Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, HUGH ARCHIBALD FERGUSSON of No. 4 Wilton Street, Grosvenor Place
in the County of Middlesex, Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to a means of rendering horse shoes more durable than
they usually are, and at the same time providing against their slipping on smooth
paving. For this purpose, I make the shoe in the usual form, of soft iron with a
number of holes which may be round or of other form sunk in the face of the shoe
but not passing through its thickness. In each of these holes I fix a pin or stud of
hard steel which may project slightly above the face of the iron shoe. As the shoe
becomes worn, the softer metal wearing somewhat faster than the steel studs, always
leaves the latter a little prominent, so that they prevent slipping. In order to
lighten the shoe, the steel studs may be fixed in bosses projecting from the face of
the shoe, the iron between these projecting bosses being removed.
Dated this 1st day of July 1890.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
1, HUGH ARCHIBALD FERGUSSON, of No. 4 Wilton Street, Grosvenor Place,
in the County of Middlesex, Electrician, 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 :-
My invention relates to means of rendering horse shoes more durable than they
usually are and at the same time providing against their slipping on smooth
paving.
For this purpose, I make the shoe in the usual form, of soft iron with a number
of holes which may be round or of other form sunk in the face of the shoe but not
passing through its thickness. In each of these holes I fix a pin or stud of hard
steel which may project slightly above the face of the iron shoe. As the shoe
becomes worn, the softer metal wearing somewhat faster than the steel studs always
leaves the latter a little prominent, so that they prevent slipping.
In order to lighten the shoe, the steel studs may be fixed in bosses projecting
from the face of the shoe, the iron between these projecting bosses being
removed.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention applied to horse shoes of
several different forms. Fig. 1 is a plan, looking from below and Figs. 2 and 3 are
sections on X X and Y Y of a shoe suitable for a heavy draught horse; Fig. 4 is
a plan and Fig. 5 a section on X X of a light shoe as for a hunter, and Fig. 6 is a
plan and Fig. 7 a section on X X of a shoe strengthened by an internal rib.
The body A of the shoe, which may be of malleable cast iron or soft steel is
made with projecting bosses B as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, or with ribs C and bosses D
on them as in Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7. In each of these bosses is a hole which does not
pass through the shoe, and which is made to receive a hard steel stud S. In order
to fix these studs firmly, they are made slightly dovetailed in shape and inserted
in the holes which are at first made wide enough at their mouths to admit the large
end of the stud as indicated by the dotted lines at F Fig. 3.

page_text: After the stud is inserted the mouth of the hole is closed in, either by the blow
of a hammer on the side of the boss or by driving on the boss a hollow taper punch,
such as is used for heading rivets.
Obviously the studs S may be of various shapes and may be arranged in various
positions and numbers in the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
A horse shoe made of comparatively soft iron or steel having studs of hard
steel fixed in holes which do not extend through the shoe, substantially as and
for the purposes herein set forth.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.