Improvements in Horse-shoes, and Method of Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of A plication, 3rd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse-shoes, and Method of Manufacturing the same.
I CHARLES COBURN JEROME of 35 & 37 South Canal Street Chicago in
the County of Cook and State of Illinois, United States of America, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to an improvement in horse shoes.
Heretofore it has been proposed to provide a horse shoe with a solid wearing
plate harder than the body of the shoe, this wearing plate being, in some cases
made continuous and in other instances composed of more than one of such solid
plates. I have found in practice that in bending the shoe the softer material of
the body of the shoe is drawn away from the solid wearing plate (or plates) and
the latter becomes loosened, and very frequently the shoe breaks where the
corners of the steel plates are loosened from the softer material by the shoe being
bent.
The object of my invention is to overcome these objections to provide a horse
shoe, with a hardened wearing face so constructed and applied to the body of the
shoe that said shoe can be readily bent to conform to the hoof of the horse to
which it is to be applied, without loosening or in any manner interfering with
the condition of the hardened wearing face, or its relation to the body of the shoe.
A further object is to render the application of a hardened wearing surface
to a horse shoe effectual and practicable in all respects.
A further object is to provide a horse shoe with a hardened wearing face,
which shall be so constructed and arranged that it shall be adapted when in use, to
maintain the wearing face of the shoe at all times rough and thus prevent the horse
to which the shoe shall be applied, from slipping.
A further object is to provide a shoe of which the softer material consists of
aluminium.
With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of
construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as hereinafter set forth
and pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 is a view of a horse shoe embodying my improvements.
Figure 2 is a view showing another form of the invention.
A represents a horse shoe made of aluminium, having embedded or
pressed into
its bottom face finely divided material (preferably hardened steel) harder than the
material of which the body of the shoe is composed. This finely divided steel I
prefer to make in two forms, riz.: a number of spirls or coils a, and crushed steel
particles b. The spirls or coils a will be produced in any suitable manner and
preferably hardened afterwards. These hardened steel spirls, coils or bent or
twisted strips, and the finely divided crushed steel particles will be pressed into
the under face of the shoe, throughout the whole extent thereof, as shown in
Figure 1. It is not necessary that the spirls, coils or strips be made separate,
but they may be made of one continuous strip of steel and pressed into the
bottom face of the shoe, as shown in Figure 2,-this continuous series of spirls
or coils thus forming a binding for the edge of the shoe as well (together with

page_text: the particles of steel b), as a protection for the whole wearing face thereof. By
making the spirls in a continuous series, they can be applied to the shoe quicker
than can the separate spirls, and, this continuous series of spirls forming a binding
for the outer edge of the shoe, will prevent any of the aluminium from being
abraded by coming into contact with the ground, as would be the case should the
aluminium come into contact with abrasive material on gravel roads.
A horse shoe made in the manner above described is very effectual in all respects
in the performance of its functions; can be cheaply manufactured and easily
altered while cold to fit the hoof of any horse without disturbing, in any manner,
the hardened wearing face.
And again, by constructing the wearing face with finely divided material harder
than the material of which the body of the shoe is composed, the wearing face will
always remain rough, as the aluminium will wear away faster than the hardened
steel, leaving the latter sharp and rough, which prevents slipping on roads, even
asphalt or graphite pavements, the steel being harder than any substance with
which it will come into contact, it readily adheres and prevents slipping.
It has been found from experiment that aluminium cannot be alloyed with other
metal to render it suitable for horse shoes, as any metals with which it may be
alloyed render it brittle and useless for this purpose. In manufacturing the body
of my improved horse shoe I propose to bend the aluminium into the shape of a
horse shoe and then harden the horse shoe under a drop hammer or under any
pressure sufficient to compress and condense the metal.
The metal composing my improved wearing face as above described, will be
pressed into the under face of the shoe, preferably simultaneously with the pressing
of the body of the shoe, by simply inserting said hardened material into the die
before the aluminium is placed therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A horse shoe having a wearing face of finely divided material harder than the
material of which the body of the shoe is composed, embedded in said body,
substantially as set forth.
2. A horse shoe having its body made of aluminium and a wearing face composed
of finely divided steel embedded in said body, substantially as set forth.
3. A horse shoe having a wearing face of material harder than the material of
which the body of the shoe is composed, said wearing face being composed of spirls
or strips of hardened material pressed into the under face of said body of the shoe,
substantially as set forth.
4. A horse shoe having a wearing face of material harder than the material of
which the hody of the shoe is composed, said wearing face being composed of spirls
or strips of hardened material and finely divided particles of hardened material,
pressed into the under face of the body of the said shoe, substantially as set forth.
5. A horse shoe having a hardened wearing face composed of a series of steel
spirls or strips pressed into the body of the shoe and constituting a binding as well
as a wearing face therefor, substantially as set forth.
6. The herein described process of manufacturing horse shoes of aluminium
consisting in first giving the inetal the general form desired for a horse shoe and
then subjecting the material of which the shoe is made to a pressure sufficient to
consolidate and force the grains of metal together whereby it is made to stand the
punishment required, substantially as set forth.
7. The herein described process of manufacturing horse shoes of aluminium
consisting in first giving the metal the general form desired for a horse shoe and
then subjecting the material of which the shoe is made to a pressure sufficient to
consolidate and force the grains of metal together, and pressing hard wearing metal
into the under face of the horse shoe, substantially as set forth.
8. The herein described process of the manufacture of horse shoes of aluminium

page_text: consisting in first giving the metal the general form desired for a horse shoe and
then subjecting the material of which the shoe is made to a pressure sufficient to
consolidate and force the grains of metal together, and pressing divided steel into
the under face of the aluminium, substantially as set forth.
Dated 3rd day of April 1801
R.
HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agent for Applicant.