Improvements in or relating to Shoes for Horses or other Draught Animals.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1894-Accepted, 28th July, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Shoes for Horses or other Draught
Animals.
1 JAMES TERRY, of Garlinge, Westgate-on-Sea, Farrier and Machinist, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in, or relating to, shoes for horses, or
other draught animals, and has for its object to provide an improved roughing
means for attachment to the shoes for preventing animals wearing same, slipping
upon frosty or slippery surfaces, and to enable such animals to obtain a firm
foothold проп the surfaces over which they are travelling and thereby to obviate
undue straining of the muscles and tendons of the animals' legs.
In order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings wherein
Fig. 1 is an underside view of a horse-shoe with my invention applied thereto,
Fig. 2 being a similar view of the roughing device shewn separate, whilst
Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are a rear view, a section on line x, x and a side view,
respectively, of the latter.
Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the figures, a is horse-shoe having fixed in position
thereto, the roughing device or caulk fashioned of steel, or other suitable metal,
and consisting of two arms or branches & terminating at the rear ends in a flanged
or struck up enlargement 6. The undersides of the arms or branches bare fined
or reduced down to chisel-edges as at 62, whilst the upper sides are flat. Near the
forward extremity of each of the said arms or branches the same is struck or
bent up at 6 at right angles to the main portion of such arms or branch, whilst the
end is flanged as at 6, so that in conjunction with the flanged or struck up
enlargement, the device will be adapted to fit upon the underside of a horse-shoe.
The arms or branches of the roughing device are preferably at right-angles or
thereabouts to each other, and are slightly curved outwardly as shewn, though if
found desirable they may diverge to a greater or a lesser degree. The struck up
parts are bent or otherwise fashioned to snch an angle to the main portions of
the arm b, as to conform to the curve of the outer periphery of the horse-shoe a.
The struck up enlargement is tapped to receive a steel-set-screw e having a
square or other suitable head upon which a spanner, or wrench may be conveniently
used, for the purpose of tightening such screw up or loosening same, and a sharp
tempered, drill-shaped point to the forward end, to grip the shoe a.
In operation, the roughing device as described, is placed upon the underside of
the shoe in the position shewn, at the toe of such shoe, and the set-screw c then
tightened, thereby causing the tempered, drill-shaped point of same, to abut
firmly against and bore into the inner side of the horse-shoe and so in conjunction
with the struck-up and flanged parts of the device, to hold such device securely in
position upon the shoe. A recess may, if found desirable, be provided in the
inner side of the horse-shoe, against which the point of the screw abuts, for the
purpose of receiving such point to give additional security to its grip.
The roughing device may be fixed upon any suitable part of the shoe, and in
frosty or snowy weather, two or more of the devices may be employed upon each
shoe, as represented in Fig. 1, one device being shewn in dotted lines.
In lieu of fashioning the roughing-device with two arms or branches as described,

page_text: 1 may form it of a solid piece, for the purpose of withstanding very heavy and
rough wear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is: --
1. The improvement in, or relating to, shoes for horses, or other draught
animals, consisting of a roughing-device comprising two arms or branches, chisel-
edged on their undersides, and struck up near their forward ends and flanged, the
rear els terminating in a struck up enlargement, tapped to receive a headed and
pointed tightening-screw, substantially as and for the purpose specified and
illustrated.
2. The improvements in, or relating to, shoes for horses or other draught
animals, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1894.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.