Stirrup Leather Stay. (open access)

Stirrup Leather Stay.

Patent for a new and improved stirrup-leather stays. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in the mounting; and the invention consists in a stay the body of which is U-shaped in cross-section to receive the stirrup cross-bar and provided with a loop on its convex side at the bottom for the stirrup leather or strap" (lines 13-20).
Date: October 14, 1890
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
System: The Portal to Texas History