IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE HOES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Austin Hill, of Leicester, Agricultural Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE HOES."
Scaled the 21st February 1871, and dated the 26th August 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Austin Hill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th August 1870.
I, AUSTIN HILL, of Leicester, Agricultural Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE HOES," to
be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object' improvements in horse hoes, and
relates to that class in which the points are made separate from the
stems; and the Invention consists in forming a recess or shoulders on
each of such points on the under side to receive the hoe, which is made.
of cast steel, and to fit such recess or shoulders. The hoes and the points
are provided with corresponding holes, so that they may be rivetted
together, thereby affording facility for fixing any size or description of
boc to the points as may be desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Austin Hill in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th February 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUSTIN
HILL, of Leicester, Agricultural Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
-give-and-grant_unto_me,_the_said Austin-Hill,_Her_special licence_]
that I, the said Austin Hill, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Austin Hill, my executors, 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 HOES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Austin Hill, 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 Austin Hill, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in horse hoes, and
relates to that class in which the "points" are made separate from the
stems; and the Invention consists in forming a recess or shoulders on
each of such points on the under side to receive the hoe, which is made
of cast steel, or may be shaped in suitable dies to fit such recess or
shoulders. The hoes and the "points" are provided with corresponding
holes, so that they may be rivetted together, thereby affording facility
for fixing any size or description of hoe to the points as may be desired.

page_text: And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect I will proceed, aided by the accompanying
Drawings, more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a hoe in which the stem is made separate from the
point, and in which the point and hoe are constructed according to my
present Invention.
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a is the stem of the hoe, b is the point, and c is the hoc. The point b
is attached to the stem a as heretofore by entering into the socket a³,
where it is held firmly in position by means of a key d. Instead, how-
ever, of casting the hoe c in one piece with the point b, or of making it
separately therefrom and connecting it to the sides of the "point," as
has heretofore been done, I form on the under side of the point ba
recess b', as shown more clearly at Figure 2, and I form the hoe to fit
such recess, holes 6, 6, being formed through the point 6 to correspond
with other holes c¹ formed through the hoe c, as shown more clearly
at Figure 3, the point and hoe being connected together by rivets, as
shown. By these means greater simplicity of construction is obtained,
and greater facility is afforded for fixing various sizes and descriptions of
hoes to the points as may be desired.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode in
which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that what
I claim as my present improvements in horse hoes is, forming the point
with a recess or with shoulders on the under side thereof to receive
the hoc, which is made to fit such recess or shoulders (the two parts
being connected together by rivets), substantially as herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Austin Hill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of February, in the year of
and One thousand sight hundred and seventy-one
Witness,
JOHN MYOTT.
AUSTIN HILL. (L.S.)