Improvements in or in connection with Non-slipping Pads or similar Appliances for Horse-shoes or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 19th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Non-slipping Pads or similar
Appliances for Horse-shoes or the like.
I, JOHN DADE of 6 Custom House Quay, Dover, in the County of Kent,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pads or appliances for horse shoes and the like to
prevent or reduce slipping and jar as well as assisting the wear of the ordinary
metal shoe.
My present invention is as follows
:-
Between the ordinary metal shoe and the hoof I arrange and mount a sheet
metal plate or other suitable plate or shield which extends under the shoe so as to
be held by the ordinary nailing of said shoe or this plate may be held in other
suitable manner.
The back of this plate is recessed so as to clear the "frog" and has a flange or
wall formed or mounted around this recessed part thereby forming a deep channel
or socket, (between said flange or wall and the inner wall of the metal shoe)
wherein is arranged and mounted any suitable non-slipping material or materials
for instance tarred rope held to the said plate by wires, a pneumatic tube covered
with tarred rope or other protective covering, rubber, cork, composition etc. etc.
To strengthen and support the inner edge of the aforesaid plate around the said
recess to clear the frog-I arrange one two or more pieces of metal transversely
across said recess and rivetted or otherwise rigidly affixed to the said metal
plate at each side of said recess while at about the middle of each such cross piece
same is bossed or thrown up so as to clear the "frog" or otherwise suitably formed
to answer my purposes.
I find it advantageous to use a pad lining or packing (consisting of any suitable
material or materials-for instance tarred rope) arranged and mounted between the
aforesaid sheet and the hoof and (approximately) corresponding in shape with the
latter where such packing and the hoof come in contact.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.c.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Non-slipping Pads or similar
Appliances for Horse-shoes or the like.
I, JOHN DADE of 3 Limekiln Street Dover, in the County of Kent, late of
6 Custom House Quay Dover Gentleman, 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 relates to pads or appliances to prevent or reduce slipping and
jar, as well as relieving the wear of the ordinary shoe.
My present invention is as follows:-
Between the ordinary metal shoe, I arrange and mount a metal plate or other
suitable plate or shield which extends under the shoe, so as to be held by the
ordinary nailing of said shoe after having punched holes in the said metal plate or

page_text: Fig. 1. shows the metal plate or shield for holding the non-slipping material in
position and as applied to a hoof in conjunction with an ordinary metal shoe.
Fig. 2. is a cross sectional view in line 1-1 Fig. 1.
a. is the channel or socket formed on one side by the flanged edge around the
recess cut out of the plate to clear the frog, and on the other side by the inner
wall of the shoe, the latter being indicated in Fig. 1 by dotted lines. Inside this
channel or socket and along the whole length running around the recess any
suitable non-slipping material, such as tarred rope etc., may be fixed to the metal
plate and the flanged edge by any suitable means.
b. represents (in dotted lines) any ordinary metal shoe, showing the position in
which the metal plate is fixed and nailed to the hoof, showing also the part of the
said plate which goes between the shoe and the hoof.
c. is the recess in the plate to clear the frog.
d. is the flange or wall around said recess and which forms one side of the channel
or socket (a.) and around which the non-slipping material is fixed.
e. are the cross pieces or brackets fixed transversely across the recess (r.) and
rivetted on to the plate (a.) at each side of the recess.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my present
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The arrangement of one or two pieces of metal or brackets fixed transversely
across a recess cut into a metal plate or shield and bended down, over and against
the outer edge of a flange running around said recess, with the ends of the said
cross pieces rivetted firmly on to the said metal plate, with the object of supporting
and strengthening the said flange as well as the said metal plate and so as to

page_text: produce a strong and rigid support for the non-slipping material to be used and
which latter is fixed between the outer side of said flange and the inner wall of the
shoe, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before set forth.
2. The improved construction of anti-slipping pads or appliances for horse shoes
or the like purposes substantially in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated by way of example in the drawings hereunto annexed.
DL: 10L 3 CA 1004
JOHN DADE.