Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1887
Complete Left, 9th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
[, HENRI DECEULENER of Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium, Farrier do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention refers to improvements in pads for the hoofs of horses or
other animals, and embraces a leather sole or pad provided with a cross piece at the
back fixed in any suitable manner. Preferably it is firmly sewn and fixed by means
of screws or carefully rivetted.
This sole or pad is placed between the hoof and the shoe, the above mentioned
cross piece fitting between the ends of the shoe and covering the frog of the hoof and
projecting beyond the shoe.
The sole or pad may be either plain or cut out in the middle.
If necessary the plain sole or pad may be strengthened in the middle by an addi-
tional pad when the horse is required for long marches or gallops either hunting or in
time of war or on bad ground.
This system of padding obviates the effect of the heavy and rigid toes and heels of
the shoes, which destroy the tendons and impair their clasticity.
It protects sensitive and defective hoofs such as low heeled hoofs, dry bleyme, the
results of foundering convex soles, wire heels, hoofbounds and the like."
It permits the horses to traverse without danger rocky routes or such strewn or
made of material which might easily damage or wound the hoofs or make them
slip.
It permits the use of leather, a material which combines with a low price and small
weight a comparatively great resistance, softening the shock to the hoof and permitting
easy and frequent repairs.
This system can be applied to hoofs of all sizes and forms and permits the farrier
to easily adjust the shoe to the form of the hoof, even shoes with calks for snow and ice,
and to make them just as light or as heavy as before.
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page_text: declare the nature or this invention and
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performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The present invention refers to improvements in pads for the hoofs of horses or
other animals, and embraces a leather sole or pad a (figure 1) provided with a cross
piece (figure 2) at the back fixed in any suitable manner. Preferably it is firmly
sewn and fixed by means of screws or carefully rivetted.
In the accompanying drawings :
Fig. 1 represents the naked hoof.
Fig. 1 is a plain pad with the cross piece.
Fig. 2 is a section on line A B of figure 1.
Fig. 3 is a pad open in the middle and provided with the cross piece.
Fig. 4 is a plan of a pad provided with an additional central pad and a cross piece ;
and a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 5 is a plan of the underside of a hoof provided with the pad and a shoe.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of figure 5.
This sole or pad is placed between the hoof and the shoe (Figures 5 and 6) the
above mentioned cross piece b fitting between the ends of the shoe covering the frog
of the hoof and projecting beyond the shoe.
The sole or pad may be either as in figure 1, extending entirely across the hoof or
having the central portion removed as in figure 3, if it is desired to avoid the hoof
getting beated.
If necessary the plain sole or pad may be strengtnened in the middle by an addi-
tional pad a' (Figure 4) when the horse is required for long marches or gallops either
hunting or in time of war or on bad ground.
This system of padding obviates the effect of the heavy and rigid toes and heels of
the shoes, which destroy the tendons and impair their elasticity.
It protects sensitive and defective hoofs such as low heeled hoof's, dry bleyme, the
results of foundering, convex holes, wire heels, hoof bounds and the like.
It permits the horses to traverse without danger rocky routes or such strewn or
made of material which might easily damage or wound the hoofs or make the horse
slip. The frog of the hoof resting entirely on the leather will expand the heel of the
hoof.
It permits the use of leather, a material which combines with a low price and small
weight a comparatively great resistance, softening the shock to the hoof and per-
mitting easy and frequent repairs.
This system can be applied to hoofs of all sizes and forms and permits the farrier
to easily adjust the shoe to the form of the hoof, even shoes with calks for snow and
ice, and to make them just as light or as heavy as before.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
A sole or pad such as described placed between the hoof and the shoe and fitted at
the heel of the hoof with a cross piece, said sole either extending entirely across the
hoof or having the central portion removed or provided with an additional central pad
for the further protection of the hoof, substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 9th day of April 1888.
HENRI DECEULENER.