Improvements in Horse Shoes and Cushions for same, also Method of Manufacture.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1895-Accepted. 11th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes and Cushions for same, also Method
of Manufacture.
JAMES FREDERICK BENNETT 9 Rupert Road Nether Edge WILLIAM SMITH
Steel File Manufacturer Spring Works Sheffield, JAMES WING, Steel and File
Manufacturer, Spring Works, Sheffield all of Sheffield and the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in the first instance of a strip of rubber vulcanised or
unvulcanised whose section has a broad thin or taper flange and also a thicker
narrow flange at right or other convenient angles with the thinner flange. This
sectional rubber is drawn rolled or otherwise made in long strips these strips may
be passed through a tool which corrugates or cuts the flanges thus making it so
that it may easily be passed round a shoe the nails being driven through the shoe
and then through the thinner flange, thus a thick flange of rubber projects beyond
the iron shoe and acts as a cushion etc.
As a further improvement we may make a rubber cushion as follows. The
rubber is rolled, or otherwise made in long strips which may be corrugated or cut
as before but instead of the broad flange we may have a seris of rubber projections
which may be oval round or any other convenient shape.
The shoe in this case may be made as follows. The iron is rolled, and before
bending a seris of holes or sections are punched or otherwise formed these sections
could be done in the rolling if special rolls were made. Of course we could cut out
the holes, or otherwise form thein after the shoe is made or the shoes could be cast
in malable iron or steel these holes or projections coinside with those on the
rubber thus when the shoe is nailed on the rubber stands above or level with
the iron.
In both cases the rubber may be cemented to the shoes before nailing the
shoe on.
The rubber cushions may have leather, or other suitable material for the back
in which case the rubber would be cemented or otherwise attached to the material
used.
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J. F. BENNETT.
WILLIAM SMITH.
JAMES WING.
Improvements in Horse Shoes and Cushions for same, also Method
of Manufacture.
JAMES FREDERICK BENNETT Inventor 9 Rupert Road Nether Edge and
WILLIAM SMITH Steel and File Manufacturer Spring Works Sheffield and
JAMES WING Steel Manufacturer Spring Works all of Sheffield in the County of
York, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
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page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Our invention relates to improvements in horse shoes and consists in drawing
rolling or otherwise forming long lengths of rubber having a right angled sectional
(or other convenient section or angle may be used) flange one strip being broad
and thin, and the other thick, thus this rubber section is passed round the shoe so
that the thin portion is betwen the hoof and shoe and the thick stands above the
shoe in the inside thus forming a cushion to prevent slipping etc.
This rubber may be fastened or cemented to the iron or hoof if desired by any
convenient means.
As a further improvement we may make the rubber as before but instead of the
broad flange have a seris of projections or buttons standing up in centre or at one
edge of shoe.
The shoe in this case of the flat projections could be groved so that the rubber
could be thus alternated first iron and then rubber or in the case of the buttons
holes could be bored or formed in the shoe corresponding to those on the rubber
band so that when fastened on to the hoof these rubber buttons stand up & form a
cushion.
As a further improvement we make a pad to cover the whole or part of the
hoof, the rubber is first made in long strips with the rubber buttons or projections
on these strips are made the width of the hoof so that the buttons can be cut away
where the iron shoe comes, and when the shoe is fatened on the remaining ones
stand up forming a pad or cushion.
The projections may be of any shape size or the rubber may be corrugated.
Further the rubber and shoe could be fastened on without cutting away the
projections.
Fig. 1 represents the sectional rubber A. the thick flange B the thin broad
flange.
Fig. 2 shows the hoof with the shoe & rubber attached B is the thin flange A the
thick flange standing up above the iron shoe.
Fig. 3 shows the Hange A fitted inside shoe.
Fig. 4 shows the rubber band bent round the shoe having instead of a flange
buttons D or projections of rubber standing up which corresponding with holes
punched in the shoe E stand up thus forming a cushion.
Fig. 5 is a flat piece of sheet rubber or leather G having upon its surface
projections F of rubber which projections are cut away thus a cushion is formed
inside the shoe E and at the same time the hoof is protected underneath the shoe.
Having now described the nature of our invention we beg to say that what we
claim is
1. The fact of using a strip of sectional rubber in combination with horse
shoes.
2. The above with buttons or projections on in place of flange.
3. The fact of making pads for whole or part of hoof out of broad rubber bands
or sheets having projections or buttons on same which buttons may be cut away
or left as desired.
Dated this 10th day of May 1895.
I F BENNETT
Dated this 10th day of May 1895.
J F BENNETT
WILLIAM SMITH,
JAMES WING,
Per Wm. Smith.
JF BENNETT
WILLIAM SMITH,
JAMES WING,
Per Wm. Smith.