Improvements in Horse Shoe Pads.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
Improvements in Horse Shoe Pads.
I, WILLIAM ETHELDRED JENNINGS of 9 Queen's Parado, Bath in the
County of Somerset, of no occupation do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and in the construction of pads or
anti slipping appliances for the hoofs of horses and has for its object to provide a
pad of a durable character and more effective in the prevention of slipping than
the india rubber pads now in use.
In this invention two or more strands or pieces of prepared rope, cork or other
non slipping material are fastened or fixed into tapered recesses in a cast metal
frame of such size as to correspond with the width of the inside of the shoe, to be
used at the back or front thereof, or over all the surface of the foot as may be
desired, or the rope, cork or other material may be woven pressed or otherwise
made into a block or blocks of the shape required which is then forced or fastened in
the said tapered recesses of the metal frame. The latter is then attached to a sheet
of leather, india rubber or other stout flexible material which can be cut by the
farrier to correspond with the outer surface or edge of the shoe, the broader orifices
of the tapered recesses being next to the leather so that when in use the narrower
orifices of said recesses may be next to the ground. The nails by which the shoe
is fastened will then pass through the outer edges of the sheet or the latter may be
rivetted to the shoe by other nails or rivets.
The same material may be used as a bar pad when a three quarter shoe is
employed the frame being made to take a correspondingly greater width of rope or
other material aforesaid at the back of the foot.
Dated this 24th day of December 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.
I, WILLIAM ETHELDRED JENNINGS, of 2 City View, Bath, in the County of
Somerset, of no occupation, 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 pads or antislipping appliances for the hoofs of horses
and has for its object to provide a pad of a durable character and more effective in
the prevention of slipping than the rubber pads now in use.
In the annexed drawing
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halaw of a home-shoe with the improved pad fitted

page_text: A is a metal frame made of cast metal, usually iron, and having two curved or
crescent shaped parallel chambers a, a, tapered so as to widen on the upper side
of the frame, nearer to the hoof, than they are on the under side, nearer to the
ground. The frame A is provided with the lugs a³, a', a' by means of which it
may be secured to a flexible plate B usually of leather b, b, b, are rivets for
securing the frame A to the plate B. Previous to securing the frame to the plate,
the chambers a¹, a³, are filled from above with firmly compressed rope, cork or similar
material, but preferably tarred hemp rope. The plate B is of such size that it
may extend from the heels of the shoe about three fifths of the distance towards
the toe of the shoe, and from the outer edge of one side of the shoe to the outer
edge of the other. It is secured with the shoe to the hoof by means of those
of the shoe nails that pass through the plate B, the latter lying between the hoof
and the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :--
1. The combination with a flexible plate B of a cast metal frame A having
tapered chambers a', a³, and lugs a³, a, a, rivets b and compressed non-slipping
material in chambers a', a², substantially as described.
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2. The combination with a leather plate B of a cast metal frame A having tapered
recesses a¹, a², and lugs a³, a, a³, rivets b and compressed rope in the chambers a', a²,
substantially as described.
3. The combination with a horse-shoe of a plate B extending from the heels to
about three fifths of the distance towards the toe of the shoe and coinciding with
its side edges with the exterior side edges of the shoe, a cast metal frame A fitted
within the rear part of the shoe having crescent shaped chambers a¹, a², tapering
from above downwardly, lugs a³, a² and a³, rivets b, b, b, and compressed non-
slipping material held within said chambers a', a², substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of September 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, 'W.C.,
Agents to the Applicant.