Improvements in Horse Shoes and Shoeing.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes and Shoeing.
FRANCIS WILLIAM SUMNER, Blandford Villa, Andover Road, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, Shoeing Smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A different shape to the ordinary shoe now in use viz. instead of the shoe being
made full length to point of heels with an inner curve it will be made shorter to
foot by about 3/4 in. more or less according to circumstances and narrowed at the
heels as may be required. This invention is designed to do away with the dis-
comfort & damage done to horses by the ordinary method of shoeing such as,
clicking, cutting, contracted feet, especially against injury to horses elbows when
lying down, preventing the formation of corns, the moving of shoe out of position
also providing against the possibility of shoe being torn off by racing or hunting.
It will also prevent horses slipping about as the frog and heel will be in contact
with the ground.
In preparing the foot to receive the shoe. I rasp away superflous horn and
leave about three quarters of an inch at the heel which I leave standing. I then
take the necessary material and form it to fit the prepared foot the shoe then
forms a junction with the heel and affords the horse a perfectly natural bearing.
Dated this 25th day of September 1897.
Signed FRANCIS WILLIAM SUMNER.
Improvements in Horse Shoes and Shoeing.
I, FRANCIS WILLIAM SUMNER, of Blandford Villa, Andover Road, Cheltenham,
in the County of Gloucester, Registered Shoeing Smith, 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:
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1. I make a shorter shoe than those generally used. by about 3 of an inch or
more on each side according to circumstances and of any suitable material and
which shoe I narrow at the bars or heel of the foot as may be required and I avoid
the usual in-curve at the bars or heel-the shoe being made small enough to avoid
the bars of the foot altogether, ending where the bars of the foot in a natural state
bend inwards.
2. I prepare the foot to receive the shoe in a different way from what is usually
done in horse shoeing, namely, I rasp away superflous,horn and leave standing
about 3, of an inch of the bars on each side and also the frog so that such bars and
frog may when the foot is shod rest on the ground and I avoid the usual way of

page_text: hollowing out the "sole." The "crust" I so prepare that the ends of the shoe may
form a junction with the incurve of the crust and the shoe when fixed presents a
neat appearance the ends being protected by the said incurve. The bars and frog
are just flush with the shoes when the latter are fixed so that the horse partly
stands on the bars and frog and partly on the shoes.
3. By means of the foregoing invention I prevent damage being done to horses
by clicking, cutting contracted feet injury to the elbows while lying down or for-
mation of corns. I also prevent the loss of shoes in the hunting field or, race
course by suction and the horse is firmer on the ground and not so liable to slip.
4. The Figure No. 1 hereto annexed shews an inverted foot prepared to receive
the shoe, (a) is the frog (b) is the sole of the foot (c) are the bars of the foot rasped
ready for the shoe. Fig. 2 shews an inverted foot with the shoe in position (a) is
the frog (b) are the bars of the foot rasped away for the shoe (c) is the shoe in
position.
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:-
1. The combination of the smaller shoe and the prepared foot as above described.
FRANCIS WILLIAM SUMNER.
By his Agents,
Ley, Wood & Rickerby.