Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
I, JOHN HIPWOOD FITTER, of 8, 9, and 15, Grand Avenue, Leadenhall Market,
London, EC., Meat Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of horse-shoes, and its object is to
effect improvements in that class in which rubber pads are fitted to prevent the
slipping of horses.
According to my invention I form the horse shoe with a dovetail groove in its
tread or face, the groove extending round the shoe approximately parallel with
the outer edge of the shoe. The nail holes are cut punched or otherwise formed
through the bed of the groove or through the outer rim.
By means of the dovetail groove I firmly attach to the shoe a rubber pad
or band.
The external portion of this pad may be semicircular, square, or of any other
suitable section. Integral with this pad I form a bifurcated rib suitably arranged
to enter the dovetail groove. When so inserted I expand the bifurcated sides of
the rib against the sides of the dovetail groove by means of a strip or strips of
flexible material such as cane metal wire or strip or the like. This is driven or
inserted into the groove endwise and secured therein by means of cement, glue,
or other adhesive material.
The shoe is as readily attached as ordinary shoes, and the pad or band ensures
a firm foothold for the horse.
GEORGE DOWNING & SONS,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
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I, JOHN HIPWOOD FITTER, of 8, 9, and 15. Grand Avenue, Leadenhall Market,
London, E.C., Meat Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:
1
My invention relates to the construction of horse-shoes, and its object is to
effect improvements in that class in which rubber pads are fitted to prevent the
slipping of horses.
According to my invention I form the horse-shoe with a dovetail groove in its
tread or face, the groove extending round the shoe approximately parallel with

page_text: the outer edge of the shoe. The nail-holes are cut, punched, or otherwise formed
through the bed of the groove or through the outer rim.
By means of the dovetail groove I firmly attach to the shoe a rubber pad or
band. The external portion of this pad may be semicircular, square, or of any
other suitable section. Integral with this pad I form a bifurcated rib suitably
arranged to enter the dovetail groove. When so inserted I expand the bifurcated
sides of the rib against the sides of the dovetail groove by means of a strip or
strips of flexible material such as cain, metallic wire, metallic strip, or the like
This is driven or inserted into the groove endwise, and further secured therein
(if necessary) by means of cement, glue, or other adhesive material.
The shoe is as readily attached as ordinary shoes and the pad or band ensures
a firm foothold for the horse.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 shows the underside of the shoe, one half of the pad being removed to
show the groove.
Fig. 2 is a section on the line of Fig. 1.
a is the horse shoe. 6 is the dovetail groove formed in the tread or face of the
shoe. c is the rubber pad or band, the external portion of which may be semi-
circular (as shown) or square or of any other suitable section. is the bifur-
cated rib integral with the band c, and d is a strip of material such as cain, wire,
or other suitable flexible material, which is inserted and driven into the groove
endwise between the sides of the bifurcated rib, whereby the rib is expanded
in the dovetail groove, and the pad c is secured to the shoe. The strip d may
(if necessary) be further secured by means of cement, glue, or other adhesive
material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
b
In horse shoes fitted with rubber pads, the combination of a dovetail groove
and a pad c having a bifurcated rib c¹, such rib being expanded in the dovetail
groove by means of a strip d of flexible material inserted and driven endwise,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
1000
Paters
August 1995.
JOHN HIPWOOD FITTER.
By George Downing & Sons,
Chartered Patent Agents, S, Quality Court, London, W.C.