Improvements in Fastening Elastic Treads in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastening Elastic Treads in Horse Shoes.
1, WILLIAM R. Howe, a citizen of the United States, residing at 421, South
Jefferson Street, in the City of Dayton, in the County of Montgomery and State
of Ohio, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention relates to horse shoes in which an elastic tread is pro-
vided to relieve the horse from jars and to prevent slipping and the improve-
ments relate particularly to the means employed for retaining the packing in
place in the manner hereinafter indicated.
Heretofore it has always been considered necessary to provide means for
retaining the packing throughout its entire length, but I have discovered that
in that class of shoe in which a toe opening is provided and the heel closed as
hereinafter indicated it is only necessary to provide means for retaining the
packing at the toe, although in other classes of shoes supplementary fastenings
at the sides or heels may be employed.
According to this invention the body of the shoe, may be of the usual con-
struction, and material, provided with a groove, on the underside extending from
heel to heel and having an opening in the front wall of the shoe at the toe.
Inserted in this groove is an elastic packing, of rubber or other suitable
material, which packing also fills out the toe opening. The side walls of the
groove at the toe opening are preferably beveled and the packing does not quite
fill these spaces.
The elastic packing being fitted to the groove from heel to heel, it may be
secured in place by any convenient means located at the toe opening. It is pre-
ferred for this purpose to use a plate of a width just sufficient to fit within the
base of the groove at the toe, the plate being firmly secured to the under-surface
of the packing. To secure the plate to the packing, slots may be cut in the plate
and the parts turned up to form hooks, which are slipped into slots cut in the
packing, the plate thus forming a back or base for the toe portion of the packing.
The rubber is then vulcanized at the point in contact with metal plate which
thus becomes practically a part of the packing. The ends of the plate may
extend a slight distance beyond the packing on each side, in which case in order
to properly secure the packing, the heel portions are first pushed to place and
the metal plate is then bent slightly in order that it may be sprung into place
at the base of the groove in the toe opening.
In this manner the packing at the toe will be held firmly in place and no
other attachment for the packing with certain classes of shoe is at all necessary.
Instead of the plate sprung into the base of the groove, other suitable means
for securing the toe portion of the packing will readily suggest themselves,
such for instance as by forming the plate with projecting prongs adapted to pass
through holes in the shoe or holes can be drilled in the side walls of the groove
at the toe and a wire or spikes inserted therethrough into the packing. With
certain classes of shoe, particularly such as have open heels it may be desirable

page_text: PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Chartered Patent Agent, London,
For the Applicant.
Improvements in Fastening Elastic Treads in Horse Shoes.
I, WILLIAM R. Howe, a citizen of the United States, residing at 421, South
Jefferson Street, in the City of Dayton, in the County of Montgomery and State
of Ohio, l'hysician, 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: —
The present invention relates to horse shoes in which an elastic tread is pro-
vided to relieve the horse from jars and to prevent slipping and the improve
ments relate particularly to the means employed for retaining the packing in
place in the tanner hereinafter indicated.
Heretofore it has always been considered necessary to provide means for
retaining the packing throughout its entire length, but I have discovered that
in that class of shoe in which a toe opening is provided and the heel closed as
hereinafter indicated it is only necessary to provide means for retaining the
packing at the toe, although in other classes of shoes supplementary fastenings
at the sides or heels may be employed.
Two forms of my invention are shown in the drawings by way of illustration.
Figure 1 being a bottom plan of a shoe showing one form.
Figure a front view of same.
Figure 3 a perspective view of the plate for retaining the packing. Fig. P
a section on line - Fig. 1.
Figure 4a bottom plan of a shoe showing another form.
Figure 5a front view of same and
Figure 6 a perspective view of the plate for retaining the packing.
According to this invention as illustrated in Figs. 1to
shoe A which may be of the usual material is provided with a
underside extending from heel to heel and having an opening
of the shoe at the foe.
the body of the
groove a, on the
in the front wall
Inserted in this groove is an elastic packing B of rubber or other suitable
material, which packing also fills out the toe opening. The side walls of the
groove at the toe opening are preferably beveled as shewn at e and the packing
does not quite fill these spaces.
The elastic packing being fitted to the groove from heel to heel, it may be
secured in place by any convenient means located at the toe opening.
In the form under description I use a plate C of a width just suflicient to
fit within the base of the groove at the toe, the plate being firmly secured to
the under-surface of the packing. To secure the plate to the packing, slots d d
may be cut in the plate and the parts turned up to form hooks, e e, which are
slipped into slots cut into slots cut in the packing, the plate thus forming a back
or base for the toe portion of the packing.
The rubber is then vulcanized at the point in contact with metal plate which
thus becomes practically a part of the packing. The ends ff of the plate extend

page_text: a slight distance beyond the packing on each side, and in order to properly
secure the packing, the heel portions are first pushed to place and the metal
plate is then bent slightly in order that it may be sprung into place at the
base of the groove in the toe opening.
In this manner the packing at the toe will be held firmly in place and no
other attachment for the packing with certain classes of shoe is at all necessary,
the heel portions being held by the side walls of the groove so that they remain
in place so long as the toe portion is not displaced.
Instead of the plate sprung into the base of the groove, other suitable means
for securing the toe portion of the packing will readily suggest themselves, such
for instance as that shewn in Figs. 4 to 6 where the plate C is formed with pro-
jecting prongs adapted to pass through holes in the shoe when they are at
right angles to plate C and to be afterwards bent down as at or clinched over
thus securely fastening the packing to the toe, or holes can be drilled in the side
walls of the groove at the toe and a wire or spikes inserted therethrough into
the packing. With certain classes of shoe, particularly such as have open heels
it may be desirable to have supplementary attachment pieces at the sides or heels
of one of the kinds previously described but as previously stated attachment at
the toe is usually suflicient.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
1 claim is―
1. In a horse shoe provided with a groove in the under surface and an opening
in the front wall at the toe, an elastic packing fitted in said groove and means
for attaching said packing at the toe only, substantially as described.
2. In a horse shoe provided with a groove in the under surface and an open-
ing in the front wall at the toe, an elastic packing fitted in said groove and a
metal plate secured to the base of said packing at the toe and means for attach-
ing said plate to the shoe, substantially as described.
8. In a horse shoe provided with a groove in the under surface, and an open-
ing in the front wall at the toe, an elastic packing in said groove and a metal
plate secured to the base of said packing at the toe and sprung between the
side walls of the opening or groove to retain said packing in place, substan-
tially as shown and described.
4. In a horse shoe provided with a groove in the under surface and a dovetailed
opening in the front wall at the toe an elastic packing in said groove and a metal
plate secured to the base of said packing and inserted between the dovetailed
sides of said opening or groove to hold said packing in place, substantially as
shown and described.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE.
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London. Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.