Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1897
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Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st Jan., 1898-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
I, FREDERICK ABRAHAM POUPARD, of Cambrian House, West Norwood, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a mode and means of attachment of shoes to the hoofs
of horses or other hoofed animals, without nails, screws or bands surrounding
the outer wall of the hoof, and it consists of a combination of devices situated at
the toe and the flanks of the shoe, whereby the outer and hardest shell of the hoof
is gripped (by the action of a hammer only) both at the toe and the flanks of the
shoe between an outer clip so formed upon the edge of the shoe as to be easily
bent against the outer shell of the hoof, by pressure, or the blow of a hammer,
and a stud upon the upper tread of the shoe situated immediately opposite or
adjacent to each edge clip, which stud enters into the lower face of the hoof by
the pressure of the horses hoof or by the tap of a hammer, and gives the desired
locking grip as a reaction to the bent over outer edge clip to firmly secure the
shoe to the outer shell of the hoof.
To carry my invention into effect I form a shoe with three or more outer edge
clips, sufficiently flexible and high to bend over upon the outer wall of the hoof,
by the blow of a hammer or other impact or pressure. One or more of these clips
is situated at, or adjacent to, the toe of the shoe, and the others are arranged on
cither flank of the shoe.
Opposite and close to, or adjacent to, these edge clips, I provide holes in the
upper tread of the shoe preferably square, into which I drop a sharp stud, of any
desired contour, but preferably of chisel shape, after the shoe without such studs
has been fitted by burning or otherwise to the hoof of the horse or other animal.
The shoe, after the studs have been inserted into their respective holes, is tapped
on to the hoof, and the front clip may be hammered or otherwise pressed down
onto the outer wall of the front of the hoof, or the horse or other animal may be
then caused, if desired, to place its foot firmly on the ground and the pressure of
the animal will suffice in most cases to cause the studs to firmly enter the hoof.
The clips are then hammered or pressed upon the sides or flanks of the hoof.
The shoe is thus securely fixed to the hoof, without the use of nails or screws,
and without pressure between the opposite of the hoof, such gripping pressure
as is obtained being between each edge clip and its adjacent reacting stud, and
therefore only upon the outer hard wall of the hoof at each point between such
clip and stud.
may add, if desired, further studs upon the upper tread of the shoe to enter
the lower face of the hoof to prevent sliding of the shoe upon the hoof.
may modify the form of my edge clips so that instead of being made in one
piece with the shoe, they may be inserted with heads from underneath, through
holes in the shoe; and the said edge clips may be sufficiently long and narrow
to enter under a cross bar clip attached by dogs to the outer shell of the hoof. The

page_text: upper point of such clip may then pass under the said cross-bar clip, and be
clenched down and over the said cross bar clip, and will produce the same grip
as aforesaid upon the outer wall of the hoof, by reaction with the adjacent tread
stud as before described.
Datel this D1nd Jan
Al 1807
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals. ..
I, FREDERICK ABRAHAM POUPARD, of Cambrian House, West, Norwood, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, 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 a mode and means for the attachment of shoes to the
hoofs of horses or other hoofed animals without the use of nails, screws, or spikes
piercing the outer wall of the hoof, and without the use of bands surrounding
the said hoof, and it consists of a combination of devices situated at the toe and
flanks of the shoe, whereby the outer and hardest shell of the hoof is gripped at
the toe and flanks between the said devices, such devices being readily closed
to give the required grip by pressure or the blow of a hammer in the hands of any
unskilled operator.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood I now proceed to
describe the same reference being had to the drawings hereto annexed and to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a hoof with nailless shoe attached thereto.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
Figure 3 is a plan of the shoe with wide and additional clips the hoof being
removed, and the clips being closed up, and
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of the said shoe with clips straight to admit
hoof before closing up.
Figure 5 shows a modified manner of attaching the clips and stud to the shoe.
I am aware that many clips at the sides of the hoof and studs and projections
on the inner tread of the shoe have been used in conjunction with bands surround-
ing the outer wall of the hoof or with nails and screws entering into the solid
horn of the hoof; but in no case has secure attachment of the shoe to the hoof
been attained, without such accessories, by a combination of three or more grip-
ping devices such are hereafter described or which may be used for attach-
ment or detachment of the shoe from the hoof with so little labour or skill.
In the manufacture of the shoe A. I provide three or more clip tongues B at the
toe and the flanks respectively of such thickness and material that they can be
bent over toward the hoof by pressure or the tap of a hammer, which clip tongues
may be forged with the shoe or otherwise attached thereto; for instance as shown
in Figure 5, the tongue clip B and stud point C are rivetted to the shoe A by a
rivetted pin head D or may be otherwise attached.
Close to each of these edge clips B, I provide a stud C, preferably sharp pointed
and of a chisel shaped head, and which having preferably a rectilinear or square
stem to prevent rotation of the stud is dropped into a corresponding recess in the
shoe. Or equivalently as in Fig. 5 if the tongue clip B is made as a separate

page_text: attachment to the shoe the chisel stud point may be a part of such attachment,
or attached thereto.
The tongue clips when in position for placing the shoe on the hoof are vertical.
The shoe is fitted to the hoof in the usual manner by burning or otherwise before
the studs Care inserted. After the studs C have been inserted into their places, the
shoe is tapped on to the hoof and the front tongue clip B is hammered or
otherwise pressed on to the outer wall of the hoof; or the horse or other animal
may be caused to place its foot firmly on the ground and the pressure of the animal
will suffice in most cases to cause the studs to enter the under face of the hoof.
The shoes may be fitted cold and the studs may be integral with the shoe. The
clip tongues B are then hammered or pressed upon the front and flanks of the
hoof.
The effect is a locking grip between the clip tongue and its adjacent stud, upon
that portion of the hard outer horn of the hoof between them, and these grips
being distributed over three or more portions of the hoof suffice to securely fix
the shoe to the hoof without the use of nails, screws, or bands, and without pressure
between opposite sides of the hoof as a whole, which would be injurious to the
animal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1st. In combination in a shoe for horses or other hoofed animals three or more
sets of edge malleable tongue clips and short studs made integral with or detach-
ably attached to the inner tread of the shoe, adjacent to each of the said tongue
clips, each set gripping between them a portion of the hard outer shell of the
hoof for affixing the shoe to the hoof without nails, screws, or other accessory
attachments substantially as described.
2nd. In a nailless and bandless shoe for horses or other hoofed animals an
attachment carrying a vertical malleable edge clip, and a short stud, inside and
adjacent to said tongue clip, with means for attachment of said device to said shoe
substantially as described.
3rd. In a nailless and bandless shoe for horses or other hoofed animals means,
other than bands, nails or screws, for attachment of the shoe to the hoof, substan-
tially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of January 1898.
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.