Improvements in Shoes for Horses, Mules, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses, Mules, and the like.
I, THOMAS COOPER JOHN THOMAS, of 5 Carlton Road, Finsbury Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to improvements in the construction of shoes for
horses mules and the like, the object being to produce shoes such as shall reduce
the liability to slipping that obtains with shoes of this kind as ordinarily con-
structed.
For this purpose the shoe is constructed with one or more suitably arranged
holes that is or are filled with a comparatively soft metal such as lead or copper or
with metallic alley such as white metal, that will offer considerable resistance to
the slipping of the shoe upon the ground, the said hole or holes being so formed
and arranged that the metal filling shall come in contact with the ground when the
shoe is placed thereon and shall not be liable to fall out of the hole or holes in
which it is placed.
According to one construction the front or toe portion of the shoe is formed with
a curved slot and the sides with a number of holes, the slot and holes being each of
gradually decreasing cross sectional area for the whole or a portion of its depth
from the top downward, so that after the metal filling has been cast therein it will
not be liable to fall out after the shoe has been secured to the hoof of a horse or
other animal. The underside of the shoe is or may be formed at the sides and
transversely with rim or ridge-like projecting parts that extend below the tapered
portions of the holes and form recesses of approximately rectangular shape that are
provided with metal filling such as hereinbefore referred to.
In another construction the shoe is formed both at the side and front with holes
of inverted truncated conical form filled with correspondingly shaped plugs of metal
filling.
In a further construction, adapted to be made of sheet metal, the shoe is of
channelled form in cross section with internal curved flanges or ribs so arranged
that the metal filling at the lower side of the groove will be locked or held in
place by that above the curved flanges or ribs.
The iron or steel portions of the shoes with the hole or holes therein may be.
formed in any suitable manner as for example by stamping.
Dated this 27th day of September 1892.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses, Mules, and the like.
I, THOMAS COOPER JOHN THOMAS, of 5 Carlton Road, Finsbury Park, in
10 the County of Middlesex, Engineer, 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 has reference to improvements in the construction of shoes for
horses mules and other draught animals the object being to produce shoes such

page_text: as shall reduce the liability to slipping that obtains with shoes of this kind as
ordinarily constructed.
For this purpose the shoe is constructed with one or more suitably arranged
holes that is or are filled with a comparatively soft metal such as lead or copper
or with metallic alloy such as white metal, that will offer considerable resistance to
the slipping of the shoe upon the ground, the said hole or holes being so formed
and arranged that the metal filling shall come in contact with the ground when the
shoe is placed thereon and shall not be liable to fall out of the hole or holes in
which it is placed.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an underside view of one construction of shoe according to this invention
one half of the shoe being shown with the metal filling in place and the other half
with such filling removed.
Fig. 2 is a section on the line xx Fig. 1.
In this construction the front or toe portion of the shoe is formed with a curved
slot or recess A and the sides with a number of holes B, the holes B being each of
gradually decreasing cross sectional area from the top downward, for the whole of
its depth as shown or it may be for only a portion of its depth so that after the
metal filling has been cast therein it will not be liable to fall out after the shoe has
been secured to the hoof of a horse or other animal. The underside of the shoe is
formed at the sides and transversely with rim-like or ridge-like projecting parts D
that extend below the tapered portions of the holes and form recesses A¹ of
approximately rectangular shape as shown. C is lead or other metal filling of the
kind hereinbefore referred to filling the recesses A. A¹ and holes B. The recesses
and the holes may be filled with metal at one running or casting operation so
that the filling of the holes and recesses will be homogeneous. G G are holes for
nails by which the compound shoe can be secured in the ordinary way to the hoof
of a horse or other draught animal.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1 illustrating another construction of shoe
according to this invention and
Fig. 4 is a section thereof on the line y y Fig. 3.
In this case the shoe is formed both at the sides and front with a number of
taper holes B which are filled by casting, pressing or otherwise with corre
spondingly shaped plugs of the metal filling C. The narrower ends of the holes D
are at the underside of the shoe so as to prevent the filling working loose and
coming out.
Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. 1; and
Fig. 6 is a cross section thereof on the line z z, illustrating another construction
of shoe according to this invention. In this case the shoe is made of channel form
in cross section with internal curved flanges or ribs F the groove or recess A
extending nearly wholly around the underside of the shoe. The flanges or ribs F
are arranged at a short distance apart and so that the metal filling C within the
groove or recess A¹ at the lower side of the shoe will be held or locked in place by
that (C) above the said flanges or ribs. These flanges or ribs may be variously
formed and arranged and may extend nearly wholly around the shoe, or only
around parts thereof as shown.
Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 5 and 6 respectively illustrating a
construction of shoe somewhat similar to that shown in the latter figures but in
which the metal filling C is held in place within the channelled or recessed
portion A of the shoe by conical extensious C¹ of such filling that extend through
suitably arranged holes B in the base or shell portion A. of the shoe.
The base or shell portion A of the shoe with the recesses or holes therein to
contain the metal filling material may be formed of any suitable metal such as iron
steel or aluminium, and be framed to the required shape in any suitable manner as
casting or stamping.
Compound shoes constructed according to this invention are much more durable
than ordinary shoes made wholly of iron or steel in the ordinary manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A shoe for a horse, mule or other draught animal, constructed with suitably
arranged holes or recesses containing lead or other metal filling of the kind herein
referred to, arranged to come in contact with the ground and offer resistance to
slipping substantially as described.
2. My improved compound shoes for horses, mules or other draught animals,
constructed substantially as herein before described with reference respectively to
and shown in Figs. 1 and 2; in Figs. 3 and 4, in Figs. 5 and 6 and in Figs. 7 and 8
of the accompanying drawings for the purposes specified.
Dated thie 27th dev of June 1893.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.