IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ashton, of 59, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES."
Sealed the 24th November 1868, and dated the 4th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ashton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with. his Petition, on the
4th June 1868.
I, JOSEPH ASHTON, of 59, Fleet Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HORSE-SHOES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in horse-shoes. For
this purpose I form horse-shoes in a manner similar to that repre-
sented in the annexed Drawings with tooth-like projections and points.
arranged alternately. The number and exact arrangement of the pro-
jections and points will vary in shoes of different sizes.
In the Drawing Figure 1 is a plan, and Figures 2 and 3 are transverse
sections taken at the lines 1, 1, and 2, 2, Figure 1 respectively.

page_text: a, a, is the body of the shoe; b, b, are the tooth-like projections; and
c¹, c¹, are removeable; and need only be
The shoes may conveniently be cast in
c, c, are the points, the points
employed in slippery weather.
malleable iron.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Ashton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ASHTON, of 59, Fleet Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Ashton, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Ashton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Ashton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE-SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Joseph Ashton, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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.
:
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Ashton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in horse-shoes. For
this purpose I form horse-shoes in a manner similar to that repre-

page_text: sented in the annexed Drawings with tooth-like projections and points
arranged alternately. The number and exact arrangement of the
projections and points will vary in shoes of different sizes, but usually
I prefer to make them of the form shown in the Drawing.
Figure 1 is a plan view of the shoe, and Figure 2 is a transverse
section of the same taken through the line 1, 1, Figure 1; Figure 3
shows a section taken at the line 2, 2, Figure 1, through the tooth-like
projection at the front of the shoe; and Figure 4 shows a section taken
at the line 3, 3, Figure 1, through one of the similar projections at the
back of the shoe. The shape to which I prefer to form the back ends of
the hind and fore shoes are shown respectively at Figures 5 and 6.
a, a, is the body of the shoe; b, b, are the tooth-like projections; and
c, c, are the points. The tooth-like projection at the front of the shoe
I prefer to make larger than the other similar projections, as shown by
the Drawing, but this may be varied. The shoes may conveniently be
cast in malleable iron, or they may be struck up or pressed in swages
or dies from bars of wrought metal, or bars may be rolled with the
projections upon them and be subsequently bent to the form desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Ashton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOSEPH ASHTON. (L.S.)