Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 22nd Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1887
JOHN NUNN 64 Bolckow Street, Middlesbrough on Tees Boot Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The Shoe, is made with a rim or guard of steel, round the edge of a very Light Shoo
to the inside corners of the heels, the hollow formed by the guard, to be filled up level,
with a plate or plates of leather, the plates being nailed on with the Shoe, this will
prevent slipping on aspalte, wood pavement or any slippery roads, will prevent
clogging or balling with snow or any other substance, the Shoe with the foot down
will appear as an ordinary Shoe. When lifted only the edge of the guard and heads
of the nails in the leather plate seen, all being quite level.
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page_text: I, JOHN NUNN of 64 Bolckow Street Middlesbrough on Tees, Boot 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:
My improved horse shoo is devised for the purpose of preventing horses slipping on
Asphalte, Wood or Macadamised roads, and affording a more secure foothold or grip
for the hoofs of horses and other animals than is possible with shoes as at present
made and in use, as also for preventing shaking or jarring to the rider when riding
on rough roads, or across country in the hunting field. It is also especially applicable
for the prevention of balling by snow, or clogging by stones and other substances.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan of the under surface of
a shoe according to my invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the upper face of the same;
Figure 3 is a section of the device on line A, B; Figure 4 is a section on line C, D,
Figure 2 and Figure 5 is a section of a horse shoe made up according to my
invention ready for use.
In accordance with my invention I employ a very thin metal shoe F sloping
upwards towards the centre, so as to fit the hoof of the horse or other animal and
made or formed with a rim or guard E of greater thickness relatively to the thickness
of the shoe proper, extending around the outer edge of the shoe, and terminating at
the inside corners or heels thereof. I build or fill up the space between the base of the
shoe, and level with the edge of the surrounding rim or guard E with leather or other
suitable packing material, preferably of a slightly resilient nature and in the form of
plates or lamina. Said packing material is secured to the shoe by means of the nails
used to attach the shoe to the hoof; or, if desired, a plate h of the packing material
may be secured in the manner above described, and the succeeding plates or laminæ H
may be attached to the plate h by any suitable means, thus enabling the worn plates of
the packing to be readily renewed without removing or disturbing the shoe.
The improved horse shoe according to my invention may be made of steel or other
suitable material, and may be forged, pressed, moulded or otherwise to the required
shape and size, having the requisite number of holes formed therein for the reception
of nails for securing the shoe to the hoof.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to bo
understood that I am aware that a horse shoe has already been devised of an angle-
iron-like formation in section, and I make no claim to novelty in respect merely of
such angle-iron-like formation, and I declare that what I claim is :—
Firstly The improved horse shoe with the surrounding rim or guard substantially
as herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly-The utilisation of the intervening space between the surrounding rim
or guard referred to in the preceding claim, and the base of the shoe plate for the
reception of leather or other suitable packing material substantially as herein set
forth.