Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 29th Mar.,, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes..
I CHRISTOPHER MORRISS SALES, of No. 9, Brougham Street, Battersea Farrier and
Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in Horse Shoes, and consists in providing
the same with ridges or projections.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I CHRISTOPHER MORRISS SALES, of 9 Brougham Street, Calvert Road, Battersea
Park Road, 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 :-
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My invention relates to improvements in horse shoes, and has for its object a horse
shoe that shall enable the animal wearing same to obtain a perfect and secure grip on
slippery or greasy roads, and thereby prevent shipping and falling down.
In carrying my invention into practice, I form the shoe, by rolling, stamping, or
any other suitable method, with chisel shaped gags, across the under or wearing
side.
On the outside edge of the shoe, I provide a fullering, having one side eliptical, and
the other plane, the two forming a hollow wedge shape. I may also if desirable,
provide a like fullering on the inner edge of the shoe.
This outside fullering is provided with places for the nails or other fastening means
to be driven through.
When the shoe is in use, the spaces between the gags, fill up with sand and dirt,
and prevent the animal from slipping, even after the gags and cogs are worn
down.
The fullering also fills up and the edges of same, pack, and prevent the sand and
dirt from working out.
My invention is applicable to both fore and hind shoes.
The gags may be formed so as to all point in the same direction, or half of them
may be turned one way and half the other, so as to provide for up and down hill
work.
And in order that my invention may be more particularly understood, I have shewn
the same on the accompanying drawing, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of the wearing surface of the shoe. Fig. 2 is a side view of same,
and Fig. 3 shews in section how the shoe is formed.
A, is the shoe, having projections or gags B. A fullering C runs round on each
side, from the cogs F to the flat toe-piece D.
The fullering being formed as shewn, facilitates the stamping of the nail-pieces,
and also serves to hold the nails more securely. The spaces G, formed by the gags,
and the fullering C serve to collect the sand and dirt, and to render thereby more
secure, the footing of the horse.
The rim or edge H, packs the sand and dirt and prevents it slipping or working
out.

page_text: The two sets of gags are shewn reversed to each other, on Fig. 1, but they can be
formed all facing in the same direction if convenient.
I also do not limit myself to any number of gags.
Having no
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
The improvements in horse shoes, substantially as herein before described and shown
and for the purpose set forth.
HUGHES & SON,"
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.