Improvements in and connected with Horse Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse Shoes.
I, EMILE DEJEAN of No. 19 Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury, in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of a new kind of shoe. It is made with a groove all
round which is larger at the bottom than the top. A specially constructed nail is
used which fits in between the walls of the shoe, dividing it into sections that when
the grit gets in, it is impossible for it to fall out. The nail is made with a square
head tapering down in V fashion, the holes in the shoe being stamped to fit the
nails.
Dated this 21st day of October 1803
EMILE DEJEAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse Shoes.
I, EMILE DEJEAN of No. 19 Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury, in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in and connected with horse shoes and the
objects of it are to give a horse a safer foothold upon slippery ground, and to
improve the shoe generally.
Referring to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
Specification and read therewith :-
Figure 1 is an inverted plan of a shoe for winter use made according to the
present invention and presenting the appearance of one in actual use.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an inverted plan of a shoe for winter use, but without calks, made
according to the present invention, shewing the nail sockets and the cavities
empty.
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 4 after the
insertion of nails in the respective sockets.
Figure 6 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 4, shewing the
cavities filled with grit.
Figure 7 is an inverted plan of a shoe for summer use made according to my
invention shewing both cavities and the nail sockets empty.
Figure 8 is a section taken on the line 8-8 of Figure 7 shewing the cavity filled
with grit.
Figure 9 is a section taken on the line 9-9 of Figure 7, also shewing the
cavity filled with grit.
My improved shoe, whether for summer or for winter use, has a groove formed
in the sole of it from heel to heel. My invention does not limit me in respect of
the cross section of this groove, for that may be varied as may be desired. It is
shewn in the figures as trapezoidal but the shape of it in cross section does not
form any part of the invention. The groove is intersected by the insertion of the
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page_text: nails and is thereby divided into sections or cavities a, a. b, b are the nail sockets.
These stand up from the bottom of the groove and are shaped internally to provide
seats for the lower part of the nail head, or, in other words, for half of the head
from the junction of the latter with the shank, upwards. In point of length of
the nail head, the top of it stands flush with the sole of the shoe when the head
itself is down in the socket b. The head itself is of a specially tapered shape.
In one direction, its opposite sides are shaped to fit nearly quite close up to the
edges c, c of the shoe as illustrated in Figures 3 and 9, and in the other to project
over the sides of the nail socket into the cavity a on either side of it, as illustrated
in Figure 5. When a winter shoe is to receive calks, d, d, the heel cavities stop
short of the actual heels of the shoe so as to leave enough solid metal for the
calks to screw into.
When the shoe is in use, the cavities gather grit and odd small stuff generally
while the repeated beat, beat of the hoof on the roadway, jams it in hard and tight.
A reference at this point to Figure 5 shews the effect the peculiarly shaped head
of the nail will have in holding the compacted filling of grit e in the cavity and
preventing it coming loose. The heel cavities are, or may be, fitted with
treads f, f, of cork or similarly elastic material which will not readily slip over a
slippery roadway.
9 is a strengthening ridge from one edge c to the other, at the toe of the shoe, to
strengthen the outer edge c at that point.
In a shoe made according to the present invention, for use in winter, special
provision consisting of the device illustrated in Figures 1 to 6 and next described,
is made to prevent snow balling in the foot. h is a ridge projecting laterally from
the inside edge of the shoe, so as to stand, when the shoe is on the hoof, under
the cavity of the latter. The lower face A¹ of this ridge is concaved to be, as far
as possible, a continuation of the contour of the said cavity, thereby obviating the
presence of the usual internal angle between hoof and shoe and so preventing the
accumulation of snow in the hoof. The top face, ² of the ridge is shaped to fit
up to the said cavity and to, so far, improve the contact between hoof and shoe.
In a shoe made according to the present invention, for use in summer, there are
two series of cavities a, a, one inside the other, as illustrated in Figures 7, 8
and 9.
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 combination with a shoe, of a series of cavities adapted to pick up grit
or to receive a tread, said cavities being produced by intersections of a groove in
the sole of the shoe by the nail heads.
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2. The combination with a shoe, of an outer and an inner series of cavities adapted
to pick up grit, said cavities being produced by intersections of a groove in the
sole of the shoe, by the nail heads.
3. The combination of groove, nail socket and nail head, as set forth.
4. The improved winter shoe, as set forth.
5. The improved summer shoe, as set forth.