Certain Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Draft Animals.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Draft Animals.
I, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of 79, Blue Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing Smith,
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 consists of the herein-described improvements in shoes for horses
and other draft animals the object being to effectually prevent slipping.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 is an inverted plan of a horse shoe constructed according to my invention;
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same shoe fixed to a horse's hoof; Fig. 3 is a part
sectional front elevation of the same shoe in line X X of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an
inverted plan and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a slightly modified form of the said
shoe and Fig. 6 shews another arrangement of my invention.
My invention has reference to shoes of that class which are made of channel
section metal, that is to say, the shoe has a groove on its underside running all
round the same and two downwardly projecting ribs one on each side of the shoe
the said groove commonly containing indiarubber to improve the foothold and
lessen the shock to the animal's hoofs.
According to this invention I make the said downwardly projecting ribs marked
a' a² of the shoe serrated at the front and at the back of the shoe so as to prevent
slipping (the teeth at the front of the shoe being marked b' and the teeth at the
back marked b) and in the groove e between these serrated portions of the ribs a¹ a²
indiarubber is or may be fixed to prevent shock to the animal's hoof, that is to
say, there is or may be a block of indiarubber at the front of the shoe between
the serrated parts of the ribs, and two other indiarubber blocks marked d²
At each side
one in each of the back parts of the shoe between the serrations b².
of the shoe between the terminations of the front serrated part 6 and the com-
mencement of the back serrated parts & the side ribs a' a² are partly cut away so
as not to be in the way of striking the nail heads when they are being
driven in to fix the shoe, these nails passing through holes e in the channel
part between the front serrated portion and the back serrated portion 2. The
portions of the ribs a' a² between the front serrations and the back serrations 6²
may either be plain as in the shoe illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or they may be
serrated as in the shoe shewn by Figs. 4 and 5.
When applying my invention to those shoes which are adapted to be fixed
to the hoof by spiked clips, such as ; (see Fig. 6) instead of by nails, the serra-
tions bare (or may be) continued all round the shoe as shewn in Fig. 6 and
the indiarubber is or may be also continued all round the shoe in the said
groove c.
My improved shoes above described can either be made of cast metal or by
stamping or of rolled metal as will be well understood.
It will be evident that my improved shoe above described can either be made
and used with or without the indiarubber pieces.
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 :-
1. The herein described improvement in channel section shoes for horses and
other hoofed animals to prevent slipping, consisting in making the edges of the
tread serrated, or partly serrated and partly plain, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 2. The herein described improved shoe for horses and other hoofed animals made
channel section with the edges of the tread serrated at the front and at the heel
parts of the shoe and fitted with indiarubber blocks in the channel part of the heels
and toe and with the channel sides between the terminations of the rubber blocks
cut back all substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3
and by Figs. 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
3. The herein described improved shoe for horses and other hoofed animals to
be fixed by spiked clips formed on the shoe, the said shoe being made channel
section with the edges of the tread serrated and either fitted with indiarubber
in the groove between the serrated edges or made without the indiarubber as
hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 28th day of June 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.