Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Apr., 1898-Accepted, 7th May, 1898
I, ANDREW TAYLOR, Master Mariner, of 261, Dumbarton Road, in the City of
Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which invention has been
in part communicated to me by William Sommerville Taylor, Engineer,
S.S. Alaska, presently on the high seas, and is in part my own invention) to be as
follows:-
This invention which relates to horse shoes has for its object to provide a suitable
non-slipping tread applicable to or in conjunction with existing horse shoes of
ordinary form.
The improved tread is composed of a thin auxiliary shoe of iron, steel or other
metal having cut or stamped out of it pieces at the fore part, sides and heels so as
to leave an open skeleton. Through these openings are passed rubber, vulcanised
fibre or composite blocks or pads formed on or attached to a horse-shoe shaped
sheet of similar material or compound which is fitted between the horse shoe proper
and the skeleton or tread portion; and the rubber or compound and metal of the
skeleton shoe together present a tread which is not liable to slip. The metal
skeleton and rubber or compound pad are secured to the ordinary shoe by screws
passed through them or by other suitable means.
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WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, ANDREW TAYLOR, Master Mariner, of 261, Dumbarton Road, in the City of
Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which invention has been
in part communicated to me by William Sommerville Taylor, Engineer,
S.S. Alaska, presently on the high seas, and is in part my own invention) and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention which relates to horse shoes has for its object to provide a suitable
non-slipping tread applicable to or in conjunction with existing horse shoes of
ordinary form.

page_text: The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being an
elevation and Figure 2 an inverted plan of the improved horse shoe, whilst
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views respectively of a modified form of said shoe.
Figure 5 is a vertical section through the shoe showing another form of securing
the rubber tread thereto.
The improved tread is comp
omposed of a thin auxiliary shoe A of iron, steel or
other metal having cut or stamped out of it pieces at the fore part, sides and heels
so as to leave an open skeleton. Through these openings A' are passed rubber,
vulcanised fibre or composite blocks or pads B formed on or attached to a horse-
shoe shaped sheet B₁ of similar material or compound which is fitted between C
the horse shoe proper, and the skeleton A or tread portion; and the rubber or com-
pound blocks B and metal of the skeleton shoe A together present a tread which
is not liable to slip. The metal skeleton, A and rubber or compound pad B are
secured to the ordinary shoe C by screws D passed through them or by other suit-
able means.
In the modification illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 instead of a metal skeleton A
for holding the rubber or compound tread B', this may be secured, to the shoe frame
proper by means of a wire framo E adapted to embrace the tread as shown, this
wire being covered between the blocks or pads Bby small, plates F,secured as
before described to the shoe proper.
The tread portion of the shoe may consist of a perforated plate G on to both
sides of which the rubber is moulded and passes through the, perforations as shown
at Figure 5.
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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:
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1. A horse shoe provided with a non-slipping tread constructed and secured
substantially as described under several modifications."
2. The combination with a horse shoe, permanently attached to the hoof of a
rubber tread secured to said shoe by a skeleton shoe or frame substantially as
described with reference to the drawings annexed.
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Dated this 21st day of March 1908
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WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents, 62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow
Agent for the Applicant...