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Year: 1874

page_text: ¿LETTERS PATENT to Alexandre Thuillard, of Paris, in the Depart-
ment of the Seine and Republic of France, Veterinary Surgeon, for
the Tzantion of 66 Torna TX Hon SANG "
the Invention of "ImrnovémMENTS IN HORSE gmone,
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexandre Thuillard
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 20th March 1874.
I, ALEXANDRE THUILLARD, of Paris, in the Department of the Seine
5 and Republic of France, Veterinary Surgeon, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES," to be as
follows:-
:
The object of my Invention is to provide a horse-shoe which will lessen
the probability of the slipping and falling of the horse, particularly upon
roadways laid with blocks of granite, and it consists in substituting for
the ordinary calkins successive notches or recesses and projections not
passing beyond the thickness of the shoe; and giving the foot of the
horse a bearing upon the whole of its surface.

page_text: On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Fig. 1 is a side elevation and
section at A, B, Fig. 2, of an English horse-shoe embodying my
Invention; Fig. 2, bottom plan view of same, and Fig. 3 is a side
elevation of its exterior, Fig. 4 being a front elevation of a French
horse-shoe also embodying this Invention; Fig. 5, a bottom plan view,
and Fig. 6 a side elevation thereof.
It will be seen that the ordinary calkins are dispensed with, and that
two notches or recesses are made in each sponge alternating with the
projecting parts intended to take into the interstices between the paving
stones.
The thickness of the shoe being about equal throughout, the natural
poise of the horse is not incommoded, and my Invention also obviates
the defect of the too great uplifting and compression of the heels
resulting from the use of the calkins.
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My horse-shoe also obviates the danger of stumbling arising from the 1
use of calkins placed about the toe; and further, the friction being
equally distributed over the whole lower surface of the horse-shoe, the
wear of these notched parts is much less rapid than when the weight is
borne exclusively by projecting parts such as the ordinary calkins..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexandre Thuillard in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDRE
THUILLARD, of Paris, in the Department of the Seine and Republic of
France, Veterinary Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexandre Thuillard, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexandre Thuillard, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexandre Thuillard,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree

page_text: 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alexandre Thuillard, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexandre Thuillard, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a horse-shoe which will lessen
the probability of the slipping and falling of the horse, particularly
upon roadways laid with blocks of granite, and it consists in substituting
for the ordinary calkins successive notches or recesses and projections
not passing beyond the thickness of the shoe, and giving the foot of the
horse a bearing upon the whole of its surface.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation
and section at A, B, Fig. 2, of an English horse-shoe embodying my
6 Invention; Fig. 2, bottom plan view of same, and Fig. 3 is a side
elevation of its exterior, Fig. 4 being a front elevation of a French
horse-shoe also embodying this Invention; Fig. 5, a bottom plan view,
and Figure 6 a side elevation thereof.
It will be seen that the ordinary calkins are dispensed with, and that
O two notches or recesses a, a¹, are made in each sponge alternating with
the projecting parts intended to take into the interstices between the
paving stones.
The thickness of the shoe being about equal throughout, the natural
poise of the horse is not incommoded, and my Invention obviates the
6 defect of the too great uplifting and compression of the heels resulting
from the use of calkins.

page_text: My horse-shoe also obviates the danger of stumbling arising from the
use of calkins placed about the toe; and further, frictions being equally
distributed over the whole lower surface of the horse-shoe, the wear of
these notched parts is much less rapid than when the weight is borne
exclusively by projecting parts such as the ordinary calkins.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim as secured to me by the herein-before in part
recited Letter Patent, the combination in a horse-shoe of grooves or
recesses with alternating projections in substitution of the ordinary
calkins, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexandre Thuillard, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.
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THUILLARD. (L.S.)