Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1889
DIGBY DE LA MOTTE DU BOULAY 'Captain, 7th Dragoon Guards Donhead Hall,
Salisbury, Wilts, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:
An iron or steel horse shoe along the under surface of which running its whole
length is cut a slot so shaped that another shoe (made of gutta percha, or india.
rubber &c. or a mixture of india rubber &c. with iron filings &c. or bits of concrete
&c.) pressed against the under surface of the iron shoe shall by means of that slot
become dovetailed into it. The nails which fix the iron shoe to the hoof pass through
holes left in the gutta percha &c. so that the nail heads can be driven close up
against the iron shoe in the ordinary way. Several methods are used for roughing
the under, surface of the india rubber &c. shoe. Thus no indiarubber &c. being
interposed between the nail or iron shoe and the hoof there can be no possibility of
nails being drawn by the action of the india rubber gutta percha &c.
DIGBY DE LA MOTTE DU BOULAY,
Captain 7th Dragoon Guards,...
Donhead Hall, Salisbury, Wilts.

page_text: PACTUL Ces.
I DIGBY DE LA MOTTE DU BOULAY. Captain 7th Dragoon Guards of Donhead Hall,
Salisbury in the County of Wiltshire 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:-
This invention relates to horse shoes and consists in certain improvements forming a
superior shoe with elastic and non slipping properties substantially as hereinafter
described and specifically pointed out in the claims..,
Reference being made to the accompanying drawings illustrating the improved
horse shoe. Fig. 1 is a plan view thereof from the underside. Fig. 2 is a side
elevation. Fig. 3 a section on line A A Fig. 1.
The principal objects of the invention are to make an improved rubber or elastic
surfaced shoe in which the rubber or equivalent may be removable when worn for
replacement by new; yet shall not become accidentally detached in use. Furthermore
to enable the nails for fastening the shoe to be driven through the rubber or
equivalent elastic layer, body or surfacing, well down upon the iron or steel under-
plate and so prevent such nails from being withdrawn by action of the rubber..
The improved shoe consists of the metallic frame like part B having the shape of
an ordinary shoe of suitable thickness and provided around its under surface with the
slot C, D is the 'rubber or equivalent elastic piece likewise shaped to the shoe and
having on its upper face a projecting rib or piece E widening from its juncture with
the elastic body so that when pressed into the slot before mentioned it may be retained.
therein by the spreading of the rib E into the bottom of the slot, the latter being
likewise broader below than at the under surface of the metal plate. Holes being
made through the rubber and metal under plate, the nails may, by a suitable driver
be hammered through the rubber or elastic body down onto the inner metal under
plate.
The part B may be of iron or steel. The elastic body of rubber, gutta percha or
rubber compound with pieces, filings, chips etc of iron or steel or rough and hard
gravel etc.
In some cases I may fasten another metal plate as a facing to the rubber.

page_text: 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 horse shoe composed of a metal body B having a slot C therein, and an elastic
under piece D having a spreading rib E substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
2. In the horse shoe composed of metal body B and elastic body D the construction
whereby nails may be driven through the rubber and metal body, and fix the metal
body independently of the elastic body for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1889.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.