An Improved Shoe for Horses and other Animals for the Prevention of Slipping.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL DIUTIUATION,
An Improved Shoe for Horses and other Animals for the Prevention
of Slipping.
I, JOSEPH BURTON of 19 Hanover Street, Upper Sydenham, in the County of
Kent, Farrier, R.S.S. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to 'be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved shoe for horses, and other beasts of burden,
by the particular construction of which I am enabled to attach thereto a resilient
substance forming the wearing surface thereof, the object I have in view being, to
prevent the animal from slipping, or losing its foot hold when upon slippery, or
uneven roads, and to provide an elastic wearing surface for the shoc.
By the method according to my invention I am enabled not only to construct
new shoes, in order to attain the desired end, but to convert the existing form of
shoe as at present made and used, so as to be adaptable to receive the resilient.
substance before mentioned, this being an important acquisition where a manufacturer
may have a large stock of ready made shoes of various sizes, on hand.
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In carrying my invention into effect, I construct, or form the shoe of the usual,
metal, and in so far as regards the upper surface, precisely as they are now made,
with the exception that the said upper surface inclines in a slightly downward
direction from the outer edge to the inner part of the shoe. At the front, or toe
of the wearing surface of the shoe I form two, or more clips, or tapered projections
upon the outer edge, and a corresponding number upon the inner edge, so that,
collectively they form a projecting channel upon the wearing surface. Upon each
of the heels 1 form similar projections upon the inner and outer edge of the wearing
surface, so that a similar projecting channel exists upon each heel, and each channel
being of the same depth from the wearing surface the shoe thus formed would stand,
from the ground in the same manner as if formed with three caulkings, a sufficient
distance being left between the front and back channels for the usual nail 'holes.in
the usual positions. Within each of the channels thus formed I force a plug of
india rubber, or other resilient substance, preferably in the form of a roll, with
longitudinal fluted projections upon the outer surface thereof. Or I may in certain
cases use plugs of wood in lieu of the resilient substance before mentioned, using
the ends of the grain as the wearing surface. The plugs when properly seated
within the channels would project therebeyond so that the plugs would form the
wearing surface, the extremities of the projections forming the said channels being
bent, or turned so as to enter the substance of the plugs and prevent them from
shifting from their positions. The shoe can be nailed upon the hoof in the
usual way.
By this means a non-slipping wearing surface is provided, without distorting the
horizontal position of the tread of the foot when the shoe is fixed thereon, and in
use, as is the case when such shoes as have been hitherto made and used are roughed,.
or raised at the heel for the prevention of slipping in frosty weather, I am thus:
enabled to prevent pain to the horse or other animal and obviate the running over,
or distortion of the fetlock joint.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shoe for Horses and other Animals for the Prevention
of Slipping.
I, JOSEPH BURTON, of 19 Hanover Street, Upper Sydenham in the County of
Kent, Farrier, R.S.S. 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 improved shoe for horses and other beasts of burden,
by the particular construction of which I am enabled to attach thereto a resilient
substance or substances, forming the wearing surface thereof, the object of which
is that, the horse or other animal shod therewith is provided with a firmer foothold
when travelling upon slippery or uneven roads, and a more elastic wearing surface
that obtains with the form of shoe hitherto made and used.
By the method of construction according to my invention, I am enabled by a
very slight alteration to convert the form of shoe in general use, adaptable for the
reception of the resilient substances before mentioned this being an important
acquisition where a manufacturer may have a large stock of ready made shoes of
various sizes on hand.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I have appended hereunto
a sheet of drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the under surface of a shoe constructed according
to my invention.
Fig. 2 is an under surface plan view of same.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same, showing how the resilient blocks employed
form the wearing surface thereof.
Fig. 4, is section of said shoe taken through either of the parts wherein the
resilient blocks are placed.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view shewing how the resilient blocks are retained within
and by the substance of the shoe.
Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are sections of some of the forms of resilient blocks employed.
In carrying my invention into effect, I construct or form the shoe A of any
suitable metal, preferably of that usually employed for that purpose, and in so far
as regards the upper surface thereof, in precisely the same form as those in general
uise, with the exception that the said upper surface inclines in a slightly downward
direction from the outer to the inner edge thereof as at a Figs. 1 and 4, the object
of this being that the weight of the animal may be borne upon the outer crust of
the hoof, obviating the possibility of the weight being borne by the frog of the
foot, which enables me where necessary to employ shoes having a broader wearing
surface than those in general use, and in order that when leather is used in the
shoeing, as is sometimes necessary to keep the pressure of loose stones from corns,
or diseased frogs, a thicker substance of leather may be employed than can be
used in the shoes as hitherto made.
Upon the toe, or front of the under surface of A. I form two or more clips, or
tapered projections upon the outer edge, and a corresponding number c upon the
inner edge, so that collectively they form a projecting channel, the metal used for
which is drawn or forced from the body of A. so that a recess d is thereby left in
the body of the shoe, and this recess may be so formed that the diameter or 'width
of the bottom is in excess of that of the top, or in other words that said recesses
may be of dovetail form in cross section as at Fig. 4. Upon each heel I form
similar projections and c¹ upon the inner and outer edges, and these being
acquired by the same means as that of b and c, an identical recess in each heel is
formed thereby, and each channel being of the same depth and each projection of
the same height, the shoe thus formed would stand from the ground in the same
manner as if formed with three caulkings, a sufficient distance being left between
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page_text: each channel for the usual nail holes e, in the usual positions, these being preferably
formed within a recess upon the under surface of A, so that the heads of the nails
may be flush with the shoe when driven home.
Within each of the channels d thus formed 1 force a plug of india rubber or
other resilient substance preferably in the form of a roll upon its outer surface,
with fluted longitudinal projections thereon as at Fig. 7, the heel of each plug
being of dovetail form and slightly more in width than the channels into which
they are forced. Said plugs when properly seated within the channels would
project beyond the points and cel so as to form the wearing surface of the
shoc as shewn more particularly by the side view Fig. 3. The extremities
of care then bent or turned so as to enter or depress the substance of the
blocks and prevent them from shifting from their positions as shewn by Fig. 5.
Or may in certain cases use plugs of wood in lieu of the resilient blocks
employing the end of the grain as the wearing surface, and I may employ said
plugs whether of india rubber, wood or other resilient substance so that in cross
section they may partake of the forms shewn in Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9 or any other
form that may be desired, without departing from the principle of my invention.
The shoe would be nailed upon the hoof in the usual way.
By this means a non-slipping wearing surface is provided, without distorting the
horizontal position of the trend of the foot when the shoe is fixed thereon and in
use, as is the case when such shoes as have been hitherto made and used, are
roughed or raised at the heel for the prevention of slipping in frosty weather. I
am thus enabled to provide a more elastic, and more even, and non-slipping wearing
surface than obtains with any of the methods hitherto adopted, without giving pain
to the horse or other animal upon which they may be fixed, and obviate the running
over or distortion of the fetlock joint.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
In an improved shoe for horses and other animals for the prevention of slipping,
the employment of india rubber or other resilient projecting blocks in any form,
seated within dovetailed recesses & formed at the toe and heels in the under surface
of the shoe A, and held in position by pointed projections bbc c formed by the
making of said recesses, in combination with a receding upper surface a substantially
as and for the purposes herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1891.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.