IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE- SHOES.
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Colls, jun'., of Birmingham, in the.
County of Warwick; for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-
SHOES.
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Sealed the 18th July 1871, and dated the 21st January 1871..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Colls at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st January 1871.
I, HENRY COLLS, jun., of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention: for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN. HORSE-SHOES," to be as follows:-
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This horse-shoe; consists of a sole plate somewhat similar to the
ordinary shoe usually placed and secured beneath the hoof, except that
instead of being all in one piece it is divided, and is provided with a heel
bar securing the parts together at the heel, and to this divided plate a
rising or frontal plate similarly divided is secured by screws or other
suitable connectors, whereby the whole shoe can be fitted on and secured
to the hoof without nails as hereafter described. The rising or frontal
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page_text: plate is divided in the same way as the sole plate, and at the front is
provided with screw socket picces into which a screw is inserted and
secured by screw nut at the end thereof, so as to firmly attach the parts
of the rising plate together. The heel bar which secures the heel of the
sole plate together is secured thereto by screws at each end on which the
heel bar is free to move, so that when the screw in front securing the
parts together is unscrewed the whole shoe may be opened out and
released from the horse's foot, and reverse action fastens the shoe on to
the hoof. Thus a shoe is provided which can be put on and fastened
without a nail or nails; and the wearing surface (namely the sole plate)
can be renewed where necessary and applied to the same rising plate.
The calkins may be screwed on to the sole plate or formed in one piece
with it, and size, shape, and other details may in different cases be varied.
according to the circumstances of the case, and in some cases more than
one screw and screw sockets thereof may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Colls in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
COLLS, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred, and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself; Her heirs and suc
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Colls, junior, Her
special licence that I,. the said. Henry Colls; júnior, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I; tho said Henry Colls,
junior, my executors,. administrators, and assigns,, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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-
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page_text: for
IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry Colls, junior, 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 performed, 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 Henry Colls, junior, 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:-
These improvements in horsc-shoes refer to making provisions for
securing horse-shoes to horses hoofs without nailing the same to the
hoofs. To the above end I use a horse-shoe or sole plate somewhat
similar to the ordinary shoe usually placed and secured beneath the
hoof by nailing or similar means, except that instead of being all in one
piece it is divided, and is provided with screw holes or other means of
securing thereto the other parts which form the attachment arrange-
ment for securing the shoe to the hoof. Above this horse-shoe or sole
plate a rising or frontal plate or boot, similarly divided and having a
lateral part or attached lateral plate which fits on top of the horse-shoe
or sole plate and can be secured thereto (by screws screwed into the screw
holes,) or by other suitable connectors whereby the whole shoe can be-
fitted on and secured to the hoof without nails as hereafter described
and illustrated by the Drawings accompanying these Presents. This
rising or frontal plate or boot at the front is provided with screw socket
pieces into which a screw is inserted and secured by screw nut at the
end thereof; so as to firmly attach the parts of the frontal or rising plate
and its lateral part or lateral plate together, though these parts may be
secured by any other means of securing the parts together which will
allow freedom of movement when required. The heel bar which secures
the heel of the sole plate together is secured thereto by screws or rivets
at each end on which the heel bar is free to move, so that when the
screw (or other securer) in front securing the parts together is unscrewed
(or unsecured) the whole shoe may be opened out and released from the
horse's foot whilst the reverse action fastens the shoe on to the hoof.
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page_text: By the application of my Invention a shoe is provided which can be
put on and fastened without a nail or nails, and the wearing surface can
be renewed (by removing the old sole plates and replacing them by new
ones where necessary, and applied to the same frontal or rising plate, by
its lateral portion or lateral plate as before mentioned. The calkins may
be screwed on to the sole plate or formed in one piece with it, and size;
shape, and other details may in different cases be varied according to the
circumstances of the case, and in some cases more than one screw and
screw. socket for securing the frontal part of the frontal or rising plate
may be used.
Having thus described the object and purpose of my said Invention;
and indicated the manner in which the same may be performed or puț
in practice, I now in further compliance with the said condition in the
aforesaid Letters Patent contained, proceed to particularly describe and
ascertain in what manner the said Invention is to be performed or put
in practice by reference to the accompanying Drawings (herein-before
alluded to) by the aid of words, figures, and letters marked thereon and
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herein described "Improvements in Horse-shoes wherein provisions
are made for securing horse-shoes to horses hoofs without nailing the
same to the hoofs.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Colls, junior, have hereunto
set my band and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
W. C. NEWTON,
14, Caroline Street,
Birmingham.
HENRY COLLS, JUN³. (L.S.)
84, Caroline Street,
Birmingham.