Improvements in the Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other Hoofed Animals.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other
Hoofed Animals.
We, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of Bridgeman Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing
Smith, EDWIN ERNEST SHELDON, and ALFRED MILLS, trading together as
Sheldon and Mills, of Walsall, aforesaid, Curriers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of those horse and other like
shoes which are fixed to the hoof by jagged or spiked clips formed integral with
the shoe and which clips are hammered against the hoof so as to engage therewith,
and the principal object of this invention is to facilitate the forming of the spiked
or jagged clips of the said shoes which we do as follows:-
In carrying out our invention we roll bars of iron or steel (or other suitable
metal or alloy from which the shoes are to be formed) which are somewhat of an
angle section one web of the bar having the section of the shoe proper and the
other web being thin to form the clips. This latter web has one or more longi-
tudinal ribs rolled upon its inner surface corresponding with the required spikes on
the clips. That side of the bar which corresponds with the underside of the
finished shoe also has one or more ribs rolled upon it to give a better hold on the
ground. In making the said bar into a horse or other like shoe, we cut away parts
of the said thin web leaving other parts which form the clips. The rib or ribs on
each of these clips is or are then formed into the necessary spike or spikes by
grinding off or otherwise removing a part or parts of the said ribs so as to leave the
necessary spikes standing up from the clips.
That web of the said bar which forms the shoe proper can either be rolled solid
or with one or more grooves in its underside.
The upper inner edge of this web is by preference rolled bevelled or fullered as
usual.
Dated this 21st day of January 1891
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Shoes for Horses and other
Hoofed Animals.
We, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of Bridgeman Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing
Smith, EDWIN ERNEST SHELDON, and ALFRED MILLS, trading together as
Sheldon & Mills, of Walsall, aforesaid, Curriers, 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 has reference to the manufacture of those horse and other like
shoes which are fixed to the hoof by jagging or spiked clips formed integral with
the shoe and which clips are hammered against the hoof so as to engage therewith,
and the principal object of this invention is to facilitate the forming of the spiked
or jagged clips of the said shoes which we do by rolling on that web of the bar
which forms the clips, a rib or ribs corresponding with the spikes on the clips,
portions of the said rib or ribs being afterwards removed so that the remaining
portions will form the necessary spikes on the clips.

page_text: On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 represents a portion (long enough to form one horse shoe) of one of the
said rolled bars with the rib rolled on the web which forms the clips;
Fig. 2 shews the same bar with parts of the web cut away to leave the clips.
Fig. 3 shews in plan and sectional elevation the same bar bent into a horse shoe
form and
Fig. 4 represents the same after parts of the said rib on the web have been
removed so as to form the spikes.
Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shew modified forms of the said bar;
Figs. 10 and 11 shew parts of the bar shewn in Fig. 9 formed"into" 'the spiked
clips and
Fig. 12 shews a portion of the bar Fig. 2 formed into a clip with one spike.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in' all 'the
figures.
In carrying out this invention we roll bars of iron or steel (or other suitable
metal or alloy from which the shoes are to be formed) which as shewn in
Figs. 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8 on the accompanying drawing are somewhat of an angle
section one web a of the bar having the section of the shoe proper and the other
web 6 being thin to form the clips c of the finished shoe. This web b has a longi-
tudinal rib rolled upon its inner surface corresponding with the required
spikes ee on the clips. This rib d' is of V shape as shewn so as to form a sharp
or approximately sharp outwardly projecting edge. That side of the bar which
corresponds with the underside of the finished shoe may either be plain (Figs. 5, 9
10 11 and 12) or it may have ribs such for instance as ff so as to form a groove g
(Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 6 and 7) or grooves g' (Fig. 8) and give a better hold on the
ground. We wish it to be understood that we make no claim in respect of these
ribs and grooves g¹g on the underside of the shoe as we are aware that the
same are not new.
C
In making the said bar into a horse shoe or other like shoe, we cut away parts of
the thin web leaving other parts c (see Fig. 2) which form the clips. In the
example shewn there are four of these clips but fewer or more than four clips
may be used as is well known. The rib (Figs. 2 and 3) is then formed 'into the
necessary spikes el e² as shewn in Fig. 4 by grinding off or otherwise removing, as
by press tools, the central part of the rib on each clip so as to leave the end
portions of the ribs to form the necessary spikes standing up from each side of the
clips. This can either be done while the bar is straight (Fig. 2) or, and this is
what we prefer, after the bar has been bent into the horse shoe form as shewn in
Fig. 3. Or the side portions of the rib d may be similarly removed from each
clip so as to leave the central portion to form a single spike as e¹ in Fig. 12. Or if
desired portions of the rib d' may be removed so as to form three or more spikes in
a row across each clip.
When the web of the bar has two ribs as dd2 Fig. 9 as may be required in
very large shoes portions of these ribs are removed to leave parts to form the
spikes on the clips (Figs. 10 & 11) in a similar manner as above described' with
reference to the web when formed with only one rib a¹.
The upper inner edge of the web a is by preference rolled bevelled or 'fullered
as usual.
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. In the manufacture of horse shoes and other like shoes of the kind' herein
referred to which are made for fixing to the hoof by spiked clips, the employment
of a rolled metal bar having rolled on that web thereof which is to form the clips
a longitudinal rib such as d or ribs such as d¹ d² to form the spikes on the clips
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.

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2. The manufacture of horse shoes and other like shoes of the kind herein
referred to from rolled metal bars of the kind denoted under the preceding claim,
by cutting away portions of the thin web b of the bar so as to leave portions
forming the clips and then either before or after bending the said bar into a horse
shoe form removing portions of the said rib d or ribs d' d² from the clips so that
the remaining portions will form the necessary spikes on the clips substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.