Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1896

page_text: ONAL
Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
SAMUEL GILLMAN, Farrier 188 Southampton Street Camberwell S.E. do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The advantages of these horse shoes are they being constructed with the face
side having bars or studs so placed that they grip thereby prevent slipping on any
of our modern and improved roads made of asphalte stone or wood paving on which
with the ordinary shoes now in use horses cannot properly travel or work without
slipping and falling down thereby causeing great inconvenience and delay to all
trafic.
I wish to point out particularly as a feature and advantage of my invention
that these shoes with their different shaped bars and studs on the face side of this
shoe will act as stops or catches by penetrating through the greasy matter on the
surface thereby takeing a firm grip on the solid road makeing it an impossibility
for them to slip and will hold as well either going down an incline or up and each
shoe being manufactured in one solid piece of metal there is nothing that can
work loose also admits of their being heated so that the farrier can shape them to
fit the most deformed or broken foot as easily as he can the natural shaped one
which is a decided advantage for keeping the foot sound by the shoe fitting
it instead of haveing as is in many cases done by fitting the foot to the shoe.
My invention more particularly relates to the manufacturing of shoes from solid
metal suitable for horses or other shod animals to enable them to travel with perfect
safety as they cannot slip when ridden or driven on asphalte, stone, wood, or other
paved roads and are the most suitable shoes for use by artillery, calvary or others
whose work is chiefly on turf as they have a perfect grip.
1906
SAMUEL GILLMAN,
188 Southampton Street, Camberwell, S.E., Farrier.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
I, SAMUEL GILLMAN, Farrier of 188 Southampton Street, Camberwell S.E.
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:-
My invention consists in providing the face side of a horse shoe with bars or
studs which are made in one with the shoe and so placed that they will afford a
better grip than is possible with shoes constructed and put on the market up to the
present time. The shoes are made with a narrow groove or fuller all round
wherein are made the holes for the nails and the recesses in between the bars or
round the studs are so constructed that it is impossible for snow dirt or foreign
matter to stick in such recesses.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in plan the face side of a snoe
provided with bars and recesses.
Figure 1 is a section on the line a b Figure 1 and
Figure 1 is a section on the line e d Figure 1.
Figure 2 represents in plan the face side of a shoe provided with studs and
recesses.
Figure 2 is a section on the line ef Figure 2 and Figure 20 is a section on
the line gk Figure 2.
Referring to Figures 1, 14 and 10, the shoe is provided with a fuller i having
sides k and which form ridges and joining the ridge I are bars as on each side and
one single bar m' extending across near or at the toe. In between the bars are
formed recesses n and in between the bar m¹ and the ridge is a recess n¹. As
shown the sides of the. recesses n and n¹ from the ridge and the sides of the
bars m and m' are curved and sloping respectively so that the complete recesses
are kept comparatively clear but if any accumulation of dirt or the like should
occur it has a free passage out towards the inner edge of the shoe at all events as
far as concerns the recesses n. This shoe may be made of iron, steel or other
suitable metal either stamped or cast. I prefer not to stamp or cast the nail holes
in the fuller i because as a rule.it is better that the making of these should be left
to the farrier to suit each particular hoof.
Referring to Figures 22 and 20 ", the shoe in this case is provided with a
fuller i having sides k and I which form ridges and between the ridge and the
inner. edge of the shoe a recess n is made in which are formed stud like
projections m. As shown the side of the recess n from the ridge / slopes with an
easy curve and the projections m being formed slightly pyramidal with a flattened
top level with the ridges k and 4, facilitate the release of any foreign matter such
as snow or the like and the recess is kept comparatively clear. It is not essential
that the stud like projections be made in the form of a pyramid flattened at 'the top
as they may be made of. any other suitable shape. This shoe may be made of iron
steel or other suitable metal either stamped or cast. Or it may be made of metal
rolled to the section shown and provided with the stud-like projections in which
case a shoe would be formed by cutting off a piece of the proper length bending it
to the shape of the shoe and providing it with holes for the nails in the fuller i
where requisite.
The advantages of these horse shoes are that they will afford a proper grip because
the bars or studs are so placed that they penetrate the mud frozen snow or the like
and come into intimate contact with: the road itself at a number of places thereby
preventing the animal from slipping. This I have ascertained from practical trials
and I have also found that they are very durable and equally efficient whether the
animal be ascending or descending an incline. Further, as the shoes are made
solid, that is to say, are made all in one piece without any parts which have to be
attached thereto or detached therefrom, they may be heated and shaped by any
farrier to suit even the most deformed or broken foot as. easily as they can be
fitted to a normally shaped foot, which is a decided advantage over many
manufactured shoes heretofore constructed, in many of which cases it was necessary
to make the foot fit the shoe instead of making the shoe fit the foot. Besides this
as they are made of one solid piece of metal there is nothing that can work
loose by reason of the concussion which takes place every time the animal puts its
foot on to the ground.
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 I am
aware that it is not broadly new to provide a horse shoe with bars or studs
on the face side; I do not therefore broadly,claim such a horse shoe but what
1 do claim is
1. A horseshoe provided with a fuller i having, sides k and forming ridges, a
recessed part or recesses all round the shoe made curved from the ridge towards

page_text: the inner edge of the shoe and bars or studs projecting from such recessed part or
recesses substantially as described and shown."
2. A horse shoe provided with a fuller i having sides k and forming ridges,
recessed parts n n made curved from the ridge towards the inner edge of
the shoe and bars m m' between such recessed parts substantially as described with
reference to Figures 1, 14 B and 1° D.
3. A horse shoe provided with a fuller i having sides k and I forming ridges, a
recessed part n made curved from the ridge towards the inner edge of the
shoe and stud like projections m substantially as described with reference to
Figures 2, 2E F and 20 H
1907
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.