IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSESHOES
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. JULES.
ALPHONSE SIMON DE' GOURNAY, of Bread Street,. in the City of London,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of January, in the third year of Her reign,.
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jules Alphonse Simon de Gourney, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Jules Alphonse Simon de Gournay,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jules Alphonse
Simon de Gourney, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSESHOES," commu-
nicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Jules Alphonse Simon de Gourney,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto bad, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Jules
Alphonse Simon de Gournay, do hereby declare that the nature of the said

page_text: Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be formed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, refe-
rence being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and
letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
This new Invention of a horseshoe, which may be made of any kind of
metal, either simple or compound, forged or cast, the bridle or band of which
may also be of leather, metal, or any other material, simple or compound,
consists of an ordinary horseshoe of three specific parts only: first, the shoe
properly called the bridle or band, and a small point, stop, or catch, called in
French talus, which enters the wall of the hoof. This shoe is an ordinary
shoe furnished with one or two clips or crotchets A drawn out from the mass
or soldered, and situated on the fore part or toe at the extreme border of the
shoe. The shoe may have one or two roughs or teeth B in the interior. Two
ears or stays C drawn out from the solid or soldered. The branches of the
shoe are pierced for the talus D, which are rivetted in, placed in an inclined
direction, of a form somewhat triangular, and may be in number from two to
eight. These talus enter the wall of the hoof in a small notch E, which is
cut for the purpose. The ears or stays serve to receive the extremities of the
band or bridle F. This band or small fillet may be made, as before described,
of different material, but is mostly of iron. It has the form of a circular arch,
and represents on the hoof a sort of a V. It is made in such a manner that
the ends are turned over and rivetted, forming a sort of loop G at the end in
which is placed the ears or stays; it then passes over the crotchet or clip, of
which the extremity is curved, and rivetted.
:
For winter, the shoes are pierced (H) for screws I, which are placed and
displaced at pleasure, and made of iron or steel. Cogs may also be placed
and removed in the same manner.
In case of disease or defect the crotchet or clip has a hinge J which com-
municates with the band by means of screws K which work upwards. This
mode prevents the necessity of using the hammer on the hoof, and facilitates
the stepping of the horse. It preserves the hoof in a state of cleanliness,
which is very desirable during dressing. This last system may be applied
equally to young horses and racehorses, which are frequently shod and
unshod.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jules Alphonse Simon de Gournay have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty.
JULES ALPHONSE SIMON (L.s.) DE GOURNAY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid Jules Alphonse Simon de Gournay
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty.