Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
We SAMUEL OLDERSHAW 29 Saint Saviour's Road Leicester, Shoeing Smith
and WILLIAM HALKON NIGHTINGALE, Aberdovey, Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook,
Birmingham Iron Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention mainly consists of a sock or boot of india rubber, leather and any
other suitable materials to cover the whole or the greater part of the hoof of the
animal to which sock or boot may be attached by screws nails or otherwise a sole
of metal or any other hard substance. The attachment to the hoof of the animal
to be made by the elastic nature of the substances employed by clasps or lacets by
the use of adhesive substances as gum, shellac, gutta percha and the like by the
application of the vacuum or by a combination of these means.
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LT1005
SAMUEL OLDERSHAW.
WILLIAM HALKON NIGHTINGALE.
We SAMUEL OLDERSHAW, of 29 St. Saviour's Road, Leicester, in the County
of Leicester, Shoeing Smith, and WILLIAM HALKON NIGHTINGALE of
Aberdovey, Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Iron Merchant 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 nailless horse-shoes.
According to our invention the shoe proper is attached to a boot adapted to
fit over the hoof and around the coronet thereof, and also above the bulbs on the
slope of the heel.
In carrying out our invention we make the boot in an ordinary manner with inner
and outer soles between which the upper
fixed, and we provide the said upper
with a gusset of elastic material and with slip or opening arranged in connection
with laces, eyelet-holes, studs, clasps or the like for drawing the upper tightly
around the hoof.
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A metallic plate is advantageously fixed between the upper and the outer sole
to afford a firm hold for the rivets for attaching the shoe proper. In some cases,
for instance, when a very light shoe is required, this plate may serve as the shoe
proper.
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Instead of using a boot provided with an elastic gusset and laced or otherwise
tightened upon the hoof, we may use an upper entirely composed of india-rubber or
other elastic material and adapted to be sprung onto the hoof.

page_text: To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan of our improved nailless horse-shoe :
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a front perspective view; and,
Figure 4 a side perspective view of the same:
Figure 5 is a plan of a modification of our invention:
Figure 6 a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 5.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate corresponding parts.
a is the upper or vamp of leather or other suitable material having at the back
an elastic gusset b and slit at the front and provided with studs c, c by means of
which the boot can be laced up on the hoof and the gusset drawn over the
slope of the heel. The upper a may also be provided with eyes or loops d, d
preferably of leather through which the lace or light strap may be passed as shewn
in Figure 4 for further securing the boot on the hoof. A strap may also be passed
round the top of the boot upper through the loops d, d to cover up the knot formed
by tying the lace.
If the upper is made of an elastic material such as india rubber the gusset b can
be dispensed with.
e is the insole and f the outer sole of leather, vulcanite or other suitable material
and g is the steel plate between the upper and outer sole. This steel plate is
preferably provided with the front projection or clip which serves to protect the
front of the boot and with the lateral tongues or clips i, i secured to the upper a by
means of copper or mild steel rivets j, j as shewn, to afford a firm connection
between the upper and the plate g. k is the iron or steel shoe proper preferably
formed with a groove or crease for lightness and for the reception of the heads of
the rivets 1, 1 by means of which the shoe proper is attached to the plate g.
In the modification of our invention shewn in Figures 5 and 6 we substitute for
the insole e and the outer sole fone stout sole of vulcanite, leather or the like and
make the upper a entirely of elastic material which must be stretched to draw it
over the hoof.
Nuts m, m are inserted in the bottom of the boot and serve to receive screws n, n
by means of which the shoe k can be attached to the upper a and the plate g held
in position. In this form of our improved horse-shoe it is obvious that the shoe
proper can be attached to and removed from the boot without removing the latter
from the hoof.
It will be obvious that a racing plate can be similarly screwed to the boot in
place of the shoe proper shewn, and in some cases the shoe proper can be altogether
dispensed with where extreme lightness is required.
We sometimes insert an elastic web in the front of the upper in lieu of lacing,
and we may also in special cases attach the boot to the hoof by means of some
adhesive material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A nailless horse-shoe having a boot the upper of which is made wholly or
partly of elastic material and so constructed that it will perfectly fit around the
coronet, and above the bulbs well upon the upper slope of the heel, substantially
as described.
2. In a nailless horse-shoe having a boot arranged as described for carrying
the shoe proper, a light steel plate for strengthening the boot and assisting it
to carry the weight of the shoe proper, which steel plate may where extreme
lightness is required be used in lieu of a shoe, substantially as described.
3. In a nailless horse-shoe having a boot constructed as described arranging
the shoe proper so that it can be readily removed and replaced substantially as
described.

page_text: 4. The manufacture and use of nailless horse-shoes, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 4 and Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 16th dex of April 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.