Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, HERMANN SIEBERT, of 167, Schönhauser Allee, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 :-
All horses tread with their fore feet more or less obliquely or inclined, so that
the centre of the pressure of the tread does not coincide with the centre of the hoof
but is directed more to the outside. On this account horse shoes are worn away
more at this place and become bevelled off, and the draught animal thus assumes a
bad position for pulling and easily slips down.
The present invention consists in avoiding the above drawback by widening the
tread at one side at the point where it is most exposed to wear. This improved
horse shoe is shown as an example in the accompanying drawings, in which:-
Figure 1 is a plan view and
Figure 2 a transverse section of one form of construction;
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section ;
Figure 4 a bottom plan and
Figure 5 a transverse section of another form of construction.
The horse shoes are arranged for the right and left feet. The body a of the
shoe has the usual channel form to receive a cord of tow or the like, the inner
wall 6 (Figure 4) being however made suitably thinner and countersunk at the
nail holes. On the one side at the part most exposed to wear, the horse shoe is
surrounded by a second channel or groove c running along one side, as shown in
Figures 3, 4 and 5 to widen the tread.
In order to strengthen the bottom or body of the horse shoe, projections d are
arranged passing transversely through the cord groove, which projections may be
arranged either in the main groove alone or in both grooves. The intermediate
wall or partition & may also be provided with recesses in front of the nail holes in
order to allow of the nails being more conveniently driven in.
The partition b may also be entirely omitted, whilst the nail holes remain in the
same position (Figures 1 and 2). The wide space thereby resulting will be filled
up with a broad cord or with two ordinary ones.
The wall of the extended or widened groove is so bevelled to the outside that its
upper edge indicates the position for the edge of the animal's hoof, and thereby
enables the shoe to be suitably fitted and nailed on correctly.
In order to reduce the weight, the inner wall may also follow approximately or
exactly the outwardly extended outer wall, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.
An extension (or rather a displacement) of the tread surface further towards the
outside on which the wear mostly takes place, which is the object of this invention,
is thus equally attained with this modification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A horse shoe having a groove or extension on its outer edge to widen the tread
at the part most liable to wear, the outer wall being so bevelled or inclined as to.

page_text: indicate on the upper surface the position of the animal's hoof, substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this 15th day of October 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents.