IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO ENSURE GOOD FOOTHOLD ON WOOD, ASPHALTE, AND OTHER SLIPPERY OR SEMI-SLIPPERY ROADWAYS."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bidder, of 45, Parliament Street, and Michael John
Rowley, of 14, Blandford Street, Portman Square, both in the County of
Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO ENSURE GOOD FOOTHOLD ON WOOD,
ASPHALTE, AND OTHER SLIPPERY OR SEMI-SLIPPERY ROADWAYS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bidder and Michael
John Rowley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd
October 1881.
"
JOHN BIDDER, of 45, Parliament Street, and MICHAEL JOHN ROWLEY, of 14,
Blandford Street, Portman Square, both in the County of Middlesex. IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO ENSURE GOOD
FOOTHOLD ON WOOD, ASPHALTE, AND OTHER SLIPPERY OR SEMI SLIPPERY
ROADWAYS."
The object of this Invention is to construct & oes for horses and other animals with
inclined edged channels in the working faces so as to form flat or comparatively
flat projections in continuous, in broken, or in zigzag order.
For the purposes of our Invention we make our shoes from rolled metal bars
with hollows, channels, or flutings on one side, said hollows, channels, or flutings
being both lengthwise and transversely in continuous or in irregular lines with
inclined edge surfaces.
The projections formed by this channelling may be of square or other shape, and
arranged to look in the same or in other directions, or at a tangent with each other,
or they may be of lozenge shape, or in zigzag order with the working faces of flat
or comparatively flat surfaces to enable the animal to obtain a firm grip upon and
in contact with the road.
Shoes of the above formation may be of malleable cast metal if desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Bidder and Michael John Rowley in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd April 1882.
JOHN BIDDER, of 45, Parliament Street, and MICHAEL JOHN ROWLEY, of 14,
Blandford Street, Portman Square, both in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS TO ENSURE GOOD
FOOTHOLD ON WOOD, ASPHALTE, AND OTHER SLIPPERY OR SEMI-SLIPPERY
ROADWAYS."
The object of this Invention is to construct shoes for horses and other animals with
inclined edged channels in the working faces so as to form flat or comparatively
flat projections in continuous, in broken, or in zigzag order.
For the purposes of our Invention we make our shoes from rolled metal bars
with hollows, channels, or flutings on one side, said hollows, channels, or flutings
being both lengthwise and transversely in continuous or in irregular lines with
inclined edge surfaces. The projections formed by this channelling may be of
square or other shape, and arranged to look in the same or in other directions, or at
a tangent with each other, or they may be of lozenge shape, or in zigzag order,
with the working faces of fat or comparatively flat surfaces to enable the animal
to obtain a firm grip upon and in contact with the road.
Our Invention is clearly represented in the annexed Drawings.
Figures 1 and 2 show a broad surfaced shoe with indents A between the raised
flat topped projections B around the shoe in three lines, the indents having inclined
surfaces formed by a rolling process when in bar form, as in Figure 2, and before
the bar is bent to the shape of the shoe.
The three lines of the projections B, B, B, and also the indents between them,
are in an irregular or break joint order with each other, as in Figure 3, so that the
metal is not liable to crack at the thin parts while the shoe is in wear.
Figure 4 is a face view of a shoe with only two lines of projections B, B, around
it, the inner line or row of projections having larger tread surfaces than those of
the outer line or row which are almost square, the others being rectangular. These
shoes are applicable to heavy or draught horses, but they may have a smaller
number of projections and indents, and be made from more narrow bars for light
horses, and such projections and indents and width of bar, as well as the sectional
design, may be varied to any desired extent to suit the animal the shoe or shoes
may be intended for.
This will be understood by the shoes shown at Figures 5
and 6, which would suit a cab or a carriage horse, and Figure 7 a van horse, such
as that used for railway and parcel van and light cart purposes.
In all cases the indents between the projections of each row and between the
adjoining rows have inclined faces, so that no stone could become fixed in either of
them, neither would any foreign matter fix itself to the projections that would
impede the progress of the animal.
Shoes of the above formation may be of malleable cast metal if desired.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,--
The construction of shoes for horses and other animals with projections and
inclined surfaced indents in the working or tread faces, in the manner described

page_text: and as shown in the annexed Drawings, said shoes being made from bars previously
prepared by the rolling process, as set forth, or as malleable castings.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Bidder and Michael John Rowley, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness,
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent,
166, Fleet St.,
London.
JOHN BIDDER.
(LS.)
MICHAEL JOHN ROWLEY. (LS.)