USRE2394E - Improvement in riding-saddles - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LAC/EY, MEEKER & CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNEES OF GEORGE H.

MEEKER. Y

IMPROVEMENT IN RIDING-SADDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,771, dated May 16, 1865; Reissue No. 2,394, dated November 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that GEORGE H. MEEKER, of Bridgeport, in the county ot' Fairfield and State of Connecticut, invented a new and useful Improve-ment in Riding-Saddles, and we, R. B. LAoEY, Jol-1N B. MEEKER, H. T. SHEL- ToN, and GEORGE H. MEEKER, doing business in the city ot' New York, assigneesof GEORGE H. MEEKER, aforesaid, do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure lis an inner side View of the skirt ot' a saddle constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an exterior view of the same; Fig. 3, a section of Fig. l, taken in the line a: m,- Fig. 4, a section of a portion of Fig. 2, taken in the liner/y,- Fig. 5, an exterior side view of the lining` of a saddle-skirt construction on the present plan; Fig. 6, a section of Fig. 5, taken in the line z z.

Similarletters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of that class of riding-saddles which have. their skirts provided with projections to partially support the calves of the legs and thighs. These projections have been hitherto iliade by pads attached to an inner skirt or lining, and covered by pig-skin-a rather expensive mode of manufacture.

The invention consists in form-ing the projections by swaging the leather skirts, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby the labor and expense of forming the projections by pads attached to the skirts in the usual way is avoided.

A represents the leather skirt of the right side of a gentlemaus riding saddle. This skirt is cut out of a good quality of thick leather, and has projections B B' formed on its exterior by means of swaging, the leather being in a moistened state while being swaged.

In. Fig. l the inner side of the skirt and consequently the cavities formed by the swaging are shown, and in Fig. 2 the projections or 'convex surfaces are shown, B being the calf projection and B the thigh projection. These cavities are filled with sawdust a, or other suitable material, and covered at the inner side of the skirt hy leather B, as shown in Fig. 4.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the present mode of constructin g or forming the projections.

C representsthe lining or inner leather of the skirt, and to this lining or inner leather there are secured by stitching stuffed pads c c, corresponding to the form of the projections B B'. These stuffed pads cca-re then covered by pig-skin, which forms the exterior surface l of the skirt. l

It will be seen at once that by my improvemeut the" projections B B' are obtained at a much less expense than attends the present mode of manufacture.

The pig-skin is avoided, which is an expensive article, and the projections may be formed by swaging at a much less cost than by the stui'ed pads, the labor of making the same and attaching them to the inner bottom of the skirt and the stitching of the pig-skin over them being considerable.

By the term swaging is meant the strikin g up or embossing of the lea-ther between dies, or by other suitable means, so as to form the projections on the skirt out of the same piece of leather of which each skirt is composed, and ofthe full thickness ot" the same.

This invention,'it will be understood, is ap plicable either to ladies or gentlemens saddles.

We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The forming of the project-ions or calf and thigh supports on the skirts of a riding-sad dle by means of swaging, striking up, or embossing, substantially in the manner as herein shown and described.

JOHN B. MEEKEB. B. B. LAOEY.

GEO. H. MEEKER. HENRY T. SHELTON.

Witnesses to signature of John B. Meeker:

E. P. HINcKs, GEO. L. WRIGHT.

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