IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANNELLED OR HONEYCOMBED IRON APPLICABLE FOR HORSE-SHOES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bristow Hunt, of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANNELLED OR HONEYCOMBED IRON
APPLICABLE FOR HORSE-SHOES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN."-A communication from abroad by Pierre
Michel Sibut, ainé, of Amiens, France, Horse-shoe Manufacturer.
Sealed the 21st July 1874, and dated the 10th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bristow Hunt at the
: Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th March 1874. ·
I, BRISTOW HUNT, of Serle Strect, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANNELLED OR HONEY-
COMBED IRON APPLICABLE FOR HORSE-SHOES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN
APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN (a communication to me from
abroad by Pierre Michel Sibut, ainé, of Amiens, France, Horse-shoe
Manufacturer), to be as follows :—
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The channelled or honeycombed iron, which forms the subject of the
present. Invention, is iron rolled or swaged with alternate projections

page_text: and hollows arranged according to any design or figure with a longi-
tudinal border of the same height as the interior projections, or of a diffe-
rent height. This border may be formed on one side of the iron only, or it
may be repeated either similarly or different on both sides. It may be
isolated from the interior projections by a straight or waved groove, or
it may be of one pice with the said projections. The hollows or
depressions may be trough-shaped (that is, narrower towards the bottom),
which produces the reverse in the projections, which are then narrower
at the top than below; or further, in the same design some parts may
be trough-shaped and other parts square.
This channelling or honeycombed iron is intended especially for the
manufacture of a particular kind of horse-shoe, in which the channelled
or honeycombed surface or face is that which rests on the ground, and
which renders the shoe particularly adapted for preventing horses from
slipping on ice or frost or frozen surfaces, and also at other times the
hollow parts form so as to speak cells or chambers, which as the horse
travels fill more and more with the earth or soil, which becoming fixed
in the hollows soon produces under the shoe a cushion or surface, which
by its adhesion prevents slipping on the pavement, whether dry or wet,
or frozen, or otherwise slippery, at the same time that this cushion
deadens the shock of the shoe on the ground and thus diminishes the
fatigue of the horse.
The shoes also (owing to the hollows formed therein) will be much
lighter than shoes of the same thickness made from solid iron, which
evidently will considerably relieve the horse.
The iron is made in bars or pieces, whether straight or curved, either
by means of grooved cylinders or rolls cut out or moulded to the figure
or design to be produced, or by swaging or stamping by means of
matrices hollowed out or moulded according to the arrangement to be
produced.
The bar or picces may also be made either of iron or steel, or both
iron and steel, or in any other metal, either alone or in combination, or
of any other non-metallic matter, and the channels may be made in the
horse-shoe at the time of manufacture or afterwards, as may be
preferred.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Bristow Hunt in the Groat Seal Patent Office
on the 28th August 1874.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BRISTOW
HUNT, of Serle Strect, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Bristow Hunt, Her special
licence, that I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Bristow Hunt, my execu
tors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANNELLED OR HONEYCOMBED IRON APPLICABLE FOR HORSE-
SHOES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
(a communication to me from abroad by Pierre Michel Sibut, ainé, of
Amiens, France, Horse-shoe Manufacturer), upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Bristow Hunt, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement in writing, and on reference being had to the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say:―
The channelled or honeycombed iron, which forms the subject of the
present Invention, is iron rolled or swaged with alternate projections

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and hollows arranged according to any design or figure with a longi-
tudinal border of the same height as the interior projections, or of a
different height. This border may be formed on one side of the iron
only, or it may be repeated either similar or different on both sides. It
may be isolated from the interior projections by a straight or waved
groove, or it may be of one piece with the said projections. The hollows
or depressions may be trough-shaped (that is, narrower towards the
bottom), which produces the reverse in the projections, which are then
narrower at the top than below; or further, in the same design some
parts may be trough-shaped and other parts square.
The annexed Drawings illustrate some examples of these different
arrangements, and present figures which may be varied indefinitely as
to the designs and as to the depth of the hollows and projections as well
as to the width and thickness both of the bars themselves and of the
channels.
This channelled or honeycombed iron is intended especially for the
manufacture of a particular kind of horse-shoes, in which the channelled
or honeycombed surface or face is that which rests on the ground, and
which renders the shoes particularly adapted for preventing horses from
slipping on ice, or frost, or frozen surfaces; and also at other times the
hollow parts form so to speak cells or chambers, which as the horse
travels fills more and more with the earth or soil, which becoming fixed
in the hollows soon produces under the shoe a cushion or surface, which
by its adhesion prevents slipping on the pavement, whether dry or wet,
or frozen, or otherwise slippery, at the same time that this cushion
deadens the shock of the shoe on the ground, and thus diminishes the
fatigue of the horse.
The shoes also (owing to the hollows formed therein) will be much
lighter than shoes of the same thickness made from solid iron, which
evidently will considerably relieve the horse.
The iron is made in bars or pieces, whether straight or curved, either
by means of grooved cylinders or rolls cut out or moulded to the figure
or design to be produced, or by swaging or stamping by means of
matrices hollowed out or moulded according to the arrangement to be
produced.
The bars or pieces may also be made either of iron or steel, or both
iron and steel, or in any other metal, either alone or in combination, or

page_text: of any other non-metallic matter, and the channels may be made in the
horse-shoo at the time of manufacture or afterwards, as may be
preferred.
It is moreover evident that the designs shown on the Drawing are
merely given for the sake of example or illustration, and it is not only
these designs and the horse-shoes that are produced from them that are
claimed but the system of manufacture itself, whatever may be the
form, dimensions, designs, arrangements of the channels or projections
and hollows.
Having now described and ascertained the nature and objects of
the said Invention, together with the manner in which the same is
to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would
remark in conclusion that I claim as the Invention communicated to mo
by the said Pierre Michel Sibut, ainé,—
First. The manufacture of channelled or honeycombed wrought iron
or other bars of any figure or dimensions, and by whatever manual or
mechanical means they may be produced.
Secondly. The application of such bars (whether of wrought iron or
other material) to the manufacture of channelled or honeycombed horse-
shoes, whether the pieces employed for such manufacture are channelled
before hand, or whether the channels are formed in the horse-shoe itself
during or after its manufacture, and whether they are produced by
manual or by mechanical means.
Thirdly. The application of these channelled iron bars to other uses
than the manufacture of horse-shoes, such for example as the manu-
facture and ornamentation of locks and other ironmongery.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bristow Hunt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.