Improvements in or connected with Horse and other like Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Horse and other like Shoes.
I, JOHN EBENEZER HILL, of The Hayes, Lyo, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, Com-
mercial Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has reference to shoes for horses, mules and donkeys and it consists
in making as hereinafter described the said shoes or the wearing parts of the same
of copper or copper alloy so as the better to prevent the animals slipping.
I will describe my invention as applied to a horse shoe.
According to one arrangement of my Invention 1 fix to an iron or steel horse
shoe, studs or wearing pieces of copper or an alloy of copper which project at the
lower side thereof and present a frictional surface to the ground. These studs or
wearing pieces may be of any convenient number, shape or size and fixed to the
shoe in any convenient manner such as by each having a shank which passes up
through the shoe and is rivetted over on the upper side, or by the said shanks
being made taper to fit in taper holes in the shoe or by being screw threaded to fit
in tapped holes. Or, instead of the said wearing pieces being provided with a shank or
shanks for their attachment, they may be fixed in a groove or grooves in the underside
of the shoe such groove or grooves being formed during the process of rolling the
bar of iron or steel to form the shoes or formed after the shoe is made.
The said groove or grooves is or are by preference made dovetailed or undercut
with a projecting inclined rib along the bottom of the groove parallel with the sides
and corresponding with a channel running along one side of the said wearing piece so
that when the wearing piece is driven into the said groove the said rib will project
into the channel in the wearing piece and spread out the sides of the latter to
engage with the undercut sides of the groove and secure the wearing piece therein.
The said wearing strips are by preference divided at the toe of the shoo so that if
required when worn they can be removed from the groove by being driven out
of the heel of the shoe.
I sometimes make the said shoes wholly of copper or of an alloy of copper
and with or without the said wearing pieces projecting from the underside thereof.
The said wearing pieces are by preference not made pointed as is usual with steel
frost studs but are blunt and flattened as it is the frictional resistance of the copper
surface which I depend upon more particularly to prevent slipping.
Dated this 19th don of March 1880
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
Agent for the pican
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Horse and other like Shoes.
I, JOHN EBENEZER HILL, of The Hayes, Lye, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, Com-
mercial Clerk, 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 has reference to shoes for horses mules and donkeys and to
removable wearing parts or strips therefor which are constructed in a peculiar manner
as hereinafter described so as to enable the said wearing pieces to be readily
attached to or removed from the shoes when worn and readily replaced.
In carrying out my invention I make a dove tailed or under cut groove or grooves
in the underside of the shoe each such groove or grooves having a projecting inclined
rib along the bottom parallel to the sides and corresponding with the channel

page_text: running along one side of the wearing piore so that when the wearing piece is driven
into the groove the said rib will project into the channel in the wearing piece and
spread out the sides of the latter to engage with the under cut sides of the groove
and thus secure the wearing piece therein. "One or both ends of the said groove or of
each of the grooves is left open so that when the wearing piece is worn down to the
level of the shoe it can be driven out and replaced by a fresh one.
The said wearing pieces are by preference not made pointed as usual with steel
frost studs but are blunt and flattened and are preferably made of copper or copper
alloy so that the frictional resistance of the copper surface on the ground will-prevent
slipping.
On the accompanying drawings Fig: 1 represents in plan and Fig: 2 in section a
horse shoe provided with removable wearing strips or parts constructed according to.
this invention; Fig. 3 represents in plan, and Fig. 4 in cross soction, the said horse
shoe with the wearing strips or parts removed; Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the same
on an enlarged scale shewing the wearing strip in position; Fig. 6. illustrates on an
enlarged scale in cross section the wearing part and part of the shoe separately, and
Fig. 7 shows the same parts with the wearing strip in position: ready to be driven
into the groove in the shoe. Figs. 8 and 10 represent in plan other forms of horse
shoes in which the groove for the wearing part or parts is formed during the process:
of rolling the bar of iron or steel to form the shoes, and Figs. 9 and 11 shew parts: of
the said bars separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts.in all. the
Figures of the drawings.
The shoe is marked a and the dove tailed or under cut groove or grooves in the
underside of the shoe are marked b, and c is the projecting inclined rib.along, the
bottom of each of the grooves b parallel to the sides of the same. The wearing strips
or pieces for fitting in the grooves bare marked d, each being provided with a
channel e on its undersido. The grooves b may be arranged in any convenient
position or positions in the shoe a, such for instance as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4,
where there is a groove bat each heel of the shoe and three similar grooves at the
fore part. The wearing strips d can conveniently be made by rolling or drawing to.
the section illustrated by Fig. 6 and then cut off to the length required: To fix the
wearing, pieced in the groove bits lower part is inserted in the groove so that the,
upper edge of the inclined rib c will enter the channel e, (see Fig. 7) the wearing.
strip is then hammered. or otherwise driven into the groove, and. the rib centering
the channel e causes the sides of the wearing piece to spread. out and engage with the
under cut sides of the groove b, as shewn in Fig. 5, and thus secure the wearing. piece d
therein. By leaving one or both ends of the groove b openias shewn the wearing
picce can when worn be readily driven out of the groove and replaced by a fresh.
wearing piece.
The arrangement of the grooves.bin the shoe illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 is
applicable more particularly to those shoes which are made of cast metal; when the
shoe is made of rolled iron or steel or other metal or alloy 1 prefer to form the
groove for the wearing strips or parts d in the bar for forming the shoes during
the process of rolling the same, which can readily be done by rolls. having, passes-of
the required form, which however form no part of this invention. Fig. 8'illustrates a
shoe of this kind made from a bar of rolled iron or steel, part-of which is illustrated
by Fig. 9, from which it will be seen that the undercut or-döve tailed groove band'
the projecting inclined rib e run along the bar from end to end so that when the bar
has been bent to form a horse shoe as shewn in Fig. 8 this groove will serve for
fixing the wearing strips or parts d in the manner above. described: The, wearing
strips or parts for fixing in the groove at the fore part of the shoe wouldy of course
have to be curved to suit the curve of the grooverb. In this example the groove d.
serves also for the nails for fixing the shoe, the nail holes.f being formed in: the
bottom of this groove. Wearing strips or parts d can be fixed, in the groove b
between the nail heads as well as at the heel; and the fore part of the shoe: The
horse shoe illustrated by Fig. 10 is made from a rolled bar of iron steel.or. other;

page_text: metal or alloy of the section illustrated by Fig. 11 which is similar to that illustrated
by Fig. 9 except that it has creases y for the nail heads which are rolled in the bar at
the same time as the groove b.
In conclusion I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
shape of the wearing piece, or groove or rib illustrated by the accompanying drawings,
as it will be evident that the same may be varied without departing from the nature of
my invention, but,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvements in securing wearing strips or wearing pieces in horse or other
like shoes herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings,
which consist in forming a dove tail or under cut groove or grooves in the underside
of the shoe, such groove or each of such grooves having an inclined rib along the
bottom thereof, and in forming a channel in the wearing piece or in each of the
wearing pieces corresponding with said rib or ribs so that when said wearing pieco
or wearing pieces is or are driven into said groove or grooves the sides of the wearing
piece or wearing pieces will by said rib or ribs be spread apart and engage with the
inclined or under cut sides of said groove or grooves, for the purpose and substantially
as hereinbefore set forth.
2. A horse or other like shoe having a dove tail or under cut groove or grooves in
its underside, such groove or each of such grooves having an inclined rib along the
bottom thereof, for the purpose and substantially as herein before set forth and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. A horse or other like shoe made from a rolled bar of iron steel or other metal or
alloy and having a dove tail or under cut groove in its underside projecting from the
bottom of which is an inclined rib, the said rib or groove having been formed during
the process or processes of rolling the said bar, substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 8 and 9 and by Figs. 10 and 11 of the
accompanying drawings.
4. A wearing strip, for fixing to a horse or other like shoo of the kind denoted
under claims 2 and 3, having a channel along one side for the purpose and substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of December 1889.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.