth.

Signed at NewYork, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 20th day of January, A. D. 1886.

WILLIAM H. BENNET.

Witnesses:

W. J. MORGAN, A. M. PIERCE.