An Improvement in Shoes for Horses and other Draft Animals, and in the Manufacture of the said Shoes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Shoes for Horses and other Draft Animals, and
in the Manufacture of the said Shoes.
I, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of 79, Blue Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing Smith,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention is applicable more particularly to the shoes of race horses and
hunters and other horses and draft animals which have to travel over turf or soft
ground but my invention is similarly applicable to shoes for other horses and draft
animals and my invention comprises firstly an improvement in the said shoes
whereby slipping is prevented, and secondly an improved form of rolled steel or
rolled iron or other rolled metal bar for the manufacture of the said improved shoes
forming the first part of this invention.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 is an inverted plan of a horse shoe formed in accordance with the first part
of this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional side clevation of the same on line X X of
Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a projected view of a portion of the improved rolled metal
bar forming the second part of this invention for making shoes of the kind
represented by Figs. 1 and 2.
According to this invention I make the said shoes with a series of short sharp
projecting spikes or teeth a¹ arranged at intervals round the inner bevelled or
concave side of the shoe and formed integral therewith so that when the shoe is
fixed on the animal's hoof these teeth or spikes a' will stick into the turf or soft
ground and thus prevent the horse from slipping. The shoe is by preference made
from the improved rolled iron or steel or other metal bar represented by Fig. 3
and on an enlarged scale by Fig. 4 by which it will be seen that the bar has a
bevel corresponding with what is called the inner concave side of the shoe and
the bar has also a V groove c running along its underside and forming the nail
crease. The sides of this groove e respectively terminate in two sharp ribs
marked d and e the outer ribe being by preference rather deeper than the other
rib d so that when the bar is formed into the finished shoe as shewn by Figs. 1 and 2
this outer rib e will as shewn in Fig. 2 take the first bearing on the ground and
then when this has worn down the inner rib d will come more prominently into use.
The shoe shewn by Figs. 1 and 2, with the small projecting spikes or teeth a¹
formed on its inner bevelled or concave side as above described and shewn, may
either be made by stamping or by casting or by other means but I prefer to make
it from a rolled iron or steel or other metal bar of the improved form above
described and represented by Figs. 3 and 4 the spikes or teeth a¹ being formed
upon the bar during the process of rolling by rolls in which there are small
depressions corresponding with the spikes or teeth a' as will be readily understood,
but these rolls form no part of this invention.
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. The improved shoe for horses or other draft animals made with small spikes
or teeth such as a projecting at intervals from the inner concave or bevelled
surface of the shoe for the prevention of slipping, substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.

page_text: 2. The improved shoe for horses or other draft animals made of the section
substantially as herein described and shewn and with small spikes or teeth a¹
projecting at intervals from the inner concave or bevelled surface 6 of the shoe for
the prevention of slipping, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawing.
3. The improved rolled metal horse shoe bar made with nail crease c and with
the bevelled side 6 having short spikes or teeth a' rolled upon it, substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 28th day of June 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.