AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Sublime Napoléon de la Haye de Barbezières, of
Paris, in the Empire of France, Barrister in the Imperial Court of Paris,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sublime Napoléon de
la Haye de Barbezières at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 15th March 1862.
I, SUBLIME NAPOLÉON DE LA HAYE DE BARBEZIÈRES, of Paris, in the Empire
of France, Barrister in the Imperial Court of Paris, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOE,"
to be as follows:-.
The object of this Invention is to provide for the feet of horses a roughened
surface, which on the occurrence of a sudden frost may be readily attached to
their hoofs without the ordinary shoes being required to be removed and without
the aid of a farrier. To this end I propose to construct an improved expanding
shoe, which has one of its quarters hinged at the side, to allow of its opening
and fitting on to the ordinary shoe. At the heels of the shoe I form lugs, to
receive a screw bolt, and by tightening up this screw bolt the over shoe will
be caused to grip the ordinary shoe and retain a firm hold thereon. The face
of this expanding shoe is to be provided with roughing pins or other suitable
projections, for ensuring a good foot-hold in slippery weather, and it may also
be furnished with clamps at the toe and quarters, or formed with one con-
tinuous clamping flange extending all round the fixed shoe and binding on to
the horse's hoof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Sublime Napoléon De la Haye de Barbezières in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SUBLIME
NAPOLÉON DE LA HAYE DE BARBEZIÈRES, of Paris, in the Empire of France,
Barrister in the Imperial Court of Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Sublime Napoléon de la Haye de Barbezières, Her special
license that I, the said Sublime Napoléon de la Haye de Barbezières, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sublime
Napoléon de la Haye de Barbezières, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOE," upon the condition. (amongst
others) that I, the said Sublime Napoleon de la Haye de Barbezières,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sublime Napoléon de la Haye de
Barbezières, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
bereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say)-
The object of this Invention is to provide for the feet of horses a roughened
surface, which on the occurrence of a sudden frost will admit of being readily
attached to their hoofs and detached therefrom without the aid of a farrier, the
ordinary shoes remaining undisturbed in their position and ready for service on
the breaking up of the frost. To this end I have devised an improved
expanding or supplementary shoe, which has one of its quarters, hinged at the

page_text: side, to allow of its opening laterally, and then closing upon the ordinary
shoe.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 shews in edge view the supplementary.
shoe applied to the fore foot of a shoed horse; Fig. 2 is a plan view of this
shoe, shewing by red lines the position which the ordinary shoe takes within
it; and Figures 3, 4, and 5 are detached views of parts that will be hereafter
referred to.
The C-shaped sole of the shoe is constructed of two parts A, A', which are
connected together by a hinge joint B. Projecting vertically from the outer
edge of the shoe at the toe and quarters are flanges a and b, which are
intended to clamp the fixed shoe C on the horse's boof and bind firmly thereto.
In order to ensure a good hold on the fixed shoe, I rebate the flanges b, as
shewn in Fig. 3, which is a cross section of one of the quarters taken in the
line 1, 2, of Fig. 2. The recesses thus formed are intended to receive the
outer edge of the fixed shoe. The flanges 6 extend rearwards sufficiently far
bebind the sole to form sockets for receiving a screw bolt c, which is shewn
detached at Fig. 4, and which, by means of a nut, is intended to draw the
parts A and A' of the expanding shoe together when the same is applied to a
horse's foot, and cause it to take a firm hold on the fixed shoe C. In the sole
of the shoe I insert a series of pins, studs, or projections of any suitable shape
(see Fig. 5), for ensuring a good foot-hold for the horse in frosty weather.
When using studs, such as those shewn at d, which I prefer as the roughing
surfaces, I insert their stems in holes punched in the sole of the shoe, and
secure them in position by rivetting.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved Con-
struction of Horse-shoe, and explained the manner of carrying the same into
effect, I wish it to be understood, that I do not claim as of my Invention the
principle of an expanding horse-shoe; but I claim constructing supplementary
horse-shoes in the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sublime Napoleon de la Haye de Bar-
bezières, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
SUBLIME NAPOLEON DE LA HAYE DE BARBEZIERES. (L.S.)