Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I GEORGE CRONK of 195 High Street Rochester Grocer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to improvements in horse shoes, and has for its object to
provide the same with an underside plate furnished with bent down edges to enable
the animal to obtain a firm grip or foothold upon frozen or other slippery ground.
In carrying my invention into practice, I insert in the space generally left
between the underside of the horse's hoof, and the upper surface of the shoe, a
plate of suitable metal and of sufficient size to just cover the opening of the
shoe. This plate carries two screw pins rivetted to its under surface against
which bear two nuts screwed over these pins, and passing successively through
corresponding openings formed first in an india rubber plate destined to fill up
the underpart of the shoe opening, and to be flush with the edges thereof, and then
in a bottom plate of iron or other suitable metal some portions of the edges of
which are bent down at right angles.
For ordinary ground the last named metal plate may be removed the horse's
hoofs being then allowed to bear upon the india rubber plate aforesaid.
The uppermost or first named metal plate may also be directly fixed to the shoe
in any suitable or expedient manner.
Dated this 6th day of January 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, GEORGE CRONK of 195 High Street Rochester Grocer, 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 improvements in horse shoes and has for its object to
provide the same with an underside plate furnished with bent down edges, or other
suitable device as hereinafter described, to enable the animal to obtain a firm
grip or foothold upon frozen or other slippery ground.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 is a plan of one form of my improved appliance, and shewing the surface
which comes in contact with the ground.
Fig. 2 is a section through Fig. 1 on the line x, x.
Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 indicate a variation of my invention and are explained in detail
hereinafter.
In carrying my said invention into practice, I insert in the space generally left
between the underside of the horse's hoof, and the upper surface of the shoe, a plate
of suitable metal and of sufficient size to more than cover the opening of the shoe
and thus bear upon the same.
This plate a carries two screw pins b b rivetted to its under surface, and passing
successively through corresponding openings formed in an india rubber plate or
pad C (Fig. 2) destined to fill up the underpart of the shoe opening, and to be flush
with the edges thereof and then through a bottom plate d (Fig. 1 and 2) of iron,

page_text: or other suitable metal some portions of the edges of which are bent down at right
angles or thereabouts to grip or bite the ground. This bottom plate d is secured
to the plate A by screw nuts on the pins b b.
The uppermost or first named plate a, may also be directly fixed to the shoe
if desired, but I find it acts very well when slid in between the hoof and the shoe.
An important variation of my said invention consists in dispensing with the
aforesaid plate a, and substituting therefore two small plates a¹ a', in Fig. 4,
which are destined to be placed on either side of the "frog" of the hoof, and a
portion of each being inserted between the hoof and the shoe, the remaining
portion of each plate a¹ has its ends cut and turned down bearing on a plate e,
which covers the whole shoe on its underside, and to which the said small
plates a' a¹ are attached by means of screw pins 61 rivetted to the plates a' a'
and passing through holes in the plate e, being secured by lock or other nuts on
the underside thereof.
To the upper surface of the plate e, is cemented a thin layer of india rubber or
other suitable substance indicated in Figs. 5 and 6 by a heavy line, the object of
such layer of soft material being to afford a good bearing for the shoe (which as
before stated bears directly on to the upper surface of plate e) and also to serve as
a cushion in case the "frog" of the hoof should impinge on the plate e, either
through the wearing away of the shoe or from other causes
The under surface of the plate e is treated in two ways-it may have bossed up
portions ff, the same being bored with counter sunk holes to contain steel pegs g, g,
which said pegs are placed in position when the plate e is off, and when the plate
is attached to the hoof they cannot drop out by reason of their enlarged heads.
The said projecting portions f, of the plate e, are arranged in such positions
as to cause the heads of the pegs g, g, to bear directly against the under surface of
the shoe in every case. It will be seen that in the event of the pegs g, g, being
broken off or worn down, they can be most easily replaced by fresh ones.
These
pegs g, g, form an excellent gripping medium in very frosty weather upon slippery
ground.
The second way in which the under surface of the plate e may be treated, is to
cement over the whole of the same a thick pad of india rubber or other similar
suitable material C¹ (Fig. 6) having small sinkings made, on either side thereof, to
give access to the nuts on the screw pins b. This latter treatment of rubber
pad may be employed in conjunction with the bossed up portions of the plate e, or
it may be mounted on a plain plate and the bossed up projections omitted, as indicated
in Fig. 6.
My said invention is capable of various unimportant variations, that do not in
any way affect the general principle of the same, for instance, I may make the
plate e, with turned down portions of the edge thereof, as described for plate d, in
Figs. 1 and 2 or I may make the rubber pad C' with a corrugated or serrated
surface or edge, or it may be in two or more portions, instead of one pad over the
whole shoe, it may also be cemented or attached in any other suitable manner to the
plate immediately above it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be described, I declare that what I
claim is
(1) The improved horse shoe removable device for attachment to the existing
shoes of horses and other similar draft animals consisting of plates with projecting
portions formed thereon, and with rubber pads cemented thereto, in conjunction with
the means for securing the same to the horse shoe and hoof all substantially as
described in the aforegoing Specification and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
(2) In an improved horse shoe for affixing to the existing shoes of horses, a
metal plate provided with projecting pegs, the plate being secured by nuts and bolts

page_text: to separate smaller plates arranged to fit in between the hoof and shoe of the horse
all as substantially described in the aforegoing Specification and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1891
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.