Year: 1896

page_text: Cate of Application, 28th Nov., 1896
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I, RICHARD MCDOUGALL, of 25 Wellington Street, in the City of Glasgow,
Merchant and Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to horse shoes of the class which are designed to be secured
to the hoof without the use of nails, and it has for its object to provide in
combination with such a shoe improved means whereby the shoe may be securely
attached to the hoof and means for preventing slipping in frosty weather and on
paved streets.
The improved horse shoe, which, as regards the tread or wearing part, may be
of the ordinary form or shape; or may be modified as hereinafter described, has
formed on or attached to it a number of solid or detachable upwardly projecting
ribs, of one length or of various lengths, which are designed to embrace the hoof
or to enter recesses or grooves cut or rasped out of the wall of the hoof in order to
keep the shoe stationary on the hoof or prevent movement of the shoe on the sole
of the hoof. One or more of these ribs may be situated at or near the toe part;
and may or may not be formed at the upper end or ends with an eye, hook, stud,
or other suitable appliance to which is fitted or attached a locking plate or plates
of suitable form; or the locking plate or plates may be hinged to the rib or ribs.
To this locking plate or plates is jointed, hinged, hooked, or otherwise attached a
band or bands, chain or chains, strap or straps, wires or rods of metal or other
strong material, which may be lined or padded, if necessary, and carried along
the walls of the hoof and terminated at the heel in the form of screw threaded
bolts or other locking device either formed in a piece with the strap or its equivalent
or they may be made separate and detachable. These bolt ends are passed each
through an eye in an upward projection, solid or detachable, formed at or near
each heel of the shoe, and are secured by lock nuts or other suitable fastenings
which serve to tighten the bands or straps or their equivalents on the hoof and
fasten and secure the shoe thereto; or the locking plate or plates connecting the
hoof straps to the front rib or ribs may be provided with suitable means for
tightening up and locking the band or bands and securing the shoe thereto. The
metal band, straps, chains, wires or rods round the hoof may be in one or more
pieces and may be made to lock or fasten at either heel, toe or side. The locking
of the screw nuts is by preference effected by means of a metal pin or wire passed
along a groove formed in the screw bolt and bent over to retain the nut in secure
position, or the bolt may be of tubular form with an opening up all the way or
only so far as the screw thread extends and have a metal rod or wire passed through
the tube for turning over the nut when it is screwed fully up.

page_text: The straps or bands may be of metal or flaxen web or hemp cord or leather or
other suitable material and may be of round, half round, flat or any other suitable.
shape and may be secured or fastened by any suitable means other than bolts or
nuts.
Ribs solid or detachable may also be used at or near the heel and attached to
the strap or band or may be attached to the fore solid or detachable rib or ribs or
locking plate or plates.
When the band, strap, chain, wire or rod encircling the hoof is made in one
piece and locked at the heel the solid or detachable rib or ribs or the locking plate
or plates or both may be formed so as to hold the band or its equivalent in position
and prevent it from rising too high on the hoof; and in like manner a similar
appliance is used when the locking is effected at either too or side.
With hind hoofs or hoofs that are almost perpendicular and do not afford
sufficient security or grip for the band a strap of leather, canvas web or other
suitable material may be secured or attached to the hoof band or ribs and passed
over the heel and is prevented from slipping backwards by a strap passed around
the ankle above the hoof and attached to the strap over the heel.
A flexible or non-slipping tread may be combined with the metal shoe and may
be made to cover it either wholly or partially and is composed of either rubber,
gutta percha, or compound of both or of flax, tow, jute, woollen or other cloths,
hair, canvas, leather or any other fibrous material saturated with gutta percha or
rubber or both; or the rubber or gutta percha or compound may be moulded
into calks or other suitable form and secured in dove-tailed grooves or corrugations
or slots or openings or wings formed in or on the shoe; or may be made in the
form of a pad of suitable size shape or form and secured in place or position by any
suitable means and the rubber or gutta percha or compound treads or calks or pad
in any manner of form may have pins or screws of metal, wood, bone, horn or other
suitable material inserted therein to secure it to the shoe and to retard wear.
The shoe may be made of solid or channeled or hollowed metal or of any other
form with solid ribs or clips cast or forged in a piece with the shoe or welded or
brazed thereon, or the ribs or clips may be made separate and detachable; and the
tread may be of the usual or any suitable form or with or without solid or detach-
able metal calks or wood, bone, horn, rubber, gutta percha or compound detachable
calks which may be serrated or otherwise formed; or the toe part of the tread may
be of thick metal, and the heel or hinder part of thinner metal and the latter or
hinder part covered with or inserted in or passed through gutta percha, rubber, or
compound of one or both of these, with canvas, flax, tow, jute, hair, cloth, leather,
or other suitable material.
The shoe may also he made of a thin metal plate with upright ribs in one piece
with the shoe, or the ribs may he made separate and detachable, and the tread part
may be partially or wholly covered or encased with rubber, gutta pereha, or a
compound of either or both with flax, tow, jute, woollen or other cloth, hair,
canvas, leather or other suitable material which may be sheathed or covered with
metal at the toe to retard wear and may or may not have metal, wooden, bone or
other suitable pins or screws inserted therein to secure it to the shoe and to retard
wear; or it may be made in the form of a permanent shoe and have a detachable
wearing tread or calk or number of such treads or calks attached to it. The
wearing detachable tread or calk in this permanent shoe is preferably secured by
beveled wings bent over pressed or struck out of the plate or moulded, forged,
welded, or brared thereon, which wings enter suitable grooves in the wearing tread
parts or calks. The detachable treads or calks in the permanent shoe may be
composed of solid metal plain or serrated, wood, bone or horn or gutta percha, or
rubber, or compound of gutta percha ar rubber or both of these with fibrous or
other suitable material as above mentioned: or they may be formed of hollow
metal of a square oblong or beveled frame which may be filled with wood or other
suitable material: and as an additional security the treads or calks may be attached
and further secured to the thin metal plate or shoe by pins or screws which may

page_text: be passed through the treads either from above or below as may be found most
suitable to secure them to the shoe and to retard wear.
Dated this 27th day of November 1896.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
aint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, RICHARD MCDOUGALL, of 25 Wellington Street, in the City of Glasgow,
Merchant and Commission Agent, 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 horse shoes of the class which are designed to be
secured to the hoof without the use of nails, and it has for its object to provide in
combination with such a shoe improved means whereby the shoe may be securely
attached to the hoof and means for preventing slipping in frosty weather and on
paved streets.
The Invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of which
is a side view of a horse's hoof shewing one form of my improved shoe fitted
thereon, Figure 2 is a plan, and Figure 3 a front view of the hoof and shoe.
Figure 4 is a detail of a modified form of attachment of the shoe to the hoof
stran or band at the front of the hoof. Figure 5 is a view shewing the methods
of securing the calks on the shoe.
The improved horse shoe, which, as regards the tread or wearing part, may be
of the ordinary form or other suitable shape, has formed on or attached to it a
number of solid or detachable upwardly projecting ribs or clips B, of one length or
of various lengths, which are designed to embrace the hoof C or to enter recesses
or grooves D cut or rasped out of the wall of the hoof in order to keep the shoe
stationary on the hoof or prevent movement of the shoe A on the sole of the
hoof C. One or more of these ribs or clips B may be situated at or near the toe
part; and may be formed at the upper end or ends with an eye E, as shewn at
Figures 1, 2 and 3, or with a hook E', as shewn at Figure 4, to which is fitted or
attached a locking bolt F, or bolts, plate or plates hooked at the lower end as
shewn at Figures 1, 2 and 3, to engage with the eye E or of 1 shape to engage
the hook E as shewn at Figure 4; or the locking plate or bolt F or plates or bolts
may be hinged to the rib or ribs. To this locking plate or bolt F or plates or bolts
is conjoined as shewn at Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, a band G in one or more pieces,
or a chain, strap, wires or rods of metal or other strong material, with an eye or
eyes formed thereon for the end of the locking bolt or bolts to pass through as at
Figures 1, 2 and 3, or with a projection as shewn at Figure 4 over which the
locking bolt F is passed, a pin being passed through said projection to secure the
locking bolt F thereon, and the band G may be lined or padded, if necessary, and
which band is carried along the walls of the hoof C and terminated at the rear or
heel in the form of hooks or other device or with eyes I adapted to engage with
heel or rear pieces J as shewn at Figures 1 and 2, said hooks, eyes, or other device
may be either formed in a piece with the strap or its equivalent or they may be
made separate and detachable. The locking bolt or plate, or bolts or plates
connecting the hoof strap to the front rib or ribs are preferably provided with
means such as shewn for tightening and locking the band G and securing the

page_text: shoe A thereto, such as the bolt and nut shewn at Figures 1, 2 and 3 or the right
and left hand screw joining the two portions of the locking plate or bolt shewn at
Figure 4; or the locking plate may be reversed in which case one end is hooked
on to the band G and the other passes through an eye on the rib or clip at the
toe. The locking of the screw nuts is by preference effected by means of a metal
pin or wire L passed along a groove M formed in the screw bolt of the locking
plate or bolt Fas shewn at Figure 1 and bent over to retain the nut in secure
position, or a jam nut may be used as at Figure 3 or the bolt may be of hollow or
tubular form with an opening up all the way or only so far as the screw thread
extends and have a metal rod or wire passed through the tube for turning over the
nut when it is screwed fully up.
The straps or bands G may be of metal or flaxen web or hemp cord or leather
or other suitable material and may be of round, half round, flat or any other
suitable shape and may be secured or fastened by any suitable means other than
bolts or nuts.
With hind hoof or hoofs that are almost perpendicular and do not afford suffici
security or grip for the band G as shewn in dotted lines at Figure 1, ar
strap H of leather, canvas web or other suitable material may
attached to the hoof band G and passed over the heel and is
slipping backwards by a strap N passed around the ankle above t
attached to the strap H over the heel. An additional rib or clip i
formed near the heel to engage the band G as shewn.
A flexible or non-slipping tread may be combined with the metal oe A and
may be made to cover it either wholly or partially and is composed of either rubber,
gutta percha, or compound of both, or of flax, tow, jute, woollen or other cloths,
hair, canvas, leather or any other fibrous material saturated with gutta percha or
rubber or both; or the rubber, or gutta percha, or compound may ve moulded
into calks a, such as shewn at Figure 5, and secured by wings a formed on the
shoe A, either transversely of or extending longitudinally of the hoof.
The shoe A may be made of solid or channeled or hollowed metal or of any other
form with solid ribs B or clips cast or forged in a piece with the sho: or welded
or brazed thereon, or the ribs B or clips may be made separate and detachable:
and the tread may be of the usual or any suitable form, or with or without solid
or detachable metal calks or detachable calks of wood, hone, horn, ruber, gutta
percha or compound, which may be serrated or otherwise formed.
The shoe may also he made of a thin metal plate with upright ribs in one piece
with the shoe, or the ribs may be made separate and detachable and the tread
part may be partially or wholly covered or encased with rubber, gutta percha, or
a compound of either or both with flax, tow, jute, woollen or other cloth, hair,
canvas, leather or other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A horse shoe provided with upwardly projecting ribs or clips, solid or detach-
able, adapted to einbrace the hoof, and a band, chain or strap in one or more
pieces encircling the hoof and secured to the shoe at the rear end or heel, combined
with a locking plate or bolt of the formation described and shown at Figures 1, 2
and 3, whose upper end is removably attached to the encircling band by being
passed through an eye formed thereon, and whose lower end enters an eye in one
or more of the ribs or clins or the position of the locking plate may be reversed
said locking plate or bolt being provided with means for tightening and securing
the shoe upon the hoof substantially as described.
2. A horse shoe provided with upwardly projecting ribs or clips, solid or detach-
able, adapted to embrace the hoof, and a band, chain or strap in one or more
pees ereineling the hoof and secured to the shoe at the rear end or heel, combined
with locking plate or bolt of the kind described and shewn at Figure 4 whose

page_text: upper end is removably attached to the encircling band by being passed over a
projection formed thereon, and whose lower end engages hooks or other suitable
device on one or more of the ribs or clips, said locking plate or bolt being provided
with means for tightening and securing the shoe upon the hoof substantially as
described.
3. A horse shoe composed of a suitably formed metal bar or plate having wings
formed on the underside for securing thereto calks or treads of metal, wood, bone,
horn, rubber, gutta percha, or other compound substantially as described.
4. A composite horse shoe made up of a suitably formed metallic bar or plate
embedded partially or wholly in gutta percha, rubber, or like substances in admix-
ture with flax, tow, jute, woollen or other cloths, hair, canvas, leather, or like
fibrous material substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of August 1897.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.