Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 18th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
We, JAMES MILLS, of 40 Oxford Street, in the city of Gloucester, nail-maker, and
JOSEPH HEAD, of 5, Bloomsbury Street, Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester,
shoeing-smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improved appliance for roughing horse shoes to prevent slipping on frozen
roads, to which this invention has reference, consists of two metal clips furnished
at the toe and heel with screw spikes and attached by lugs or ears to the underside of
each shoe. The two clips for each separate shoe are connected to each other by a right
and left handed screw by means of which the instrument is capable of being strained
up or tightened after having been adjusted in its place. The appliance is readily and
quickly attached to or detached from a shoe, and without necessitating removal of the
shoe from the horse's foot. The screw spikes, of which there are preferably two
at the toe, and two at the heel, are tapered downwards to a point for the purpose
of penetrating snow, ice or frozen ground, and each screw is slotted so that if
the head thereof be broken off the stump may be withdrawn by means of a turn
screw.
In some cases screw plugs may be used instead of or in combination with the
pointed screw spikes.
The clips of the appliance are preferably rounded on the underside so as to obviate
balling" of the snow in the shoe.
As applied to the shoes of the fore feet of horses, the right and left handed screw
by which the instrument is strained up or released is preferably arranged longitudinally
to the shoe. As applied to the hind shoes, the straining screw is preferably arranged
transversely, that is, across the shoe.
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W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: We, JAMES MILLS, of 40 Oxford Street, in the City of Gloucester, nail maker, and
JOSEPH HEAD, of 5, Bloomsbury Street, Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester,
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:—
The improved appliance for roughing horse shoes to prevent slipping on ice, frozen
or partially frozen snow and the like to which this invention has reference consists
of metal clips of which there are two for each shoe. The clips, which are fitted
with pointed spikes engage with a shoe by lugs or ears and are firmly secured in
their proper position at the opposite sides of the shoe by means of a screw connecting
each pair of clips and by which they are forced against the body of the shoe. The clips
are attached to or detached from a shoe without necessitating removal of the shoe from a
horse's foot. The threads of the connecting screw may be either in one direction
throughout the length of the screw or they may be from right to left through a part
thereof and from left to right throughout the remaining part.
The screwed portion of each of the spikes above referred to is notched or recessed at
the underside so that in event of the head being broken off the stumps may be
withdrawn by means of a turn screw.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 thereon repre-
sents a plan of a horse's front shoe reversed and having applied thereto the roughing
appliance in which this invention consists. Fig. 2 represents a section on the line B, B,
Fig. 1. Engaging with the underside of the shoe a by the lugs or ears,b, b' are clips c, c'
connected by the screw d extending across the shoe. According to this arrangement
there is formed towards one end of the screw d a shoulder e beyond which is an
extension not furnished with screw threads. This extension is passed into the clip c
and the screw is free to turn in the socket. Towards the other end the screw
carried through a female screw in the clip c¹ and is fitted with a nut which when the
clips have been adjusted in position and have by the application of a spanner to the
shoulder e been forced apart so as to firmly secure them on the shoe is turned and acts
as a lock nut. To assist in securing the clips in place upon the shoe the lugs or ears 6¹
are formed with a tooth which takes into a corresponding notch cut or otherwise
provided for its reception in the body of the shoe as shewn.
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Towards each extremity of each clip c, c¹ are the spikes 9 tapered or otherwise
shaped to afford a firm hold in ice or frozen or partially frozen snow. Figs. 4, 5
and 6 are elevations, Figs. 7, 8 and 9 underside plans, and Figs. 10, 11 and 12 plans
of the spikes. At the bottom of the screwed portion or shank each spike is recessed or
notched so that in event of the head being broken off the stump may be removed by
the application of a turnscrew to the recess.
Fig. 13 is a plan of a horse's hind shoe reversed and fitted with our improved
roughing clips which are applied thereto in the same manner as above described with

page_text: reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Fig. 14 is a section on the line C C, Fig. 13. The
clips c, e¹ of which a detached view is represented at Fig. 15 are shewn as furnished
with one screw spike g each but if desired they may be extended towards the front and
provided with additional spikes as hereinbefore described and shewn at Figs. 1, 2
and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Instead of having the threads running in the same direction the screw d may be a
right and left handed screw as shewn at Fig. 16 and in this case it is operated by a
spanner applied to the central shoulder d'. The screw may, instead of being placed
transversely across the shoe be placed longitudinally the shape of the clips being
modified accordingly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. The use, for "roughing" horse-shoes, of clips or brackets such as c, c¹ engaging
with the body of the shoe by means of lugs or ears such as 66 and furnished with
screw spikes or points such as g, the said clips being set firmly in the shoe by a screw
such as d or by equivalent means, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The use for setting the clips c, c¹, referred to in the preceding claim, on a horse
shoe, of a right and left handed screw, substantially as hereinbefore described with
reference to Fig. 16 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
3. The use in connection with the clips c, c¹ of screw spikes such as g the shanks of
which are at the bottom recessed or notched so as to admit of the application thereto
of a turn screw for removal if necessary, substantially as herein before described with
special reference to Figs. 7 to 12 inclusive of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
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W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.