An Improved Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other Animals, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other Animals,
and Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS DICKSON RICHARDSON and JOHN FRAZER RICHARDSON, of
2 Wharf Road, Cubitt Town in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to shoes for horses and other animals and to apparatus
for the manufacture of the same, and comprises the improvements hereinafter set
forth.
The important feature of the present invention relates to the peculiar section or
shape of the shoe blanks of iron or other metal or material and the manner herein-
after described of producing the same.
Our improved shoes may be made with a recess in which a fillet of steel, iron, or
other suitable material can be inserted for the protection of tender feet or flat as an
ordinary shoe or they may be formed with heclcalks and thickened at the toe, or
without heelcalks. The sides of our improved shoes are bevelled off on the lower
or wearing surface from the inner to the outer edge, that is to say the inner edge is
made thicker than the outer edge.
We produce the shoes by rolling a straight bar of metal between rolls of the
proper shape and then cutting the bar into lengths and subsequently bending the
same to the proper shape in any suitable manner and finally pressing them between
dies. These shoes are made suitable for right or left foot with any desired number
of nail holes.
We sometimes produce a shoe of this peculiar section without nail holes, but we
prefer to form therein the nail holes and also the grooves for receiving the nail
heads. It is important that the nail holes be so formed that they will give a proper
direction to the nails when placed therein. For this purpose the inner face of the
aforesaid grooves should be slightly undercut. To secure this formation we so
construct the first pair of die rolls that they will form a ridge at the inner edge of
the grooves, and the second roll so that it will roll down this ridge flat and
so cause the inner edge of the grooves to overhang and produce an undercut
crease.
We form slight depressions in the upper surface of the shoe at that part which
comes in contact with the animals heel for the purpose of removing the pressure
from this part of the foot and so making the shoe more easy and pleasant to wear.
This is most important to horses having corns or tender heels. The depressions
we prefer to form by the finishing dies which are suitably constructed for the
purpose.
In some cases we roll two shoes simultaneously from one bar, and subsequently
divide them when cold.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other Animals,
and Apparatus therefor.
We, THOMAS DICKSON RICHARDSON and JOHN FRAZER RICHARDSON,
2 Wharf Road, Cubitt Town in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of shoes for horses and other animals
and to apparatus therefor, and comprises the improvements hereinafter set forth.
The chief feature of our said invention relates to the peculiar section or shape of
the shoe blanks and therefore of the shoes and the manner hereinafter described of
producing the same.
Our improved shoe blanks are made either singly or in pairs as described in the
Specification of Letters Patent No. 4933 A.D. 1883 granted to the first named of
the present applicants and are then curved or bent in any suitable mauner to the
proper shape for forming the shoe. We sometimes form the nail holes and also if
required the grooves or fullers to receive the nail heads simultaneously with the
formation of the blank.
We may according to our invention make the shoe flat, or we may provide it with
heel calks and with a thickened part of the toe. In the latter case we make the shoe
of decreasing thickness from the toe towards the heel, and we bevel off the lower or
ground surface so as to be thinner on the outer than on the inner side. This
construction forms an important feature of our present invention. The angle of
such bevel is greatest near the toe and decreases from the toe towards the heel calks
at which place it almost vanishes. We also make the shoe of decreasing width
from the toe towards the heel. By the above construction we make a shoe which
ensures a maximum amount of wear for a minimum of weight.
A further important feature of our invention consists in making the inner side or
face of the grooves or fuller which receives the nail heads to overhang. This
feature in combination with the bevelling of the ground surface in the manner above
described enables the nails to be driven very accurately and avoids danger of
pricking the animal's foot.
A further feature of the present improved shoe is the formation of a recessed
part at the heel thereof on that surface which comes in contact with the foot. The
object of this construction is to relieve the pressure on the heel and so afford
greater ease especially for animals subject to corns.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a plan of a double shoe blank without heel calks previous to being
divided.
Figures 2, 3 and 4, are transverse sections taken on the lines, 2, 2; 3, 3 and 4, 4
respectively of Figure 1.
Figure 5 shows a transverse section taken near the heel of a blank which has
been rolled down somewhat thinner at the heel for a purpose hereinafter explained.
Figure 6 is a side view of a single blank which is rolled down at the ends.
Figures 7, 8 and 9 are sections taken on the lines 7,7; 8,8; and 9,9 respectively
of Figure 6!
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Figure 10 is a side elevation of a top roll for rolling the ground surface of the
blank. Such roll is similar to that shown in the prior Patent Specification herein-
above referred to and so constructed for the purpose therein stated.
Figure 11 shows an underside view of a shoe made from a blank such as
illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 12 is a side view of another blank.

page_text: Figures 13 to 17 are sections of the same taken on the lines 13, 13; 14, 14;
15, 15; 16, 16; 17, 17; respectively of Figure 12.
Figure 18 is a side view of a top roll for producing a blank with a bevel on the
ground surface.
Figure 19 is a plan of a double blank before same is divided.
Figures 20 to 24 are sections of the same on the lines 21, 20; 21, 21; 22, 22;
23, 23; 24, 24 respectively.
Figure 25 is an underside view of a shoe made from the blank shown in
Figure 12.
Figure 26 is a section of a die for forming the recess in the heel of a shoe
hereinafter described.
Figure 27 is a slightly modified form of such die.
Figures 28 and 29 are top and bottom dies respectively for forming the heel
recess in a shoe as hereinafter described.
Figure 30 is a plan of a non-slipping shoe hereinafter described.
Figures 31 and 32 are sections of the same on the lines 31, 31, and 32, 32
respectively.
Figure 33 is a plan of a shoe adapted to receive a sole plate for protecting tender
feet.
Figures 34 and 35 are sections of the same on the lines 34, 34 and 35, 35
respectively.
Figure 36 is a plan of another shoe adapted to prevent slipping.
Figures 37 and 38 are sections of the same on the lines 37, 37; 38, 38
respectively.
Figure 39 is a side view of a portion of the inner edge of the shoe shown in
Figure 36.
The blank shown in Figures 1 to 5 is rolled between double rolls. It is sub-
sequently divided in the centre, and the webs a are then sheared off leaving finished
blanks which are ready to be bent to the proper shoe form. The blanks shown in
Figures 19 to 24 are divided and sheared in the same manner. The blanks shown
in Figures 6 and 12 being single are ready to be bent to the required shoe form as
soon as they leave the rolls.
It will be observed that the blanks Figures 1 and 19 are wider at the toe than at
the heel being tapered gradually from the toe to the heel thus reducing the amount
of metal at that part which is subject to the least wear. Each blank is passed
through two sets of rolls and in case of fullered shoes, such as those shown, a raised
ridge is formed on the inside edge of the fuller c by the first pair of rolls, which
ridge is flattened down by the second pair of rolls thereby forming a slightly
overhanging or inclined wall on the inner side of the fuller. The outer side of the
fuller is preferably curved, and the outer edge of the fuller may be as high as or
lower than the inner edge. The corners of the nail holes are rounded or bevelled
off so as to form a good bearing for the nail heads. The varying bevel of the
ground surface of the shoe from the toe to the heel is indicated by the sections
Figures 21 and 22, and also by Figures 14 and 15.
For forming the before mentioned recess in the heel, we take a shoe that has
been made from a blank such as Figure 6 with a taper heel part and place the same
foot surface downward on a die such as shown in Figure 26 or Figure 27 and press
the same between said die and an upper flat die. The parte of said die being
inclined upwards forms a recess in the shoe. The recesses fat the sides of the dies
are provided to allow of the shoes being readily placed in and removed from the
dies by a pair of tongs.
Figures 28 and 29 show a pair of dies for treating a shoe having a bevelled
ground surface such as that shown in Figure 12, which shoe is placed in the die
Figure 29 surface downward, and is pressed by the top die Figure 28 which has an
inclined part e to form the recessed or inclined part of the heel.
The shoe Figure 30 is formed with a recessed part 9 on each side from which
project a number of raised nipples h. These nipples are intended to be drilled and

page_text: spiked with hardened steel pins to prevent slipping upon asphalt or other slippery
pavements.
Figure 33 shows a shoe having a recessed part g extending entirely around the
the same which recess is intended to receive a plate to fill the shoe and prevent
stones or the like corning in contact with the animal's foot thus protecting the
animal's foot from injury.
Figure 36 is a shoe having crescent shaped recesses i rolled in the ground surface
between which recesses are wearing ridges j. This construction like that of
Figure 30 is also intended to prevent slipping, and is advantageous because of its
lightness combined with durability.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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1. Shoe blanks, or shoes constructed substantially as herein described with
reference to any of the forms or modifications illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, for the purposes specified.
2. The dies constructed as herein described for the purpose specified.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.