Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 9th Oct., 1893-Accepted. 11th Nov.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
THOMAS OFFORD Jobmaster 64 Charlwood Street South Belgravia London
S.W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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An iron horse shoe nailed on in the ordinary way with the surface provided
with an indefinent number of dovetailed recesses (according to the dimensions of
the shoe) for the reception of corresponding dovetailed india rubber blocks to fit.
These blocks and recesses to be placed in close proximity to one-another so as to
give a level bearing throughout to the horse's foot. These india rubber blocks
can when worn be renewed by others in their places or with steel blocks for heavy
wear or snowy weather when a greater grip may be required.
Dated this Seventh day of January 1893,
THOMAS OFFORD,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, THOMAS OFFORD of 64, Charlwood Street, South Belgravia, London, S.W.,
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:-
My invention relates to an improvement in horse shoes whereby to lessen concussion,
give a better foothold, and prevent slipping, and it consists in fitting dovetailed
blocks of india-rubber in correspondingly shaped cross-grooves or recesses made in
the underface or tread of the shoe so that the rubber blocks will project sufficiently
from the face of the shoe and come in contact with the ground.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figure 1 is an underface view and Figure 2 a sectional side or edge view of
the shoe.
The shoe A is machine made and preferably of malleable iron, although I do not
limit myself in this respect. It is provided with the usual nail holes, these being
situated in the solid metal portions or bars left between the grooves for the rubber
blocks B. The underface of the shoe is formed with cross-grooves of dovetailed
form in section extending across the face and normally to the curve of. the shoe,
the grooves being slightly tapered or diminished in width from the outer to the
inner edge of the shoe. They are suitably spaced with regard to the nail-holes so
as to be intermediate thereof, as shewn, their number varying according to the size
of the shoe. The blocks B are of vulcanised rubber and are of corresponding
dovetailed form in section and tapered in width to enable them to be easily inserted
and tightly driven into the grooves so that they will not be liable to work out in
wear. They are slightly thicker than the depth of the grooves so that when
inserted therein they will project slightly from the tread of the shoe so as to come
in contact with the ground and they are in sufficiently close proximity to one
another to give a level bearing throughout to the horse's foot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
A horse-shoe having cross-grooves formed in its underface of dovetailed and

page_text: tapered form, in combination with correspondingly-shaped blocks of india-rubber
fitted in such grooves, as and for the purpose specified.
Dated October 9th 1893.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.