IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE- SHOES
Year: 1873

page_text: Scaled the 9th April 1874, and dated the 18th October 1873..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Sam Mendel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th October 1873..
I, SAM MENDEL, of the City of Manchester, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-
SHOES," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent horses from slipping and to
obtain a yielding bearing surface for their feet.
My improved horse-shoe consists of a combination of iron and
vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable yielding material.
In performing my Invention I make a curved slot through each side
of the shoe, and I prepare a strip of vulcanized india-rubber or other

page_text: suitable yielding material with two projections on it, which projections
pass through the slots in the shoe and project slightly beyond it; the
ends of the strip and the part between the two projections are held
between the hoof and the back of the shoe.
suitable yielding material with two projections on it, which projections
pass through the slots in the shoe and project slightly beyond it; the
ends of the strip and the part between the two projections are held
between the hoof and the back of the shoe.
My Invention may be modified by varying the number of slots in the
shoe, and of projections on the strip of india-rubber or other suitable
My Invention may be modified by varying the number of slots in the
shoe, and of projections on the strip of india-rubber or other suitable
yielding material.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Sam Mendel in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAM
MENDEL, of the City of Manchester, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Sam Mendel, Her special
licence that I, the said Sam Mendel, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Sam Mendel, my executors, admini-
strators, 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 Sam Mendel,
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 Sam Mendel, do hereby declare the

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
The object of my Invention is to prevent horses from slipping and to
obtain a yielding bearing surface for their feet.
My improved horse-shoe consists of a combination of iron and
vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable yielding material.
In performing my Invention I make a curved slot through each side
of the shoe, and I prepare a strip of vulcanized india-rubber or other
suitable yielding material with two projections on it, which projections
pass through the slots in the shoe and project slightly beyond it; the
ends of the strip and the part between the two projections are- held
between the hoof and the back of the shoe.
My Invention may be modified by varying the number of slots in the
shoe, and of projections on the strip of india-rubber or other suitable
yielding material.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into operation, I will proceed to describe the two accompanying
Sheets of Drawings, reference being had to the figures and letters marked
thereon.
On Sheet 1 Fig. 1 is a plan of the iron part of my improved horse-
shoe, and Fig. 2 is a section through the same.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the vulcanized india-rubber or other yielding
material forming part of the horse-shoe, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the
same.
Fig. 5 is a side view of the complete horse-shoc. a is the iron part of
the horse-shoe, and it is provided with two curved slots b, b, into which
the projections c, c, from the strip of vulcanized india-rubber or other
suitable yielding material d enter, the projections c and strip d project
above and below the part a, as shewn in Figs. 2 and 5. The horse-shoe
is secured to the hoof by nails in the ordinary manner, and when the
shoe is fixed on the hoof the india-rubber or other material projecting
above the iron forms a yielding bearing surface for the hoof, and the
part projecting below the level of the iron causes the shoe to adhere to
the pavement and prevents slipping.
On Sheet 2 Fig. 6 is a plan, and Fig. 7 a side view of a modification
of my Invention; in this case I have shewn two curved slots 6 in each

page_text: side of the iron shoe a, and four projections c on the strip of india-rubber
or other suitable yielding material d.
Fig. 8 is a plan, and Fig. 9 a side view of another modification of my
Invention; in this case I have shewn seven circular holes in the
shoe a, and a corresponding number of projections c on the strip d.
These improved horse-shoes are lighter and more durable than those
of the ordinary construction.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described three
convenient modes of performing the same, I wish to remark that I do
not intend to limit myself to the details given, as the number and shape
of the slots in the iron part of the shoe, and the number of the projecting
surfaces of india-rubber or other yielding material may be varied. I
claim the improved mode of constructing horse-shoes of a combination
of iron and vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable yielding material,
as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sam Mendel, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
JAMES HOWARTH,
Clerk,
59, Alton Street,
Harpurhey.
SAM MENDEL. (L.S.)