An Improved Roughing Attachment for Horse Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Roughing Attachment for Horse Shoes.
SAMUEL MEALOR 7 Bright Street Crewe Shoeing and General Smith do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It clips the outside edge of shoe & rests on bottom side of shoe next to floor &
stands up from shoe about 14in. for the sharpening. It is made out of T iron or
It is fastened to shoe
steel with pieces cut out of each side to leave toe & heels.
by means of a screw across the back side of heels to cramp it to shoe.
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I SAMUEL MEALOR of 7 Bright Street, Crewe in the County of Chester, Blacksmith
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 overshoe or roughing attachment for horse
shoes for preventing slip in frosty weather, and has for its object to provide an
equivalent for the usual roughing (acquired by taking off the shoe and forging spike
like extensions upon the under surface of the same) that may be easily and quickly
placed in position upon the foot, and there fixed by making connection with the shoe
alone, and not the hoof of the animal.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my said improved attachment, partly broken away
near the toe to illustrate the cross sectional formation of the same.
Fig. 2 is a back elevation, while Figs. 3 and 4 are upper and under plan views
respectively of the same.
Fig. 5 is an upper plan view of an ordinary horse shoe to which my invention has
been fixed.
My invention consists of a suitably tempered spring frame A, of iron or steel,
which in plan approximates in shape to, but slightly wider at the heel portion than,
the shoe B upon which it is to be fixed, in order that the former may be easily sprung
upon the latter.
The said frame is of T shape in cross section, as shewn at the broken away portion
in Fig. 1 the inclined upper member a of which said section is adapted to fit the
outer formation, and engage with the upper surface of the shoe B, while the said

page_text: shoe rests upon the member b, the member being cut away at certain parts so as
to provide at the under surface of the toe portion a roughing d, and at the heel
portion roughings e and el, the latter of which are preferably slightly curved inwardly
as shewn at Figs. 2 and 4.
In each end of the upper member aa hole is provided, and with these engage a
threaded bolt C, the nut f of which when loosened perimits the heels e e¹ to spring
apart as at Figs. 3 and 4, thereby widening the said attachment sufficiently to perinit
this to be sprung upon the shoe B, and when in position thereon the tightening of
the nut would bring the heels e e¹ towards each other and close up to and biting
between them the shoe B as at Fig 5, and in order to prevent the possibility of the
nut from returning spontaneously, I may employ a second nut, or any form of lock
nut for this purpose.
I am aware that roughing overshoes have been in use prior to my invention, but
these have either been adapted for connection directly with the hoof of the animal
(thereby inducing lameness) or if connected to the shoe only have been provided
with a hinge at the toe portion, which in practice is bad as such hinge becomes
weak from rust, and breaks and allows the overshoe to fall off, and perhaps throw the
animal down, and in the latter type of overshoes the roughing portions have been
detachable, and frequently become loose and get lost, but I am not aware that prior
to my invention a one piece spring roughing attachment has been used, adapted to
make contact with the shoe only, and having roughings formed integrally therewith,
therefore,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
In an improved roughing attachment for horse shoes, the combination of a spring
frame such as A, of T shape in cross section, having an inclined ridge a, a ridge c,
and roughing surfaces such as d, e and el, all formed integrally with each other, and
adapted to be fixed upon a horse shoe by the tightening of a nut or nuts such as f,
upon a through bolt such as C, engaging with both ends of the ridge a, substantially
as herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
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Luna IV
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.