IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Swannell Beeson, of No. 240, Camberwell
Road, in the Parish of Camberwell, in the County of Surrey,
Farrier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
SHOES FOR HORSES."
Sealed the 26th January 1872, and dated the 22nd November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Swannell Beeson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd November 1871.
I, JOHN SWANNELL BEESON, of No. 240, Camberwell Road, in the
Parish of Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, Farrier, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES," to be as follows:--
The object of my Invention is to construct shoes in such manner that
the horse will be prevented from slipping, more particularly when
travelling over asphalte roads and granite pavements.
My Invention consists in making depressions or cavities in the shoes,
such depressions or cavities commencing from the outer edge of the
shoe, and extending by preference quite across the shoe to the inner

page_text: edge. These depressions, to the number of eight, more or less, gradually
become narrower and shallower from the outer to the inner edge, so that
they are somewhat of wedge form. The effect of this is that when the
horse is travelling over a gritty road the depressions become filled with
grit, which, owing to the gradual diminution of the depression, becomes 5
as it were jammed therein, and forms a roughing to the shoe when the
horse gets upon a slippery pavement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Swannell Beeson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd May 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SWANNELL BEESON, of No. 240, Camberwell Road, in the Parish of
Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, Farrier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Swannell Beeson, Her special
licence that I, the said John Swannell Beeson, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Swannell Beeson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Swannell Beeson, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Swannell Beeson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to construct shoes in such manner that
the horse will be prevented from slipping, more particularly when
travelling over asphalte roads and granite pavements.
My Invention consists in making depressions or cavities in the shoes,
such depressions or cavities commencing from the outer edge of the shoe,
and extending by preference quite across the shoe to the inner edge.
These depressions, to the number of 8, more or less, gradually become
narrower and shallower from the outer to the inner edge, so that they
are somewhat of wedge form. The effect of this is that when the horse
is travelling over a gritty road the depressions get filled with grit,
which, owing to the gradual diminution in the size of the depressions,
becomes as it were jammed therein, and forms a roughing to the shoe
when the horse gets upon a slippery pavement.
The annexed Drawings represent one of my improved horse-shoes,
Figure 1 being a plan of the under side; Figure 2 a front view, and
Figure 3 a section on the line x . . . x, of Figure 1.
It will be seen that there are eight depressions a, a, extending across
the shoe from the outer to the inner edge, and that these depressions
gradually become narrower and shallower as they approach the inner
edge, as has been herein-before explained. b, b, are holes for the nails.
The heads of the nails, if in the depressions, will assist in retaining the
grit therein.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim
constructing horse-shoes with depressions or cavities, substantially as
and for the purpose herein-before explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Swannell Beeson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of May,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN SWANNELL BEESON. (L.S.)