Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Shoes and in Machines therefor.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 28th July, 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Shoes and in Machines
therefor.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM KNIGHT, of Cuckfield, in the County of Sussex, Iron-
monger and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of horse shoes and to apparatus
therefor, and consists partly in so constructing the creaser that shoes can be
made in pairs, that is to say, right and left hand which has not been possible
with machines as hitherto constructed and the invention further consists in
forming shoes the inside of each of which shall be lighter than the outside.
In carrying out the invention I provide a roller or creaser having the grooving
and rolling parts of varying diameter so that the metal bars rolled will be thicker
at one side than at the other, the groove also being made correspondingly deeper
in the thicker part. Punches are preferably so arranged on the grooving rib
that three holes are formed on the inside and four on the outside of each shoe.
In practice I prefer to form the creaser so that a pair of shoes is rolled during
each revolution.
Dated the 28th day of October 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Horse Shoes and in Machines
therefor.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM KNIGHT, of Cuckfield, in the County of Sussex, Iron-
monger and Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of horse-shoes and to apparatus
therefor.
Hitherto in rolling horse-shoes by machinery it has been usual to make both
shoes of a pair alike, the results of which arrangement are that such shoes are
unnecessarily heavy at some points in order to obtain the requisite amount of
strength at other points, and also that the shoes are not so readily applied as shoes
which are especially made to fit the right and left feet.
According to my invention I provide for rolling horse shoes in pairs so that the
requisite thickness can be given to each shoe at the proper points, the grooves or
creases into which the nails are inserted, being correspondingly deeper in the
thicker parts, and the nail holes placed nearer to the edges of the insides of the
shoes than to the edges of the outsides, and also farther from the heel.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a roller die adapted to make shoes in pairs
according to my invention; and,
Figure 2 is a development of the surface of the die :
Figures 3 and 4 are an elevation and plan respectively of an off-side hind shoe
constructed according to my invention, but unbent; and,
Figure 5 is a view of the upper side of the shoe :

page_text: Figure 6 is a plan of the die in which the shoes are blocked; and,
Figures 7 and 8 are respectively sections on the lines aa and yy of Figure 6.
The roller a is what may be termed a duplex die, that is to say, it has upon its
surface two dies b, c, the former of which serves for the formation of near-side
shoes whilst the latter serves for the formation of off-side shoes. This duplex die
works in the ordinary manner in conjunction with a plain roller d between which
and the die the bar of metal to be rolled is passed.
The surface e of each die b, c is cut away or bevelled at one part as indicated
at, this bevel being of such length that, in addition to leaving the requisite
thickness of metal at the toes of the shoes, the outsides of the said shoes,. that is to
say, the portion of the outside of each shoe adjacent to the toe is thickened, as
indicated most clearly at y in Figure 3.
On the surface of each die are placed the "creasers" h, i for forming the nail
creases, each of which créasers is provided with a series of projections j, j forming
punches for the nail holes. These creasers and punches are preferably so placed
that the nail holes and creases on the inner side of a shoe are nearer the edge than
the nail holes and creases on the other side.
It will be noticed that in the drawing I have represented the shoe as provided
with three holes on the inside and four on the outside thereof.. It is to be
understood, however, that any other suitable number of holes may be used, and
that the dies may be varied in any desirable manner provided they produce shoes
with one side or heel differing from the other side or heel.
In the drawing each die is shewn as provided with recesses k, k for the formation
of the calks or heels, but it is obvious that when rolling front shoes such recesses
may not be required as it is not always the practice to make fore shoes with
calks or heels.
After a bar has been rolled, the shoes can be divided, at the indentations
produced by the teeth 1, between the recesses k, k.
After the shoes come from the rollers they are bent to the approximate shape
and then advantageously blocked' in a die such, for instance, as that indicated in
Figures 6, 7 and 8, in order to give them the required forniation.
With the dies shewn in the drawing the 'arrangement is such that the inside
heels or the outside heels of a pair of shoes are together, but it is to be understood
that the arrangement may be such that an inside and outside heel will come
'together.
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
1. In machinery or apparatus for the manufacture of horse-shoes, dies or
creasers so constructed that shoes' rolled thereby will be in pairs, substantially
as described.
2. The manufacture, by machinery, of horse-shoes in pairs, that is to say, with
the insides alike and the outsides alike, the two sides (and heels if any) of cach
shoe being different, substantially in the manner set forth.
Dated the 28th day of July 1891
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4; South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.