US358603A - Safety saddle-stsrrup - Google Patents

Description

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4 J. H. GIBSON.

SAFETY SADDLE STIRRUP.

Patented Mar. 1, 1887;

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,603, dated March 1, 1887. Application filed July 29, 1886. Serial No. 209,406. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN H. GIBsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Canton, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Safety SaddleStirrups, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in saddle-stirrups; and it consists in providing a safety-stirrup composed of two branches having a pivotal connection with the saddle-strap loop, and means for supporting the branches in normal position, as hereinafter set forth.

My invention also relates to the detail and combination of parts, as set forth in the claims.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

Figure l is an isometrical view of my improved safcty stirrup as suspended from a saddle-strap. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation showing the two branches of the stirrup clasped together at the lower corner. Fig. 3 is an isometrical view showing the branches thrown apart as in the act of releasing the foot of a dismounted rider. Fig. 4. is an isometrical view of the stirrup-head showing the loop for saddle-strap and the jaws between which the 11 W0 branches have a pivotal connection. Fig.5 is an isoinetrical view of the one side branch having a foot-rest, and one section of the clasp by which the branches are held in normal position. Fig. 6 is an isometrical view of the other side branch showing the foot-rest support and clasp.

Letters A and B represent the side branches,

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branch B consisting of vertical section a and a horizontal foot-rest section, b, integral therewith, said section a having at its upper end a perforation, 0, provided for a pivotal connec tion with the jaws d of the stirrup-head D. The free end of the foot-rest section b is provided with a plane section, f, that is oblique to a line drawn parallel with the foot-rest b, and at right angles with a radial line, 6, drawn from the center of the pivotal connection with the head D through the plane f, and a plane vertical section, 9. There is also provided on the face of the plane f a wedge-shaped dowel, h, hereinafter explained. Branch A is provided at its upper end with a perforation, 25, similar to perforation 0, described in branch B, and for the same purpose. The free end is provided with a projected supporting-shout der, j, the plane of which is at a right angle with a radial line, is, drawn through said shoulder, and the center of the pivotal connection with the supporting-head D. (See Fig. 3.) Said shoulder j is bifurcated, and the two prongs Z and m adapted to the wedge h on planef of foot-rest b, Fig. 5.

D, Fig. 4., is the stirruphead, having aloop, m, through which the saddle-strap is rove, and the wings d d, between which the branches A and B have a pivotal connection on the rivet n. The branches are so pivoted to the head and adjusted as to spring together at the claspingcorner, as shown by the dotted line, Fig. 3, the wedge h preventing lateralmotion. The usual downward pressure on the foot-rest will not disengage the parts; but the least pressure on the sides or branches above the the vertical part 9 of the foot-rest will disengage the clasping parts and allow the branches to part and release the foot of a dismounted rider.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a saddle-stirrup having branches A and B, pivotally connected to a head, D, said branch B having a foot-rest, b, oblique plane f, vertical plane g, and dowel h, and said branch A having a projected shoulder, j, as described, adapted to the planes f and g and dowel h of the foot-rest, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a safety saddle-stirrup having two branches, A and B, having a pivotal connection with a supporting-head, D, the clasping or looking planef, and shoulder j on a line at right angles to a radial line drawn from said pivotal connection through said planes, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of July, A. D. 1886.

JOHN H. GIBSON.

WVitnesses:

W. K. MILLER, CHAS. R. MILLER.

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