US49813A - Improved stirrup-fastening - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

c. E. WELLMAmoE NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMISROVED STIRRUP-FASTENING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,813, dated September 5, 1,865.

To all whom 'it may concern: Bc it known that I, G. H. WELLMAN, ofNo. 932 Broadway, in the city, county, and State l`of New York,- have invented'a new and useful thereby relieving the riders feet and leaving them free ofthe saddle, whereby much of the danger of .serious injury to life and 'limb is:

prevented.v

By myA improvement this result is accomplished; and it consists in hinging one side of -a buckle-frame, and at its upper end, to and upon the main portion ofthe same, through the opening in which buckle the upper end ot' the stirrup-strap is passed and secured at any point, according to the position desired for the.

stirru p, by inserting a sliding pin or hook, moving upon the upper cross-piece ofthe buckleframe, in the proper aperture therefor. The buckle hasa swin ging tongue or plate, by which it is secured to the saddle in theusual position therefor, and in any proper manner;

In the use of the buckles abofve described, if the horse should fall, throwing the rider forward, by the natural pulling of his feet upon the stirrup-strapsand against the hinged sides' et' thebuekles, they are thereby 'swung open, allowing-thest'rap's 'to pass ourl of the same, while at the same time they disengage themselves from their hooks' or pins, thus leaving the feet ot' the rider free of the horsel \In accompanying plate of 'drawingsemyinr provement is represented, Figure 1 being a side view of the bucklej with thestirrup-strap detached,-and Fig. 2 a view of one end of the buckle, showing its hinged portion. and the stirrup-strap inserted therein. A a a yrepresent Athe buckle-frame, made of any suitable shape and size, and of any proper metal or other material, one end', b, of which is, hinged by its upper end, c, to and upon the mainv portion d ofthe buckle-frame a, its lower end, f, vwhenit is closed, passingcver-and upon,

by its socket g, the projecting stud or pin h ot' y lower end ot' which comes below the under side of the frame a, andA bears against the same,

when thenstirrup-strap is placed within the opening o of the buckle and the hook inserted within the .desired aperture of the same, as.

seen at P in Fig. 2, rop-strap therein.

v,To and upon the upper cross-piece, q, of frame a a swinging tongue-piece or plate, 1 is hung, by which tongue-piece the buckle, with. its

securely holding the stirhinged end, is fastened to the saddle, and in its usual position, by any proper means. t By forming a stirrup-strapbuckle as above described, incase of any accident to the horse the strap becomes instantly disengaged therefrom .by simply pulling upon the same with the' feet in such a direction as will cause it to bear against the hinged side ot' the same, whichconsequently flies open, allowing the strap tov pass freely out ot' therbuckle, slidingits hook vupon its bearings, and iinally necessarily disengaging itself theret'roin,when the foot is perfectly free and' independent of the saddle or the horse, asis evident without further description, and the advantages of which have been hereinbefore stated. f

My improved strap-fastenin g may be adapted for other purposes than thatgparticularly described, and therefore I do not intend to limit .myself to its use for that alone.

Having'th us described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with a sliding hook or pin,

,of a buckle, made of any desired size and shape,

a hinged or pivoted side, arranged and operating together substantially in the manner de scribed, and orthe purposes specied.

The above specification ot' my invention signed by ine this 20th day of March, 1865. C. H. WELLMAN.

Witnesses: l

M. M. Livmes'rou,

A. E. BEACH.

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