Improvements in Shoes for Draught Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Draught Animals.
1, GEORGE WILLIAM PAYNE, of No. 2 Campbell Road, Finsbury Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Shoeing Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in shoes for draught animals and the
object of it is to improve the hold upon the ground, which the average shoe enables
the animal to get; and also to diminish the hammering between the hoof and
the ground.
In carrying the invention into effect, each heel of the shoe is continued
below the tread, such continuation being prolonged forward along the shoe for
some distance.
Each heel is perforated with a hole corresponding in shape with that of the
continuation. The area of the hole diminishes from the hoof side or top of the
shoe, to the opposite one. A pad of rubber or equivalent elastic substance adapted
to adhere to a smooth ground surface, is fitted plug-wise into each hole, a plug
extending from the top or hoof side of the shoe to the opposite or tread side and
projecting beyond it.
Dated this 28th day of November 1895.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Shoes for Draught Animals.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM PAYNE of No. 2, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Shoeing Smith, 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
This invention relates to improvements in shoes for draught animals.
object of it is to improve the hold upon the ground which the average shoe enables
the animal to acquire; and also to diminish hammering between the hoof and the
ground. It consists in the combination with the shoe of a plug of elastic material
and special shape, projecting beyond the tread or ground face of the shoe from a
hole in the latter, in such a way that when the hoof is put down flat upon the
ground, the projecting portion of the plug is pressed up into the hole, from which
it is projected as soon as the hoof is lifted again. When the animal is going down
hill, the projecting portion of the plug is squeezed back against the rear edge of
the hole in the shoe, at the moment the hoof is put to the ground.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrate the application of the invention
to the heels of a shoe. But it is to be distinctly understood that the improved
plug and hole may, according to the present invention, be applied to the toe, to
either side, to only one heel instead of both, in short, to any part of a shoe.

page_text: Figure 1 is an inverted plan of a shoe, to the heels of which the present
invention has been applied. The figure shews the tread or ground face of the
shoe.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same shoe from the opposite side of it.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same shoe; and
Figure 4 is a transverse sectional elevation taken along the line 4-4 of
Figure 3.
Each heel a of the shoe b is shewn as thickened by a downward continuation c.
This last mentioned part (the continuation c) may be dispensed with if preferred,
the tread or ground face of the heel a, being then continuous with that of the sides
and toe of the shoe. When the continuations c, c, are used, their length forwards,
measured from the heel point of the shoe, is about one third the length of the
latter.
A hole made through the shoe from one face of it to the other, d, d are such
holes in question. In plan, each follows the contour of the respective portion of
the shoe, but in side elevation it is tapered, the horizontal sectional area diminishing
as the hole approaches the ground face or tread of the shoe. Through each hole,
tapered as above described, there is passed a plug or cushion of india rubber or
equivalent elastic substance adapted to adhere to a smooth ground surface. e, e are
such plugs. Each one is fitted into its hole d and is long enough to project for a
short distance beyond the tread or ground face of the shoe. f is an elastic flange
made fast to the hoof face of each plug and adapted to lie flat upon the hoof face
of the shoe between it and the hoof.
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. The combination with and in a shoe, of a hole tapered in the direction
specified through the shoe and an elastic plug filling the said hole and projecting
beyond the tread or ground face of the shoe.
2. The combination with and in a shoe, of a hole, tapered in the direction
specified, an elastic plug filling the said hole and projecting beyond the tread or
ground face of the shoe, and an elastic flange fast to the said plug and adapted to
Tie flat upon the shoe hetween it and the hoof.
Dated this 16th day of March 1896.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.