IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bristow Hunt, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's
Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES."-A communication from abroad
by Ebenezer Cate, of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the United States
of America.
Sealed the 18th April 1871, and dated the 25th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bristow Hunt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th October 1870.
I, BRISTOW HUNT, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES," (a communication
to me from abroad by Ebenezer Cate, of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the
United States of America,) to be as follows:-
The first part of this Invention consists in making horse-shoes of angle
iron or steel, and in so forming the same that when bent to the required

page_text: shape and secured to the hoof the wearing surface both at the heel
and toe shall be plain or flat, and between these parts there are grooves
on either side of the shoe. By this means the wearing surface is materally
reduced at those parts where it is the least exposed to abrasion, and the
equalization of the wearing at all points is effectually secured, whereas
if the whole wearing surface were solid the parts at the toe and heel
would be the soonest worn out.
The second part consists chiefly in adding to a shoe a thin plate of
iron or other suitable metal on which the hoof rests, and in having for
the wearing part at the bottom a thicker part constituting a continuous
calk, which is provided with a continuous groove in which are the nail
holes.
When the shoe is placed on the hoof and properly secured thereto the
outer portion or shell of the same rests upon the outer edge of the plate
and directly over the thick portion of the shoe, and the inner edge of the
plate projecting inwards protects the portion of the hoof between the
sole and shell.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Bristow Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th April 1871..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BRISTOW
HUNT, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Bristow Hunt, Her special licence.
that I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and

page_text: Drawings, the same constituting a connected series of blanks suitable for
making horse-shoes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bristow Hunt, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
' one.