Improvements in connection with Horse Shoes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 6th Dec., 1894
Con Llete Specification Left, 1st Mar.. 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Horse Shoes.
GEORGE BROWN, of 2 Oak Villas Church Road, Bexley Heath, Kent, Engineer,
and ALFRED JAMES KEARN of 31 Priolo Road Charlton Kent, Instrument
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The improvement or invention is designed to absolutely prevent horses slipping
and falling down and so avoiding injury in frosty weather, and to enable them to
proceed with their work as under all other conditions.
It is composed of a flat plate the same shape as the bottom of a horse's foot,
fitted with stops to the inner part to press against the old shoe, and shaped studs on
face of the plate. A band is secured to either side of the plate fitted at the upper
ends with main and set screws, this together with the stops above referred to form
a fixing to the foot. The arrangement is easily applied to the fixed shoe, cannot
occasion injury to the foot, and neither is there the slightest chance of its being
thrown. With slight modifications it can be made suitable to serve as an ordinary
shoe, and preventative against slipping combined, in which case the plate would
be made of stouter metal. The whole weight of the horse as well as the wear and
tear will be confined to the several studs which can be readily renewed by any
unskilled person at quite a nominal expense. Lightness is specially studied
consistent with durability so that no more weight than is absolutely necessary shall
be added to the horse's foot. The whole is of a very simple nature and the cost
within the reach of all owners of horses.
Improvements in connection with Horse Shoes.
GEORGE BROWN 2 Oak Villas, Church Road Bexley Heath Kent Engineer
and ALFRED JAMES KEARN, 31 Priolo Road, Sundorne Road, Charlton Kent,
Instrument Maker, 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 :-
The improvement or invention consists of a moveable shoe, easily attached to or
detached from any ordinary iron shod horse's hoof. It is a sole plate A of the
common form of horse shoe or of the form shewn in Fig. 4 of iron or other metal
and having screwed into the under side any convenient number of pointed or sharp
edged metal studs B, for the purpose of giving a secure foothold upon any road
under any conditions. These studs may be renewed as often as required by
screwing in new ones in place of old worn ones. Upon the upper side of the
sole plate are two fixed and roughened stops C so placed as to press against the
front inner edge of the ordinary shoe when the sole plate is in position. A metal
strap D is brought from each of the hinder ends of the sole plate up towards the
front of the hoof, and the front ends of the straps there drawn together and
tightened by a main or tightening screw E, working in nuts F. F. on the straps
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page_text: and secured by a set or clamping screw G. The effect of tightening the straps is
to draw the stops tightly up to the front of the ordinary shoe, and to firmly fix
the sole plate to the horse's foot. Additional security and ease is gained by a pad
of leather H or other material fitted to the upper surface of the sole plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
That the improvement consists in a shoe with studs B. B. placed in the sole plate
for securing the horse's foothold. Also in the main and clamping screws E and G
together with roughened stops C. C. whereby the shoe is affixed over the ordinary
shoe.
Dated this 28th day of February 1895
GEORGE BROWN.
ALFRED JAMES KEARN.