Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1887
Specification Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
I CHARLES JOHN CARR of 20 Thornhill Crescent Barnsbury in the County of
Middlesex 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 certain improved appliances or means for protecting horses'
feet the object being to protect the wall of the hoof from fracture and to provide a
wearing or road surface which will give a firm foothold and suppress the tendency to
slipping and concussion.
In carrying this Invention into practice I employ a belt or band on the outside of
the hoof extending from heel to heel or of less length or in sections extending from
heel to heel or less and in combination with this I employ a flanged plate upon the
under-surface of the foot so as to receive between the said flange and the downwardly
projecting belt a pad of fibrous material prepared as will be further described. Never-
theless the belt or band may be used alone or the receptacle for the pad may be used
without the belt or band but in this case it would be double flanged forming a
channel.
The belt or band may be about one inch in height more or less and may be of metal
or be of gutta percha or any other suitable substance secured to the outside of the
hoof by cement or cements or if necessary for additional security small nails or screws
may be driven through the band or belt into the wall of the hoof. In the case of
using the road surface pad without the belt or band on the wall of the hoof I form the
receptacle for the pad by rolling a bar of iron or steel in shape of a channel and
forming therefrom a shoe or the same may be cast in malleable iron or mild steel or
like suitable metal either in form of a shoe or in straight lengths to be formed by the
Farrier.
In order that the said Invention may be clearly ascertained there is annexed hereto
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof.
a is the belt laid
Fig. 1 represents in sectional view the combined belt and pad.
over at the lower edge, b is a plate with a flange b¹, c is a pad of prepared rope. This
rope is to be prepared with gutta-percha, india-rubber, marine glue, or other similar

page_text: substance with which the rope will be impregnated, the cements being liquified by
heat and then the impregnated rope is to be compressed and allowed to cool so as that
when the pad has to be applied it may be heated and bent into form of the channel
provided.
In applying the plate b, a vec groove may be provided in the plate through which
holes may be made and nails be driven in as shown, previously to applying the belt.
Fig. 2 represents the belt a, used without the plate b, but with the pad c, applied
which may be secured by cement or otherwise conveniently. In applying this belt a
thin strip d, Fig. 2, of gutta percha would be first laid onto the hoof in a heated
condition and whilst in a plastic state the metal belt will be pressed on in proper
position, and to ensure fastening of the one to the other there will have been provided
countersunk holes d', in the belt as shown, this will cause the gutta percha to fill into
the countersunk holes and additional gutta-percha may be filled into the countersunk
holes from the outside, when requisite.
Attaching screws will be used as before described for additional security.
Fig. 3 represents the belt a, in metal applied alone and in sections lying edge to
edge and screwed on.
Fig. 4 represents the belt a, formed from angle iron one web of the angle forming
a belt
and the other web projecting a certain distance under the hoof.
Whenever a metal belt is used a thin strap of gutta-percha (similarly as described for
Fig. 2) may be fastened outside the wall of the hoof."
When a rolled or cast bar of steel or iron is used for the belt as shown in Figs. 1,
and 3, a bead on the inner surface and a vee on the outer surface may be formed on
the same for the purpose respectively of forming additional security of fastening and
as seating for the heads of the securing nails or screws as described.
Fig. 5 represents on enlarged scale in sectional view a modification of the shoe
shown in Fig. 1 and made according to this Invention but without the belt a, and
with a bead e, on the foot surface which might equally be provided on the plate b,
although not shown by the Fig. 1.
Fig. 6 represents the road surface of a shoe one half showing the pad in and the
other half showing the pad removed, and nail holes alternating with small spikes upon
which the pad will be driven after the shoe has been fastened to the foot; by this
arrangement the pad will cover the heads of the nails or screws employed for securing
the shoe.
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Fig. 7 represents the foot surface with a bead e, or cross bars e¹, which will find a
seating in the horn of the hoof when "burnt on and aid in steadying the shoe and
preventing the same from tendency to loosen from its fastenings.
In producing the shoe shown in Fig. 5 the iron or steel may be rolled in bars to the
section shown and bent to the form of a shoe by machinery or the shoeing smith will
take a piece of such bar of sufficient length to form the shoe required or the shoe may
be cast of this section with spikes cast or put in on the underside to aid in securing
the pad c, as shown in Fig. 6 on the right hand side of that figure.
The section of the shoe shown in Figs. 5 and 7, gives a bead e, or beads e¹ on the
foot surface-plate b, with walls 61, 62, on each side, with a channel for reception of the
pad c, and a vee groove on the road surface of plate b for reception of and to form a
seating to the head of the nail.
As described above in reference to Figs. 3 and 4, the horses foot would be in direct
contact with the road without any intervening substance which will allow of strong
footed horses working on the wall of the hoof combined with the frog.
It is to be observed that tarred rope has been pressed into a cast malleable iron shell
so forming a shoe but there has been great difficulty in getting the ordinary shoeing
smith to apply these ready made and prepared shoes as the said shoes had necessarily
to be fitted cold. In this improved shoo the bead or beads e, or e¹, on the foot surface
would be burnt on to the wall of the hoof and the special pad being plastic or pliable
when heated would be readily applied to the channel of the shoe and will set securely
in position when cold. Smaller securing nails will be employed and the heads thereof
will not be worn off by wear.

page_text: These protectors or shoes are applicable to animals having like formed hoofs such as
mules and asses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Firstly. In means for protecting the hoofs of horses mules and like footed animals
the belt a, applied to the wall of the hoof, the flanged plate b, b', the vee groove and
nail holes forming seating for the heads of the nails, and the channel for reception of
the specially prepared pad as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Secondly. In means for protecting the hoofs of horses mules and like footed animals
the belt a applied to the wall of the hoof as and for the purpose herein set forth and
shown by the drawings.
Thirdly. The rolled bar shoe and pad as and for the purpose herein set forth and
shown by the drawings.
Fourthly. The cast shoe and pad as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn
by the drawings.
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WALTER A. BARLOW,
6, St. Paul's Churchyard,
London, E.C.