Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Late of Application, 17th Oct., 1388
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1889-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I CHARLES SHEATHER of York Terrace, Regents Park, in the County of Middlesex,
Veterinary Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
This invention relates more particularly to machine-made horse shoes, but is also
to some extent applicable to hand-made shoes.
In machine made shoes, the holes for the nails are all punched in the crease or
fullering at the same distance from, or concentric with, the outer edge of the shoe,
and are always vertical with respect to the face of the shoe.
Now a horse's hoof falls away at a considerable angle at the toe, the angle
decreasing rapidly towards the quarters and heel. The consequence, therefore, of
punching the nail holes as above described, is, that only a very small portion of the
hoof is available at the toe to which to secure the shoe, the toe being the point at
which the greatest strain comes on the shoe, and where it requires to be most
firmly secured, and reliance has to bo placed on the nails at the quarters to hold the
shoe.
In hand made shoes, this objection is not so apparent, for the reason that the
farrier, when punching, gives the holes near the toe an inclination inwards, which
permits of the toe nails being driven some distance up the crust of the hoof, thereby
obtaining a good secure hold.
It is almost impossible to get an inclined nail hole in the machine made shoes,
for reasons which it is unnecessary to refer to here, but which are well known to
engineers, and it is the object of the present invention to provide an equivalent
therefor.
In carrying out my invention, I form the creasing or fullering. on each side of
the shoe, and in which the holes are punched, slightly excentric to the outer edge
of the shoe, instead of concentric as heretofore.
In this way, the line of holes, when punched, will also be slightly excentric, the
greatest excentricity being towards the toe, so that there will be a greater thickness
of crust at the toe into which the nails can be driven.
In many cases, the creasing. or fullering is formed in the bar when the bar is
rolled. I propose that the fullering should still be produced during the rolling
operation, and that the rolls should be so formed as to roll the creases or fullering
diagonally of the bar, instead of longitudinally.
Dated this 17th day of (ntabar 1040
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse-shoes.
I; CHARLES SHEATHER of York Terrace, Regent's Park in the County of
Middlesex, Veterinary Surgeon, 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 :-
The object of the present invention is to obviate a difficulty that has hitherto
existed, in connection with machine made horse-shoes, or shoes wherein the nail
holes are machine punched.
The foot of the horse is a horny casing, thicker at the toe than at the quarters,
which are much straighter or more upright, than the toe. To meet this conforma-
tion of the foot, and to provide also an efficient attachment for the shoe at the

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strongest part of the hoof, viz. the toe, the farrier, when working by hand, has
been accustomed to incline his punch, when punching the nail holes at the toe, and
so to drive his nails inclined inward towards the foot, thereby to obtain a bite for
the nail in the hoof as long as possible, without touching the sensitive parts. The
nails holes at the quarters would not be so inclined, as this would not be required,
owing to the more upright nature of the foot at that part.
In machine made shoes, the punching is usually effected by a vertical punch in a
crease or fullering, which extends around the shoe on the ground side, parallel or
concentric with, as nearly as possible, the outer edge of the shoe. The crease or
fullering is chiefly intended as a guide for the punch, and to take the place of a
counter sink for the nail heads. When the nail holes are punched in this way
vertically, and at even distances from the edge of the shoe, it is obvious that the nails
driven into the horse's foot, to secure the shoe, will pass out at the inclined part or
toe, lower down, or nearer the ground than at the more upright parts or quarters.
Thus, at the strongest and thickest part of the hoof, there is provided less grip for the
nails than the part is capable of yielding, if the nails are properly applied. In
machine punching, it is practically out of the question to provide for inclining the
nail. holes at the toe, and on this account, and on account of the faulty attachment,
which results from using the ordinary vertical nail holes, machine shoes do not
command the popularity that might otherwise fall to them.
In carrying out my invention, I obviate the difficulty in the following manner.-
I still continue to use the vertical machine punch for making the holes, but I cause
the holes at the toe to be made somewhat further inward than the nail holes are at
present made, and 1 thereby gain as great a grip in the thickest and strongest part of
the foot, with a vertical nail, as can generally be obtained when attaching a hand
punched shoe with inclined nail holes.
In the accompanying drawing, at Fig. 1, I have shown a piece of ordinary fullered
shoe bar, before it is submitted to the bending machine. Fig. 2 is a cross section,
shewing the form of the crease. Fig. 3 shows part of a shoe hent to shape.
To adapt my invention to a shoe that is thus fullered, it is necessary to divert
inward, at the toe, the crease, which cannot fail to be a guide to the punch, so as to
make it take the form shown in Fig. 4. This I effect by submitting the bent shoe to
the pressure of a die so formed as to strike the edge of the fullering near the toe, as
indicated in the cross section, Fig. 5, and to give an excentric or inward turn to the
crease in which the nail holes are formed.
In specially rolled blanks, the crease can be rolled excentric in the first instance, by
having a suitably curved projection on one of the rolls.
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
Horse shoes having the nail holes punched excentrically, or further from the outer
edge of the shoe at the toe than at the quarters, as described, and for the purpose
set forth.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.