Improvements in Foot Pads for Horses, Mules, and other Animals,
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Foot Pads for Horses, Mules, and other Animals,
I, JAMES NATHANIEL HASLAM, Veterinary Surgeon, Norfolk Street, Bury New
Road, Manchester, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Firstly, as regards foot pads generally, I use wooden pegs, as used by shoe-
makers, instead or rivets, nails, stitches &c. alone, for uniting the various layers
of leather or other material forming the heel piece, frog piece or centre piece to the
sole plate; as, I find after lengthened trials these pegs to be superior in holding,
gripping, & wearing qualities.
I use these wooden pegs in particular to the foot pad patented by me & dated
29th May, 1890, No. 8323, for fixing the heel to the sole plate & fixing the various
pieces of leather together forming the heel piece.
Secondly. In foot pads as patented by me No. 8323, 1890, instead of using only
a heel or extended cross piece at the back part of the shoe, I further use either a
centre piece to fill up the whole of the space inside the shoe & to come up level
with the top of the shoe as the heel piece, or, as may be preferred for some horses
a frog shaped piece, which covers up the frog part & comes up to the surface of
the shoe as the heel piece; but in either case I leave a space, notch or division
right across the pad either from side to side or, from toe to heel in these elevated
pieces but not, in the sole plate, so that it allows the pad a little flexibility, allow-
ing the hoof to adapt itself better as all the bending takes place in the one layer
of leather forming the sole plate. I use wooden pegs in both cases to attach
together the various pieces forming the heel piece, centre piece & frog piece & for
attaching these pieces to the sole plate & all these several pieces are made of leather.
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Improvements in Foot Pads for Horses, Mules, and other Animais.
I, JAMES NATHANIEL HASLAM, Norfolk Street, Bury New Road, Manchester,
Veterinary Surgeon, 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:-
Firstly as regards foot pads generally; I use wooden pegs, as used by shoemakers,
instead of rivets, nails, stitches &c., alone; for uniting the various layers of leather
or other material forming the heel piece, frog piece or centre piece to the sole

page_text: plate; as I find after lengthened trials, these pegs to be superior in holding, grip-
ping & wearing qualities.
I use these wooden pegs in particular to the foot pad patented by me & dated
29th May 1890, No. 8323, for fixing the heel to the sole plate & fixing the various
pieces of leather together forming the heel piece.
Secondly, in foot pads as patented by me No. 8323, 1890, instead of using only
a heel or extended cross piece at the back of the shoe, I further use either a centre
piece to fill up the whole of the space inside the shoe & to come up level with the
top of the shoe as the heel piece, as shown in Fig. I & Fig. V. in the drawings,
or, as may be preferred for some horses a frog shaped piece, which covers up the
frog part & comes up to the surface of the shoe as the heel piece, as shown in
Fig. II & Fig. VI: But in either case I leave a space, notch or division right
across the pad, either from side to side, or from toe to heel in these elevated pieces
but not in the sole plate, so that it allows the pad a little flexibility, allowing the
hoof to adapt itself better, as all the bending takes place in the one layer of leather
forming the sole plate. In the drawing X Y represents this notch; A, represents
the centre piece to fill up the whole of the space inside the shoe; B, the frog shaped
-piece to cover up the frog part & the dots represent the wooden pegs.
Figs. I & II represent pads for full shoes, in plan, & Figs. III & IV the same
in elevation.
Figs. V & VI represent pads for three quarter shoes in plan, & Figs. VII & VIII
the same in elevation.
I use wooden pegs in all cases to attach the various pieces together & all the
several pieces are of leather.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
I. The use of wooden pegs as above described for foot pads.
II. The use & special form of the centre piece & frog shaped piece, as above
- described.
III. The use of the notches as above described.
IV. The use of the foot pad as above described, consisting of a leather sole,
leather heel piece, leather centre piece, or frog shaped piece, having notches across
as set forth & all the various parts fastened together with wooden pegs.
18th March 1898.
JAMES NATHANIEL HASLAM.