Patent Model - Improvement in Detaching Apparatus for Horses
Maker and role
Louisa Sleeper (b.1826, d.1910), Patentee
Charles Ritter, Assignee
Production date
Mar 13 1877
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Leather, brass, wood
Measurements
20 x 5" (50.8 x 12.7cm)
Description
Sleeper's invention "has for its object to provide means for preventing injury to the legs of a runaway horse carrying off the shafts of a vehicle, which have been detached in order to insure the safety of the occupants of the latter." (Patent Number 188,427)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.2347a,b
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