An Improved Shoe for Horses or other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shoe for Horses or other Animals.
1 HUGH MURCHIE of 93 Gilmore Road College Park Lewisham in the
County of Kent Joiner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In carrying out my invention I employ iron steel or other suitable metal or
material. Said horse shoe made to shape of hoof with longitudinal semi cylindric
toe groove, and oblique transverse semi cylindric wing grooves at a suitable
distance apart. Said grooves on face of shoe next ground and so constructed as
not to clog. The projecting parts cutting through dirt or other slippery matter
thereby affording a firm and sure footing on wood asphalate stone or other con-
structed roadways, which would greatly tend to mitigate the evils under which the
horse suffers so severely in frosty or greasy weather.
Dated this 15th day of December 1890.
HUGH MURCHIE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shoe for Horses or other Animals.
I HUGH MURCHIE Joiner of 93 Gilmore Road College Park Lewisham
London S.E. in the County of Kent do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In carrying out my invention I employ iron, steel, or other suitable metal or
material.
Said shoes can either be malleable, cast in iron, or steel, or forged in moulds,
or dies, either by machinery, or by hand, or whatever other method, or process,
found most suitable.
I now by preference, make and model a shoe, to shape of hoof, Fig. 1. (is plan
to underside of shoe) to have longitudinal semi elliptical, or cylindric toe
grooves, as shown at A. and oblique transverse semi elliptical or cylindric wing
grooves, as denoted by B. C. D. E. and F. G. H. I. These grooves should be
formed at a suitable distance apart, and should vary in size and wing grooves, in
numbers to accord with the various sizes of shoes, and under certain conditions, it
might be found preferable to form these transverse wing grooves at right angles to
sides of shoe, or straight across, or inclined to sides of shoe, in the opposite direction
to that which is shown on plan.
Fig. 2. side elevation to wings or sides shoe. To vary in thickness as required.
Fig. 3. plan of shoes next hoofs showing clips formed at toe, side or sides, or toe
only, according to circumstances, as denoted by A. B. And I might by preference,
form small cogs on face of shoe, next hoofs, similar in section to transverse wing
cogs, or shoes might be made thicker opposite wing grooves, as shown by dotted
lines A. Fig. 2. which if required would tend to strengthen shoe, and to hold hoofs
more rigidly in position.
Nail holes can either be formed in the grooves B. C. D. etc. Fig. 1. or in the
cogs between these grooves, when cogs might by preference be cross grooved, that
is, at right angles, or inclined to sides of same, and shoes fitted and fixed to hoofs
in the usual way, or by other suitable methods.
Fig. 4. show section through longitudinal toe groove, and cogs ; and Fig. 5. show
section through transverse wing grooves, and cogs, at right angles to same, as

page_text: denoted by B. C. D. etc. Fig. 1. These grooves might by preference be formed
square in section, or slightly rounded in angles, according to condition, or
circumstances.
The distinctive features of my shoes, is that by means of grooves, projecting
parts, or cogs, are formed to cut through dirt, or other slippery matter, thereby
affording horses, and other animals, a perfect grip under any condition, or circum-
stances, whatever. These cogs should vary in size and thickness, and for frosty
weather should be made sharper, and by reference to Fig. 1. it might be found
preferable to hollow out heel cogs, or form same parallel to outer edge or sides of
shoe, as denoted by dotted lines S. S. and also to omit or to alter in length or
shape inside longitudinal toe cog as denoted by O.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is;
.
Shoes to afford horses, and other animals, a secure grip, and footing, on wood,
stone, asphalte, or other constructed roadways, fields, or commons, in their wet
dirty, and greasy, or any other conditions whatever including frosty weather, and
that the whole I have with the aid of the accompanying drawings, illustrated, and
embodied, and described, and for the purpose stated and set forth in this my
Complete Specification.
Dated this 21st day of Acoust. 1891
HUGH MURCHIE.