Year: 1888

page_text: We, THE KJÖBENHAVNS HESTESKOFABRIK (The Copenhagen Horse Shoe Factory)
and LOUIS MEYER of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a horse shoe which will afford a more sure and natura
footing for a horse than can be obtained with horse shoes of hitherto known con-
struction, will be only about two thirds of the weight of an ordinary horse shoe of the
same dimensions and can be easily fitted in a cold state to the horse's hoof.
In carrying out the invention we place wood, cork, or other suitable yielding
material in the lower part of the horse shoe, and by reason of the surer and firmer
step thus obtained for the horse we are enabled to dispense with the use of calks on the
shoe thereby giving a more natural position to the hoof or foot.
The horseshoe is formed of a frame punched out of sheet iron or steel of suitable
thickness and pressed into such a shape that a continuous channel is provided therein
which is open on the underside, and the toe clip on the top is then formed. The layer
of yielding material is then placed in the said channel and secured by slightly
pressing in the edges of the sides or flanges.
The shoeing is effected in the usual way with ordinary nails which are driven
through the layer of material as well as the shoe and into the horse's hoof.
The shoe can be fitted in a cold state.
The shoes can be roughed for slippery roads in winter by fixing small steel pegs
or points in the layer of material. The said pegs or points will not enter the hoof,
and they can therefore easily be applied by an unskilled person.
We are aware that horseshoes have heretofore been provided with yielding material,
but none of them have possessed the advantages hereinbefore described. The shoes
have been made of cast iron and their outer sides or flanges required to be of consider-
able thickness, and the material was liable to become lost. The shoes, could not be

page_text: set or fitted to the hoof and had to be fixed on in the same form as they came from
the foundry. Besides which the use of cast iron in itself possesses certain objections,
videlicet, it is of less resistance than sheet iron and proportionately heavy.
Dated the fith day of July 1888
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants..
We, THE KJÖBENHAVNS HESTESKOFABRIK, (The Copenhagen Horse Shoe Factory),
and LOUIS MEYER, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Manufacturers, 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 a horse shoe which will afford a more sure and natural
footing for a horse than can be obtained with horse shoes of hitherto known construc-
tion, will be only about two thirds of the weight of an ordinary horse shoe of the
same dimensions and can be easily fitted in a cold state to a horse's hoof.
In carrying out the invention we place wood, cork or other suitable yielding
material in the lower part of the horse shoe, and by reason of the surer and firmer
step thus obtained for the horse we are enabled to dispense with the use of calks on
the shoe thereby giving a more natural position to the hoof or foot.
. In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a plan of a horse shoe constructed according to our invention, and,
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line CD of Figure 1.
Similar letters in both the figures indicate similar parts.
The horse shoe is formed of a frame a stamped out of sheet iron or steel of
suitable thickness and pressed into such a shape that a continuous channel is provided
therein which open on the underside and closed at the ends and the toe clip d on
the top is then formed. The layer of yielding material 6 is then placed in the said
channel and secured by slightly pressing in the edges of the sides or flanges.
The shoeing is effected in the usual way with ordinary nails c, c which are driven
through the layer of material b as well as the shoe and into the horse's hoof.
The shoe can be fitted in a cold state.

page_text: The shoes can he roughed for slippery roads in winter by fixing small steel pegs
or points in the layer of material b. The said pegs or points will not enter the hoof
and they can therefore easily be applied by an unskilled person.
We are aware that horse shoes have heretofore been provided with yielding
material, but none of them have possessed the advantages herein before described.
The shoes have been made of cast iron and their outer sides or flanges required to
be of considerable thickness, and the material was liable to become lost. The shoes
could not be set or fitted to the hoof and had to be fixed on in the same form as
they came from the foundry. Besides which the use of cast iron in itself possesses
certain objections, videlicet, it is of less resistance than sheet iron and proportionately
heavy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A horse shoe having a wearing surface consisting of wood, confined or edged in
by iron or steel.
2. A horse shoe with an inlaid wood wearing surface, the said shoe being made of
an iron or steel plate formed by stamping or pressing with a clip and two con-
verging flanges or sides which serve to firmly hold the wood placed between them
whereby the wood is made to closely fit and is firmly combined with the metal frames
of the shoe in which nail holes are provided all substantially as shown and described
and for the purpose set forth.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicants.