Improvements relating to Shoes for Horses or other Draught Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Shoes for Horses or other Draught
Animals.
We WILLIAM ROUSE of 310 Manchester Road Sudden Coal Merchant and
HENRY SWAIN 37 Sheriff Street Coal Agent both of Rochdale and County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to shoes for horses or other draught animals.
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The object of our invention is to provide a ready, economical, and effective
means or method for attachment of devices such as
spruns" and " calkings" to
such shoes, such devices being adapted or formed for use for summer and winter
seasons respectively, our invention is particularly important in the latter case, that
is, when used on slippery roads as in frosty weather and which are capable of easy
removal for the purposes of renewals or for substituting for "spruns" or "calkings
of ordinary forms sharpened or pointed forms. According to our invention we
forge or cast on the toe of the shoe which shoe may be of cast or hammered iron
two projecting parts opposite to each other and between which we insert or slide
therein a piece which piece forms the "sprun" which may be of any suitable
section or form and which we secure in position by means of a set screw to obviate
the same working loose or being separated from the slide, but when such is to be
used on slippery roads as in the event of frosty weather we form such V shape or
so as to have a cutting edge adapted to penetrate or cut into ice.
We make like provisions at each extremity of the parts forming the heel of the
shoe as before indicated with regard to the toc.
By the arrangement herein before indicated, that is, the employment of the
adjustable or renewable pieces at the heel and at the toe of the shoe the same may
be and are capable of being easily and quickly adjusted in position, renewed when
worn down, or sharpened or edged pieces substituted for pieces of other sections at
the will of the attendant, and such pieces may be securely attached without
removal of the shoe from the foot.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1895.
WILLIAM ROUSE.
HENRY SWAIN.
J. H. Butterworth, Rochdale,
For the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Shoes for Horses or other Draught
Animals.
We WILLIAM ROUSE of 310 Manchester Road Sudden Coal Merchant and
HENRY SWAIN 37 Sheriff Street Coal Agent both of Rochdale and County of
Lancaster 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 :-
Our invention relates to shoes for horses or other draught animals.

page_text: The object of our invention is to provide a ready, economical and effective means
for the attachment of devices such as spruns" and calkings to such shoes.
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The said devices are adapted or formed for use for summer and winter seasons
respectively.
Our invention is particularly important for the latter use, i.e. when the animal is
travelling on slippery roads as in frosty weather the said spruns and calkings are
capable of easy removal for the purposes of renewals or for substitution of new
spams or calkings.
According to our construction we forge or cast on the toe of the shoe which may
be made of cast or hammered iron two projecting parts opposite to each other
which form a slide or recess in which we insert a piece or spum of any suitable form
or section which may be secured in position by means of a set screw or nut and
screw or may be split at one extremity and turned so as to prevent the said piece
from working loose within the slide.
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The form or face of the "sprun and the calking" are made in the ordinary
and well known form but when such are to be used on slippery roads the same are
formed V shape or have a sharp-edge so as to penetrate or cut the ice.
By the arrangement hereinbefore indicated that is the employment of the
adjustable or removeable pieces at the heel and toe of the shoe the same may be
and are capable of being easily and quickly adjusted in position or removed when
worn down or the flat faced or ordinary shaped pieces may be readily substituted
by sharpened or edged pieces at the will of the attendant and such pieces are thus
fixed in position obviating the necessity of removing the shoe from the foot of the
animal.
In order that our invention may be understood we have hereunto annexed a sheet
of drawings the letters of reference therein indicate like parts throughout the
whole of the figures shewn.
Fig. 1. is an elevation shewing our improved shoe with the slide pieces fitted in
position.
Figs. 2, 4, 7. are figs. shewing plans of the various forms or sections of the
spruns and calking pieces.
Figs. 3, 5, 6, and 8 are end elevations of Figs. 2, 4, 7 and 9.
Fig. 10. represents the shoe, without the pieces.
Fig. 11. is a view shewing the method of fastening the sprun or other pieces by
means of the split end.
A, A¹A"
are the slides or recessed parts wherein we fit the spum and the calking
pieces respectively. The sprun pieces b and c. and calking pieces d. and e are formed
Hat being the ordinary form as shewn in Figs. 3 and 5, or are V shape as shewn
in Figs. 6 and 8.
When it is desired to fit or screw the pieces within the slide or recessed parts the
ends baud d' are slit after the manner of a split pin as shewn, in Figs. 2 and 4,
and fitted as shewn in Fig. 11, or may be provided with a
screw threaded
shank c, e as shewn in Figs. 6, 7, and 9, and secured in position as shewn
in Fig. 1.
We shew the two methods of fastening the pieces in position as the one shewn
in Fig. 11. is an economical mode of fastening the said pieces which is effected by
turning the ends g. g₁ of the split pin outwards as shewn in Fig. 11.
When the nut and screw arrangement is employed the nut h. being suitably
operated or turned abuts against the slide pieces and draws the angular shaped
pieces more or less within the slides more or less accordingly as the nuts arc
operated.
When it is desired to remove the adjustable pieces the ends of the split pieces
are turned back or the nuts suitably operated or unscrewed from the shank and
thus the said pieces may easily be removed or adjusted at will.
The nut and screw arrangement, or the split pin arrangement may be used with
any of the forms or sectious of spruns or other pieces shewu in the drawings as may
be desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and what manner the same is to he performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The angular sliding pieces of the sections as shewn or any other convenient
section secured within recessed parts or slides attached to the shoe by means of a
split extremity or by means of a nut and screw threaded shank substantially as and
for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The angular shaped slide or adjustable pieces secured in position substantially
as and for the purposes herein fully set forth.
Dated this 16th day of November 1895.
J. H. BUTTERWORTH,
Rochdale, for the Applicants.