US636851A - Jockey-plate for harness-saddles. - Google Patents

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Hm 636,85l. Patented Nov. I4, I899.

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GEORGE E. ROUNDS, OF PROVIDENCE, RIIODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONGDON (it CARPENTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

JOCKEY-PLATE FOR HARNESS-SADDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,851, dated November 14, 1899.

Application flled March 28, 1899.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ROUNDS, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in J ockey- Plates for Harnesses; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to jockey-plates that is to say, to those plates which overlie the skirt or the jockey when the saddle is provided with a jockey and are provided with a throat forming a guide and support for the back-band where it passes through the skirt or the skirt and jockey.

In jockey-plates as heretofore constructed which were provided with flanges for resting upon the skirt of the saddle the edges of the flanges followed the curvature of the upper. edges of the sides of the throat. With this construction of plate it is necessary to build up under the skirt, so that the upper surface of the skirt may be curved upward under the flanges of the plate and conform to the curvature of said flanges. This building up requires time and skill on the part of the maker, and adds to the expense of the saddle, andis objectionable-for this reason.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome this objection and provide a jockeyplate which may be readily and conveniently applied to the saddle without any building up under the skirt and a plate the flanges of which will rest firmly upon the flat surface of the skirt when used upon saddles without jockeys or upon the flat surface of the jockey in case the saddle is provided with a jockey.

To this end the invention consists of a jockey-plate provided with a throat for the passage of the back-band and flanges projecting from the sides of the throat, the outer edges of said flanges being in the same plane.

In the accompanying drawings, in which is shown a jockey-plate embodying the present invention in its preferred form, Figure 1 is a View showing the jockey-plate secured-in place. Fig. 2 is a plan View of said plate.

Serial No. 710,750. (No model.)

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section, through said plate.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the j ockey-plate is provided with a throat for the passage of the back-band, which throat is formed by the base-plate 1, over which the back-band passes, and the two sides 2 and 3. The edges of the sides rise rearwardly from the front edge of the plate 1, preferably in a curved line, and are connected together at the rear by a narrow cross-plate 4. The flanges 5 and 6 extend laterally from the upper edge of sides 2 and 3, and a flange 7 extends from the cross-plate 4:. The inner edges of the flanges 5 and 6 follow the curve of the upper edges of the sides; but the outer edges of the flanges lie in the same plane, which is at an inclination to the plate 1 and passes through the front edge of said plate. The outer edge of the plate 7 is also in the same plane with the outer edge of the flanges 5 and 6. The plate 1 is perforated at 8 to receive a screw or bolt for securing said plate to the saddletree. Whenin place, the edges of the flanges 5, 6, and 7 bear firmly upon the flat surface of the skirt 9, Fig. 1, so that there is no necessity of building up under the skirt to make its surface conform to the side flanges, as is the case in the former jockey-plates of this class. The back -band 10 passes over the plate 1 and through the opening under the cross-plate 4. This plate may be readily applied to the saddle and may be used either with saddles having jockeys or saddles which do not have jockeys.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A jockey-plate for harnesses having a throat formed by a base-plate and sides the edges of which rise rearwardly from the front edge of said base, flanges extending laterally and downwardly from the upper edges of said sides, the outer edges of said flanges being in right lines in the same plane, and a flange connecting the rear of said side flanges having its outer edge in the plane of the outer edges of said side flanges, substantially as described.

2. A jockey-plate for harnesses having a throat formed by a substantially fiat basea flange 7 connecting flanges 5 and 6 andhavplate 1 and sides 2 and 3 having their upper ing its outer edge in said plane, substantially 1o edges rising rearwardly from the front edge as described.

of said base-plate in curved lines, flanges 5 GEORGE E. ROUNDS. and 6, the inner edges of which follow the Vitnesses:

curvature of the upper edges of sides 2 and 3 JAMES H. THURSTON,

and the outer edges of which lie in a plane IRA L. FISH.

passing through the front edge of plate 1, and

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