Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 2nd Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1888
I GEORGE ELLIS of 35 Union Street in the Borough of Southwark in the County
of Surrey Engine Smith and Blacksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
A metal box shoe with metal box sockets or bar roughs or both within such box
shoe-the shoo being roughed by pieces of rope or spun cotton or other substance
being placed and fixed within the box and pieces of cork or wood or other substance
being placed and fixed within the box sockets-the rope and the cork or other
substance as may be to slightly project above the surface or edge of the box and box
sockets respectively and the application of the box sockets fitted with pieces of cork
or other substance as aforesaid to any horse shoe of ordinary make.
The object of the invention and improved shoe being to give to the horse a firmer
foothold when standing or treading over smooth or slippery surfaces or drawing heavy
loads and also by the introduction of a softer material such as rope into the metal shoe
to lessen the resistance to the foot of the horse.

page_text: A is the body of the shoo, of malleable cast iron or other suitable material, which
is channelled or grooved, and formed with series of three, four or more hollow or
solid cylindrical or other shaped pegs B inside the channel, which pegs project slightly
beyond the edges of the walls of the channel. Care the nails.
The shoe is packed with manufactured hemp, tow, and similar material, D, as
shown. A are the tips, which may also be hollow, and, with the pegs B, be packed
with cork, wood, or other materials.
In the groove, sockets, shown in dots in Fig. 2, are made to receive the heads of the
nails C, the object of these sockets being to fix the nails firmly, and prevent their shifting
and working loose. The nails will be driven through the hemp or tow, and some of
the fibres will also enter the sockets when the nails are driven in, and will serve also
to secure the nails by jamming them in their sockets. The nails will also assist to
to hold the hemp packing in the channel.
The hemp or tow D will be packed comparatively loose, so that the grit or dirt from
the roads will work well into it, and form a rough pad or face to the shoe. The
pegs, B which project slightly as before mentioned, serve to raise the shoe slightly
off the ground, to allow the pad to form, and by the action of walking the edges of the
pegs get hammered out, and form a flange which serves to support the gritty
pad.
Instead of the pegs B, I may use notched or plain bars across the channel, having
by preference a longitudinally curved bearing surface, the channel being packed with
hemp or tow as before mentioned.

page_text: 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:
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1. The shoe for horses substantially as herein shown and described.
2. In a shoe for horses, the combination with a channelled or grooved shoe body,
and a packing of hemp, tow, or similar material, of hollow or solid cylindrical or
other shaped pegs or bars, which project beyond the walls of the channel or groove,
as and for the purpose set forth.