Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
WILLIAM GODFREY, 56 Latimer Road, Notting Hill, W. in the City of London,
Farrier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My Invention consists in forming shoes for horses, and other animals, of iron or
steel.
In securing the said shoe I use studs or spikes, when owing to frost, or other
seasons, it is necessary to give the horse or animals a more secure footing than is given
by ordinary shoes.
In carrying out my Invention, I form shoes of several sizes as required, and in
order to give the horse or animal a firm footing.
I form in the shoe three longidudinal grooves in which the studs or spikes are
passed through and are secured by self-fastening in the shoe, and can be removed
when required.
When the studs or spikes are required they are passed through the grooves, and so
come flush against hoof of the horse, when the spikes are not required they can be
knocked out, and a plug replaced in the grooves to prevent them being choked.
The spikes are tapered and of a curved shape so as to enable them to come outside
the hoof and can easily be removed.
I use, one, two, or three, spikes as required and they are made of cast steel.
Dated this 24th day of January 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
WILLIAM GODFREY of 56 Latimer Road Notting Hill in the County of Middlesex,
Farrier 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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in iron or steel shoes for horses and
other like animals with the object of giving a more secure footing, when occasion
requires, such as in frosty weather or when travelling over slippery asphalt or the like,
at the same time being perfectly adapted for wear on ordinary roads and under
ordinary circumstances.
It consists in applying to an ordinary horse shoe cast steel studs or spikes which
tightly into grooves formed in the shoe but which can be easily removed when fit
are not required.
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The shoe can be made in all sizes and the number of studs or spikes may be two
three or more but for sake of description of this invention I have employed three.
When the studs or spikes are required to be used they are passed through the
grooves before mentioned and so come flush against the side of the horses hoof, the
studs or spikes being tapered and curved so as to permit this.
When the studs or spikes are not required for use they can be knocked out and the
grooves may be kept from being choked with dirt by the use of plugs.
In the accompanying sheet of drawing this invention is illustrated Fig. 1 being a
plan view of the top side of the shoe showing three grooves a, through which the studs
or spikes b, Fig. 2 are passed when occasion requires. These said studs or spikes b
are so made that they fit tightly into the said grooves a, from which they can easily
be removed again by tapping them on the top. Fig. 3 is a view of the horse shoe
showing the said studs or spikes b, in position and ready for use.
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page_text: It will easily be seen that on frozen or slippery ground the spikes & will give a very
firm foothold to the horses and will prevent their slipping about and falling at the
same time doing away with the necessity of being roughed thereby effecting a great
saving of time as well as of the horses. Existing horse shoes of any size may be
easily adapted to answer the purposes of my Invention.
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 :-
Firstly. In the manufacture of horse shoes and the like the employment of the
grooves a and the studs or spikes b which are passed through and fit tightly into the
said grooves a the object being to prevent horses or other animals from slipping and
falling about on frozen or slippery surfaces as herein before described and shown in
the drawings.
Secondly. In the manufacture of horse shoes and the like the adaptation of the
grooves a. and the spikes b to existing horse shoes as and for the purpose herein
described.
Dated this the 2nd day of October 1980