Improvements in Heel Padded Horse Shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Heel Padded Horse Shoes.
I, JOHN PETER BUENGERS, of Racine in the County of Racine and State of
Wisconsin, one of the United States of America, Blacksmith, 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 :-
My invention relates to horse shoes and consists of certain new and useful
improvements in the same, fully disclosed in the accompanying drawings and
described in the Specification following.
It is a fact well known to horsemen that the horse suffers much injury from the
jar caused by the concussion of the foot with the ground when the animal is moving,
and it is especially noticeable in the case of horses used for racing purposes and
fast road work, the jar being received near the heel as the foot strikes the
ground.
Many devices have been used with more or less success to obviate this difficulty
and it is to this end, of obtaining better results in this direction, that the object of
my invention tends.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a plan view of the top of a shoe provided with my improvement.
Figure 2 is a similar view of the bottom of the shoe, and
Figures 3 and 4 are sectional views of my invention.
Figure 5 is a modification.
Similar letters of reference indicate identical parts throughout.
A represents an ordinary shoe of suitable material provided with an aperture a of
any desirable form but preferably of the form shown, extending through the shoe.
A pad B of resilient material such as rubber or felt, preferably rubber, is then
placed on the upper face of the shoe and is constructed with a downwardly extending
lug & conforming in shape with the aperture a in the shoe. This lug is preferably
made so as to extend through the opening a, the protruding end b¹ acting as a
calk. The lug b also acts to hold the main body 62 of the pad from lateral
displacement after the shoe is nailed on in the ordinary manner.
b
The mode of using my improved device will be readily understood from the
drawings. The shoe provided with the openings a a is first prepared and the pad
then placed upon the upper surface of the shoe, the lugs 6 passing through the
openings a a as shown. The shoe is then nailed in place, the pad being between
the hoof and the shoe and relieving the heel of the horse from jar.
It is evident that the pad may be made of any desired thickness or of variable
thickness by reducing the shoe more or less at the heel.
I do not wish to be limited to my exact construction as shown and described
as the same may be modified without departing from the spirit of my invention,
for instance in beavy shoes the openings a a need not extend entirely through.
the shoe, but may be formed in the nature of sockets to receive the lugs bas
shown in Fig. 5 and other obvious changes may be made, conforming to my
invention.
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 :-
A horse shoe having metallic cround and hoof coutant curface throughout

page_text: the greater part of its extent, and provided with pads of yielding material
interposed between the heel of the shoe and the foot, said pads having pro-
jections extending through the shoe and beyond the lower surface of the shoe,
substantially as described.
Dated this Ninth day of March 1895.
JOHN PETER BUENGERS.
G. F. Redfern & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.