CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FORM AND MANUFACTURE OF HORSE SHOES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
NEVILLE, of Walworth, in tho County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Sixth day of
July, One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and in the seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Neville, Her especial licence, that I, the said James
Neville, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Neville, my exors, adññors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of Ier said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FORM
AND MANUFACTURE OF HORSE SHOES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said James Neville, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of
Chancery in England within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Neville, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained
as follows, that is to say:-
I declare the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which I
perform the same, to be as follows:-
First, I take bars of malleable iron of the requisite size or scantling and
unite by welding thereto a strip or bar of steel of equal length, and about
one third to nearly one half of an inch square. The steel so united or welded
to the iron bar is to form a projecting ridge or feather thereon, as shewn by
the letters A, A, in the section Figure I. and Plan Figure II. This operation
of welding or uniting the strip of steel to the iron may be performed in
the usual manner by hand labor by the aid of a suitable face tool, or by
a light tilt hammer (worked by machinery), with a groove therein for forming
or moulding the steel ridge or projecting feather marked A, A, Figures I.
and II. The bars thus formed are to be passed hot between a pair of suitable
rollers, one of which is to be fluted, chased, or indented, so as to draw, throw up,
mould, or form the steel so welded or united to the said iron bars into project-
ing teeth or studs, as shewn by B, B, Figures III., IV., and V., and to form the
groove or channel marked C, C, C, for the reception of the nails. From these
bars, so prepared and manufactured (which are to be made of various sizes or
scantling suitable for the formation of shocs of applicable sizes for the different
breed or description of horses), the smith or farrier is then to proceed to form
my improved shoe in the ordinary manner, as shewn by the Drawing
Figure V.
After they are so formed or made, the steel studs or projecting
teeth of these shoes are to be hardened or tempered to the requisite degree
in the usual manner, and which latter operation I leave to the judgment of
the practical smith or farrier.
And, lastly, I claim the application or use of an indented or toothed steel
rim on horse shoes, as herein described; and I do not confine myself to the
form herein described of the teeth or studs, or to the number thereof, as the
same so welded or moulded may be varied and moulded into any other form
of projecting steel studs, so as to give or afford the horse a firm or secure
footing or for rendering the shoes safe and durable; and the same may
consist of a double row of such teeth or studs with a groove or channel
between, as is shewn by C, C, C, in Figures 1II., IV., V., and VI., or of a
single row with or without a groove or channel, or of any greater or lesser
number of teeth or studs, but I prefer the double row with a channel or
groove. The holes for receiving the nails for fastening on the shoe to the

page_text: horse's foot are to be punched in the groove or channel. Figure VI. repre-
sents a transverse or perspective view of the bar of iron with the steel strip
united or welded thereto, shewing the studs and the groove or channel formed
as before described.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed
my seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Enrolled the Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-four.