An improved Drushing
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
An improved Drushing
I GEORGE NATHANIEL CALLWELL of Lismoyne in the County of Antrim
in Ireland Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to boots employed to prevent horses brushing or hitting
their pasterns.
For this purpose I construct a boot which consists of a ring or tube of india
rubber or other suitable material arranged with a curtain to come down over and
cover the horses pastern.
Dated 25th day of March 1893.
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Brushing Boot for Horses.
I GEORGE NATHANIEL CALLWELL of Lismoyne in the County of Antrim
in Ireland 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:-
My invention relates to boots employed to prevent horses brushing or hitting
their pasterns and other parts of their limbs.
For this purpose I construct a boot which consists of a hollow ring or tube of
india rubber or other more or less elastic material arranged with a curtain, skirt or
flap to come down over and cover the horse's pasterns or other part of its limbs.
This curtain skirt or flap is attached to the ring or tube on the outer edge or
circumference thereof and is varied in length according to the part of the limb to
be protected from the brushing or interfering while both it and the ring or tube arc
correspondingly varied in diameter to suit the size of the animal's limb.
My invention is applicable to prevent injury from overreaching, speedy cutting
and falling on the knees: when used as an overreaching boot the curtain, skirt or
flap is widened at the lower or free end and when used as a speedy cutting boot or
knee cap it is suitably lengthened.
The entire boot or cap may be moulded in one piece and may be punctured at
any point or points or along a line or lines of the ring or tube and curtain, skirt or
flap, or of one or other of them, in order to facilitate the drawing of the boot or cap
over the foot or joints of the animal or I may assist this operation by the aid of a
special instrument consisting of two semicircular pieces of metal convexed on the
inner or central sides and each furnished with a handle or haft pivoted to each
other so that, when placed inside the ring or tube, the boot or cap may be stretched
and thus easily passed over the hoof or joint.
And in order that my said invention may be more fully understood I shall now
proceed to describe the drawings upon the sheet hereunto annexed, the same letters
of reference indicating the same or corresponding parts thereof in both the
figures
:-
Fig. I. is a plan of an inverted boot showing the ring or tube with the curtain,
skirt or flap attached at the outer edge or circumference thereof and

page_text: Fig. II. is a sectional elevation of the same.
a is the ring or tube and is the curtain, skirt or flap attached to it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I hereby declare that I
no not claim as of my invention or the exclusive use of rings or tubes and of
curtains, skirts or flaps separately nor do I claim the instrument hereinbefore
mentioned and described for facilitating the application of my invention but
I claim
1. The use and manufacture of a brushing boot or knee cap consisting of a
hollow ring or tube arranged with a curtain skirt or flap and employed substan-
tially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn in the
drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1893.
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6, Chichester Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicant.