IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1874

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Brazenor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th
October 1874.
I, THOMAS BRAZENOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has reference principally to shoes for horses and other
animals of the kind called frost shoes, that is shoes which are fixed to or
combined with ordinary shoes in frosty or snowy weather for enabling
the horse or animal to take a firm or sure hold on the slippery surface of
the ground; and my said Invention consists of the construction and
combination of parts herein-after described for securely connecting the
said frost shoes to the ordinary shoes, and for readily attaching and
removing the said frost shocs.

page_text: Although my Invention is particularly applicable to frost shoes, yet it
may also be applied to ordinary shoes for horses and other animals. I
make the said frost shoe of the same configuration as ordinary shoes, but
I make the said frost shoe in halves and joint the said halves together
at the middle of the curve or bow of the shoc, the joint being so
constructed that the hinder ends of the shoc can be brought near to or
separated from one another at pleasure. The lower or treading face of
the shoc is provided with teeth or pointed spikes, and on one or both
edges of the shoe and projecting from the upper side are clip plates or
cars, which are made to clip the ordinary shoe and hoof for the purposo
of fixing the frost shoe thereto. The frost shoe is fixed to and removed
from the ordinary shoe by the following parts :-Near the rear end of the
shoe and crossing the inner or concave side thereof is a screw, one end of
which has a right-handed thread, and the other end a left-handed thread.
The ends of the said right and left-handed screw take into corresponding
screw boxes made in cross snugs or projections on the inner or concave
sides of the shoe, the said screw and its screw boxes bridging as it were
the open rear end of the shoe. The middle of the right and left-handed
screw is square or angular for turning it by means of a spanner, or the
said screw may be otherwise turned. By turning the said screw in one
direction the jointed parts or halves of the frost shoe are rapidly made
to approach one another, and by turning the said in the opposite
direction, the said parts of the shoe are rapidly separated from one
another. When the frost shoe has been expanded to the required size
to enable the clip plates or cars to pass on to or over the ordinary shoc,
the screw is turned in the direction proper to draw in or contract the
size of the said frost shoe. By this movement the said clip plates
or ears are made to press upon and clip the edges of the ordinary shoc
and hoof of the animal with great force, and thereby to fix the frost shoe
very firmly to the said ordinary shoe. By turning the screw in the
opposite direction to that described the frost shoe is expanded and may
be removed from the ordinary shoc.
By my improvements the fixing and removal of the frost shoe are
effected with great ease and rapidity, and when fixed it is very secure;
the application and removal of the said frost shoe being effected
without the aid of a shoeing smith.

page_text: which the right and left-handed screw works. For example, instead of
making the screw boxes in snugs or projections projecting from the
concave sides of the shoe, the said screw boxes may be made underneath
the rear parts of the jointed halves of the shoe, and the screw instead of
being turned at the middle may be turned at one or both ends, which
ends in this case project from the convex sides of the shoe.