US9029A - Saddle - Google Patents

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W. S. KENNEDY.

SADDLE.

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W. S. KENNEDY SADDLE.

No. 9,029. Patented June 15, 1852.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. KENNEDY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,029, dated June 15, 1852.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. KEN- -NEDY, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Riding-Saddles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

It has always been considered very desirable to procure a perfect spring seat saddle and various modes have been employed for accomplishing this object. Sometimes the frame of the saddle has been constructed with a spring so as to allow the frame to spread; and sometimes the seats have been formed of various materials for the purpose of giving a spring. But where there is a metallic spring in the frame of the saddle, the motion of the frame by its expansion and contraction occasions a friction or abrasion against the horses back; and where the elasticity is attempted to be derived from webbing or other material of which the seat is composed, it is found that the strain occasioned by a short use, as well as the effects arising from the saddle becoming wet, soon deprive the woolen, cotton, or other similar material of its elasticity.

The nature of my improvement consists in employing for the seat of the saddle, ratan, cane or whalebone or other material substantially similar in its properties and operation, woven in the usual manner of what is termed diagonal or chain weaving. Cane or ratan woven in this manner has been long known and used for forming the seats of chairs, and the manner of attaching the woven cane or ratan to the frame of the chair is also well known.

In my improved saddle the cane, ratan, whalebone or other like material may be woven in any of the several modes known and practised. I weave long strands from the head to the crupper of the saddle and the other strands diagonally across the former, and I believe this to be the best mode. The cane, ratan, or whalebone'should be attached to the tree of the saddle in the same manner as the cane seating of chairs is woven into and attached to the frame of the chair. By this means a permanent elasticity is acquired, and the usual webbing, crossstraining and seat-cloth are dispensed with and the weight of the saddle thereby reduced.

This improvement when applied to ladies saddles, produces a desirable cross-spring, and in all saddles produces superior elasticity and spring of the seat and therefore comfort to the rider. The seat is complete without any other covering, and being made of a material that will not absorb water, is always dry; and the open work renders the seat cool for the rider and the horse. It is peculiarly adapted to Spanish and Mexican saddles, and to the dragoon and artillery service.

In the accompanying drawings a represents the head of the saddle tree; Z) the cantle and c the woven cane seating.

Having thus described my invention what I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The employment of woven ratan, cane, whalebone, or other similar elastic substance in the construction of seats of riding saddles, said seat so constructed being attached to and combined with the saddle tree in the manner and for the purposes above set forth.

WM. S. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

SAMPsoN WALLIs, MICHAEL MAGEE.

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