IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Winder, of Farningham, in the County of Kent,
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND
IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME."
Sealed the 1st October 1878, and dated the 24th April 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Winder at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th April 1878.
RICHARD WINDER, of Farningham, in the County of Kent, Engineer. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HORSE-SHOES, AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME."
My Invention consists in part in the use and form of the upper part of the shoe
that is nailed to the horse's hoof, in part in the form of the india-rubber or other
elastic material placed in this part of the shoe, and in part in the use and form of
the steel or iron plate that goes upon the ground and incloses and protects the india-
rubber or other elastic material from contact with the road. The three parts form
the complete elastic horse-shoe.
The india-rubber or other elastic material acts as a spring to resist the jar and
consequent injury to horses' legs and feet, especially while travelling on hard
roads.
To enable the horse to travel over ice or other slippery material I sometimes
take off the lower steel or iron plate, and so let the india-rubber or other elastic
material come upon the ground.
I also use iron roughing plates to take the place of the ordinary lower plates in
frosty weather.
I sometimes attach the india-rubber or other elastic material to the iron parts of
the shoe with cement alone, or with cement and other fastenings made so as to
secure the two iron or steel plates together and yet allow full elasticity to the india-
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page_text: rubber or other elastic material used, and sometimes I make the shoes and the
attachments so as to enclose and hold the elastic material in position without using
cement.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Winder in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th October
1878.
"IM-
RICHARD WINDER, of Farningham, in the County of Kent, Engineer.
PROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES, AND IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME."
My Invention consists in part in the use and form of the upper part of the shoe
that is nailed to the horse's hoof, in part in the form of the india-rubber or other
elastic material placed in this part of the shoe, and in part in the use and form of
the steel or iron plate that goes upon the ground and encloses and protects the
india-rubber or other elastic material from contact with the road. The three
parts form the complete elastic horse-shoe.
The india-rubber or other elastic material acts as a spring to resist the jar 1
and consequent injury to horses' legs and feet, especially while travelling upon
hard roads.
To enable the horse to travel over ice or other slippery-material I sometimes take
off the lower steel or iron plate, and so let the india-rubber or other elastic material
come upon the ground.
I also use iron roughing plates to take the place of the ordinary lower plates in
frosty weather.
I sometimes attach the india-rubber or other elastic material to the iron parts of
the shoe with cement alone, or with cement and other fastenings made so as to
secure the two iron or steel plates together and yet allow full elasticity to the india-
rubber or other elastic material used; and sometimes I make the shoes and the
attachments so as to enclose and hold the elastic material in position without using
cement.
The accompanying Drawings shew more fully the manner in which I carry my
Invention into effect.
Fig. 1 is a plan shewing the under side of the part of the shoe that is nailed to
the hoof. B is the hollow channel in this part of the shoe; C shew the recesses for
the nail heads; D is the pin that passes through both upper and lower parts or
plates of the shoe, and is rivetted in front to hold the lower plate from dropping as
well as help keep it in position; E shows a square hole in front to take the front
lug of the lower plate, but I sometimes use a round, oval, dovetailed, or triangular-
shaped hole and lug as well as the square; F shows one mode of attaching the
plates at the heels.
Fig. 2 is a plan shewing the upper side that is nailed on to the horse's hoof.
G shews the level bed or seating for the hoof to rest upon; H shew the nail holes

page_text: one cip, shewn also in side
view;
K shews a temporary short pin sometimes used as a rest for one end of the
screw clamp used for drawing the upper and lower plates, near enough together to
get in the front pin from the inside after the upper plate has been nailed to the
hoof.
Fig. 3 shews the india-rubber, which is moulded to fit the two faces shown at
Figs. 1 and 4.
Fig. 4 shews a plan of the upper side of the ordinary lower plate. L shows
front lug.
Fig. 4a, detail views. M is another view of the above lug showing the elongated
hole in the centre for the pin D to pass through and yet allow play and elasticity.
N shows a side view of one mode of attachment at the heels to fit the plan shewn
at F, Fig. 1.
Fig. 4b shews another form of the front lug where a staple O is used instead of
the pin D before described.
Fig. 5 shews a plan of the ground or lower face of the ordinary lower plate.
Fig. 6 shews a plan and side view of the roughing plate for frosty weather which
is attached in the same way as the ordinary lower plate.
Fig. 7 shews details of another plan of attachment at the heels, in which P is the
under side of the upper plate; Q is a side view of the lower plate; R is a plan of
the upper side of the lower plate.
Fig. 8 shews details of another plan of attachment at the heels, in which S is the
under side of upper plate; T, side view of lower plate; U, plan of the upper side of
the lower plate.
Fig. 9 shews another mode of attachment at tlie heels, in which V is the under
side of lower plate; X, the upper side of the lower plate.
Fig. 10 shews another mode of attachment at the heels, in which Y shews the
under side of the upper plate; Z shews a side view of the lower plate.
Fig. 11 shews another mode of attachment at the heels, in which A¹ shews the
plan of the under side of the upper plate; B¹ shews the side view of the lower plate;
C' shews the plan of the upper side of the upper plate; D' shews the plan of the
upper side of the lower plate.
Fig. 12 shews the ground or lower surface of the lower plate when wood, cement,
or composition is used to make it an anti-slipping shoe, and E' shews the recess left
on each side, as well as the wood or other anti-slipping material, such as a cement
of emery, stone, grit, or other composition. Where a composition is used as the antislip-
ping material, and is run in in a fluid state or forced in, in a pliable state, the recess is
generally not made quite through the thickness of the lower plate; but when wood
is used the recess is generally made completely through the plate, as shewn in the
Drawings.
Fig. 13 shews the upper side of the same plate just described.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I declare that
what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is,―
First. The form and use of the upper part of the shoe that is nailed to the hoof;
also the form of the india-rubber, and the various forms and uses of the steel or iron
lower plate that goes upon the ground, the combinations forming an elastic and anti-
slipping horse-slioe, as before described, and represented by the accompanying
Drawings.
Secondly. The methods of and arrangements for securing the two parts or plates
of metal together, also of holding the india-rubber or other elastic material in
position, as well as the arrangements for allowing full and free elasticity for the
whole depth or thickness of the india-rubber or other elastic material at every step
of the horse, as herein-before described, and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
Thirdly. The plans, before described, and represented in the accompanying
Drawings, for travelling upon ice, frozen snow, or upon any slipping roads.

page_text: Fourthly. The plans of attaching the india-rubber or other elastic material to the
metal plates by cement, or partly by cement and partly by lugs, clips, or other
fastenings, or by lugs, clips, or other fastenings without cement, as herein-before
described.
Fifthly. The form and use, and the mode of attaching the roughened iron or steel
lower plates, more particularly described, and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
Sixthly. In the Drawings the hole to take the front lug and the front lug itself
are shown square, but I claim the use of both hole and lug, either, round, oval, dove-
tailed, or triangular, as well as square, or any other suitable shape.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Winder, have hereunto set my hand.
and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
KICH. WINDER. (L.B.)