IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSE OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Dickson Richardson, Superintendent of Works
to the Horse Shoe Manufacturing Co of North Greenwich Cubitt Town in the
County of Essex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSE
OR OTHER ANIMALS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Dickson Richardson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October 1883.
THOMAS DICKSON RICHARDSON, Superintendent of Works to the Horse Shoe
Manufacturing Company of North Greenwich, Cubitt Town, in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS
"
My Invention has for its object to construct or form by machinery horse shoes
in such a manner as to prevent the fixing or balling of stones or other substances in
the shoe when in use, which fixing or balling is very injurious to the animals
wearing the shoes. In constructing shoes according to my Invention the shoes are
first rolled in strips from blanks by rolls so formed that the figure of the rolled
strip in side view is flat on one side but at the centre of the upper side there is a
part formed by a cycloidal curve which is of considerable elevation at its mid-part,
that is to say, it gives considerable thickness of metal at the part which is to form
the toe of the shoe. The said cycloidal part runs by easy curves on either side
and inclines gradually to the quarters which are of less width than usual, thus
giving considerable depth of calking at the ends or heel of the shoe. As seen in
plan of underside, the shoe has one side flat, but the other side tapers or inclines
upwards so that the tread of the shoe is narrower than the part next the hoof--
The taper or incline is greater towards the quarters and calkings and may be
concave or convex or partly concave and partly convex-The inner sides of the
calkings are also inclined so as to make the said calkings narrower at the tread
The rolls by which the shoes are made have of course the necessary and corre-
sponding elevations to produce the described shoe and the said rolls may be made
to roll shoe strips side by side with each other, from one piece of metal and they
can afterwards be slit apart by a slitting roll. The strips are bent into the curve
form of a shoe by hand hammering or in any convenient way

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Dickson Richardson in the Patent Office on the 16th April
1884.
THOMAS DICKSON RICHARDSON, Superintendent of Works to the Horse Shoe
Manufacturing Company of North Greenwich, Cubitt Town in the County of
Essex "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS"
My Invention has for its object to construct or form by machinery, horse shoes
in such a manner as to prevent the fixing or balling of stones or other substances
in the shoe when in use, which fixing or balling is very injurious to the animals
wearing the shoes. I will explain my Invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings. Figure 1 of which represents in side view a shoe blank formed in
accordance with my said Invention. Figure is a plan of underside of the same
showing however two shoe blanks, which have been rolled by one roll,. to be
afterwards divided before being bent into the requisite curved shape. In
constructing shoes according to my Invention the shoes are first rolled in strips
from blanks by rolls so formed that the figure of the rolled strip in side view is,
as shewn in Figure 1, flat on one side (the part a which in the shoe is next the
animals hoof) but at the centre of the upper side (that part which is next the
ground when the shoe is in use) there is a part b formed by a cycloidal curve
which is of considerable elevation at its mid-part that is to say it gives considerable
thickness of metal at the part which is to form the toe of the shoe. The said
cycloidal part bruns by easy curves con either side and inclines d gradually to
the quarters e which are of less width and thickness than usual thus giving
considerable depth of calking at the ends for heel of the shoe. As seen in plan of
underside (Figure 2) the shoe has one side (g. g) flat but the other side (h. h) tapers
or inclines upwards (that is to say from the part which is next the hoof to the
tread) so that the tread of the shoe is narrower than the part next the hoof. The
taper or incline h is greater towards the quarters and calkings as shewn clearly in
Figure 2 and the said taper or inclined part may be either concave or convex or
partly concave and partly convex. The inner sides of the calkings (at h²) are also
inclined so as to make the said calkings narrower at the tread. The shoe may be
made either with or without the calkings
The rolls by which the shoes are made have of course, as will be readily under-
stood, the necessary and correspondingly reversed elevations to produce the
described shoe and the said rolls may be made to roll shoe strips side by side with
each other from one piece of metal as shewn in Figure 2 and they can afterwards
be slit apart by a slitting roll. Figure 3 is a side elevation of rolls arranged for
this purpose. At A are the rolls for forming the double blank Figure 2 and at B
are the rolls whereby the blanks are severed
The strips are bent into the curve form of a shoe by hand hammering or in any
convenient manner
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original

page_text: and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is.-
Shoes for horses and other animals manufactured or formed substantially as
herein before described and illustrated
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Dickson Richardson have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal this Eighth day of April One thousand eight
hundred and eighty four
T. D. RICHARDSON (L.S.)