IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES.”
A communication from abroad by John D. Billings, of the City and State of
AT
Val Tited States of Amoxing Lawver
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th October 1880.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO
THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES." [A communication from abroad by John
D. Billings, of the City and State of New York, United States of America,
Lawyer.]
The object of this Invention is to secure a comfortable footing for the horse by
producing a more uniform distribution of pressure over the entire bottom of the
crust and sole bars of the hoof than is ordinarily obtained in either hand or
machine made shoes.
To this end the said Invention consists in providing machine-made horse-shoes
and blanks therefor composed of either an iron or steel bar in the form of a
T-shaped rail in transverse cross section, the central rib of which forms a continuous
projection or calk extending around the shoe from heel to heel, when the same is
bent by machinery into the required curvilinear form of a horse-shoe.
The groove to receive the nail-holes and the heads of the nails is made upon the
outer side of the central vertical rib or calk, and said groove is formed in such a
manner and of such a depth, that the sides of the heads of the nails are buried
sufficiently deep to prevent the same from becoming loose by the concussion of the
shoe against the roadway.
In carrying the said Invention into practice, the bar of metal to form the blank
is passed through rolls any suitable number of times; this operation fashions the

page_text: same into the form of a Ţ-rail, having a recess or groove upon the underside of the
transverse section or top of the T near the edge thereof. The horizontal top of
the T forms the foot surface or plate, while the vertical portion of the bar forms
the rib or calk which is at right angles to the said plate, and nearly equally distant
from the edges thereof.
After the aforesaid rectilinear bar is cut into the required lengths of the different
horse shoe blanks, the latter are placed edgewise in a suitable bending machine
similar to those described in the Specification of Letters Patent of June 4th,
A.D. 1877, No. 2169, and November 7th, A.D. 1877, No. 4151, whence the shoes
may be dropped out at the rate of twenty or more per minute in a perfect form,
ready to be placed in a punching machine which completes the shoe ready for use,
and in a condition to be secured to the hoof without burning the same, this being
effected in a quicker and more workmanlike manner than can be done with any
other shoe in the market.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th April 1881.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO
THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES." A communication from abroad by John
D. Billings, of the City and State of New York, United States of America,
Lawyer.
The object of this Invention is to secure a comfortable footing for a horse by
producing a more uniform distribution of pressure over the entire bottom of the
crust and sole bars of the hoof than is ordinarily obtained in either hand or machine
made shoes.
To this end the said Invention consists in providing machine-made horse-shoes
and blanks therefor 'composed of either an iron or steel bar in the form of a
T-shaped rail in transverse section, the central rib of which forms a continuous
projection or calk extending around the shoe from heel to heel, when the same is
bent by machinery into the required curvilinear form of a horse-shoe.
The groove or fullering to receive the nail-holes and the heads of the nails is
made upon the outer side of the central vertical rib or calk, and the said groove is
formed in such a manner and of such a depth, that the sides of the heads of the
nails are buried sufficiently deep to prevent the same from becoming loose by the
concussion of the shoe against the roadway.
In the accompanying Drawing,
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the undersido of the blank-bar from
which the horse-shoe is formed after having been passed through the forming rolls,
preparatory to being bent into the desired curvilinear form of a horse-shoe, and
Figure 2 is a transverse section of the said bar or shoe constructed according to
this Invention.
Figure 3 is a perspective view partly broken away, representing more particularly
the top of the foot-plate of the shoe, and its toe-flange or clip.
Figure 4 is an underside view of a complete shoe made from my improved bar or
blank.
In these Figures A represents the flat foot-plate or tread extending entirely
around the shoe from heel to heel, and B is the vertical rib or calk of the shoe ; Č
is the inner edge of the top of the said shoe or foot-plate, and D is the outer edge
of the same, having a groove provided with the nail-boles outside the calk A, and
adapted to receive the nail-heads; E represents a toe flange or clip.
In carrying the said Invention into practice, the bar of metal to form the blank
is passed through rolls any suitable number of times; this operation fashions the
said bar into the form of a T-shaped rail, having a recess or groove upon its under
side, or in the top of the said T-shaped rail near the edge thereof, as shown in
Figure 2. The horizontal top of the said rail forms the foot surface or plate A,
while the vertical portion of the bar forms the rib or calk B which extends at right
angles to the said plate, and nearly equally distant from the edges thereof.
After the aforesaid rectilinear bar is cut into the required lengths of the different
horse-shoe blanks, the latter are placed edgewise in a suitable bending machine,
similar to those described in the Specifications of former Letters Patent, dated
June 4th, A.D. 1877, No. 2169, and November 7th, A.D. 1877, No. 41561, from
whence the shoes are dropped out at the rate of twenty or more per minute in a
perfect form ready to be placed in a punching machine which completes the shoe
ready for use, and in a condition to be secured to the hoof without burning the
same, this being effected in a quicker and more workmanlike manner than is
possible with any other shoe heretofore constructed.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
First. A double rectangular or T-shaped bar for the manufacture of horse-shoes
by machinery, the said bar consisting of a flat foot-plate A, and a continuous rib B,
the said plate being provided with a groove on one side of the said rib, and the
said rib projecting vertically from the said plate, and being about equally distant
from both edges thereof, substantially as above set forth and as shown in the
accompanying Drawing.
Second. A horse-shoe made by machinery from a T-shaped bar of iron or steel,
having a right line or flat horizontal foot-plate from end to end and side to side
(with or without the toe flange or clip E), a groove or fullering upon its under side
near the outer edge of the said plate, and a rib upon the under side of the said foot-
plate extending around the entire shoe from heel to heel, substantially in the
manner and for the purpose herein set forth and as shown in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.