Improvements in and in the Construction of Pads or Anti-slipping Appliances for Horse Shoes or the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in the Construction of Pads or Anti-slipping
Appliances for Horse Shoes or the like.
I, SARAH EMMA CHIPPERFIELD of Forncett, near Norwich, in the County of
Norfolk, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in and in the construction of pads or
anti-slipping appliances for the hoofs of horses or other draught animals and has
for its object to provide an anti-slipping pad or appliance of a strong and durable
character which will not be liable to injury on macadamised roads while at same
time it will be fully effective in use on any character of roadway or pavement,
be simple and economical to construct and in use and have many advantages
over the india rubber and other pads or similar appliances hitherto in use.
An especial object of my present invention is to produce a pad which will be
reliable in use and one which can be simply and easily adjusted and fixed in
position when fixing the ordinary metal shoe ou the hoof of the animal without
fear of the pad coming off when in such use.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice I will now proceed to describe same with reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a plan (i.e. looking at the wearing surface) of the pad in position in
the metal shoe.
Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 1-1 Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the reverse of Fig. 1 i.e. showing the plate on which the pad
is mounted and side of the shoe which lie next to the hoof.
Fig. 4 is an end elevation looking in the direction of the arrow z.
Fig. 5 shows the pad or appliance separate from the horse shoe and slightly
modified in construction.
a is the ordinary metal horse shoe.
b is a stout metal plate-which (as shown in Fig. 3) while extending under the
metal shoe a so as to be held thereby yet lies inside of the nails and nail holes
of the said shoe a.
c is a continuous metal rim or enclosing wall which extends all round the pad
or non-slipping material a and of a shape corresponding to the conformation of
the inside wall of the metal shoe a except at the back where said wall c corre-
sponds approximately to the form of the back edge of the plate 6 which latter is
advantageously formed crescent shaped as shown so as thus to clear the frog.
This enclosing wall is separately formed and attached to the plate in any suitable
manner to firmly secure same thereto for instance at the back end by being riveted
at d d to two lips or supports e e turned up from and integral with the plate b while
at the front or toe end a bracket or post is riveted at f to the plate b and the two
converging and overlapping ends c' c¹ of said wall c are riveted at g to said bracket
or post. Thus the metal wall c is strongly formed and mounted on the plate b and
completely encloses and surrounds on all sides the non-slipping or anti-slipping
material & which latter may be of any suitable character or material or materials.
I find it advantageous to use tarred rope tightly compressed and packed
crosswise within said wall c either as shown in Fig. 1 or as in Fig. 5, and

page_text: I introduce a strip or strips of metal y (advantageously all in one piece folded as
shown in Fig. 5 thus forming the cross ribs y) between which latter the said cross
pieces of rope x are packed and held and I then pass bolts such as hh right
through said wall c c and said metal cross strips y and cross pieces of rope and then
rivet or suitably secure same outside or otherwise to the wall c and thereby the
anti-slipping material is firmly held on the plate bor same may be secured to said
plate in any other suitable equivalent manner-also the cross ribs y may be
arranged or formed and secured in position in any suitable manner.
The plate b may as desired be used either with or without being mounted on
a sheet of leather or other stout flexible material through which latter the
ordinary shoe nails will readily pass or pads thus constructed may be secured in
position on the hoof in any other suitable manner as desired.
Also if desired any suitable backing padding or packing may be used between
the plate and the hoof.
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 :-
1. In pads or anti-slipping appliances for horse shoes the combination, with a
metal plate adapted to be laid between the shoe and the hoof and within the nail
holes of the former, of a continuous wall attached to said plate in a form and
position corresponding to the conformation of the inside wall of the metal shoe to
which it is to be fitted, pieces of rope or other suitable anti-slipping material
arranged crosswise and tightly compressed within said wall, cross ribs arranged
between such pieces of material and bolts passed through said material and ribs
and through the wall at opposite sides and there secured so as thus to firmly hold
these parts to one another and thereby to the plate substantially in the manner and
for the purposes hereinbefore described.
2. A pad or anti-slipping appliance for horse shoes consisting of a metal plate
such as a continuous fence or enclosing wall such as c fixed thereon and corre-
sponding to the conformation of the inside wall of the shoe pieces of rope or other
suitable anti-slipping material such as a arranged crosswise on said plate b and
within said wall c, cross ribs such as y arranged between strips of material & and
bolts such as h through wall c strips and ribs y to thus firmly hold said material x
to said plate 6 substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set
forth and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
3. The combination with a horse shoe of the usual construction or the like of
a pad or anti-slipping appliance constructed and arranged substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before described.
Dated this 6th day of November 1894.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.