CERTAIN: B KENDUS THne, ron OTHER ANIM
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT: to Sewall Short, of New London, in the County of New.
London, United States of America, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IM-:
BRÁTORK Bonga SRANA
DRAKENDUS TH Honge Shone,
Smens ron OTHER ANIMADO.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sewall Short at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th July
1856.
I, SEWALL SHORT, of New London, in the County of New London, U. S.
America, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE SHOES, AND SHOES FOR OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
This improvement in metal shoes for horses and other animals consists in
affixing to a shoe, formed like a common shoe, a rim of metal, which shall
surround the lower part of the hoof and come up over the same, so as to secure
the shoe to the hoof in a firm, manner, without nailing, while it permits the
natural expansion and working of the hoof in action.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Sewall Short in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, SEWALL
SHORT, of New London, in the County of New London, United States of
America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Sewall
Short, Her special licence that I, the said Sewall Short, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sewall Short, my executors,
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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES, AND SHOES FOR OTHER
ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Sewall Short,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Sewall Short, 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
thereof (that is to say):-
My improvement consists in the mode of attaching the shoe to the hoof
without nails, and in a manner to be easily taken off, shifted, or replaced, as
may be found desirable; it consists in the following constructions and modi-
fications I form a shoe of the usual figure of horse shoes, to which is added
a rim, that extends up over the hoof sufficiently to hold it on; this rim a of the
shoe is so affixed to the lower part. U as to have the rear part on one or both
sides to spring off enough to put the shoe on when it is brought up to its place
and fastened; a piece of india-rubber or other material can be fitted to the sole
for the hoof to rest on, and aid in the adjustment of the shoe to the hoof. The
modification of construction which I prefer is as follows:-The U part of the
shoe is made with a groove around its outer edge to the depth of an eighth of

page_text: an inch, more or less, into which an inward projection or flanch upon the rim a
fits; on the two ends of the U part of the horse shoe are two projections
upward, which receive, in holes made therein, two bosses projecting from the
rim inward, these when the rim is sprung together enter said holes, and are
fastened by a set screw or other convenient means. Another modification is
seen in Fig. 1, where the rim is joined to and forms a part of the shoe in one
piece with the lower U part, except a section of one side, which is jointed at i
to the stationary part, and closes upon the hoof when in place, where it may be
held, as above described, or by a bolt o running through it and the opposite
side of the rim behind the heel. Another modification is to have the front
part of the rim a permanently affixed to the part U and the rear part loose,
so as to spring open and receive the hoof and then close in upon it; this may
be fastened as above described; and, lastly, a spring may be introduced instead
of the bolt o to give elasticity to the parts if required. Another modification
is to form the shoe in two parts, making the joint in the center, in front, or at
some other convenient point, running through the rim and U part, which latter
overlaps, as shown in Figs. 2, 2+, and is fastened by a screw or rivet m. The
hoof with this shoe can be often cut and fitted to the shoe without difficulty.
Having thus fully described my improvements in horse shoes, I wish it to be
understood that I do not claim fastening on the shoe without the use of nails;
but what I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, the combination
of the parts a and U, forming the shoe, substantially as herein-described, so that
the shoe can be taken off or put on readily and the hoof fitted thereto and
kept in order, as described.
The mode which I propose to renew the lower surface of the U piece of the
shoe is to have a plate the size and form thereof, which shall be bolted or
rivited on to the under side of the U piece, and form the tread, sole, or wear
piece, which can be readily renewed at pleasure, and can have the steel points
used in slippery weather affixed to it. I claim this sole or wear piece affixed
to the upper U piece, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sewell Short, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth of September, One thousand eight hundred and
SEWALL SHORT. (L.S.)