Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
COME MIN DE BUITIATIVN
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, JOHN BRIERLEY HOWARD of Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax in the
County of York, Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
which has been communicated to me by Johann Georg Weissmann of Schweinan
near Nurnberg in the Empire of Germany, Farrier, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in horse shoes, the object being to
construct a shoe a portion of which can be renewed without removing the shoe
from the hoof. The toe is the part which usually first wears away and will
according to this invention not be welded on, but simply inserted in the shoe so
that worn out toes may be at any time removed and replaced by new ones.
:-
Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 shows a horse shoe, seen from its under or ground side.
Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of the horse shoe.
Figs. 3 and 4 are views of toes of shoes seen from their sides.
Fig. 5 shews a horse shoe carried upon a straightening and measuring bar or
handle.
Fig. 6 is a front elevation of shoe and toe piece.
According to this invention the front or toe of the horse shoe has a dovetail
recess or rebate a formed in it and this recess is slightly conical or tapered and
is designed to receive the dovetailed toe piece, while the horse shoe is being
fixed upon the hoof a flat rod c is inserted in the rebate a to prevent closing
or shrinking of the latter, or its assuming a different form; at the same time
this bar c serves instead of the tonges for holding the horse shoe. The bar c
is divided and numbered so that it serves as a measuring scale for the two
pieces.
In order that the. toe pieces will neither shake nor rattle, thin rubber plates d
are attached to their tops, and for the purpose of preventing the toe pieces
being withdrawn their inner ends are prolonged and provided with one or more
bolt holes, into which a bolt or bolts, screw, or screws c fits or fit. In case the
toe piece should become a little loosened, a bolt hole f is reserved for a screw e
and this bolt hole is a little nearer the point of the toe than the other one, and
into this latter hole the screw c is placed for tightening the toe piece in position.
In winter the ordinary toe pieces are replaced by such as are shown in Fig. 4
which are sharp and serve as frost cogans, or spikes and which can readily be
formed out of worn out summer toe pieces as shewn by Fig. 3. A further
advantage of this invention is that cast steel toe pieces may be used which could
not hitherto be employed with welded toe pieces.
As welding is not necessary and toe pieces can be renewed, one shoe can be worn
for a much longer period than heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A horse shoe wherein a dove tail toe piece is inserted into the rebate or recess a
in the horse shoe, either from the front or from behind, and tightened by means of

page_text: a rubber plate d and locked in position by means of a screw or bolt e as and for
the purpose herein described and as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 29th day of August 1893.
J. BRIERLEY HOWARD,
Applicant.