An Improved Horse Shoe.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Horse Shoe.
CHARLES BERKS, 16 Percy Street Hanley Hairdresser THOMAS ROBERTS
26 Wellesley Street Hanley Accountant do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
It consists of duplicate shoes in place of the ordinary single horse shoe now in
general use one being a permanent shoe and fastened to the horse's hoof as at
present while the other or duplex shoe is duly affixed or attached to the permanent
shoe. The permanent shoe to be made in the usual way, of any suitable material
with or without toe bits or heels, but usually minus the toe bit at front, while the
duplicate or duplex shoe is made to fit on the permanent shoe and duly secured
thereto by screws while the toe-bits or heels (or other attachments which may be
used) are welded or affixed otherwise, to the front or back part of the duplex shoe
which can be made any size or form, and to cover any part of, or the whole of the
length of the permanent shoe, and affixed or detached at pleasure, without in any
way disturbing or displacing the permanent shoe, or mutilating the hoof, consequent
upon the frequent sharpening of shoes, in bad weather.
Dated this 12th day of January 1893.
CHARLES BERKS.
THOMAS ROBERTS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Horse Shoe.
CHARLES BERKS 16 Percy Street Hanley, Hairdresser, THOMAS ROBERTS
26 Wellesley Street Hanley, Accountant, 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 :-
It consists of a second or duplicate shoe, in addition to the shoe which is fitted
to the hoof and now in general use, a second shoe or counterpart is used. The first
or permanent shoe being made without toe bits or heel bits and fastened to the hoof
with nails in the ordinary way, driven and clenched as at present, while. the second
or duplex shoe is secured to the first or permanent shoe by means of screw set pins,
holes to receive the said set pins being tapped in the permanent shoe and corre
sponding clearance holes are drilled or otherwise made in the duplex or outer shoe,
through which the set pins pass to the tapped holes in the permanent shoe to
receive them. The duplex or outer shoe may be made to cover the whole length
of the permanent shoe with or without toe bits or heel bits, or it may be made in
sectional parts, to cover parts only of the first or permanent shoe, that is, the toe
bits and heel bits may be made separate, and affixed separate, by means of set pins
or screws and made of any suitable material and to embrace all sizes and forms of
shoes worn by horses.
This improvement will preserve the hoofs and will facilitate the shoeing of
horses, as the nails securing the permanent shoe to the hoof, will not require to be
disturbed so often as at present, for the outer or duplex shoe can be detached or
removed from the first or permanent shoe at leisure, by unscrewing the set pins,
and thereby releasing the duplex or outer shoe, from the permanent shoe, while
other duplex shoes can be re-fitted and fixed without detaching or otherwise
interfering with the permanent shoe, which is nailed to the hoof.

page_text: Fig. 1. 2 & 4. The annexed drawings illustrate respectively the permanent shoe,
the second or duplex shoe, and the duplicate shoe complete, fixed in position on a
hoof, as it appears when in actual wear.
Fig. 1. shows the first or permanent shoe, with nail holes, holes tapped to receive
set pins and the lip at toe which clips the hoof when fixed."
A. The holes which are tapped to receive the set pins.
B. The holes for nails which fasten the shoe to hoof.
C. The toe lip which clips the hoof at front.
Fig. 2 shows the duplex or outer shoe with toe bits and heel bits affixed
thereto, also clearance holes made for set pins to pass through into the tapped holes
in permanent shoe.
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D. The clearance holes for set pins to pass through.
E. The toe bit at front part of shoe.
F. The heel bit at back part of shoe.
Fig. 3. shows set pin which passes through the clearance holes of duplex shoe
into the tapped holes (which are in the permanent shoe) and secures the one shoe
to the other.
Fig. 4. shows a sectional side view of the permanent shoe and the outer. or
duplex shoe affixed in position upon the hoof.
G. The permanent shoe with lip or toe clip for hoof.
H. The outer or duplex shoe with toe bits and heel bits attached.
I. The top bit at front part of shoe.
J. The heel bit at back part of shoe...
K. The set pin heads screwed up to their beds.
Having now particularly described the nature of the said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed we hereby declare that what we now claim is:
First. A duplex shoe attached in a whole, or in sectional parts, which can be
detached or renewed at leisure without disturbing or removing the permanent shoe
or interfering with the nails which fasten the shoe to the hoof when horses require
their shoes renewing consequent upon being worn or otherwise.
Second. A shoe which will assist in the preservation of hoofs by avoiding the
too frequent drawing and driving in of nails into the hoof, as is now the case when
horses require re-shoeing.
Dated this 10th day of October 1893.
CHARLES BERKS.
THOMAS ROBERTS.