US35932A - Improved bridle-halter - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. GRISVOLD, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

IMPRovED Belote-HALTER.

Specification forming part of LettersPaten-t No. 35,932, dated July 22, 186..

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. GeIsWoLD, of Logans'port, in the county of Cass andv State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in BridlegHalters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation'of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in 'which-l Figure l represents a perspective view of the bridle and halter united; and Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the halter, the bridle portion-having been removed.

Similar letters o1" reference', wherethey oc! our in the separate figures, denote like'parts of the bridle-halter in both of the drawings.

My invention consists in a bridle-halter" so made as that the bit and its straps and reins may be readily attached to ordetached from the other portions, leaving a halter upon Vthe horses head constantly, which need not be removed.

To enable others skilled in' the art to make and use my invention, yI will proceed to describe the same with reference to `the drawings.

A`A A represent an ordinary halter, in-

' which la a are the side straps; b,the nose-strap;

c, the ring-strap; d, the forehead-strap, and e the throat-latch strap. These straps are oommon on ordinary halters. To this halter I add al tablet, f, which maybe connected to both the forehead-strap d and the side or head straps, a a, by means of a split strap, g, or in any other suitable'manner; and to the tablet f is attached a ring, loop, or buckle, h, for sustaining and holding the. bit, ,its straps, and

- reins when` connected to the -halter larticleidor buckle h on the tablet f. It will be readily seen how lquickly and easily" this article is convertedi-nto `a bridle and froma'bridleinto a halter.v The halter or headstall A may vreina-in onthe horses head constantly. To make it a bridle, the bit i is inserted into the mouth of the horse and the snap-hook' m caught in theloop or ringrh.

. To remove the bridle, detach the snaphook m, and the bit drops out of the horses mouth, leaving the halter or headstall remaining.

Thus the horse is always haltered, and can 'weighty thana bridle and halter in separate parts, as it dispenses with those parts of each that would be ,merely duplicates when separately made.

That the tabletf may not hurt the forehead of the horse it may be cushioned, and as afurther security against any indentation bysuch snap-hook, buckle, or whatever otherfastening may be used a metal plate may be interv posed between the tablet and the pad or cushion under it. The strap 7, instead of being fastened to the tablet or the forehead'strap d, may be fastened to the head-*strap a by eX- tending it that far, in which case the strap g might be dispensed with. ABy splitting the strap k both sides of the bit are held up by one fastening. The usual buckles and loops may be used for adjusting the several'straps orfor uniting them into a whole. Having thus fully described my'inv'ention, I would state -that a bridle-halter has heretofore been madein which the .bit was buttoned onto the nose-strap. rI`his I do not claim;.but W'hat I do claim in a bridle-halter is- The straps hk, united to the bit and hooked .or buckled to the `head or forehead strap, the

' GEO. W. GRIsWoLD.

. Witnesses v L.-A. GAPWELL, A.' S. WILSON.

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