Improvements in a Method of and Means for the Roughing of Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in a Method of and Means for the Roughing of Shoes
for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
We, THE MAIL HORSE SHOE SYNDICATE LIMITED, Manufacturers of
Horse-shoes, CHARLES JAMES JUTSON and FREDERICK ABRAHAM POUPARD,
Directors of said Syndicate, all of 57 Gracechurch Street, in the City of London
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a method of and means for roughing the shoes of horses
or other hoofed animals and consists in the manner of attachment of roughs to the
under tread of shoes for horses or other hoofed animals, and to the adaptation of
the shoe and the form of rough employed for that purpose.
Whereas it is a matter of great economy and convenience that roughs should be
adapted to be carried by those in charge of horses, and that the roughs and shoes
should be adapted so that the roughs can be affixed to the shoe by any unskilled
person, at a moment's notice and without the employment of special tools other than
a hammer or weight, now to secure these great advantages to our system of roughing,
we provide horse-shoes with sunk recesses of considerable depth preferably other
than nail-holes on the under tread of the shoe, of parallel or approximately parallel
diameter of hole, and comparatively uniform interior surface, such as a cylindrical,
square or hexagonal hole."
The said recesses or holes are placed under the heels, or in other suitable position
on the under tread of the shoe.
To adapt themselves tightly to such recesses or holes, we provide short roughing
pieces of hard steel or other equivalent durable and hard material such as emery,
to give greater foot-hold and of such a section at that part which is to enter the
shoe that it presents rectilinear angles of the plug to the even surface or surfaces
of the holes, and the dimension over the angles of the plugs is rather larger than
the interior of the holes or recesses.
The plugs or roughs being slightly bevelled or tapered at the entering ends may
then be easily driven into the shoe by the blows of a hammer or weight, and the
sharp angles of the plugs will cut into the surfaces of the holes or recesses thus
ensuring a permanent fixture of the roughs until the projecting end has been worn
down.
A plug of triangular shape driven into a circular hole has been found to be
most satisfactory, and it has been found that the security of grip or fixture
between the plug and the shoe is secured by the approximately parallel form of the
hole or recess and the cutting and wedging action of the rectilineal angles of
the plug.
In order that a greater grip can be obtained by the shoe on the road surface,
we may place blocks of emery or other similar material within the spaces existent
between the sides of the steel rough and the side of the hole in the shoe into which
the rough is driven. The blocks of emery or other material may be made of the
exact shape of the recess, so that on being placed around the hole in proper position
and the steel rough being driven down into the hole between the pieces of emery or
other material, so that while engaging itself into the bottom of the shce the rough
jams and holds the pieces of emery immovable in place.
04h of Contember 1895

page_text: Improvements in a Method of and Means for the Roughing of Shoe
for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
We, THE MAIL HORSE SHOE SYNDICATE LIMITED, Manufacturers of Horse
shoes, ELIZABETH JUTSON and CHARLES BENTLEY JUTSON, legal representatives
of Charles James Jutson, deceased, and FREDERICK ABRAHAM POUPARD
Director of the said Syndicate, all of 47 Finsbury Circus, London, E.C., and late
of 57 Gracechurch Street in the City of London 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 relates to a method of and means for roughing the shoes of horses
or other hoofed animals, and consists in the manner of attachment of roughs to the
under head of shoes for horses or other hoofed animals, and to the adaptation of the
shoe to carry the rough and the form of rough employed for that purpose.
Whereas, it is a matter of great economy and convenience that roughs should be
adapted to be carried by those in charge of horses, and that the roughs and shoes
should be adapted so that the roughs can be affixed to the shoe by any unskilled
person, at a moments notice and without the employment of special tools other than
a hammer or weight; now to secure these great advantages to our system of
roughing, we provide horse shoes with sunk recesses of considerable depth,
preferably other than nail holes, on the under tread of the shoe, of parallel or
approximately parallel diameter of hole, and of comparatively uniform interior
surface, such as a cylindrical, square or hexagonal hole.
The said recesses or holes are placed under the heels or in other suitable
position on the under tread of the shoe.
To adapt themselves tightly to such recesses or holes we provide short roughing
pieces of hard steel or other equivalent durable and hard material, such as emery, to
give greater foot hold, and of such a section at that part which is to enter the shoe,
that it presents rectilineal angles of the plug to the even surface or surfaces of the
holes, and the dimension over the angles of the plugs is rather longer than the
interior of the holes or recesses.
The plugs or roughs, being slightly bevelled or tapered at the entering ends, may
then be easily driven into the shoe by the blows of a hammer or weight, and the
sharp angles of the plugs will cut into the surfaces of the holes or recesses, thus
insuring a permanent fixture of the roughs, until the projecting end has been
worn down.
And in order that our invention may be the better understood we now proceed
to describe a most satisfactory form of such rough, by way of example, reference
being had to the drawings hereto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon.
Figure 1 is a section through a rough inserted in heel of shoe.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
A. is a plug of triangular shape, driven into a circular hole B.
It has been found that the security of grip or fixture between the plug and the
shoe is secured by the approximately parallel form of the hole or recess B and the
cutting and wedging action of the rectilineal angles of the plug B.
In order that a greater grip can be obtained by the shoe on the road's surface,
we may place blocks of emery C or other similar material, within the spaces
existent between the sides of the steel rough A and the side of the hole B in the
shoe, into which the rough is driven. The blocks of emery C or other material
may be made of the exact shape of the recess, so that, on being placed around the
hole in proper position, and the steel rough being driven down into the hole,
between the pieces of emery or other material, while engaging itself into the 5

page_text: bottom of the shoe, the rough jams and holds the pieces of emery immovably in
place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :—
1st. In a shoe for horses or other hoofed animals, a rough consisting of a plug
of rectilinear periphery offering three or more hard edges adapted by the use of a
hammer to cut into the periphery of a recess or hole sunk into the lower face of
the shoe, substantially as described.
2nd. The combination with a shoe for horses or other hoofed animals of a
triangular plug of hard material adapted as to its shape and driven so as to cut.
into a circular recess or hole in the under side of said shoe to act as a rough,
substantially as described.
3rd. The combination with a rectilinear plug of steel or other hard material not
coincident with, but cutting into the periphery of a hole or recess in the under
side of the shoe of pieces of emery driven in between the said plug and the walls
of the recess or hole, substantially as described.
Doted this 24th dow of Iul 1906
FELL & WILDING,
1 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicants.