AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE FORM OF SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS, AND THE PROCESS OF ACCOMPLISHING THE SAME
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DENNIS
WOODIN, of No. 2, Upper Park Place, Regent's Park Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Veterinary Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Dennis Woodin, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Dennis Woodin, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Dennis Woodin, my exors,
adiiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE FORM
OF SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS, AND THE PROCESS OF ACCOMPLISHING THE
SAME;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Dennis Woodin, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
Jarge appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Dennis Woodin, do declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to tlic-figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention has for its object the forming of the upper surfaces of shoes
for horses and other animals, in such manner as to give greater holding, by
affixing a peculiar structure of roughing, as hereafter described; and in order
that the Invention may be fully understood, and readily carried into effect, I
will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed, in the various Figures
of which the same letters are used to indicate similar parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS..
Figure 1 shows an upper view or that which comes next the ground of a
shoe constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is an edge view
thereof, a, a, is the sunk part or plate of the shoe, the under surface or part
which comes next the foot of which is made to any pattern, as heretofore
practised. My Invention has to do only with the upper surface, as it is
technically called, or part which comes next the ground. is a projection at
the inner edges of the plate a, and forms part of the surfaco which sustains the
foot when it comes on the ground; this projection may be close to the inner.
b
edge of the plate a, as shewn, or at a distance therefrom, as is the case in the
shoe, Figure 3, where it is intermediate of the inner and outer edges of the shoe ;
c, c, are a series of projections, the shapes of which may be varied from those
shown; these projections risc. to the same level as the projection b, and may be
said to radiate therefrom to the outer edge of shoe; between the projections c
are recesses d, d, so that the foot of a horse or other animal having such a
shoe fixed thereto would be supported by the series of surfaces b, c, c, the toe
piece e, and the hinder projection f. The holes for the nails, are made through
the plate a, and in the recesses between the projections c, c, as shown; hence,
it will be seen that the projections c will offer peculiar roughing and tend to
prevent the other sliding; at the same time the foot will be supported at all
parts, owing to the projections being all to the same level on the sunk part or
plate a. It is not necessary that the projections c, c. should come up to and
form part with the projection b, but I prefer that such should be the case, as
is shewn in Figure 2; and I also prefer that the projections c should all be on.
the outer side of the projection b, as shown at Figure 1, but shoes may
be made

page_text: with the projections c inside of the projection 6, as shown at Figure 3; and I
would state that the number of projections e, as well as their shape, may be
varied without departing from my Invention, the object of which is to obtain a
sufficient extent of surface for supporting the horse's foot when on the ground by
the use of series of projections e, in combination with a projection b, toc piece e,
and hinder projections f; and I would also state that my Invention may be
accomplished by the combined use of a peculiarly formed shoe, Figure 4,
together with large headed nails, which, when driven to fix the shoe on the
foot, produce by their enlarged heads the projections c. Figure 4 shows the
upper side of a shoe constructed similar to that at Figure 1, with the exception
that the projections c, e, are omitted; and Figure 5 shews a nail which, if used
with such a shoe, would, when the shoe is on the foot, produce practically the
same effect as the shoe, Figure 1, as the horse's foot would be supported by
the projections b, f, e, on the plate a, and the nail heads coming to the same
level with those projections would offer the same character of projections or
stops as those described in respect to c, in the Figures. Figure 6 shews the
upper side of what is called a concave shoe, with course fullering, and with
projections at each side of the fullering at the hinder parts of the shoe, the
projections fand 6 being the only ones used. Figure 7 is a shoe with a
double fullering; the light parts c, c, are those that take the bearing of the
animal and assist in forming the stops or catches; the dark parts show the
indentations, grooves, &c., through which the nail holes can be made; the same
effect can be produced by a single fullering. The fullering and the hinder
projections come level with and may be said to grow out of the projection b,
as shewn; i (Figure 6) shows the inner concavity next the foot. The shoes
constructed according to my Invention may be made by casting them of
malleable cast iron in moulds made according to the pattern desired, in a
similar manner to the casting of other constructions of horse shoes, or they
may be made by forging or by dios, or bars of iron for the shoes may be rolled.
And I wish it to be understood that I claim neither of these processes of
making shoes when not applied to making shoes according to my Invention, as
herein described; but what I claim is, the mode of making shoes for horses
or other animals, as herein described.
In witness whereof, J, the said Dennis Woodin, have hereunto set niy
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
DENNIS (L.s.) WOODIN.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid Dennis Woodin came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.