An Improvement in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
An Improvement in Horse Shoes.
SILAS BROWNHILL, Rate Collector, 5, Mountrath Street, Walsall, Josern BENFIELD,
"Blacksmith, 107, Bridgeman Street, Walsall, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention consists, of Horse Shoes, made of iron or metal, and the mode of
fastening on the same, which is done by forming from the solid metal, clips round
the shoes, to be plain or jagged as required.
Also with or without, a tapered groove on the wearing side of the shoes, in which
we fix, metal, wood, leather, or indiarubber, or any other such like substances.
Dated this 19th day of February 1889.
SILAS BROWNHILL.
JOSEPH BENFIELD.
An improvement in Horse Shoes.
We, SILAS BROWNUILL, of 5, Mounirath Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Rate Collector.
and JOSEPH BENFIELD, of Bridgeman Street, Walsall, aforesaid, Shoeing Smith, 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 of an improvement in horse-shoes has reference to the mode of
fastening the same on to the horse's hoof which is done by forming clips round the
shoes from the solid metal the said clips being jagged (or in some cases being made
plain) and the shoes being made with or without a tapered groove on the wearing
side in which metal, wood, leather, indiarubber or other such like substance can be
fixed.
On the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 illustrates in side elevation a cast metal
horse-shoe (preferably of malleable cast iron or mild cast steel) fixed to a horse's hoof
and constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 3
is a plan of the same with the clips bent outwardly ready for attachment to the horse's
hoof: Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 5 an inverted plan of the same horse-shoe
with wood blocks and frost cogs or studs fixed in the tapered grooves on the wearing
side of the same and Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of a similar shoe but made solid;
Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 illustrate how a horse-shoe having jagged clips on its upper side
according to this invention and a tapered groove underneath can be constructed from
a rolled metal bar such as iron or steel; Figs. 11 and 11* illustrate other methods
of jagging the clip part: Figs. 12 and 13 illustrate a further modification of our
invention in which the shoe is of trough section and the clips are raised from the
upper side of the same: Fig. 14 illustrates in elevation and Fig. 15 in sectional
elevation a forged horse-shoe in which the jagged clips are drawn from the sides
thereof by hammering and Figs. 16 and 17 illustrate a method of jagging the same
and a tool to be used therefor.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
Figures of the drawings.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, the clips are
marked a and the body of the horse-shoe is marked b. These clips are cast integral
with the body of the horse-shoe, which in this example is preferably made of
malleable cast iron or mild cast steel so that the clips will bend without breaking, and
stand up along the outer upper edge of the shoe and are jagged or roughened ou

page_text: their inner sides; which can be done by casting pointed pegs to project from the
inner sides of the clips so that, when the shoe is placed in position against the under-
side of the hoof, the clips can be hammered down against the hoof so that their
jagged or roughened inner surface will engage with the hoof and securely hold the
shoe in position thereon. Any number of the jagged clips may be used but we find
that about seven answer well in practice arranged about in the positions illustrated
by the drawings. The body of the shoe 6 can be of any usual form such as having a
fapered groove d on the underside in which can be fixed indiarubber, as shewn in
Figs. 1, 2 and 3, or wood blocks e, and frost cogs, studs, or toe pieces f, and heel
pieces g, or the shoe can be made solid as illustrated by Fig. 6. The studs and
and the wood blocks are readily secured in position by being made larger at their
upper side corresponding with the groove d. The groove d is preferably left open at
the heel end of the shoe as shewn in Fig. 5 and then, after the wood blocks studs or
other wearing pieces have been inserted in the groove, ihese open ends are closed
by bending round the side pieces of the shoe as sewn in Figs. 3 and 5.
In applying our invention to those horse-shoes which are formed from rolled bars
of iron or steel of trough or channel section we proceed as illustrated by Figs, 7, 8,
9 and 10, that is to say, we roll a thin flange or web (see Fig. 8) in a piece with
the trough or channel section bar which is to form the body of the shoe. This can
be done by first rolling a T-section bar as shown by Fig. 7 with a thin web 7 and
then by a subsequent rolling process turning down the central thicker web of the bar
to form the section illustrated by Fig. 8. The bar thus formed is then cut into lengths
each long enough to form one horse-shoe and the ends of the upper flange of the
body are notched out as shown by Fig. 9 so that the projecting sides can be turned
round to close the heels of the shoe as above described. By means of suitable tools
worked in a press or otherwise, spaces or notches are then cut in the web or
flange so that the remaining portions will form the clips integral with the
bar j These clips are then jagged or roughened by any convenient means such
as by turning up sharp projecting pieces from their edges as shewn by Fig. 10 or
by punching holes through them from their outside so as to leave burrs on their
inside, as shewn by Fig. 1, or projecting pegs can be formed from the body of
the clip by punching holes therein and forcing out the parts which form the holes as
shewn in Fig. 11*. Either before or after punching out the parts from the web i
as above described the bar is bent round into a horse-shoe form the clips being on
the outside thereof.
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Another method of forming the clips in a piece with the body of a trough section
horse-shoe is illustrated by Figs. 12 and 13 which shoe is formed either from a trough
or channel section bar or from sheet metal. In this example the clips are formed
by punching corresponding pieces a out of the upper side of the shoe (see Fig. 12)
which pieces however are not detached from the shoe but are heat up in a line
with the sides thereof as illustrated by Fig. 12 and are then thinned out and increased
in size by hammering or pressure and are jagged or roughened in any of the ways
herein before described so as to form a finished shoe (see Fig. 13).
The jagged or roughened clips can also be forged in a piece with ordinary solid
wrought iron or steel horse-shoes by hammering and drawing them out from the
solid metal thereof in the same way that the small toe and side stops are forged on
ordinary horse-shoes which are fixed by nails except that the clips forged according
to this invention are made much longer and thinner and are jagged inside so as to hold
to the hoof. A very convenient method of drawing down the clips in this kind of
shoe and forming the projecting pegs or pins e on the inside thereof is to employ a
bottom tool! of the kind illustrated by Fig. 16 which has recesses in its upper face
corresponding with the required pegs or pins The shoe is heated and the clips
are drawn down by being hammered on the top of this bottom tool (see Figs. 17)
the indentations in which form the required projections on the clip.
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In conclusion we wish it to be understood that we make no exclusive claim.to the
employment of clips with horse-shoes for securing the same to the hoof, nor do we
make any exclusive claim to a horse-shon having a groove or recess or recessos vu

page_text: its underside, as we are aware that horse shoes embodying these features have been
made prior to our invention hereof; but,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A malleable cast metal horse-shoe having jagged or roughened clips a cast
integral therewith and adapted for closing against the sides of a horse's hoof so as to
secure the shoe thereon, substantially as herein before described.
2. In a horse-shoe and in combination with an inclined groove or inclined grooves
in the under or wearing side of the same, for the purposes set forth, the employment
of jagged or roughened clips formed integral therewith and adapted for closing
against the sides of a horse's hoof so as to secure the shoe thereon, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
8. A horse-shoe of channel section formed from a rolled metal channel section bar
and provided with jagged or roughened clips formed integral therewith from a flange
or web of the said "bar, the said clips being adapted for closing against the sides of a
horse's hoof so as to secure the shoe thereon, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
4. A horse-shoe of channel section formed from a rolled metal bar of channel
section or from sheet metal, and provided with clips a formed integral therewith of parts
punched and raised from the upper side of the shoe, the said clips being adapted for
closing against the sides of a horse's hoof so as to secure the shoe thereon, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 12 and 13 of the accompanying
drawings.
5. A solid forged horse-shoe having jagged or roughened clips formed integral
therewith, substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated by
Figs. 14 and 15 of the accompanying drawings, the said clips being adapted for closing
against the sides of a horse's hoof so as to secure the shoe thereon, substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
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SILAS BROWNHILL.
JOSEPH BENFIELD.