Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1897-Accepted, 28th Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, ANDREW TAYLOR, Master Mariner, of 261 Dumbarton Road, in the City of Glasgow,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (which Invention has been in part
commuuicated to me by William Sommerville Taylor, of 261 Dumbarton Road, in
the City of Glasgow, Engineer, s.s. Alaska, and presently on the high seas, and is in
part my own Invention) to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide a horse shoe composed of a part
permanently attached to the horse's hoof and a part which may be readily detached
when worn without undoing and renewing the nails by means of which attachment to
the hoof is effected.
The improved shoe is composed of two bars of ordinary horse-shoe form of which
one is attached to the hoof by nails in the ordinary way and has formed in its under
side a number of dove-tailed grooves or recesses, whilst the other part has similar dove-
tailed grooves or recesses formed in its upper side. When the two parts are placed
together that is to say one on top of the other, the grooves are in pairs directly over
each other, and into each pair of grooves is driven a suitably shaped cottar pin to lock
together the parts of the shoe. The lower part of the shoe is grooved or corrugated
on the under side and has attached to it or secured in its grooves pads or blocks of
rubber or other material serving as a non-slipping treading surface; or the lower part
may be otherwise suitably faced or formed to prevent slipping. When the lower
part becomes worn it may be detached by driving out the locking pins, and be
replaced without interfering with the upper part which is permanently attached to
the hoof.
1000
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
int Vincent Street. Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements
Horse Snoes.
I, ANDREW TAYLOR, Master Mariner, of 261 Dumbarton Road, in the City of Glasgow,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which Invention has been in
communicated to me by William Sommerville Taylor, Engineer, s.s. Alaska,
presently on the high seas, and is in part my own Invention) and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This Invention has for its object to provide a horse shoe composed of a part

page_text: permanently attached to the horse's hoof and a part which may be readily detached
when worn without undoing and renewing the nails by means of which attachment to
the hoof is effected.
The Invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a side
elevation and Figure 2 a plan of the improved horse shoe. Figures 3 and 4, 5 and 6,
and 7 and 8 are views, corresponding respectively to Figures 1 and 2, of modifications of
the improved horse shoe.
The improved shoe is composed of two bars of ordinary horse-shoe form of which
one A is attached to the hoof by nails in the ordinary way and has formed in its under
side a number of dove-tailed grooves or recesses C as shown by the several
modificatins, whilst the other part may have similar dove-tailed grooves or recesses D
formed in its upper side as shown in the modification illustrated by Figures 1 and 2.
In this latter case when the two parts are placed together that is to say one on top of
the other, the grooves C, D, are in pairs directly over each other, and into each pair
of grooves is driven a suitably shaped cottar pin E to lock together the parts A, B, of
the shoe. The lower part of the shoe is or may be grooved or corrugated on the
under side as at F, Figures 3 and 4, and when grooved has attached to it or secured
in its grooves pads or blocks G of rubber or other material serving as a non-slipping
treading surface, the pads or blocks G being prevented from moving laterally in their
recesses by pins or screws H' the heads of which are flush with the upper surface of
the part B of the shoe; or instead of the blocks the lower part B may be otherwise
suitably faced or formed to prevent slipping. When the lower part B becomes worn
it may be detached by driving out the locking pins E, and be replaced without
interfering with upper part A which is permanently attached to the hoof.
Instead of forming grooves or recesses in each portion of the shoe these may be
made only on the under side of the upper part A, the lower part B having correspond-
ing locking pieces H formed or secured on its upper surface either transversely of the
shoe as shown at Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6, or longitudinally as shown at Figures 7
and 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved horse shoe composed of two parts one of which is permanently
attached to the hoof and the other removably secured thereto by cottar pins or the
like entering dovetailed grooves substantially as described.
Dated this 6th den of L... 100%
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.