IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ré, of Turin (Italy), resident at Paris,
Rue de l'Université, No. 2, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING HORSE-SHOES."—A communication from
Vittore Vezzoli, residing at Milan (Italy), Corso Portovenezia, 84.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ré at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th November 1872.
I, JOSEPH RÉ, of Turin (Italy), resident at Paris, Rue de l'Université,
No. 2, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING HORSE-SHOES," to be as follows :—
This Invention consists of improvements in machinery for manufac-
turing horse-shoes.
According to these improvements the iron or metal is submitted to
the successive action of two combined apparatus. The iron heated to a

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suitable temperature (to cherry red for example) is first bent to the
desired form in the first apparatus by means of a former or shaper and
of a matrix with rollers acting horizontally; then the iron thus bent is
submitted to stamping in the second apparatus in order to produce on
the faces the desired depressions and projections. The matrices of the
stamping apparatus are arranged to produce on the inner face of the
iron a concentric or eccentric opening of bevil form to fit perfectly
against the foot of the horse. The depressions, grooves, and projections
which are formed on the outer face of the iron serve to ease the horse
and prevent it slipping; leather may be inserted therein to diminish the
jar or shock upon hard roads. The bending machine which may be
driven by hand or by hydraulic or other power is carried by a strong
frame to which a smaller frame is attached to support the driving shaft.
On this shaft are mounted a fast and a loose pulley, a toothed pinion and
a fly wheel. The pinion gears with a toothed wheel which actuates a
crank shaft to which a connecting rod or link is jointed, the other end
of this rod or link is connected to a carrier or slide which works between
guides. To this slide are jointed a pair of crossed levers terminated by
rollers which slide in a curved groove formed in a table on the frame
so as to bend the iron which is placed at this point against a former.
This former can be changed to vary when required the curve which the
rollers give to the iron. A weighted lever serves to move the bent iron
out of the former. The iron having been thus bent is reheated and then
submitted to the stamping operation. The stamping apparatus may be
driven by hydraulic or other power, and the motion is transmitted by
gearing to a cranked shaft, which by means of a connecting rod works
a lever so as to cause this lever to impart up-and-down motion to a
matrix. This matrix in its down stroke comes upon the bent iron which
is placed on a counter matrix. The matrix and counter matrix which
are of tempered steel thus stamp the requisite depressions, projections,
and bevels upon the two faces of the iron. A weighted lever serves to
move the stamped iron from the counter matrix; the iron is then suitably
pared and perforated at the necessary places with holes for the nails, and
the shoe is complete.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Ré in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st May 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
Ré, of Turin (Italy), resident at Paris, Rue de l'Université, No. 2.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Ré, Her special licence that I,
the said Joseph Ré, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Ré, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR
MANUFACTURING HORSE-SHOES," communicated to me by Vittore Vezzoli,
resident at Milan (Italy), Corso Portovenezia, 34, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Ré, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the naturo
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 Joseph Ré, 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 :-

page_text: temperature, that is to say, at red hot, for instance, is at first curved at
the desired shape in one of the apparatuses by means of a mandrel and
of a bed die provided with rollers and working horizontally, then the
iron thus curved and horse-shoes shaped is stamped in the other
apparatus, so that required grooves, projections, and flats will be obtained 5
on their surfaces. The dice of the stamping apparatus are combined in
such a manner that a perfect plate on the face above of the horse-shoe,
that is to say, the face resting against the animal foot is produced with a
concentric bevelled width or eccentric if the horse-shoe will be used for
an ortopedical purpose, so that to adjust perfectly and that on the face 1
below, or the same bearing upon the ground, grooves, furrows, hollows,
and projections will be made which serve to secure the animal walk, and
to diminish its weariness, as they deaden the shock against the ground
by means of leather or other elastic material bands inserted if desired in
the grooves or hollows.
The Invention is represented in the accompanying Drawings by means
of which the constructing and the working of the said apparatuses for
manufacturing horse-shoes will be well understood.
1
Fig. 1 is a sectional side view of the first apparatus; Fig. 2 an end
view, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the same. The said apparatus may be 2
moved by hand or by an hydraulic or steam motive power.
The whole apparatus rests upon a strong frame u, to which a small
accessory frame v is connected to receive a driving shaft a on which are
mounted two fast and loose pulleys x, x; a small pinion c and a regul-
ating fly wheel b are also keyed on the said shaft. The pinion c engage 2
with a great toothed wheel d, which rotating carries an elbowed shaft e,
on which is pivoted a connecting rod f, the other end of which is jointed
to a carrier 9 sliding between two guides h, i, of the frame. On the said
carrier are pivoted two cross levers k, m, j, l, the ends of which are
provided with rollers q, q, sliding in a curved groove p, p, made in the 3
frame top surface r, so that the iron piece put on here against the
mandrels will be curved. The shape of the said mandrel & may be
modified so that the iron piece will be otherwise shaped by means of the
rollers The curved iron piece is gone out from the mandrel by means
of a single lever provided with a counterweight t, u.
Fig. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 represent different curves and previous
working of the iron piece.
3

page_text: Fig. 4 is a sectional side view of the stamping apparatus; Fig. 5 is a
plan view, and Fig. 6 an end view of the same.
The said apparatus can be moved by means of either hydraulic motive
power or steam engine. The whole apparatus is mounted in a strong
frame A, firmly fastened to a stone work. The motion is imparted by
means of the driving pulleys c to the shaft e through toothed wheel and
pinions D, E, F, G. 6 is a carrying fly wheel. On the shaft e is
keyed a crank H pivoted on a connecting rod H, the other end of which
is jointed to the balance piece K, which depresses or releases the
matrice B according to the rotative motion of the crank H, opposite to a
bottom die O, upon which the reheated curved iron piece rests.
Fig. 13, 14, 15, and 16 represent the said matrices or dice. Fig. 13 is
a plan view a, b, c, d, of the upper matrice B, by means of which the
face of the horse-shoe below is formed. The said matrice can be in-
definitely used only being the casing of the true matrice a³, b², o², d²,
consisting of cast-iron or steel plate which can be changed at pleasure;
m, n, p, r, represent a circular projecting thin plate of metal entering
into the iron to form furrows, grooves, hollows, projections in or upon it
at pleasure. The red line represents the outline of the horse-shoe.
Fig. 14 is a section of the said matrice or jaw B by the axis A, B.
Fig. 15 represents the plan view of the counter matrice or bottom die C,
by means of which the face of the horse-shoe above is formed. a¹, b¹, o¹, d¹,
represents the moveable plate or fitted true matrice on which a horse-
shoe is illustrated as above by a red line. m, n, r, represents a projection
provided with an incline to give the adjusting m, s. Fig. 16 is a section
of the said matrice or jaw by the axis A, B. The blocks in which the
moveable matrice plates are fastened can be made of cast iron or any
other suitable metal. By means of the said matrices and of the exces-
sive pressure of this machine horse-shoes may be worked on both faces
as above described, and they are very resisting and at the same time
light, physiological, elegant, and economical shape. The horse-shoe is
removed from the matrices B, C, between which it has been compressed
by means of a lever O, N, provided with a counterweight.
Having thus deseribed the nature of the said Invention and the
manner in which the same may be carried into effect, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise shape, materials,
and size of parts of the said improved apparatuses, as they may obviously

page_text: be modified without departing from the principle of the Invention, but
what I claim and desire to secure by the said Letters Patent is
peculiarly,―
1. The combination of the apparatuses herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, to curve at first economically
the piece of iron or horse-shoe, at desired shape, and then to stamp it in
such a manner that hollows, projections, grooves, and furrows, are
formed in or upon it, in which leather or other suitable elastic material
can be entered to facilitate and secure the walk.
2. The combination of leather or other suitable elastic material, with 1
the horse-shoes, and the means by which the application is made
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