Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
We, GEORGE BROMLEY, of 25, Brook Road, Heaton Chapel, in the County of
Lancaster, Manager; JOSEPH ELTON BOTT, of Rhiw-Grange, Colwyn Bay, Wales,
Engineer, and JESSE BOYDELL, of Springfield, Ashley Road, Hale, in the County
of Chester,
this
Merchant Tailor, do hereby declare the
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
-
nature
of
Our invention relates to improvements in and connected with horse-shoes and
has for its object to provide means whereby slipping is obviated and concussion
almost entirely prevented and the use of elastic pads and the like non-slipping
contrivances are dispensed with.
In our invention we provide a shell of cast or stamped steel or other suitable
metal having a groove following the shape of the horse-shoe (preferably of
channel section) which groove we fill with aluminium or an aluminium alloy,
as we have discovered that such a filling is best for the purpose of our invention,
as it combines non-slipping properties with a minimum of weight, whilst, at
the same time, it has the great advantage of absorbing the concussion insepar-
ably due to the constant battering action of a horse's foot when travelling.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have
caused to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of
reference indicating like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being a cross section
at line AB of Fig. 2 and Fig. 2 a plan of Fig. 1 showing the cast or stamped
metal shell of the horse-shoe provided with a filling of aluminium or an
aluminium alloy. Fig. 3 is a cross section of the cast or stamped metal shell
shown in a moulding box ready for being filled with aluminium or aluminium
alloy.
In carrying out our invention and referring to Figs. 1 & 2, it will be seen
that the cast or stamped metal shell a is constructed with a groove b (preferably
of channel section) from the base a¹ of which project spikes c which serve the
purpose of assisting to retain the aluminium filling d in the groove and in which
filling are formed nail holes e.
The method of constructing a complete horse-shoe according to our invention
is as follows:—
The cast or stamped metal shell a is placed in the bottom part of a suitable
sand or other moulding box f, f¹, see Fig. 3, and horseshoe nails g are inserted
through the nail holes g' in the base a of the cast or stamped metal shell a
the heads of which are brought level with or only slightly protrude above the
shell a.
The upper part f of the moulding box is then placed over the shell a and has
a runner or gate h through which the requisite quantity of aluminium or an
aluminium alloy can be poured into the groove b or as an alternative the top
box part f may be dispensed with and an iron plate having a suitable pouring
hole used in lieu thereof as will be readily understood.

page_text: When the horse-shoe is filled and thus completed it is taken out of the mould-
ing box and after the runner or gate his cut off or removed and the temporary
horse-shoe nails g are driven out, the shoe is finished, having nail holes formed
therein which correspond in size and shape with the nails, so that in shoeing a
horse the nails may be driven into the horse's hoof firmly and supported without
any possibility of afterwards working loose.
We have proved by experiment and actual experience that our new and im-
proved horse-shoe constructed as hereinbefore described or any mere modification
thereof, will and does wear a longer time than any ordinary steel or iron horse-
shoe and besides its non-slipping properties the filling of aluminium or an
aluminium alloy under any circumstances practically absorbs all concussion due
to the constant beating of the hoof and shoe on hard roads, whilst the metal
retaining shell forms a continuous semi-annular cutting edge which effectually
grips all manner of road surfaces and in the case of frost, snow or greasy mud,
cuts through the same thus assisting the non-slipping properties of the filling
of aluminium or an aluminium alloy.
We are aware that horse-shoes have heretofore been known and used in which
metal casings have been filled with rope and various other materials having
more or less non-slipping qualities, therefore we do not claim such combination.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1st. In horse-shoes, a retaining shell a of cast or stamped steel or other suit-
able metal having a groove or channel b with spikes c, the said groove being
filled with aluminium or an aluminium alloy d in which are formed nail
holes e, all substantially as is hereinbefore described and set forth.
2nd. In horse-shoes, the method of forming nail holes e consisting in tem-
porarily inserting in the shell a horse-shoe nails g previously to filling the
groove of the said shell with aluminium or an aluminium alloy, all substan-
tially as described and set forth.
3rd. A horse-shoe comprising a shell of cast or stamped steel or other suitable
metal filled with aluminium or an aluminium alloy and nail holes formed in the
latter, all substantially as described and specified hereinbefore.
Dated this 17th
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.