Harness for working animal – Riding saddle – Including supplemental child saddle
Patent
1989-11-20
1991-09-17
Swiatek, Robert P.
Harness for working animal
Riding saddle
Including supplemental child saddle
54 46, B68C 102
Patent
active
050482726
ABSTRACT:
A saddle is attached to an equine by means of left and right bar straps attached to the left and right bars in the saddle tree. The bars are slotted to receive the stirrup leathers for mounting in the conventional western style. The use of bar straps does not interfere with such mounting of the stirrups, owing to the way in which the bar straps are mounted to the bars. In a preferred embodiment each bar strap starts on the outside of its associated bar and proceeds upward, over the top of the bar and thence downward along the inside of the bar. If the starting point is very near the bottom of the bar a slot in the bar strap aligns with the stirrup slot in the tree. In another embodiment a long length of strap is looped over the top portion of the bar above the slot, with the outer segment of the loop passing through the stirrup slot. The two portions of the loop rejoin each other on the underside of the bar, where the two proceed downward as one. In either embodiment the bottom end of each bar strap is fitted with an optical transition and with a fastener, such as billet straps, to connect to the remaining portion of the rigging. Owing to the length of the bar straps, the location of the fastening to the remainder of the rigging is such that it is not in the vicinity of the knees of a short rider.
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Miller Edward L.
Swiatek Robert P.
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