Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
TRUVIDIONAL DIVIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, CHARLES THOMAS GREEN of Washington in the County of Sussex Smith do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in horse shoes.
My improved horse shoe consists in two parts vizt. :-an inner shoe of steel and an
outer shoe of semi-hard india-rubber. The inner shoe may be cut from a light sheet
of metal or otherwise made approximately to the form of an ordinary horse shoe,
it is punched with nail holes on either side. The india rubber shoe is a moulded
mass of considerable thickness with a cavity on the upper surface accurately
corresponding to the form of the inner shoe. The outer shoe fits on to and over
the inner shoe. There are nail holes also in the outer shoe and the shoe is recessed
on either side where the nail holes come. The nails are driven through both shoes into
the hoof in the ordinary positions and in consequence of the way in which the
outer shoe is recessed the heads of the nails do not come into contact with the
ground.
Dated this 5th dow of Dasombor 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, CHARLES THOMAS GREEN of Washington in the County of Sussex Smith 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 has for its object improvements in horse shoes.
My improved horse shoe consists in two parts vizt. an inner shoe of steel and an
outer shoe of semi hard india rubber. The inner shoe may be cut from a light sheet
of metal or otherwise made approximately to the form of an ordinary horse shoe it is
punched with nail holes on either side. The india rubber shoe is a moulded mass of
considerable thickness with a cavity on the upper surface corresponding to the form
of the inner shoe. The outer shoe is moulded on to and over the inner shoe. There
are nail holes also in the outer shoe and the shoe is recessed on either side where the
nail holes come. The nails are driven through both shoes into the hoof in the ordinary
positions and in consequence of the way in which the outer shoe is recessed the heads
of the nails do not come into contact with the ground. -
In order that my said Invention may be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE Drawings.

page_text: as is usually practised in moulding articles in hardened india rubber. This curing
besides effecting the required change in the rubber causes it to adhere firmly to the
inner shoe. The semi hard rubber of the outer shoe overlaps the edges of the inner
shoe all around at b¹¹ but this overlap extends for a short distance only and a cavity c
is left on the upper surface corresponding to the form of the inner shoe. This cavity
is beneath the frog of the horses foot which requires to be well clear of the shoe and
the hoof comes in contact only with the raised overlap b¹.
636 are nail holes in the semi hard rubber corresponding to the nail holes a² in the
inner shoe. The outer shoe is recessed on either side at 63 63 where the nails are, so
that the nail heads even when the shoe becomes worn may not touch the ground. I
employ nails having shallow heads. 6 is a hollow beneath the shoe; the form of this
hollow may be varied.
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 :-
A horse shoe substantially as described consisting of a flat inner shoe of sheet metal
extending beneath the under surface of the whole of the foot and perforated with nail
holes; and an outer shoe of semi hard india rubber covering the inner shoe and with
a cavity on its upper surface corresponding in form with the inner shoe and with
recesses at the sides in which are nail holes coinciding with those in the inner shoe
and so arranged that the heads of nails driven through both shoes do not come into
contact with the ground all as herein set forth.
Dated this 5th day of September 1889.