Harness for working animal – Riding saddle – Including supplemental child saddle
Patent
1986-01-03
1988-09-20
Swiatek, Robert P.
Harness for working animal
Riding saddle
Including supplemental child saddle
B68C 102
Patent
active
047715901
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to an improved saddle construction.
In the past saddle construction has been a very time consuming and costly operation with the experienced saddlor having to "build up" his saddle on a conventional saddle tree by the addition of webbing, shaped padding and other material. This enables a particular shape of saddle to be formed which then receives a covering of leather and other materials to provide the finished product. In the past the material to be added or "built on" to the saddle tree has been either rivetted, stapled or glued to the wooden saddle tree. More recently saddle trees have been constructed or formed from rigid plastics material with thin carbon rods being inserted in the thinner lighter racing saddles to give the desired strength to the saddle tree. With the introduction of this form of saddle tree, one particular problem has arisen in that material cannot be readily stapled to the tree in the saddle built-up process.
An improved method of constructing a saddle and overcoming the above mentioned difficulties is disclosed in our own Australian Pat. No. 524616 wherein the upper saddle coverings including the seat, backs and upper flaps are formed into a single upper member, the underside saddle coverings including the panel, lining and underflaps are formed into a single underside member, said upper and underside members being secured together around the periphery of the seat to form a pocket thereby enabling a saddle tree to be inserted, said upper and underside members being secured together and to the cantle of the saddle tree to form a saddle.
Whilst this method of construction is satisfactory, continual development work has produced a faster more efficient and more economical form of saddle construction. This invention covers further improvements to the method disclosed in our Australian Pat. No. 524616.
In one form the invention resides in a method of making a saddle wherein the upper saddle coverings including the seat, backs and upper flaps are pressed from a single sheet member, the underside saddle coverings including the panel, lining and underflaps also being pressed from a single sheet member, said upper and lower pressed saddle coverings being secured to a saddle tree placed between said coverings and the saddle completed by stitching the upper and lower pressed saddle coverings together around the periphery of the cantle and the periphery of the seat.
Preferably the pressed saddle coverings are glued to the saddle tree and the sheet member comprises cloth covered cross linked closed cell polyethylene foam.
In another form the invention resides in a method of making a saddle wherein the upper saddle coverings including the seat, backs and upper flaps are pressed from a single sheet member, the underside saddle coverings including the panel, lining and underflaps also being pressed from a single sheet member, said upper and lower pressed saddle coverings being secured together around the periphery of the cantle to form a pocket thereby enabling a saddle tree to be inserted, the saddle tree is inserted into said pocket and the saddle completed by securing the upper and underside coverings together around the periphery of the seat.
Preferably the upper and underside coverings are each pressed from cloth covered cross linked closed cell polyethylene foam in two separate parts. The two separate sections are then stitched together to form a single complete upper or underside covering.
The invention will be better understood by reference to the following description of one specific embodiment as shown in the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the two separated halves of the upper saddle covering;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the two separated halves of the underside saddle covering;
FIG. 3 is a plan view of complete upper covering;
FIG. 4 is a plan view of complete underside covering;
FIG. 5 is a plan view of a saddle tree; and
FIG. 6 is a plan view of the completed saddle.
In the embodiment shown in the drawings a light "racing saddle" can be co
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