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US Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the triple epithet doing theUs Patent No. 582535 Bridle Bit by G W Le Compte May 11 1897 Le Compte's inventor's diagram details the mouthpiece and shanks with the quiet precision of a horseman who knew exactly how a rein's pressure travels through steel, filed in an era when the carriage horse and the saddle bred still ruled American roads. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings,