Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 28th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
I, ELLEN GRIMSHAW, of No. 11 Islington Flags, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancashire, Perambulator and Invalid Carriage Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to an improved construction of boots for horses and other
animals.
Up to the present time it has been the practice to make the kind of boots to which
my invention refers of leather, sewing or nailing the sole to the
has been left open behind and the opening covered with a tongue and which latter
hoof by means of a strap and buckle.
closed upon the
Now according to my invention I make the boot of rubber and preferably in one
piece throughout (i.o. without any of the above mentioned sewing or nailing), by
moulding it.
This method of manufacturing the boot enables the outline of the hoof to be
followed with greater precision and economy than is practicable in the well-known
method of making leather boots.
Any corrugation or perforations desirable on the score of ventilation may be
made.
My improved boot may be made closed or open behind, if the latter, I provide a
suitable closing device of any suitable type.
I do not confine myself to the use of rubber as a material for the manufacture of
ny invention, inasmuch as I may use leather or a combination of the two.
Dated this 26th day of March 1887.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ELLEN GRIMSHAW, of No. 11, Islington Flags, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancashire, Perambulator and Invalid Carriage Manufacturer, 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 an improved construction of boots for horses and other
animals.
Up to the present time it has been the practice to make the kind of boots to which
my invention refers of leather, sewing or nailing the sole to the upper which latter
has heen left open behind and the opening covered with a tongue and closed upon the
hoof by means of a strap and buckle.
Now according to my invention 1 make the boot of rubber and preferably in one
piece throughout (i.e., without any of the above mentioned sewing or nailing), by
moulding it.
This method of manufacturing the boot enables the outline of the hoof to be
followed with greater precision and economy than is practicable in the well-known
method of making leather boots.
Any corrugation or perforations desirable_on_the_score of ventilation may be
made.
In order that my invention and the means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect may be thoroughly understood I will proceed to describe the
same in detail referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be
taken as part of this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view and Fig. 2 a vertical section illustrating my invention.
The boot illustrated in the figures was made in one piece but I do not confine
myself to this detail as it is clear that it might have been made in two pieces which
had been afterwards united.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A boot for horses and other animals made of indiarubber.
2. A boot for horses and other animals without either an opening behind or a strap
or lace.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Patent Agents,
22, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.