US438485A - Stirrup-leather stay - Google Patents

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE D. PADGITT, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

STIRRU P-LEATH ER STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,485, dated October 14, 1890.

Application filed May 14, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JESSE D. PADGITT, of Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stirrup-Leather Stays,of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a side View of the stirrup strap and stay complete. Fig. 2 is asection through line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the stay.

The object of the invention is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the riders foot in mounting; and the invention consists in a stay the body of which is U-shaped in cross-section to receive the stirrup cross-bar and provided with a loop on its convex side at the bottom for the stirrup leather or strap, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

A represents a stirrup leather or strap, B the stirrup, and D is my improved stay, preferably formed by casting it in a single piece or striking it up from a piece of sheet metal, or itmay be made of leather or other mateterial. The stay is U-shaped in cross-section and of a length to embrace the cross-piece b of the stirrup. At the extreme lowest point on the convex surface there is an outwardlyprojecting loop d,'throngh which the stirrup leather or strap A extends as it passes around the outer side of the stay. The stay D is about the same length as the cross-piece b of the stirrup, and the loop dis just wide enough for the stirrup leather or strap, and therefore the cross-piece b cannot slide back and forth in the stirrup-leather loop and cause the stirrup to hang at an incline or one-sided. The stirrup-leather will always be held in the center of the stirrup, so that the foot-bearing will be equal and riding be made easier.

To illustrate more fully, let us take a wooden stirrup which is very wide at its upper end,

Serial No. 351,824. (No model.)

and unless an equally wide stirrup leather or strap is used the stirrup will slide in the loop and cause it to hang at an incline or one-sided instead of straight. If my stay is applied to such a stirrup, the straps or leathers, though much narrower than the crosspiece, will always cause the stirrup to hang properly by reason of the loop d, which prevents any sliding movement of the stirrup leathers or straps. Where a stirrup hangs one-sided it is very disagreeable fora rider to mount, and, as before stated, the foot-bearings are not central and stable, but shift and cause a strain on the feet to keep the stirrups in proper position. The stays also protect the stirrup-leathers from wear, as the stirrup cross-piece turns in them, while they do not move on the leathers or straps at all.

In defining the scope of my present invention I would state that in the patent granted me April 8, 1890, I have already covered a stirrup-stay made in the shape of a U-shaped plate with loops at the upper extremities of the same, and I therefore limit the present invention to the U-shaped plate having a single loop arranged at the bottom of the U- shaped plate and on the outer or convex side.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A stirrup-strap stay consisting of a U- shaped metal plate D, having a single loopd arranged at the bottom of the said plate on the convex side thereof, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the stirrup having cross-bar b, the U-shaped plate D, embracing the same and having a single loop d at the bottom thereof on the convex side, and the stirrup-strap extended through the loop (I above the same and around the plate, substantially as shown and described.

JESSE I). PADGITT.

\Vitnesses:

W. C. PADGITT, HOWARD KEYES.

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