Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1898
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:
The present invention has relation to horseshoes; and it consists in the different
parts and combination of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing in which;-
Figure 1 is a bottom or under-side view of the shoe, showing the different parts
properly assembled.
Figure 2 is a transverse section showing the shoe properly attached to a hoof.
Figure 3 is a view showing a portion of the tread.
Figure 4 is a view showing a portion of the shoe and illustrating one of the
heel ends thereof.
Figure 5 is a view showing a portion of the shoe and illustrating the toe end
thereof, also showing a portion of the hoof.
Figure 6 is a view showing the shoe properly attached.
Figure 7 is a similar view showing the side of the hoof.
Similar numbers of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
1 represents the horseshoe-body, composed of wrought or malleable iron, which
has the general form of an ordinary horseshoe, and, as shown, it is formed L-shaped
in cross-section, by which arrangement the vertical flange 2 and the horizontal
flange 3 are formed, the horizontal flange 3 being provided with the nail-apertures 4
and the vertical flange provided with the rivet-apertures 5.
The tread 6 is preferably formed of rubber or like material, and like the body 1
is to be of the general form of a horseshoe. The tread 6 is provided with the
outwardly-extending flange 7 and the groove 8, said flange and groove being
located substantially as shown in Figure 3, and are so formed for the purpose
hereinafter described. The groove 8, formed in the tread 6, is for the purpose
of receiving the horizontal flange 3 of the body 1, and the flange 7 is for the
purpose of providing a means for connecting the tread to the hoof of a horse by
means of nails driven through the horizontal flange 3 and the flange 7 into the
hoof, thereby connecting the tread and the body to the hoof and at the same time
connecting the two parts together.
For the purpose of holding the heel ends of the tread 6 in proper relative position
the body 1 is provided with the tangs 9, which tangs are formed so that they will
embrace the heel ends of the tread, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 6.
It will be understood that by my peculiar arrangement the top or upper side
of the tread 6 will come in contact with the bottom or under side of the hoof, by
which arrangement the hoof will be cushioned, and at the same time a cushion

page_text: will be provided upon the bottom or under side of the tread, inasmuch as the top
and bottom sides of the tread are exposed when the shoe is removed from the hoof.
It will be readily seen that by this arrangement a shoe will be provided that will
be easy when placed upon the hoof of a horse.
For the purpose of preventing the tread ( from crowding inward so as to tear
away from the nails driven into the horse's hoof the rivets 10 are provided, which
rivets extend through the vertical flange 2 and the treed 6, as illustrated in
Figure 2.
I do not desire to be confined to the rivets 10, as it will be seen that the object
and purpose of my invention can be carried out without the use of said rivets.
The vertical flange 2 of the body 1 may be extended upward so as to embrace the
bottom or lower portion of the horse's hoof. In the drawings said flange is shown
in a line to correspond substantially with the bottom or under side of the hoof.
The location of the flange, however, is a matter of judgment, and, so far as the
present invention is concerned, it is immaterial whether said flange is located as
shown or extended upward so as to embrace a portion of the hoof.
By my peculiar arrangements the tread is extended above and below the shoe
proper, said shoe acting in the nature of a band for the tread, and the tread forms
the body of the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
The combination of the body 1, provided with the tangs 9 located at the heel
ends of the shoe, the tread 6, provided with the outwardly-extending flange 7,
and the groove 8, the horizontal flange of the body 1, located in the groove formed
in the tread, and said tread extended above and below the body, substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
Dated this gond Jan of 1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.