IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSES-SHOES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Fulton Cooke, of New York, State of
New York, in the United States of America, for the Invention of
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Robert Fulton Cooke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 28th September 1874, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
FULTON COOKE, of New York, State of New York, in the United
States of America, send greeting.
:
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HORSES-SHOES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the`
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and truc
Inventor thereof.
:

page_text: forward part of the shoe, the whole distance between the plates A and
A to prevent the india-rubber being pushed through this part of the
shoe against the horse's hoof.
Upon the top of this frame or shoe the usual projections D are
arranged, one in the front in the centre and one on cach side, projecting
some distance upwards, which are bended over outside of the horse's
hoof when the shoe is fastened.
At the inner sides of the frames A, A', about near the middle of their
height, small projections n, n, are made. These projections may consist
of prongs, or pointed projections, or of a raised part or increased thick-
ness of the plates A, A', in the inner part, tapering towards the top and
bottom of the plates, so as to make the central part or space between
said frames narrower than the top and bottom, for the purpose of
holding any material cast or pressed into this skeleton frame perfectly
tight without the necessity of any other fastenings. Into this space
between the frames A, A¹, crude india-rubber H is cast, projecting about
one quarter of an inch in the middle below the bottom of the metal
part of the shoe, having suitable holes through said india-rubber for
the nails to pass which fasten the shoe to the hoof.
For the purpose of casting or pressing the crude india-rubber into this
skeleton metal shoe, said shoe is placed into a suitable iron mould or
form, which when the shoe is filled with rubber is closed and the rubber
vulcanized while in the skeleton shoe.
By the arrangement of the prongs or projections n the india-rubber
will be held firmly in the frame or skeleton horse-shoe without requiring
any other fastenings.
Instead of arranging the hubs B between the frames A, A¹, to
receive the nails and whereby said nails must pass through the india-
rubber, the outer frame A may be recessed, as shewn in Figs. VII.
and VIII., and the hubs R arranged in said recesses, whereby the nails
can be driven into the horse's hoof from the outside of the shoc and
without passing through the rubber.
Having now fully described and set forth my Invention, I hereby
declare that I claim as my Invention and desire to secure by Letters
Patent,-
First. The hercin described skeleton horse-shoc arranged and con-
structed as described, and provided with projections n or their equivalent

page_text: on the inner sides of the frames A, A¹, in combination with an india-
rubber filling H, substantially as set forth.
Secondly. I claim a skeleton horse-shoe in combination with an india-
rubber lining or filling, when said rubber is cast or pressed into the
skeleton frame while in a crude state, and then when in place vulcanized
as specified.
In witness whereof, I, Robert Fulton Cooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
ROBERT FULTON COOKE. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed, in presence of,
HENRY E. ROEDER;
Solicitor of Patents,
302, Broadway,
New York.