Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1887
Complete Left, 27th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
JOHN CHRISTIAN, Coachman Huntingfield Halesworth Suffolk DAVY DURRANT
Commercial traveller 32 Cornwallis Road Holloway N. ALFRED ERNEST JOLLEY
Draper 520 Hornsey Road N. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A Horse shoe with punched vertical sockets to receive pointed frost blocks which will
be fixed in the shoe by means of nails passed through horizontally and which blocks
can be fixed or removed at will by simply withdrawing the nails and without removing
the shoe from the foot of the horse.
JOHN CHRISTIAN.
ALFRED ERNEST JOLLEY.
DAVY DURRANT.

page_text: Improvements in Horse Shoes.
We JOHN CHRISTIAN Coachman of Huntingfield Halesworth Suffolk, DAVY DURRANT
Commercial Traveller of 32 Cornwallis Road Holloway N. and ALFRED ERNEST JOLLEY
Draper of 520 Hornsey Road, N. both in the County of Middlesex 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 for its object improvements in the construction of horse shoes to
facilitate the application thereto tofi pointed or other shaped blocks to prevent horses
feet from slipping in frosty weather or upon asphalte wood or other roadways.
Our invention also consists in an improved method of securing the removable frost
or other blocks to horse shoes by means of horizontal pins plugs or cotters passed
through the stems of the blocks and their sockets so that they can be readily fixed and
removed at will without removing the shoe from the hoof of the horse. And in order
that our invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into practice we
will proceed to describe the same more fully with reference to the drawings hereto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows an underside view of a horse shoe having pointed frost blocks a a
applied and fixed thereto in accordance with our improvements. Figure 2, shows a
similar view the horse shoe in this Figure having flat blocks a¹a¹ applied thereto for
ordinary wear.
Figures 3 and 4 show outlines of horse shoes one having three and the other four
blocks applied thereto which may be either flat or pointed and interchangeable as may
be required thus it will be seen that any suitable number of such blocks may be applied
to horse shoes as may be desired.
According to our improvements each horse shoe is punched or otherwise formed
with square, oblong or other suitably shaped sockets or slots bb to receive the stems or
shanks of the blocks a or a¹ the stems or shanks corresponding in form with the slots b
in the shoe and c is a split pin or cotter which passes through the stem of each of the
blocks a and through the slots to secure the blocks firmly to the shoe the holes for
these pins being countersunk to receive the head of the pin as shown.
The pins e can be readily drawn out to release the blocks to be exchanged for others
of different form when required to adapt them to the condition of the road for the
time being.
Figure 5 shows a separate sectional view in elevation of a flat block a¹ and Figure 6
a separate sectional view in-elevation-of-a-pointed-block-a Figure 7 showing a pointed
block of different form.
By the use of these improved blocks a and a¹ the horses hoof is improved as it is
not necessary to have the horse shod so frequently and much saving is effected from
the same cause,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we would remark that
we are aware that blocks of various forms have previously been made to screw into the
horse shoe to which method of attachment we make no claim whatever but we declare
that what we claim is
1st. The improved construction of horse shoes by forming them with sockets or slots
to receive the stems or shanks of corresponding form of pointed or other shaped blocks
such as a and a¹ and securing them in their sockets by pins or plugs c substantially in
the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described and represented in the drawings
hereto annexed.
2nd. We claim the improved method of securing the blocks aa¹ to horse shoes by
means of pins or other like fastenings and exchanging them without removing the
shoes from the horses hoofs substantially as described and represented in the drawings
hereto annexed.