IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Clinch, of No. 37ª, Brook Street,
Grosvenor Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
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"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Clinch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd December 1871.
I, FREDERICK CLINCH, of No. 37A, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND OTHER
ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to render horses and other animals less
liable to fall by slipping on asphalte and other paving and in
frosty weather, and to avoid the necessity for "roughing." For this
purpose I form a pad of vulcanized or prepared india-rubber or compound
thereof of suitable form to pass in between the parts of the shoe, and

page_text: such that when so applied it may fill up that space and thereby form a
continuous surface, but projecting beyond the treading surface of the
shoe, so that when the animal is treading on asphalte or other slippery
surface it may by means of such projecting prepared india-rubber or
compound thereof be capable of obtaining a more secure foothold than is
obtained by the metal shoe alone. These filling pieces of prepared india-
rubber or compound thereof are formed not only to the figure of
inner edge of the shoe so as to fill up the cavity between the sides of it
and the bottom of the foot, but also to pass under the edge of such shoe
or between that surface of the shoe next the foot and the under side of
the foot. Such pieces by their elasticity may be readily removed from
the horse's feet when in the stable or at other times, and then replaced at
pleasure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Clinch in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd June 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
CLINCH, of No. 37, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Clinch, Her special licence that
I, the said Frederick Clinch, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Frederick Clinch, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE
TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Frederick Clinch, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the

page_text: nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Clinch, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to render horses and other animals less
liable to fall by slipping on asphalte and other paving as well as in
frosty weather, and to avoid the necessity for roughing. For this
purpose I form a pad of vulcanized or prepared india-rubber or a
compound thereof of suitable form to pass in between the parts of the
shoe of the animal and within the inner surface of the inner edge of the
shoe and the under part of the foot, such that when so applied it may fill
up that space and form a continuous surface, but projecting somewhat
beyond the treading surface of the shoe, so that when the animal is
treading on asphalte or other slippery surface it may by means of such
projecting prepared india-rubber or compound thereof be capable of
obtaining a more secure footing.
Figure 1 shows an upper side view; Figure 2, an under side view;
Figure 3, a front view; and Figure 4, a back view of a pad formed accord-
ing to my Invention, by which it will be seen that these filling pieces of
prepared india-rubber or compound thereof are formed not only to the
figure of the inner edge of the shoe, so as by the part a, a, a, to fill up
the cavity between the inner sides of such shoe and the bottom of the
foot, but also at the part b, b, b, thereof to pass under the edge of such
shoe or between that surface of the inner edge of the shoe next the foot
and the under side of the foot. Such pieces are applied by simply
bending so as to collapse the edges thereof, and allowing them to spring
into the parts of the shoe and foot as stated, and when the animal is in
stable, at rest, or at other times, when these filling pieces are not required,

page_text: they may by their elasticity be readily removed from the feet and
replaced at pleasure.
Having thus described my Invention and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would state that I am aware that it has
" heretofore been proposed to apply substances formed of india-rubber,
leather, and other materials to the feet of horses and other animals, for
the purpose of protecting the foot, and by pressure on the frog to bring
the frog into action instead of the wall of the hoof sustaining the whole
of the pressure, I do not therefore claim the application of material as a
filling up of the space between the inner edges of the shoe and the foot
separately considered; but what I claim is, the improvements applicable
to the feet of horses and other animals by the application to such feet
of pads of vulcanized or prepared india-rubber or compound thereof, to
afford better foothold on asphalte or other slippery surfaces, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Clinch, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.