Improvements in Roughing Attachments for Horse Shoes to Prevent Horses from Slipping in Frosty Weather or on Asphalting or Slippery Pavement.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roughing Attachments for Horse Shoes to Prevent
Horses from Slipping in Frosty Weather or on Asphalting or
Slippery Pavement.
I NICHOLAS BIRD of William Street Workington in the County of Cumberland
Blacksmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:—
My invention relates to an easy system of roughing Horse shoes without the shoes
being prepared or removed from the horses feet.
I will now proceed to describe the different shoes the roughing attachments can be
adopted to viz.-Hunting shoes, racehorse shoes, Cart horse shoes, Posting horse
shoes and shoes for foundered horses all of which are manufactured in various forms
to suit the requirements customs and modes of shoeing borses in the different parts
of the Country. The attachments are, to be made in standard sizes according to the
different shapes and sizes of the shoes and are described as follows:-
Hunting shoe attachments for conveying hunters over slippery pavements or frost
and ice on their way to the meet and Racehorses to rail or elsewhere such horses
being shoed flat short and close to the feet also where the shoes are narrow in the
Web are to be made as follows:-
A plate of suitable material having a clip on the outside upper face of the shoe
on each side of the toe and which will slide in between the shoe and the foot of the
horse. The plate will be provided with a hinge or joint on each side or arm of the
shoe to work from each side so as to overlap one another over the frog of the Horses
Foot to be secured here with pins. The attachment has also two other clips to be
lipped in between the shoe and the foot on the upper face near the heel ends.
Borse shoes having toepieces on which cover the whole of the front part of the
Shoe facing the frog point will each have two attachments each alike and to be
secured in two places on each side of the shoe. The heel ends will overlap the frog
something similar to the flat shoe for hunters and racehorses. The attachments will
also overlap at the toe in the same manner as they overlap the frog but as there will
be a space here between the attachment and the foot there will be provided an India-
rubber packing or other material to answer the purpose of a pad in between the shoe
and foot so that the attachment will not bend up towards the foot when the weight
of the borse is upon it.
Dated this Eighteenth day of October 1888.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roughing Attachments for Horse Shoes to Prevent
Horses from Slipping in Frosty Weather or on Asphalting or
Slippery Pavement.
I NICHOLAS BIRD of Workington in the County of Cumberland Blacksmith 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:
My invention relates to an easy system of roughing horse shoes without the shoes
being prepared or removed from the horses feet. The attachments are to be made
in Standard Sizes according to the different shapes and sizes of the shoes and are
fully illustrated in the drawings lodged herewith and are described in my pro-
visional specification reference to which is requested and are further described as
follows.

page_text: face of the shoe.
This shoe has three attachments for the Toe.
Different views are given A A A A A-Two of them are almost similar except
that one is a little wider on the gib which hooks over the shoe on the upper face.
B is the sharp which fits closely to letter A between two dovetails and when in proper
position a piece of packing is provided of suitable material to go in above the
attachments in order not to allow the attachments to bend towards the foot.
The attachment next to the shoe and resting on the packing has screw holes,
the other two attachments A and B are provided with oblong or round holes as
required and set screwed to bind the three attachments together.
B can be dispensed with by making a solid sharp on the lower attachment A—The
heels are provided with cross bars whick hook over the upper face on to the outside
of the shoe as shown C. One overlaps the other and is formed with a shoulder on, the
upper face of the attachment to act as a bracket to prevent the attachment coming
asunder from the socket and will give further strength to the set screws and keep
them firm The sharps Dare placed into the heel attachments from the face as described
in figure 1. The sharps placed in this way will not drop out as the broad end of the
sharp is resting on the lower face of the shoe, but can be placed from the lower face
of the attachment with a shoulder to rest on each side of the holes in order to give
greater steadiness when the horse is travelling.
FIGURE 3.
This shows a shoe with a prominent toe piece and is broad in the web to suit a
horse with thin soles. When this class of horse is shoed the shoe only sits on the
outside crust and does not bear on the sole which leaves space between the shoe and
the foot to allow the attachment to be fixed with flanges to go below the inside of the
shoe on the upper face without coming in contact with the foot.
The attachment Letter A is in one piece and slides in below the shoe from the
inside centre against the permanent toepiece and is bent over on each side the lower
face of the shoe-The two.dots on each end of the attachments are two holes for pins
to be fixed if necessary, the two lines one each end of A is a ridge going in hetween
the shoe and the foot from the outside when bended up to its place. The lugs are so

page_text: fitted to the foot that the attachment cannot draw back. This mode of fixing does
away with any previous preparation of the shoes. The heel attachment B fits on the
shoe with a flange and goes along the side of the frog with three lips two of which fit
the heel in two ways round the end and on the upper face of the heel while the third
is between the shoe and the foot towards the Bar point or in other words opposite the
the frog. The drawing gives different views of the fixing-Letter C is a clasp which
slides across the attachment from the outside of the shoe and closed into its place-A set
screw is used to secure B and C together-C hooks over the upper face similar to
Figure 2. The heel sharp D fits tight into the attachment from the lower face with
a shoulder on each side to give steadiness.
This shows two attachments for the toe in order to suit shoes far worn down in the
permanent toepiece and clasp on without the shoe being prepared.
A fixes on the shoe with four lugs or clips two of which are formed to go up the
outside of the foot and pinned if required-The other two lugs or clips go in between
the shoe and the foot on the inside facing the frog point..
B has five lugs or clips in order to allow one to go over the permanent toepiece
that is far worn and bent up the front of the foot. This gives firmness to the sharp;
particularly when a horse is given to stumbling or beating his toes into the ground.
B is similar to Letter B Figure 6 i.e. the front clip or lug extends from the centre
of the sharp up the front of the foot and forming the sharp in two parts.
The heel attachments are fixed on prepared shoes but can be set screwed down
by doing away with the clasp D. as shown in different positions is an attach-
ment made to admit the sharp from the inside of the shoe heel and screwed and
properly fixed into its position with the clasp D so as to keep the sharp in the
dovetails or sockets-The permanent pivot or pin shown on C can be screwed to
admit a nut For can be provided with a strong spiral spring E which will have
pressure on each side of the attachment.
This shows shoes without heels or toes and gives two attachments-A hooks over
the shoes on both sides and fits closely to the shoe and also to the foot on the
outside centre. One hole is provided to admit of a screw or pin.
B has a permanent pivot on the upper face of the attachment which is suitable

page_text: for shoes which are far worn and thinly made-i.e. when the horse is shoed very
light and not sufficient substance in the shoe to get threads for screwing-Further
if the shoe is very narrow in the web a smaller hole is better so as not to weaken the
shoe therefore in this case screwing is not required as the pivot can be adjusted with
side clips to go in between the shoe and the frog point next to the heel-The clip
gives steadiness and firmness to the attachment and prevents it from turning round
out of position or when the horse is travelling on wood pavement which would have a
tendency to draw the sharp out.
Cattachment can be continued in the same way as Figure 8 letter A and turned
up on the outside of the shoe and hooked over the upper face in the same manner as
Figure 2.
This attachment can be left straight to bend to the form already stated or can be left
out of square something similar to letter B Figure 7 so that when the pivot is fixed right
down to its proper bearing the clips which are left out of square are closed in with a
hammer against the shoe and over the upper faco as shown in Figure 2 Letter C.
This shows a shoe with a permanent toepiece.
Letter A is an attachment with one clip which lips up the inside of the shoe and
fixed by set screws or permanent pins on the top side of the attachment, as shown in
Figure 6.
This sharp can be made much lighter than many of the other attachments to suit
horses which are light on the toe and give heavy wear on the heels. In order not to
add weight to the horses feet the clips are done away with and less complications are
about the shoe, as in many cases horses are very awkward in turning and subject to
treading their shoes off When the clips are dispensed with it gives the horse a
better chance in not striking his feet. into the clips-for instance when a horse is
heavily loaded and only little room to turn more the attachments are underneath the
lower face of the shoe the better as the horse will have more liberty in not locking
one foot with the other. Letter B shows the heel attachment with crossbar for a
horse given to extreme screwing and sliding and formed to have a pressure on the
frog as the Cross Bar will give it strength and firmness-When the inner bracket
is down between the shoe and the frog the outer gib requires to be closed in and it
hooks over the upper face-A set screw can be used to screw into the shoe when
the shoe is prepared. Letter C further shows the sharp can be made to any angle.
FIGURE &
Shows two attachments for horses given to travelling mostly from the quarter.
The cause of this arises generally when the horses soles are down or founders and he
beats hardest on his heels, therefore this attachment is applied as if a higher attach-
ment is used he has a solid beating into his legs which would cause lameness at once.
A is purposely provided with teeth or small sharps with a morė prominent sharp on
toe and heel. Any of the teeth or sharps can be made any size to throw the foot to
any required position. This attachment A has two lips on the upper face one to catch
heel end and the other to go between the shoe and the foot beginning from the
Bar point and continuing to the toe or front of the attachment. The two lugs shown
on the drawing are to cross the shoe and bend upwards outside of the foot.
In case of a Bell formed foot it will be self fixing at the front, but at the heel it
hooks on the upper face of the shoe as shown on Figure 2. B is divided in three parts
so that the whole attachment need not be in wear at one time. Letter C is a clasp
with a sharp on and hooks over the outside of the shoe on the upper face and can be
continued as required the same as Figure 9 letter A.
C sits level on the shoe and covers the piece formed like a joint inside of the shoe
on Letter B. B is screwed in order to receive a set screw through the clasp C. These
attachments have a great advantage in not covering the whole of the shoe in order to

page_text: thicker on the inside than outside whereas in other parts the reverse obtains the
shoe being formed thin on the inside of the web and thick on the outside where the
shoe nail holes are.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is.
An improved system of roughing horses for frosty weather or slippery ground or
pavement by the use of roughing attachments formed of metal or other suitable
material in some of the various forms specified in the said drawings to be affixed to
the horses shoes without removal of the shoes from the feet.
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Dated this 15th dow of Tul„ 1900
NICHOLAS BIRD.