CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE SHOES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
POWELL, of Smith's Buildings, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London,
Farrier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing dato
at Westminster, the Ninth day of April, (One thousand eight hundred and
forty-five,) in the eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Powell, my exors..
adiiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Charles Powell, my exors, admors, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Charles Powell, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part. of Her Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
HORSE SHOES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Charles Powell, to particularly describe and ascertain the nature
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in Iler said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
of

page_text: months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Powell, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be fully described and ascertained
in and by the following statement and Specification thereof, reference being
had to the accompanying Drawings, which I declare to belong to and to form
part of such Specification, by the letters and numeral figures marked thereon
for the purpose of such reference, that is to say:-
The nature of my said Invention consists in and has reference to improve-
ments in the construction of horse shoes, and I declare the particular manner
in which the same is to be performed and carried into practical effect to be
and to consist in the modes of operation and management herein-after
described and set forth.,
t. 73
DESCRIPTION OF TIE. DRAWING.
.Figure 9 represents a bar of iron, steel, or other metal, as the circumstances
of the case may require, produced by machinery after the usual manner of
fabricating bars of iron of different sectional figures, by the action of rolling
mills, or other mechanism of that character;. Figure 10 shews a view in
transverse section of the bar, Figure 9, taken through the bar in any part of
its length, as at the dotted line a, a... Such bar, iron so manufactured is pro-
duced from the fabrication of horse shoes, having straight grooves forined
uniformly through the entire length of the bar in its first formation, such
straight grooves. so. formed become curvilinear grooves through the linear
extent of the horse shoe when the straight bar is; bent into the curved figuro
Fequired for such horse shoe. The bars made as above described are converted
into horse shoes by any of the usual methods practised by smiths and workers
in iron for turning up straight bars into curved figures. The construction and
formation of the said bars, and the effect of their transformation into horse
shoes, will be sufficiently obvious by reference to the Figures of the Drawing.
Figure 1ishews. a view. of the under side of the shoe; Figure 2, a transverse
section of the same, taken through the Figure 1in the direction of the line b, b;
Figure 3 exhibits, an edge or, profile view of the shoe exhibited in Figure 1;
Figure 4 is à section, taken lengthways through the said shoe in the direction
of the line c, c, of the Figure 1; Figure 5 is a view of the under side of a
horse shoe formed out of the same construction of bar as the shoe exhibited in
the corresponding view, Figure 1, by bending the said bar into the required

page_text: curvilinear form in the opposite direction to that in which it is bent in the
formation of the shoe exhibited in such said Figure; Figure 6 is a transverse
section of the Figure 5, taken through the line d, d, of that Figure; Figure 7
is an edge or profile view of the shoe exhibited in Figure 5; Figure 8 is a
section, taken lengthways through the said shoe in the direction of the line e, e,
of the Figure 5. I form the heels by the process known and practised under
the term jumping or beating up the ends of each of the lengths cut off from
the bar to form the shoe, and such ends, after the bar has been curved to
form the shoe, are turned down; in cases where the toes are required to be
steeled, I perform it in the usual manner. Those portions of the bar of which
the heels are formed I make solid or without grooves by making plain spaces
of sufficient length at proper intervals in the rollers, so as to leave plain and
solid portions in the bar, and of which plain and solid portion the heels are
afterwards to be formed.
Having now described the nature and intention of my said Invention, and
also in what manner the same is to be ascertained and performed, I now
declare that I claim as of my Invention the particular modes of arrangement,
and the particular combination of parts included in the principles of manage-
ment upon and in the preparation and transformation of the bar for the
purposes of the said Invention, in the manner in which I have herein-before
specified and described the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Powell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.