An Improved Non-slipping Horse-shoe, and specially Prepared Bars for Making same.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Non-slipping Horse-shoe, and specially Prepared Bars
for Making same.
I, CHARLES HENRY DRAKARD, of 5, Wharf Street Sutton Bridge, Lincoln-
shire Shoeing Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My improved horse-shoe is designed to give a sure foothold on asphalte, stone,
or wooden faced roadways, or other slippery ground.
It consists in facing the centre of the shoe in front with two straight chisel
edged ridges, about two, or two and a half inches in length, and of or angular
section, which ridges run in a line or nearly so, with the metal bar of which the
shoe is formed. These two ridges are divided into four by a central cross cut
or V shaped aperture. In combination with the long front ridges shorter but
similar ridges are formed on the surface of both sides of the shoe. If the shoe
were straight instead of curved, the side ridges would be at right angles to the
central and longer ridges, as they are to the bar itself, but owing to the curve
they are mainly parallel to the front ridges. I propose to have special bars of
iron or steel rolled, having a face of the pattern described, or
by stamping it from heated metal.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1897.
may form the shoe
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicant.
BOITICATION.
An Improved Non-slipping Horse-shoe, and specially Prepared Bars
for Making same.
I, CHARLES HENRY DRAKARD, of 5 Wharf Street, Sutton Bridge, Lincoln-
shire, Shoeing 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:-
My improved horse-shoe is designed to give a sure foothold on asphalte, stone,
or wooden faced road-ways, or other slippery ground. It consists in facing the
centre of the shoe in front with two straight chisel edged ridges, about two, or
two and a half inches in length, and of V or angular section, which ridges run in a
line, or nearly so, with the metal bar of which the shoe is formed. These two
ridges are divided into four by a central cross cut or V shaped aperture. In com-
bination with the long front ridges shorter but similar ridges are formed on the
surface of both sides of the shoe. If the shoe were straight instead of curved the
side ridges would be at right angles to the central and longer ridges, as they are
to the bar itself, but owing to the curve they are mainly parallel to the front
ridges. I propose to have special bars of iron or steel rolled, having a face of the
pattern described, or I may form the shoe by stamping it from heated metal.
[Price 8d.]

page_text: I will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which:
Fig. 1 shews a plan of the under side of the shoe, with the nail holes through
the fuller.
Fig. 2 shews a section of same at the line A-B, of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shews an elevation of a piece of the specially prepared bar for making
the improved horse-shoes.
Fig. 4 shews an end view of the end of the shoe.
a, a, are parallel ridges in the front of the shoe behind the faller.
b, b, are the ridges on the horns or arms of same.
c, c denotes the fuller or hollow channel around the outside of the shoe.
d, is the V shaped aperture in the front of shoe.
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
In an horse-shoe or bar for making horse-shoes, the special formn of surface
having two divided ridges on the front of the shoe, and other smaller ridges on
the horns or arms, and a fullered channel on the outside; as herein described and
set forth.
Dated this 20th day of Anril 1807
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.