Author: Commissioner of Patents
Title: Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Saddlery, Harness, Stable Fittings, &C.A. D. 1625-1866
Description: Holborn, England, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1868. Paperback. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Original blue paper covers,Fading and wear to spine. Front paper cover VERY chipped and DETACHED. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode of London. Paperback Original. At time of publication, the Indexes to Patents were, "so numerous and costly as to render their purchase inconvenient to a large number of inventors and others, to whom they have become indispensable. To obviate this difficult, short abstracts or abridgments of the Specifications of Patends under each head of Invention have been prepared for publication separately, (nearly 62,500) and so arranged as to form at once a Chronological, Alphabetical, Subject-matter, and Reference Index to the class to which they relate. This series embraces all Inventions relating to Saddles and saddlery, pillions and pack saddles, saddle cloths, housings, gambadoes, girths, stirrups, stirrup-bars, stirrup leathers, bridles, bits, rings, buckles, hooks, knee-caps, muzzles and horse-boots; 2: to carriage and cart harness including collars, hames, saddles, territs, buckles and their substitutes, traces, tugs, bits, head-gear, reins and nose-bags; 3: to whips and spurs; 4: to stable fittings, namely partitions and hay racks, mangers, troughs, harness brackets, and halters and apparatus for securing harness brackets; 5: to stable utensils, including currycombs, brushes, and singeing lamps; and 6) to contrivances for stopping runaway horses, and for instantaneously releasing horses from carriages, in case of accident, when such contrivances form part of the harness.." 265 including index. Section at end listing other classes of patents/inventions. FAIR ONLY .

Keywords: French Inventors - 19th Century; British Inventors - 19th Century