An Improvement in Horse-shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Horse-shoes.
I, JOHN GEORGE LEMON, of 33, Palace Street, Buckingham Gate, London,
S.W., Hall Porter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a horseshoe provided with pads or cushions of india-
rubber presenting an elastic non-slipping and noiseless tread to contact with the
ground, the pads being securely held in the frame of the shoe in such manner
as to be easily renewable, and projecting from the frame so as alone to come in
contact with the ground, whereby concussion of the foot is prevented on hard
ground and a perfect grip of the ground is obtained when the animal starts or
stops suddenly.
The pads are preferably made in three separate sections each extending over
about one-third the circumference of the shoe and they secured in the
frame after the latter has been mailed to the hoof so that the nail heads are
covered over by the pads. The object of the invention is to facilitate the secur-
ing of the pads to the frame, the means by which this is effected being such that
only one screw is required for the purpose of securing the whole of the pads.
The metal frame is of horse-shoe shape and channelled cross section, the side
walls being inwardly flanged so as to make a gib like interlocking connection
with the pads which are made of corresponding form in cross section, a firm
interlocking connection being made by making the part of the pad which is
received in the frame of hard vulcanized rubber or other suitable composition
the part which projects being soft and elastic. The outer wall of the channelled
frame is in one with the base plate and besides extending around the heel ends
of the frame is strengthened by cross webs or bars which divide the channel into
sections and may engage, like the side wall with the ends of the pads, this, the
main part of the shoe frame, being preferably a malleable casting.
The inner side wall of the frame is removable in one piece and is secured in
position by rearwardly extending tenons at its heel ends engaging in corres-
ponding sockets formed at the heel ends of the main frame and by a socket
at the bow or toe portion fitting on a (preferably conical) downwardly projecting
boss cast on the base plate at the bow or toe portion, said hoss being bored and
tapped to receive a screw passing through the removable inner portion which
is thereby firmly secured in position. The inner ends of cross webs or dividing bars
are preferably bevelled where the inner removable wall abuts against them so
as to tend in conjunction with the coned form of the boss to force the tenons
of the inner wall home in their sockets. The nail holes are formed in the base
plate so that the latter being nailed to the hoof, the nail heads will be covered
by the pads when the latter are inserted.
As the pads are separately renewable and the frame never comes in contact
with the ground; the latter will last an indefinite time and need only be re-
moved when, owing to natural growth, the hoof requires reducing by paring,

page_text: the same frame being put on again, extra nail-holes being cast in the shoe, so
that when removed the nails may be inserted in a different part of the hoof as
required.
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بلص
تحمل
1900.
An Improvement in Horse-shoes.
I, JOHN GEORGE LEMON, of 33, Palace Street, Buckingham Gate, London,
S.W., Hall Porter; 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:
My invention relates to a horseshoe provided with pads or cushions of india-
rubber or equivalent material presenting an elastic non-slipping and noiseless
tread to contact with the ground, the pads being securely held in the frame of
the shoc in such manner as to be easily renewable and projecting from the
frame so as alone to come in contact with the ground, whereby concussion of
the foot is prevented on hard ground and a perfect grip of the ground is obtained
when the animal starts or stops suddenly. The pads are preferably made in three
separate sections each extending over about one-third of the circumference
of the shoe and they are secured in the frame after the latter has been nailed
to the hoof so that the nail heads are covered over by the pads. The object
of the invention is to facilitate the securing of the pads to the frame, the means
by which this is effected being such that only one screw is required for the pur-
pose of securing the whole of the pads.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein Figure 1 is a plan of the upper surface of my improved
horseshoe Figure 2 a plan of the lower side of the shoe, portions of the rubber
pads and of the inner wall of the frame being broken away to shew the con-
struction; Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 Figure 2; Figure 4 is a section
on line 44 Figures 1 and 2; Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5 Figure 2; and
Figure 6 is a separate perspective view of the removable inner portion of the
frame of the shoe.
The metal frame which preferably a malleable casting, is of horseshoe shape
and channelled cross section, the outer and inner side walls ab having in-
wardly-turned flanges cd respectively, so as to make a gib like interlocking
connection with the pads e which are made of corresponding form in cross sec-
tion, as shewn clearly in Figure 3. The outer wall of the channelled frame
is in one with the base plate f and besides extending around the heel ends g
of the frame is strengthened by cross webs or bars which divide the channel
into sections and engage by means of continuations of the flange c of the
outer wall, with the ends of the pads c. The inner side wall b of the frame
is removable in one piece for the purpose of inserting and removing the pads,
and is secured in position by rearwardly extending tenons at its heel ends
engaging in corresponding seats (hereafter described) formed at the heel ends
of the main frame and by a coned socket at the bow or toe portion fitting on
a conical downwardly-projecting boss cast on the base plate f at the bow or
toe portion, said boss being bored and tapped to receive a countersunk screw m
passing through a hole n in the removable inner portion which is thereby firmly

page_text: secured in position. The tenons j at the heel ends of the removable inner por-
tion of the frame are each of hook-like form as shewn in Figure 6, the hook
consisting of a rearward extension of the wall b substantially parallel to the
median plane of the shoe, bent upward and then downward so as to be adapted
to pass around and engage (as shown in Figure 4) with an upwardly-extending
transverse rib or pin o formed on the flange i at the heel of the main portion
of the frame, the bass plate f of which is slotted at pp to receive the upwardly
bent portions of the hooked tenons, thus preventing the heel ends of the
inner wall from springing laterally, and permitting the entire inner remov-
able portion of the frame to turn about the pins oo as upon a hinge when being
inserted in place.
The inner ends of the cross webs or dividing bars are preferably bevelled,
as at y Figure 5, where the inner removable wall abuts against them so as
to tend to force the tenons j of the inner wall home in their seats, and to main-
tain the entire inner wall firmly in position by preventing any tendency to
spring laterally. The nail holes are formed in the bass plate f so that, the
latter being nailed to the hoof, the nail heads will be covered by the pads e
when the latter are inserted.
The operation of fixing the shoe on the hoof is as follows: The main portion
of the frame is first nailed on as usual. The sections e e e of the rubber pad are
then inserted in position, and the hooked tenons of the removable inner
portion of the frame having been entered in the slots ?? this portion is
brought to its final position by pushing its front portion upwards until the boss
enters the socket when the screw m is inserted and made fast.
As the pads are separately renewable and the frame never comes in contact
with the ground, the frame will last an indefinite time and need only be re-
moved when, owing to natural growth, the hoof requires reducing by paring,
the same frame being put on again.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
A horseshoe consisting of a metal frame and renewable pads of indiarubber
or equivalent elastic material, the frame being of channelled section and having
walls provided with inwardly-directed flanges adapted to retain the rubber pads,
the inner wall of the channel being a removable piece which engages the main
portion of the frame by hook like tenons on its heel ends entering slots in the
main portion of the frame and interlocking with cross pins thereon and which
is retained in place by a screw applied towards the front of the shoe substan-
tially as specified.
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A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London,