IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURER OF HORSE SHOES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN'
TURNBULL, of Holywell Mount, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, Card
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of May, in the sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself,
Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Turnbull,
Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
John Turnbull, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Turnbull, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years:
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURER OF HORSE SHOES;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said John Turnbull, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Turnbull, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon
(that is to say):-
Figure 1 represents the under surface of a horse shoe constructed according
to the first part of my Invention; Figure 2 is a transverse section thereof;
Figure 3 shews the under surface of a horse shoe, without the felt or other
soft elastic material; and Figure 4 shews a section of the shoe without the
under surface of felt or other soft elastic material; Figure 5 shews an edge
view, and Figure 6 a plan, of the surface of hard felted wool, which is intro-
duced at the under surface of the shoe.
The object of this part of the Invention is so to construct a horse shoe that
the horse may tread with a soft surface under each foot, such soft surface
being composed of hard felted wool or other soft and elastic matter, by which
means a horse will be less liable to slip on wood or other pavement than when
using the ordinary metal shoes. In making this description of shoe the metal
used constitutes a metal frame for holding the soft material, at the same time
they are so formed as to prevent the felt coming in contact with the under
surfaces of the feet. a is a light shoe, which I prefer to be of steel; b is a plate,
which is fixed to the shoe; this plate b need not come in contact with the under
surface of the foot. Into the under part of the shoe the felt or other suitably
soft and elastic material c is introduced, it being somewhat larger than the
shoe in order that it may fit tightly when forced into the shoe, and the plate b
will prevent the felt or other such matter coming in contact with the under
surface of the foot, which constitutes the novel feature of this part of my
Invention. The felt or other matter having been introduced into the under
part of the shoe, the shoe is to be fastened by nails, which pass through the
felt and through the shoe, as is shewn, at d. d. In fastening the felt I have
found it, desirable to use melted pitch on the interior of the shoe, and when
the shoe and pitch are hot I press the felt or other matter into the shoe. I
would remark that the shape of the frame or shoe a may be varied without
departing from this part of my Invention, so long as the same has a plate b
affixed thereto, and combined with the use of felt, or such like, material, as
herein described.
The second part of my Invention relates to modes of applying studs to the
under surfaces of horse shoes when there is frost. Figure 7 shews a plan of
the upper surface of a plate and secondary shoe with studs, to be applied when

page_text: a horse is shod with shoes according to the first part of my Invention;
Figure 8 is an edge view, and Figure 9 is a plan of the under surface of the
secondary shoe and plate. with studs; Figures 10, 11, and 12, shew a plan,
edge view, and side section of the secondary shce in combination with the shoe
affixed to a horse's foot." e, e is the secondary shoe, having several studs f, f,
which are of a conical form and pass through the shoe from the upper surface
thereof, so that when the plate g is affixed on the shoe e, the studs are retained
fast in their places; h, h, are 'two projecting plates, having slots or holes i, i,
formed therein, as is shewn; j,j, are holes through the plate g, and there are
to be corresponding holes formed in the plate 6 tapped with female screws to
receive the screws k, k, and in the front of the shoe'a, a, are formed 'holes
tapped with female screws to receive the screws 1, 1; and it is by means of the
screws k and that the secondary shoe with the studs are affixed to the shoe
a, consequently the secondary shoes may be readily applied and removed as
required.
The third part of my Invention has for its object a mode of affixing a series
of studs to an ordinary horse shoe. Figure 13 shews an under side view of an
ordinary horse shoe having a series of studs applied thereto according to this
part of my Invention; Figure 14 is a section of the shoe and apparatus
applied thereto; Figure 15 shews an under surface of the frame for holding
the studs; Figure 16 shews the upper surface of the frame for holding the
studs, having conical holes through for the passage of the conical studs, the
upper ends of the studs resting against the under surface of the horse shoe;
Figure 17 shews separate views of the holding plate which slides along
between the groove formed in the frame. m, m, are the studs; n, n, is the
frame for holding the studs, the nature of which is clearly shewn in the
Drawing; o is a bar, which is fixed to the frame n, and has a screw p passing
through it which presses against the holding plate q; hence it will be seen
that the frame is securely held to the shoe by means of the bar o, and the
holding plate q; or in place of using an ordinary shoe, the shoe used may have
suitable notches formed therein, as is shewn at r, r, and 8, s, in which case the
stud frame n is supplied with somewhat different means of fastening; t is a
projecting surface affixed to the stud frame, the ends thereof at t¹ being so cut
or formed as to pass through the notches r, r, so as to slide on the upper
surfaces of the shoe, as is shewn at Figure 18, which is an under surface view
of a borse shoe and stud frame affixed thereto; Figure 19 being a back edge
view thereof; Figure 20 shews the under side of a horse shoe; Figure 21
shews a plan of the stud frame and apparatus applied thereto for fixing it to a
horse shoe; Figure 22 is a front edge view thereof; and Figure 23 is the bar

page_text: through which the screw passes, such-bar-resting-in-the notches.s, s.; and the
screw v, which passes through the bar w also screws into the bar x, by which
means the frame of studs is held fast.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details, so long as either part of my Invention
be retained. And I would remark that I am aware that felt or such like
material has before been introduced into horse shoes, when the horses are in
the stable, in order to keep their feet moist, but in such cases the felt or such
like material came in contact with the under surface of the foot, and I
mention this circumstance in order to state that I do not claim the same.
But what I clim is,―
First, the mode of applying felt or other suitable soft elastic material to the
under surfaces of horse shoes when so applied as to be prevented coming in
contact with the under surface of the feet by means of fixed plates 6, as above
described.
Secondly, I claim the mode of applying secondary shoes with studs, as above
described in respect to Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
And thirdly, I claim the modes of applying stud frames to horse shoes
as described in respect to Figures 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
and 23.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Turnbull, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.