Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1889
Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1889
We EDWARD ROCHESTER of 20 Stainsby Road Poplar Job Master and Master
Farrier and EMILE DEJEAN of 82 Jubilee Street Mile End 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 :-
This Invention has for its object to produce a shoe suitable for a horse or other
animal that combines the essential advantages of lightness and durability while it
reduces to a minimum the risk of accident and injury arising from the animal either
slipping or falling by ensuring its both obtaining and maintaining a sure foothold on
the roadway.
Our invention consists in forming a deep channel or groove all round the under
face of the shoe wherein we fit a pad of india rubber or other suitable substance or
material furnished with a continuous heel piece and also with two lateral tapered
curvilinear tongues.
When the pad is fitted in the shoe these tongues lie on the top of the shoe plate
and form washers between the hoof and the shoe thus preventing grit and stone
working in between and giving the hoof a firmer grip of the shoe and consequently
of the road-way. A series of wedged shaped notches or recesses are formed on the
inside of the outer rim of the shoe while corresponding notches or recesses are formed
round the outer edge of the rubber pad. When the pad has been fitted into the
before mentioned groove it is firmly secured therein by means of wedged shaped nails
which take into such notches or recesses and also into holes or perforations made in
the top of the shoe plate through which they pass and enter the hoof.
The continuous heel piece of the pad is made sufficiently thick to form a cushion
under the beel and frog of the hoof, a slit being made in such cushion to give the
requisite amount of play thereto. A depression or hollow is also formed on the top of
such cushion wherein the frog of the hoof sits easily while the underside of such
cushion is bevelled off to a pointed tongue. Two openings are formed in the inner
rim of the shoe one at each end thereof to allow the pad to be readily fitted therein.
The pad is of a sufficient thickness to allow it to project all round slightly above the rim
of the shoe. This allows the animal to obtain a firm grip of the roadway while the
continuous heel piece or cushion obviates any tendency to slip forward and so enables
the animal to securely maintain its foothold.

page_text: DRAWINGS.
In the accompanying drawings wherein similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts Fig. 1 shews a plan view of the bottom of a horse shoe made
according to our invention before the combination rubber pad and heel piece has been
fitted thereto a is the groove formed therein to receive the pad-b the wedged shaped
notches or recesses in the outer rim thereof to receive the nails whereby the shoe is
secured to the hoof-e the perforations in the shoe plate through which such nails
enter into the hoof-d the openings in the inner rim of the shoe to allow the pad to
be fitted thereto in the manner already described.
Fig. 2 shews a plan view of such shoe with the combination pad e and heel piece or
cushion fitted therein-e are the wedged shaped notches or recesses formed round
the outer edge of the pad in the manner already described to receive the nails whereby
it is firmly fixed in the shoe.
Fig. 3 shews a plan view of the top of the shoe with the combination pad and heel
piece fitted therein. In this figure the two lateral tongues g are clearly seen in
position on the top of the shoe-also the hollow or depression formed in the top of
the central cushion to receive the frog of the hoof is shewn in this figure.
Fig. 4 is a detail view in side elevation of the combination pad and heel pioce
shewing the formation thereof when seen in this position-e is the pad-e¹ the notches
formed in its outer edge- the continuous heel piece thereof and g one of the lateral
tongues. This figure likewise shews one of the recesses existing between the pad e
and the two lateral tongues g wherein the edges of the shoe plate lodges when the
pad is fitted thereto.
We would here observe that we are aware that it is not novel to form a groove
round the under surface of a horse shoe or other similar shoe and to fit the same with
a rubber pad-We therefore make no claim to this particular feature of our invention
save in combination with a pad having a continuous heel piece and otherwise made
arranged and fitted to a shoe constructed in the manner hereinbefore described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In a shoe for a horse or other animal making a groove or channel on the under
face thereof and forming suitable wedged shaped notches or recesses on the inside of
the outer rim of such shoe and two openings or apertures in the inner rim thereof all
substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shewn.
2. Making a pad of india rubber or other suitable substance or material having a
continuous heel piece or cushion and also two tapered curvilinear lateral tongues all
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and shewn.
3. The combination with a shoe for a horse or other animal when such shoe is made
in the manner hereinbefore described and claimed of a rubber pad having a continuous
hcel piece or cushion and two tapered curvilinear lateral tongues all made arranged
combined and fitted together substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and shewn.
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