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

page_text: Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Hoofed Animals.
1, JAMES CHANDLER, of 50, Southampton Street, Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, Baker, 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 shoes for horses and other hoofed animals
by means of which certain advantages are obtained.
In order that my said invention may be readily understood I shall proceed to
describe it with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings which show the
application of my invention to the hoof of a horse.
In the said drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation,
Figure 2 a vertical longitudinal section and,
Figure 3 an underneath plan.
In the said figures 1 is the shoe iron or horse shoe proper having a curved groove
or recess 2 for the reception of the heads of the rivets 3 by means of which the
iron I is secured to an outer sole 4 of leather or other suitable material. From the
said outer sole 4 the upper 5 extends as shown, and in such manner as to embrace
the upper exposed surface of the hoof as will be clearly seen in the figures. The
said upper may be made of leather, thin sheet steel or other convenient material.
It may be fastened to the outer sole 4 in any convenient manner, as for example by
having its lower edges stitched between and to the said outer sole 4 and an inner
sole 6 shown in Figure 2. The said inner sole which may be of ordinary sole
leather or the like is a convenient device to employ but is not an essential element
of my invention.
The shoe may be attached to the hoof by any suitable device as for example by
the straps 7. The upper 5 may be attached to the sole or soles by any of the well
known means of attaching the uppers and soles employed in the case of men's boots,
or the rivets 3 may pass through inturned edges of the upper 5 in such manner as
to rivet the upper 5 the outer sole 4 and the iron 1 together; or in the case where
an inner sole 6 is employed the rivets may pass through it also rivetting the whole
together.
It will be seen that by the term shoe I mean not only the shoe iron but the
complete device set forth...
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. In a shoe for horses and other hoofed animals the combination of a shoe iron,
an outer sole and an upper, substantially as set forth.
2. In a shoe for horses and other hoofed animals the combination of a shoe iron,
an outer sole, an inner sole and an upper substantially as set forth.
3. In a shoe for horses and other hoofed animals the combination of a shoe iron
baving a curved groove or recess therein, an outer sole and an upper all attached
together by means of rivets substantially as set forth.
4. In a shoe for horses and other hoofed animals the combination of a shoe iron

page_text: having a curved groove or recess therein, an outer sole, an inner sole and an upper
all attached together by means of rivets substantially as set forth.
Dated this 12th day of March 1897.
For the Applicant,
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I. Mech. E., M.I.E.E.,
Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.