IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1864

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
- A communication from Hector Edouard. Bastien, residing at La
Villette, Paris, aforesaid.
ealed the 23rd June 1865, and dated the 30th December 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th December 1864.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24,
5 Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR MANUFACTURING SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," a communication

page_text: from Hector Edouard Bastien, a person resident at La Villette, Paris, afore-
said, to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in a direct-acting machine working without shocks
and without steam hammers for making shoes for horses and other animals.
The accompanying Drawing represents a machine constructed on this
principle for making four shoes at a time.
The bars or pieces of iron heated to a suitable temperature are fixed by
means of the levers F, F, on the heads of the pressing pistons E and G; which
have exactly the form of the shoes to be made. The motive piston H, con-
nected by the rods I, I, and the cross bars K, L, with the pressing pistons is
moved by steam or hydraulic pressure exercised in its cylinder J. On the
face plates of this cylinder are placed two mandrels M, N, which have
the exact shape of the exterior of the shoe; these mandrels are of a helicoidal
form, and have a slanting position, so that the pistons E, G, by entering
them, force the iron bars to bend into this inclined plane until they have
taken the exact form of the heads of the said pistons. When the latter have
nearly attained the end of their stroke the levers E, G, are "unclinched" by
means of a moveable rod placed on a 'guide P, and the bent bars are
liberated; the pressing pistons continuing their stroke, arrived at the end of
which they carry the bent bars into dies placed at the bottom of the said
inclined planes. These dies are composed of several pieces of steel, and
carry steel nails let into them for the purpose of finishing the shoes which
have taken the exact form of the pressing pistons when these latter are at
the end of their stroke. During the latter part of the operation two other
pieces of iron are placed on the corresponding heads of the pressing pistons
E and G, and two shoes are thus made at the same time on each side of the
motive piston. The irons are then finished by means of an ordinary
punching machine which completely pierces the nail holes made by the die
or matrice.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 30
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th June 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreigu Patent Offices, 24, Rue du
Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, 35
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,. in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,. and assigns,.or such others as.
I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns,.
should in any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER.
ANIMALS," communicated to me by Hector Edouard Bastien; a person,
residing at La Villette, Paris, aforesaid, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said.
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar:
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Adrian Bonneville, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to.
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This Invention relates to a direct-acting machine working without shocks.
and without steam hammers for making shoes for horses and other animals.
The accompanying Drawings represent a machine constructed on this
principle for making four shoes at a time.
This
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the machine; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section by the
line A, B, and Fig. 3, a transversal section by the line B, C, of the plan.
The improved machine is constructed so as to perform the different
operations necessary for transforming iron bars into horse shoes.
machine, although explained as making four shoes at a time, may make more-
or less, as may be found most convenient, the only modifications made being
those necessary for the simultaneous working of the different organs. The
iron on leaving the rollers is prepared in a special form, and then heated to
a suitable extent. The bars or pieces are next fixed by means of the levers
F, F, on the heads of the pressing pistons E and G, which have the exact
form of the shoes to be made. The motive piston H is connected by the

page_text: rods I, I, and the cross bar K, L, with the pressing piston, and is moved
by steam or by hydraulic pressure exercised in its cylinder J. On the face
plates of this cylinder are placed two mandrels M, N, which have the exact
shape of the exterior of the shoe; these mandrels are of a helicoïdal form, and
have a slanting position, so that the pistons E, G, by entering them force the
iron bars to bend into this inclined plane until they have taken the exact form
of the heads of the said pistons; when the latter have nearly attained the
end of their stroke the levers E, G, are unclinched' by means of a moveable
rod O placed on a guide P, and the bent bars are liberated. The pressing
pistons continuing their stroke, arrived at the end of which they carry the
bent bars into dies placed at the bottom of said inclined planes; these dies
are composed of several pieces of steel, and carry steel nails let into them for
the purpose of finishing the shoes which have taken the exact form of the
pressing pistons when these latter are at the end of their stroke. During the
latter part of the operation two other bars or pieces of iron are placed on
the corresponding heads of the pressing pistons E and G, and two shoes are
thus made at the same time on each side of the motive piston. The shoes are
finished by means of an ordinary punching machine, which completely pierces
the nail holes made by the die or matrice.
The machinery may also be modified by making the pressing pistons fixed
and the mandrels moveable, or by placing one or more motive cylinders at
each end of the machine with pistons with single or double heads, or the
operation may be performed by drawing one single file of mandrels or
pressing pistons, and entirely by pushing or entirely by pulling.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I claim the above-described system
of manufacturing shoes for horses and other animals by means of direct-
acting machines working without shocks, and suppressing the use of steam
hammers, whether these machines are placed horizontally or vertically,
and work by hydraulic or steam pressure, or other mechanical means
serving the same purpose, that is to say, the bending and stamping of one
or more shoes in one single operation, according to the disposition of the
machine, or the stamping alone, by the above-described process, of one or
more shoes, submitted, after being bent by the usual means, to the action of
the machine, and in that case to bend and stamp the shoes in two distinct
operations.
I also claim the use of inclined hollow mandrels of a helicoïdal form with
the faculty of bending the iron bars from the inside or the outside, and the
application of these mandrels to moving, if. necessary, friction rollers or

page_text: jaws for the bending, whatever the forms and dimensions given to these
machines.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)