IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR SHOEING HORSES TO PREVENT SPEEDY CUTTING
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Baptiste Emile Teysson Lacombe of Chatillon
sur Loing Loiret France for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
AND APPLIANCES FOR SHOEING HORSES TO PREVENT SPEEDY CUTTING
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by tho said Jean Baptiste Emile Teysson
Lacombe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th June
1883.
JEAN BAPTISTE EMILE TEYSSOU [TEYSSON] LACOMBE of Chatillon sur Loing
Loiret France "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR SHOEING HORSES
TO PREVENT SPEEDY CUTTING
"
The object of my invention is to provide means for preventing those injuries to
horses known by the term of speedy cutting.
Between the shoo and the hoof of the horse to which it is attached I fix an
appliance formed of any suitable elastic material such as vulcanite or a mixture of
vulcanite with other materials or other materials unmixed with vulcanite.
The following is the description of the anti-speedy-cutter viz: It may be in
the form of a crescent and be described as consisting of two parts which are in
complete union, the one perfectly flat and this is to be inserted between the hoof
and the horse-shoe by means of which it is firmly fixed to the foot the nails of the
horse shoe passing through it in the operation of shoeing the horse-when the
shoe is nailed to the hoof the other part of the appliance or anti speedy cutter
being in the form of a pad which when it is fixed in its place projects and thus
forms a ridge more or less elastic according to the material employed in its
construction, and thus becomes an effectual protection against the injuries to the
opposite leg of the horse which result when the horse has acquired the unfortunate
habit of inflicting blows on the leg with the horse shoe when at work
The effect of this arrangement is that when the foot thus furnished strikes

page_text: the opposite leg of the horse speedy-cutting is prevented by the pad coming
in contact with such opposito leg, and such contact is rendered harmless by
the pad
By the use of my said invention the ugly, objectionable and in most cases
injurious speedy cutting boots or guards which are placed on the stricken leg
(and which are generally useless) are rendered unnecessary-one happy result
being achieved by the absence of the bands or straps used to fix them, the leg
then being freed from the unnatural bandage resuming its original freedom of
action
My invention is available for all animals wearing plates or shoes fixed with
nails or other equivalents.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Jean Baptiste Emil Teysson Lacombe in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd December 1883.
JEAN BAPTISTE EMIL TEYSSOU LACOMBE of Chatillon-sur-Loing, Loiret, France
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR SHOEING HORSES TO PREVENT
SPEEDY CUTTING
"
This Invention relates to improvements in means and appliances for shooing
horses to prevent speedy cutting.
The object of my Invention is to provide means for preventing those injuries to
horses known by the name speedy cutting" or striking one leg with the hoof or
shoe of the other leg and the like injuries.
In carrying my Invention into effect, I apply between the shoe and the hoof,
or to the shoe or to the hoof a pad of any convenient form which projects beyond
the hoof and the shoe, the said pad being constructed of any convenient elastic or
yielding material. The pad may be composed of India-rubber or substances
containing India-rubber, vulcanite, or a mixture of vulcanite with other materials
According to one method of construction the pad or anti speedy cutting appliance
may be in the form of a crescent and be made to correspond to the form of the hoof
and shoe and may be described as being composed of two parts which are
completely united, one part being flat which is inserted between the hoof and
the shoo and the other part being in the form of a pad projecting beyond the
hoof and shoe and being more or less elastic according to the material employed
in its construction and forming an effectual protection against the injuries to
the opposite leg which result when this appliance is not used and the horse strikes
itself.
The effect of my improvement is that when in action the foot of the horse to
which the pad is applied strikes the opposite leg speedy cutting is prevented by
the projecting pad coming in contact with the stricken leg instead of the iron shoe
as heretofore.
The accompanying drawing illustrates my Invention. Fig 1 is a plan view or
top view of the anti speedy cutting appliance Fig 2 is vertical section as taken
through the dotted line Y. Z. and showing the hoof, shoe and nail, A is the flat
part of the pad, B is the projecting part of the pad, E is part of the hoof of the
horse, D is the shoc, C is one of the nails which secure the shoe D and pad A B
to the hoof E.
I do not limit myself to the construction illustrated and described as the form
and size of the pad and the mode of attaching it to the hoof may be varied
according to the form of shoe and the method of securing the shoe to the foot of
the animal for instance the pad could be rivetted or otherwise secured to the shoo
or attached to the hoof by a band or bands of steel
My Invention is applicable to all animals having shoes attached by means
of nails or otherwise and it can also be applied for other faults of animals similar
to "speedy cutting." My Invention dispenses with the use of the inconvenient and
hurtful appliances at present used for the same purpose.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature and objects of
my said Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and
original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in
part recited Letters Patent is
Improvements in means and appliances for shoeing horses to prevent speedy

page_text: cutting by the construction of an elastic projecting pad secured to the shoe or the
hoof or between the shoe and the hoof substantially as herein before specified and
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing
In Witness whereof I the said Jean Baptiste Emil Teyssou Lacombe have
bereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of December One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three
HTAMA DAIתיה ז…”
TEST LACONRE (r.s)