Improvements in and relating to Padded Horse-shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1999-Accepted, 13th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Padded Horse-shoes.
I, ALBERT EDGAR ALEXANDER, of 19, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
in the County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by Ernest Walcott Hasle-
hurst, of Sing Sing, Westchester County, New York, United States of America,
Farmer) and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to horseshoes that are padded for the easing of sore or
tender feet, for the protection of the hoof, and for casing pressure on the heel;
and its objects are to provide a shoe for these purposes that shall overcome some
of the defects inherent in such shoes, besides affording ventilation and means
for applying and retaining medicaments for treatment of the hoof. These objects
are attained by the means set forth in the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure I represents the bottom of the shoe. Figures II and III show a plan
and elevation of the rubber pad employed. Figure IV represents a side view of
the shoe. Figure V represents the top of the shoe pad. Figure VI is an end
elevation of Figure V. Figure VII is a transverse section of the shoe through
line a, Figure I.
A metal shoe, as 1, Figure I, is backed by a piece of leather or other suitable
material, as 3, Figures V and VII, having the same outside dimensions as the
shoe. Holes, as at 9, Figures I and VII, are made through the leather for ven-
tilation and as herein further explained.
On the upper side and over the central perforated portion of the leather is
placed a piece of felt, 4, Figures V. and VII. Its object is to afford further
cushioning for and protection to the hoof, and it also serves as an absorbent for
the retention of medicaments for treatment of the hoof. The perforations through
the leather serve the purpose of allowing the renewal of fluids to the felt.
The iron shoes need not differ materially from ordinary shoes, except that they
are made without calks and should be beveled somewhat on their inner edges.
as at 10. Figures I and VII, so as to avoid gathering accumulations of snow and
dirt, and the heel terminals are cut away on their upper sides-that is, next
the leather-to admit of the wings 6, 6. of the rubber pad 2. as in Figures IV,
VI and VII. This construction affords this advantage: When a shoe ends
abruptly against the pad, as most of them do, the pad breaks off at the juncture.
This extension of a part of the metal of the shoe over the pad obiates this trouble,
while very little, if any, of the elasticity obtained by the other form of construc-
tion is lost for the reduced metal possesses springiness equivalent to the rubber
elasticity almost, and the elevation of the heel 5 above the metal relieves the
foot entirely from shock, so that nothing is sacrificed in thus securing this
additional strength to the pad.
The pad 2 is made of rubber and consists of a heel 5, roughened on its surface,
of a thickness to elevate it above the metal of the shoe, as in Figure VII. To
give support to this heel and a body surface for secure cementing to the leather,

page_text: as well as strengthening support to the portions of the pad that extend under the
shoe, the body of the pad extends inwardly with a curved projection 7, and from
this body wings 6, 6, Figure II, extend. These wings are held between the
leather and the cut-away terminals of the heels of the shoe, as described and
shown in Figures IV, VI and VII. The inner edges of the pad are beveled, as
shown, for the same reason that the inner edges of the shoe are-i.e., to avoid
the clinging to the parts of snow and dirt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A pad for a horseshoe consisting of a cushion of felt, a perforated sole, and
a rubber heel, extended portions of the heel reaching under the cut-away portions
of the metal shoe, the heel portion projecting beyond the metal surface of the
shoe, with a supporting body extending within the shoe, substantially as herein
shown and described.
2. A padded horseshoe comprising a felt cushion, a perforated sole. a rubber
pad with a body extension partly over the sole, with the heel projecting beyond
the surface of the metal shoe, and with wings extending under the metal shoe,
the ends of the said shoe being cut away to receive said wings, all combined sub-
stantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Filing Agents.