IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Hedley, of Richmond, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Hedley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th May 1869.
I, FRANCIS HEDLEY, of Richmond, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-
SHOES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists essentially in making horse-shoes with the
inside edge considerably thicker than the outer edge, which presents the
appearance in fact a rim or flange round the thicker or projecting
surface of the shoe. The surface of the shoe next the foot may be either
perfectly flat or slightly hollowed as preferred. The nail holes are made
in the thinner or flange portion of the shoe, and consequently the nail
heads can never come into actual contact with the hard surface of a road
or street until the shoe is nearly worn out. The projecting portion gives.
strength to the shoe, and affords a better foothold on either hard roads or

page_text: turf, whilst the heads of the nails being protected as described there will
be no concussion produced in the foot, and many other advantages are
obtained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Hedley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th November 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
HEDLEY, of Richmond, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, 1er heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis Hedley, Her special
licence that I, the said Francis Hedley, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Hedley, my exc-
cutors, 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
HORSE-SHOES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Francis Hedley, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Francis Hedley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This Invention consists in constructing horse-shoes flanged on the
outer surface, or so that the inside edge is considerably thicker than the
outer edge. The surface of the shoc next the foot may be either perfectly
flat or slightly hollowed as preferred. The nail holes are made in the
outer or flange portion of the shoe, and consequently the nail head

page_text: cannot come into actual contact with the hard surface of a road or street
until the shoc is nearly worn out. The projecting portion gives strength
to the shoe, and affords a better foothold on cither hard roads or turf,
whilst the heads of the nails being protected as described there will
be no concussion produced in the foot, and many other advantages
obtained.
Having thus particularly described the nature of the said Invention, in
further compliance with the said condition in the aforesaid Letters Patent
contained, I now proceed to particularly describe and ascertain in what
manner my said Invention is to be performed or put in operation, to
which end I shall refer to the accompanying Drawings by the words,
figures, and letters following, that is to say :-
Witness,
JAMES R. TOMLIN,
Sol'.,
Richmond,
Yorkshire.
FRANCIS HEDLEY. (L.S.)