IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
ROBERT TAYLOR, Blacksmith, Settle JOHN DELANEY, Steel Manufacturer and
Coal Merchant, Settle, and GEORGE METCALFE, Veterinary Surgeon, Settle, in the
County of York do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN HORSE SHOES to be as follows:-
To make the horse shoe with a studded sharpened outer rim and with inner web
to protect the sole of the horses foot.

page_text: We ROBERT TAYLOR, Blacksmith, JOHN DELANEY, Coal Merchant and GEORGE
METCALF Veterinary Surgeon, all of Settle, in the County of York, do hereby
declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES"
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
in and by the following statement :—
The object of our invention is to devise some means of constructing the shoes of
horses and the like animals by which they may be prevented from slipping and
loosing their foothold, thereby falling and oftimes causing dangerous and serious
accidents.
This we have in a great measure effected by constructing shoes as hereinafter
described the use of which, will not only lessen the liability of such accidents, but
will at the same time considerably increase the tractive force of all animals which
are shod with shoes of our improved construction.
The essential feature of our invention is in constructing horse shoes which have
their treads or wearing surfaces divided into a number of indentations or serrations,
which form separate bearings or calks, instead of having one continuous flat
surface, which, in some instances by the ordinary mode of construction is only
relieved by heel and toe calks or projections, and which by reason of their limited
area soon wear down The indentations or serrations in our improved shoe do not
extend over the whole width of the shoe, but are confined to a comparatively
narrow rim or ledge, which runs all round the outer surface of the tread, by this
means a shoe may be made having a wide bearing for the hoof of the animal and a
thicker and more effective treading surface, without increasing the weight or size,
and when required for heavy draught horses, a much lighter shoe than those of the
ordinary class may be used, which will be both effective and durable.
Our improved shoes may be made in a variety of ways, namely:-
From a plain bar of Angle Iron or Steel, smithed by hand or forged into the
required shape in suitable dies or tools, under a steam hammer, stamp or press, or
the metal of which they are made, may be rolled in a Rolling Mill of the required
sectional form and configuration, with the indentations or serrations wholly or
partly formed in like manner to the means employed in rolling metal of special
sections, such as beater bars for thrashing machines, certain classes of spoke iron
and the like, in which cases the rolls of the rolling mill are specially cut and
adapted to the form required, The bars thus rolled inay be cut to the required
length and afterwards bent and finished into shoes by hand smithing or by other
mechanical means, or shoes of the required size and weight, may be cast in moulds
either in steel or malleable iron.
As a modification of the foregoing, a plain Angle bar or bars of the required
section may be first made by any of the foregoing processes, and before being bent
into the form of a shoe, the indentations or serrations may be punched out by hand
or by a punching machine, either separately or by placing two such bars together
in a clam or punch bed, so that each or several holes may be punched by one
operation in both bars, The rough edges or fashes being afterwards filed or ground
off or otherwise removed.

page_text: Fig. 5, is a side elevation.
Fig. 6, is a perspective view of a straight bar which may have the indentations
or serrations smithed, forged, stamped or rolled, before it is bent into the form of
a shoe.
Fig. 7, is a perspective view of a straight plain bar, which may be smithed,
forged, stamped or rolled, the indentations or serrations in which, may be cut
or punched as shewn in Fig. 8, before the bar is cut to length, or bent in the form
of a shoe.
Fig. 8, represents a bar after being so cut or punched.
Fig. 9, represents two bars in position so that they may both be punched at one
operation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
(1.) Constructing Horse Shoes as shewn in Figs: 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5 in the accom-
panying Drawings which have their treads or wearing surfaces divided into a
number of indentations, or serrations which form separate bearings or calks, instead
of having one continuous flat surface, such indentations, or serrations not extending
over the whole width of the shoe, but being confined to a comparatively narrow rim
or ledge, which runs all round the outer surface of the tread.
(2.) Forming a bar of metal into the required shape as shewn in Fig. 6 by
smithing or forging the same by hand, or in suitable dies, or tools under a Steam
Hammer, Stamp or Press and afterwards cutting to length and bending the same
into the form of Horse Shoes.
(3.) Rolling in a Rolling Mill a long bar of Metal of the required sectional form
and configuration as shown in Fig. 6 with the indentations or serrations wholly or
partly formed by such process of rolling and afterwards cutting the same to the
required lengths and bending the same into the form of Horse Shoes.
(4.) Forming and constructing Horse Shoes as herein described by taking a plain
bar of Metal, as shewn in Fig. 7, and afterwards punching or cutting indentations
or serrations in the same as shewn in Fig 8 either singly or by punching two such
bars together, by placing and holding them in position as shewn in Fig. 9, whilst
being so punched or cut.
(5.) Making Horse Shoes as herein described by casting the same in moulds of
the required size and configuration.
Dated thin ih u 1005
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicants.