and other Animals to Prevent them from Slipping.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 27th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
and other Animals to Prevent them from Slipping.
JAMES COLE St. John's Street Coventry Ribbon Designer & Finisher do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to certain combinations of Leather, Catchone Paper or other
suitable materiel which I insert into & attach to the Horse Shoe in suitable form &
thickness of materiel to give the animal a good safe foot hold & prevent slipping upon
Asphalte Wood or other Pavements or upon Ice. Short Frost nails may be driven
into this materiel, if required, which will give additional foothold to the Animal & may
be put in at any moment, without removing the Shoes as is often done in frosty
weather for the purpose of roughing or turning up as it is sometimes called.

page_text: and other Animals to Prevent them from Slipping.
I JAMES COLE of Saint John's Street, Coventry in the county of Warwick Ribbon
Designer and Finisher 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 improvements in the forming of shoes for horses or other
animals, and in the combination therewith of caoutchouc, leather, paper, or other
suitable material, and has for its object the prevention of such animals from slipping
or losing their foothold when travelling upon slippery pavements or other places, such
as upon asphalt, ice &c.
I make the shoe proper of any suitable metal but generally of wrought or cast iron
or steel, or what is known as malleable cast iron, and provide therein perforations.
Into and through these perforations I insert prepared blocks or pads of caoutchouc,
leather &c., which latter stand beyond the face of the shoe when upon the animals
foot, so that the pressure of the weight or thrust of the foot is received upon the said
pad, which more or less effectually prevents slipping. These pads or blocks are so
shaped that they may be readily inserted, after the shoe has been "fitted" to the foot
of the animal, the said shoe being then secured to the said foot. These pads further
afford ready means in cases of emergency for driving small frost nails or spikes into
such material, in order still further to assist the animal in maintaining a firm foothold,
and obviating the necessity of removing the shoe, as is now usual, for "roughing
"turning up."
"
or
I will now proceed to more particularly describe and ascertain this my invention
and the manner in which it is carried out, by the aid of the accompanying illustrative
sheet of drawings, upon which are figures and letters of reference.
Fig. 1, is a front view of a horse shoe provided with perforations a, a, to receive the
pads.
Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of the shoe having the pad b, inserted therein.
Fig. 3 is a section through Fig. 1, at A-B, shewing clearly the relative position
and shape of the india-rubber &c. pad b, and the metal of the shoe itself.
Fig. 4, is a view of the pad or block, ready for inserting into the shoe, Fig. 5,
being a cross section of Fig. 4 at C-D.
It will be seen that the perforations in the shoes are bevilled, also that the pad b, is
similarly bevilled to suit; the wide side of such perforations being, when in use,
nearest the foot of the animal.
Fig. 6 shews a shoe with a modified form of perforations, d, d &c., which may afford
greater strength to the shoe by reason of the bars
e
e &c.
In this case I should prefer to make the pad or block f in one piece. I should

page_text: provide a thin layer of india-rubber &c., of a similar shape to the shoe itself, which
would serve as a base, and upon the surface of which I should further provide pro-
jections or blocks to correspond in shape and position to the holos in the shoe, so that
when the said pad or block is pressed into the shoe, the projections or blocks shall
stand out beyond the front surface of the said shoe similarly as shown at g Fig. 7.
Fig. 8 shews the pad or block by itself ready for insertion into the shoe.
One great advantage in these my improved shoes is; that inasmuch as in nearly all
if not all cases, in shocing animals the said shoe has to be heated in the fire in order
to be shaped to the foot of the animal, the pads may be easily pushed out, then the
shoe "fitted by heating &c., and when so fitted ready to be attached, the pads or
blocks are readily inserted again, and the shoe then secured as ordinarily to the foot,
thus requiring no fixing of the pad or block after the shoe is nailed on.
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In most cases I should place between the hoof of the animal, and the inside face of
the pad or block, a piece of thin sheet metal, as the pressure of the hoof upon the pad
may possibly cause inconvenience or pain to the animal.
In forming these shoes I may if desirable form toe and heel projections h, h, but
when doing so, should keep them somewhat lower than the face of the pad.
The shape and number of the perforations made in the shoes to receive the pads or
blocks may be varied to suit pleasure, or, in some cases to suit the requirement of the
material of the said pads, or the economical use of such material, as for instance; I
may make such perforations, of a circular form, which would not only suit pads made
of india-rubber &c.; but of wood, endwise of the grain, such blocks of a taper plug
form being readily and cheaply produced.
With the use of these my improved shoes, the excessive vibration or jar caused in
the limbs of animals when travelling, particularly upon hard roads is very much
diminished.
Suitable nail holes would be provided according to requirements, in the shoes for
securing them to the foot of the animal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
1st. The improvements in shoes for horses and other animals as herein set forth and
illustrated upon the drawings that is to say, the providing of perforated holes in such
shoes, to receive a pad or pads, from the rear to the front of such shoes.
2nd. The providing of pads or blocks of caoutchouc (Indiarubber) leather, wood, or
other suitable material, to be inserted into perforations in the shoes of horses or other
animals, from the rear to the front of such shoes, presenting at the front their surface
for wear, as and for the purposes herein shewn and specified.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.