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Description

(No Model.)

P. J. PEFLEY.

RIDING SADDLE.

No. 370,208. Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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PETER J. PEFLEY, OF BOISE CITY, IDAHO TERRITORY.

RIDING- SADDLE.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,208, dated September 20, 1887.

Application filed June 28, 1887.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER J. PEFLEY, of Boise City, in the county of Ada and Terrilory of Idaho, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Riding-Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in saddles, and has for its object to provide a saddle adapted to any shape horse,and wherein one or two girths may be used to accurately fit the saddle, and wherein, further, the change may be made expeditiously and easily in any locality, no matter how far from a habitation.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will behereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a saddle in which two girths are e1nployed,and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in which a single girth is used.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a saddle-tree of the Spanish or Mexican pattern,provided with the usual horn,a. At the front of the saddle-tree a heavy strap of leather, B, is secured below the horn, adapted to extend down upon each side of the tree, with an inclination to the rear,and be secured thereto in any approved manner. The said strap Bis provided at each end with a more or less inclined essentially V-shaped recess, b, whereby two members,b and I), are produced, one member being somewhat shorter than the other. To the end of the member ba ring, 0, is secured, either by rivets or lacing, the other member being attached to one side of a more or less pear-shaped ring, 0, in similar manner, and the two rings 0 O are united by a short narrow strap, (1.

The seat D is made of a straight piece of leather attached in the usual manner to the tree, and provided with a downwardly-projecting flap,d,integral with each forward end, which flaps are connected by rivets, lacing, or in any suitable manner, with the upper or reduced portion of the pear-shaped ring 0.

Serial No. 242,777. (No model.)

1 The flaps are securely attached to the saddletree, as shown at e.

The cantle-jockey E is preferably secured to the rear portion of the tree by means of strong screws passing through said cantlejockey and tree, the heads whereof are hidden from view by the rosettes E.

The lower front ends,e, of the cantle jockey are made narrow and projected forward, and attached in any approved manner to the rear side of the pear-shaped rings 0. Thus the rings 0 are firmly held in position by means of the members I) b of the front leather, B, the flap d of the seat, the extensions of the cantle-jockey, and the connecting-strap d. Near the forward longitudinal edges of the cantlejockey a lip, h, is formed, adapted to project downward, to which lip a third ring, C, similar to the ring 0, is attached.

To the girths M, adapted for attachment to the aforesaid rings 0, O, and C at their ends, upon one side, a convenient form of buckle, M, is attached, provided with outwardly-extending spaced lugs an, integral with one longitudinal edge,the lugs upon one buckle having slots 'mcut therein, and the opposinglugs of the other buckle being fitted with projections m adapted at times to enter the afore said slots m.

The girths may be suspended from the rings 0, O, and G by means of straps N, passing through the rings and held in the buckles, as shown in Fig. 1, or by lashes N, as shown in Fig. 2, passing through the rings and buckles and knotted at the former.

In operation two girths are preferably emplo ;'ed,suspended,respectively,from the rings 0 and 0 as shown in Fig. 1, although a third may be used, if found desirable.

In the event a single central girth is needed, the buckles of two girths are by the projections m upon the lugs m, passing through the slots m, secured in position as shown in Fig.2, and the connected buckles and girths suspended from the pear-shaped ring 0 by a lash, the girths being held in a fixed position side and side by one or more straps, 12.

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

1. The combination, with the tree A, the

front strap, B, having bifurcated ends b' b, the i of the outer rings, 00, the inner pear-shaped seat D, provided with flaps d, the cantlering, O,the girths M, having attached buckles jockey E having reduced ends 6 and lips, h, M, each buckle having side lugs, m,the1ugs of :5 of the rings C, O, and 0 the girths M, interone buckle provided with slots m and the 5 changeably suspended from one or more of other with projections m and means of intersaid rings, and means of suspending the girths changeably suspending said girths from one and uniting the same, substantially as herein or more of said rings, substantially as herein shown and described; shown and described.

2. The combination, with the tree A, the PETER J. PEFLEY. 10 front strap, 13, having bifurcated ends b If, Witnesses:

the seat D, provided with flaps d, the cantle- HARLEN PEFL-EY,

jockey E, having reduced ends 6', and lips 71, J. G. SARGENT.

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