IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Heinrich Plate, Manufacturer, in the City of Hamburg,
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for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Heinrich Plate at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th September 1877.
HEINRICH PLATE, Manufacturer, in the City of Hamburg.
HORSE-SHOES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This Invention relates to improvements in horse-shoes, and consists in making
them of malleable cast iron, hollow or open at the bottom side, the hollow part being
filled with a packing of tarred hemp or other suitable material.
The shoes are furnished at the bottom front part with a solid piece of iron for the
reception of calks, filling up at this place the hollow, and dividing the hollow into
two halves. With this improvement the before-mentioned sort of horse-shoe will
be applicable with great advantage for snowy or frosty weather. For fastening this
shoe on to the hoof of an animal, I apply at the front and at the sides of the former
three or more flat projections cast in one piece with the shoe, which projections are
bent over the hoof.
The upper surface of my horse-shoe, that is, that part which is brought into
connection with the hoof of the animal, is formed horizontal for about one-third
of the breadth of the iron, and is sloped from this part to the inner edge.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Heinrich Plate in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd March
1878.
HEINRICH PLATE, Manufacturer, in the City of Hamburg.
HORSE-SHOES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This Invention relates to horse-shoes cast of malleable iron and furnished with
hollows at the bottom for the reception of packing of hemp, wood, or other suitable
material.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, my improved horse-shoe is shown in full
size.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the same as attached to the hoof of a horse.
Figure 2 is a ground plan of my shoe, showing the bottom side.
Figure 3 is a front elevation; Figure 4, a section; and Figure 5, a ground plan
showing the top of the iron.
My improvements consist,-
Firstly. In casting two hollows A and B in the bottom of the shoe instead of one
all round, as was formerly the case with these shoes. In the front the shoe is not
hollow but solid, and this solid part C may be used for the attachment of toes to
strengthen the shoe, and to prevent horses or other animals shoed with the same
from slipping.
Secondly. In the application of three tongues or laps, a, b, c, cast in one piece
with the shoe, and which are bent over the hoof and serve as attachments to strengthen
the shoe.
Thirdly. In making the top surface of my shoe horizontal for about one-third of
the breadth of the iron from line x, x, x, to line 2, 2, 2, and of tapering it from
line z, z, z, to the inner edge v, v, v. At the ends of the shoe the horizontal plane
reaches over the whole breadth of the shoe, and these ends may also be solid at the
bottom (the hollows at the bottom ends must in this case not be extended fully to
the ends of the shoe), and may be used for the attachment of calks.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First. The solid front part in horse-shoes of the above construction as described,
and substantially as shown.
Secondly. The three laps or tongues cast in one piece with the shoe as shown, and
for the purposes set forth.
Thirdly. The shape of the top surface, being horizontal for one-third of the
breadth, and tapered from the inner line of the horizontal part to the inner edge
of the shoe as described, and as shown in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Heinrich Plate, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Eighteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight.
HEINRICH PLATE. (L.S.)