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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE,
ALFRED HOMANN, OF NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS.
HARNESS-SADDLE.
958,643. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 17, 1910.
Application filed February 15, 1910. Serial No. 543,933.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ALFRED HOMANN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
New Braunfels, in the county of Comal and
5 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Harness-Sad-
dles; and I do declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled in
10 the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same.
This invention relates to improvements in
harness saddles.
One object of the invention is to provide
15 a harness saddle having an improved con-
struction of pad which will always maintain
its shape, thus preventing the saddle from
settling and resting upon the back bone of
the animal and which will prevent the fas-
20 tening devices of the terrets and pads from
forming projections or uneven places which
would tend to cause the formation of sores
on the back of the animal.
A further object is to provide means
25 whereby the pads are adjustably secured to
the saddle.
With the foregoing and other objects in
view, the invention consists of certain novel
features of construction, combination and.
30 arrangement of parts as will be more fully
described and particularly pointed out in
the appended claim.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1
is a perspective view of a harness saddle
35 showing the application of my improved
pads; Fig. 2 is a front elevation partly in
section of the same; Fig. 3 is a cross section
through the saddle taken on line 3-3 of
Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of
40 one of the pads removed from the saddle.
Referring more particularly to the draw-
ings, 1 denotes a harness saddle which may
be of the usual or any desired construction
and which is here shown as being provided
45 with the usual terrets 2 and check rein hook
3. The terrets 2 are provided with thread-
ed shanks which are inserted through the
back portion of the saddle and have screwed
thereon fastening nuts 4, which are provided
50 on their opposite sides with deep grooves
or channels 5. In the back portion of the
saddle below the terrets are also arranged
pad fastening screws 6 on the inner ends of
which are screw fastening nuts 7 having in
55 their opposite sides deep grooves 8 corre-
sponding and adapted to be alined with thegrooves 5 in the fastening nuts 4 of the ter-
rets.
My improved pads 9, one of which is ar-
ranged on each side of the saddle, are each 60
formed of hollow metal and are substantially
of the same width as the back of the saddle
and are provided with flat upper sides
adapted to fit closely against the under side
of the back portion of the saddle, as shown. 65
The lower sides of the pads are formed on a
curve corresponding with or adapted to fit
the curvature of the back of the animal.
In the flat upper side of each of the pads
is formed a central longitudinally disposed 70
slot 10, which connects at its upper end with
an enlarged transverse slot or opening 11
formed near the upper end of the pad, as
clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing. In
applying the pads to the saddle, the large 75
opening or slot 11 of each pad is engaged first
with the nuts 7 of the pad fastening screws,
after which the pad is slipped upwardly on
said nuts with the edges of the slot 10 en-
gaging the grooves 8 in said nuts. When 80
the pads are thus engaged with the nuts 7,
they are slipped up thereon until the open-
ings 11 come opposite to the nuts 4 of the
terrets, which nuts are then engaged with
the openings 11 and the edges of the slot 10 85
are engaged with the grooves 5 in said nuts
4 and the pads pushed up into their proper
positions.
After the pads have thus been engaged
with the nuts of the terrets and fastening 90
screws and adjusted to the desired positions,
the fastening screws 6 are tightened up,
thus drawing the flat upper side of the pads
into tight engagement with the under side
of the saddle, thus holding said pads in 95
their adjusted positions.
The pads may be covered with any suitable
material and, if desired, a layer 12 of felt
or similar material may be placed between
the covering and the under side of the pads. 100
By forming separate pads and attaching
them to the saddle as herein shown and de-
scribed, it will be seen that the fastening
devices for the terrets and pads cannot pos-
sibly form uneven surfaces in the pads or 105
press against the back of the animal, and
that the pads will always maintain their
proper shape, and furthermore, that the
pads may be adjusted to different positions
to fit the shape of the animal's back. 110
In the common form of stuffed pad, the
filling frequently becomes misplaced or
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Homann, Alfred. Harness-Saddle, patent, May 17, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511423/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.