IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES AND SHOES FOR OTHER ANIMALS AND IN THE MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR FASTENING THE SAME: AND IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF."
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Hodder Heard of Sheffield in the County of
York for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES AND SHOES
FOR OTHER ANIMALS AND IN THE MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR FASTENING
THE SAME: AND IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Hodder Heard at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th June 1882.
THOMAS HODDER HEARD of Sheffield in the County of York IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE-SHOES AND SHOES FOR OTHER ANIMALS AND IN THE MEANS
APPLIANCES FOR FASTENING THE SAME, AND IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF.
AND
This invention relates to improvements in horse shoes, and shoes for other
animals, and in the means and appliances for fastening the same and in the
manufacture thereof.
This invention consists chiefly of an improved form of shoe which can be secured
to the foot of the animal without the use of nails and of an improved form of clip
for securing shoes to animals.
The shoe should-by preference-be formed with a groove, or grooves, in the
under side and drilled or punched with rivet or bolt holes, the holes being plain or
tapped, so that the heads of the rivets, bolts, or screws employed to secure the
clips will be in the groove. Clip plates of iron or steel are rivetted or bolted to
the upper side of the shoe, the clip plates are pointed or formed with or fitted with
teeth at each end, the lower end being turned up on-and projecting from-the
upper face of the shoe so as to enter the bottom of the hoof, and the upper end
thereof being turned in so that the teeth or points thereon can be driven into the
side of the hoof thus fastening the shoe securely to the hoof.
The improvement in the shoe consists chiefly in making the clip above described
part of and solid with the shoe.
As a modification rivets or bolts may be dispensed with and the clip plate be
slit at its lower end so that parts thereof can be turned up and pointed to enter
the hoof, and parts thereof be turned down and turned across the groove to secure
the clip to the shoe.

page_text: The upper face of the shoe may be recessed to receive the clip plate so that when
in position the upper face of the shoe will be level.
As a further modification the clips may be secured to the shoe by set screws
with tapered projecting points the points of the set screws being driven into the
hoof instead of or as well as the pointed ends of the clip or the clips may be
secured to the sides of the shoe and hoof by set screws; or clips for the sides of
the shoe and hoof-either solid with the shoe or separate therefrom-may be
employed in combination with horse shoe nails driven through the bottom face
of the shoe.
Any number of clips may be used with one shoe as circumstances may require.
My invention further consists in the manufacture of horse shoes from specially
rolled or formed bars, the said bars having an upper flange which is made to clip
the upper part or sides or sides and back-of the hoof thus preventing the shoe
from leaving the hoof in the event of the heads of the nails being worn off or
broken. The clips above described are formed from the upper flange of this
specially rolled or formed bar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent tiled
by the said Thomas Hodder Heard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th December 1882.
THOMAS HODDER HEARD of Sheffield in the County of York IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE-SHOES AND SHOES FOR OTHER ANIMALS, AND IN THE MEANS AND
APPLIANCES FOR FASTENING THE SAME AND IN THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF
"
This invention relates to improvements in horse-shoes, and shoes for other
animals, and in the means and appliances for fastening the same, and in the
manufacture thereof.
This invention consists chiefly of an improved form of shoe which can be secured
to the foot of the animal without the use of nails, and of an improved form of Clip
for securing shoes to animals.
The shoe with loose Clips should-by preference-be formed with a groove or
grooves in the under side and drilled or punched with rivet or bolt holes, the holes
being plain or tapped, so that the heads of the rivets, bolts or screws employed to
secure the clips will be in the groove. Clip plates of iron or steel are rivetted or
bolted to the upper side of the shoe, the clip plates are pointed or formed with
or fitted with teeth at each end the lower end being turned up on-and projecting
from the upper face of the shoe, so as to enter the bottom of the hoof and the
upper end thereof being turned in so that the teeth or points thereon can be
driven into the side or upper face of the hoof, thus fastening the shoe securely
to the hoof.

page_text: The improvement in the shoe consists chiefly in making the clip above described
part of and solid with-the shoe.
As a modification rivets or bolts may be dispensed with and the clip plate be
slit at its lower end so that parts thereof can be turned up and pointed to enter
the under face of the hoof, and parts thereof be turned down and turned across the
groove to secure the Clip to the shoe
The upper face of the shoe may be recessed to receive the clip plate so thạt
when the clip is in position the upper face of the shoe will be level.
As a further modification the clips may be secured to the shoe by set screws
with tapered projecting points the points of the set screws being driven or forced
into the hoof instead of or as well as the pointed ends of the clip or the clips may
be secured to the sides of the shoe and hoof by set screws; or clips for the sides
of the shoe and hoof-either solid with the shoe or separate therefrom-may be
employed in combination with horse shoe nails driven through the bottom face
of the shoe.
Any number of Clips may be used with one shoe as circumstances may require.
My invention further consists in the manufacture of horse shoes from specially
rolled or formed bars of steel, Iron, etcetera the said bars having an upper flange
which is made to clip the upper part or sides-or side and front or sides front
and back of the hoof thus preventing the shoe from leaving the hoof in the
event of the heads of the nails being worn off or broken. The Clips above
described are formed from or flyed out from the upper flange of this specially
rolled or formed bar.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figs 1. 2. 3 and 4 show
a shoe with solid clips in the form it will be when on the hoof of a horse. Fig 1.
is a Plan, Fig. 2 is a side view Fig 3 is a longitudinal section in elevation' as
taken through the dotted line Y Z (Fig 1); Fig 4 is a transverse section in
elevation as taken through the dotted line W X (Fig 1,) B is the sole bar,
A. A'. A are the clips, D D are the projections or teeth which are driven into
the upper face of the hoof, C C are the ordinary calks or heel pieces. Fig 5 shows
part of the rolled bar for one shoe as illustrated, by Fig. 1 and as flyed out ready
for bending, showing the projecting clips A A¹ A² the remainder of the flange
rolled or formed with the sole bar B-being cut away; Fig 6 is a vertical section
of the rolled bar as taken through the dotted line RS (Fig 5), and Fig 7 is a
vertical section of the same as taken through the dotted line T V (Fig 5); Figs
8. 9. 10 and 11 (sheet 2.) illustrate my improved loose clip for securing horse shoes
as applied to an ordinary grooved sole bar. Fig 8 is a longitudinal section in
elevation in which F is the loose clip secured to the grooved sole-bar E by set
screws G, H is the calk or heel piece, Figs 9, 10 and 11 show a modification in
which the set screws G G are dispensed with and in which the lower end of the
loose clip Fis recessed or flyed out at intervals to enter slots in the sole bar E
the projections being turned across the groove as shown in Fig 11-by which the
sole bar or shoe is secured to the clip, the clip being bent to the hoof and the teeth
driven therein as above specified. Fig 12 shows a modification of the shoe illus-
trated by Figs 1, 2, 3 and 4 in which the solid clip (the clip being rolled or formed
with the sole bar B) is slit in the centre thereof for the purpose of taking the form
of the hoof more readily when hammered up to its ultimate position against the
upper face of the hoof. Fig 13 is a transverse section in elevation of a shoe which
is a modification of the form of shoe illustrated by Fig 12 in which the flange A
is slit between each tooth or projection, the said teeth-or as many as are required
-being turned towards the hoof and driven therein by which the shoe is firmly
secured to the hoof.
Fig 14 is a transverse section of part of a shoe (as Fig 1) in which pointed
studs J are employed as an additional security in fastening the shoe to the foot of
the animal. Figs K, L, M, N, O, P (sheet 2) show various sections of rolled or
forged steel or iron horse shoe bars as employed in the manufacture of my improved
shoes for horses and other animals. In manufacturing shoes with solid clips―

page_text: according to my invention-a bar is rolled with a flange (as shown at Fig 6
(sheet 1) and at K, L, M, N, O, P (sheet 2) this bar is flyed out substantially as
shown at A A¹ Fig 5 or substantially as shown at Fig 13 or with any other con-
venient and suitable form or number of clips with spikes these clips are pointed
or curved and sharpened at their upper ends or ends and sides and the bar having
been bent to the form of the hoof the clips are hammered against the upper face
of the hoof the spikes teeth or projections entering the hoof thus fastening the
shoe securely to the hoof.
In manufacturing shoes with loose clips the clip F (Fig 8) are flyed out from
sheet steel or iron (etcetera) and bent inwards at their proper ends and upwards
at their lower. ends if required so as to enter the upper and under faces of the hoof
of the animal and are secured to the sole bar or shoe proper by set screws as shown
at G Fig 8 or by the arrangement shown at Figs 9. 10. 11 or by any other suitable.
arrangement or appliance.
As a further modification the spikes or teeth can be rivetted or otherwise secured
to the clips or flange A instead of being solid therewith or part thereof as shewn
at D (Fig 1.)
As a further modification the loose clips (Figs 8, 9, 10 and 11) may be rivetted
brazed or otherwise secured to the sides or other portion of the sole or bed of the
shoe instead of being secured as illustrated in Figs 8, 9, 10, and 11 and as above
described
'
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
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is:-
Improvements in Horse-shoes and shoes for other animals and in the means and
applicances for fastening the same and in the manufacture thereof by the con-
struction of a shoe with clips formed from the flange of a specially rolled bar of
iron or steel or with loose clips secured to ordinary shoes with teeth or projections
entering the upper face or upper and under face of the hoof for the purpose of
dispensing with nails as now ordinary used and as hereinbefore specified and
described and as illustrated in sheets 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings
In witness whereof the said Thomas Hodder Heard have hereunto set my
hand and seal this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
THOMAS HODDER HEARD (L.S.)