An Improved Method of Making Nailless Horse Shoes and other like Shoes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1891-Accented 3rd Oct
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Making Nailless Horse Shoes and other
like Shoes.
We, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of Bridgeman Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing
Smith, EDWIN ERNEST SHELDON and ALFRED MILLS, trading together as
Sheldon & Mills, of Walsall, aforesaid, Curriers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved method of making those
horse shoes and other like shoes which are fixed to the animal's hoof by clips
(usually jagged or roughened) these clips being formed integral with the shoe and
projecting round the upper outer edge thereof so that when hammered or otherwise
pressed against the animal's hoof to engage therewith they will secure the shoe
thereon.
We
In making a shoe of this kind we proceed as follows:-
steel or other ductile metal or alloy bent roughly into the shape of the required
-We take a heated bar of
shoe. This bar is preferably of round square flat or other solid section.
provide a pair of top and bottom dies in a stamp, the bottom die (or the top die)
being sunk to the shape of the required shoc and its clips. We then stamp the
said heated bar by these dies and thus form a shoe and its clips having a thin web
or fin all round which by a subsequent process or processes is clipped off and this is
preferably done so as to jag the clips by leaving one or more of the necessary
spikes projecting from the edge or edges thereof.
This invention is applicable alike to solid shoes and to those which have a groove
r channel in the wearing side.
The top die (or the bottom die) may have depressions corresponding with the
equired spikes on the clips so as to form spikes during the process of stamping
he shoe.
Dated this 11th day of November 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Making Nailless Horse Shoes and other
like Shoes.
We, JOSEPH BENFIELD, of Bridgeman Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shoeing
Smith, EDWIN ERNEST SHELDON and ALFRED MILLS, trading together as
Sheldon & Mills, of Walsall, aforesaid, Curriers, 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 consists in the herein described improved method of making those
horse shoes and other like shoes which are fixed to the animal's hoof by clips
(usually jagged or roughened) the clips being formed integral with the shoe and
projecting round the upper outer edge thereof so that when hammered or otherwise
pressed against the animal's hoof to engage therewith they will secure the shoe
hereon.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
hich Fig. 1 represents in sectional elevation a pair of dies which we employ for
tamping the said horse shoes, a stamped blank shoe being also shewn in position in
he bottom die; Fig. 2 shews an inverted plan of the top die and Fig. 3 is a plan

page_text: of the bottom die; Fig. 4 shews in plan the shoe stamping as it leaves the dies and
Fig. 5 shews the partly finished shoe; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 illustrate a modified form
of the said dies and Figs. 9 and 10 respectively shew a shoe stamping as it leaves
these dies and the partly finished shoe when the web or scrap has been cut away.
In making a shoe of the kind herein referred to we proceed as follows reference
being made firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5 both inclusive:-We take a
heated bar of steel or other ductile metal or alloy bent. roughly into the shape
of the required shoe. This bar is preferably of a round, square, flat, or other
solid section, or for making shoes which are grooved on the underside as shewn
in the drawings, a grooved bar may be used the bar in any case being more
than sufficient to fill the dies when stamped as hereinafter described. We provide
a pair of top and bottom dies arranged in a stamp, the bottom die being fixed
to the bed of the stamp and the top die being carried by the hammer and suitably
guided, the bottom die (or the top dic) being sunk to the shape of the required
shoe and its clips. In the drawing the said top and bottom dies are marked
respectively A and B. The top die A. has depressions a corresponding with the
the clips c¹ of the shoe C when the clips and their spikes 2 c³ are bent outwardly
almost flat as shewn in Fig. 5. The bottom die B is sunk at 1 to correspond with
the body of the shoe, and the upwardly projecting part 2 of this die (which forms
the groove in the underside of the shoe) is for convenience by preference made
separate from the dic B as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3 and arranged to fit in a corre-
sponding recess in the die B.
When the said heated bar is stamped between the dies A and B a stamping of a
shoe C and its clips el (see Fig. 4) is formed with a thin web or fin e all round
(represented by the shaded portions in Fig. 4). This web or fin is then (by dies
of corresponding form worked in a press) cut or clipped off leaving the shoe C
with its clips c' each clip having one two or more side projections c c (as shewn in
Fig. 5) which are afterwards turned up to form the spikes projecting from the
inner surface of the clip at the edge thereof as shewn in Fig. 5*.
Instead of stamping the shoes with a side projection or side projections on the
clips to form the spikes as above described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and 5* one of the dies (preferably the top die A) may as shewn in Figs. 6 and 7
have depressions a² corresponding with the required spikes (such as c² 3) on the
clips so as to form the said spikes as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10 during the process
of stamping the shoe.
The top die A has an inclined projecting part at of a shape to form the seating co
round the top of the shoe.
When the shoes are required to have projections such as ct on their upper surface
to enter the horse's hoof and assist in keeping the shoe steady thereon, depressions
such as a³ are made in the top die to correspond with these projections so as to
form the projections in stamping the shoe.
We have illustrated this invention as applied to the manufacture of channel
section horse and the like shoes made with four clips, but it is to be understood
that this invention can be similarly applied to the manufacture of those horse
and like shoes which have either a smaller or a larger number of the said clips;
and when making solid horse shoes and other like shoes the projecting part 62
of the die B, which forms the groove in the shoe stamping, is not required, the
bottom of the groove b¹ in the shoe being then made plain or otherwise to corre-
spond with the bottom of the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The manufacture of horse shoes and other like shoes of the kind herein
referred to from roughly bent heated bars or rods of steel or of other suitable
ductile metal or alloy, by means of stamping dies shaped so as to form a stamping
of the required shoe and its clips with a thin web or fin round the edge, and

page_text: the web or fin so as to leave side projections on the clips to be
turned up and form the necessary spikes substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 5* of the accompanying drawings.
2. The manufacture of horse shoes and other like shoes of the kind herein
referred to from roughly bent heated bars or rods of steel or of other suitable
ductile metal or alloy, by means of stamping dies shaped so as to form a stamping
of the required shoe and its clips with spikes projecting from the inner face of the
said clips, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9
and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of August 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.