A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO HORSE-SHOES TO PREVENT HORSES FROM FALLING UPON SLIPPERY SURFACES
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Cooper Rose at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd January 1873.
I, HENRY COOPER ROSE, of Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex,
Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO HORSE-SHOES TO PREVENT
HORSES FROM FALLING UPON SLIPPERY SURFACES," to be as follows:-
:―
All the methods by which horses' shoes have hitherto been effectively
roughed have the great defect that the roughing cannot be applied by
any person at any moment, and that therefore in case of sudden frost,
for example, a horse is exposed to injury before a forge or any place
where his shoes may be roughed can be reached; further, the methods
in actual use more or less deteriorate the shoe, and some roughings
cannot readily be removed when no longer needed.
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The object of my Invention is to obviate these inconveniences by
providing an apparatus, a set of which can be always carried in the
vehicle, or even by a horseman if on a long journey, and be applied to the
horse-shoe with the greatest facility when passing over slippery ground,
and be as readily removed when roughing is no longer necessary.
My apparatus might be termed a horse-shoc clog, or auxilliary horse-
shoc, and consists essentially of two pieces of metal or other suitable

page_text: material united at one end so as to resemble a horse-shoc hinged at the
too; the other or heel end of each of these two pieces or branches
being connected so that they may be drawn together or forced apart
accordingly as the clamps or catches by which I propose to secure this
apparatus upon the ordinary horse-shoc are placed on the inside or on
the outer edge of the two branches, that surface of the apparatus which
comes next the ground when applied to the horse-shoc being provided
with such projections at too and heel and elsewhere as may be deemed
most efficient in preventing the slipping of the horse, these projections
being made of steel or any suitable metal or material, and fixed or
movable.
Assuming that the clamps or catches are placed on the inside edge
of my apparatus, and this is the arrangement to which I give
preference; also that the heel ends of the branches are united by a
screw bolt with nut inside the branches. In order to fix the apparatus
on the horse-shoc, loosen the nut, so that by pressing upon the two
branches they will pivot on the toe hinge and the heel ends approachi
each other in sliding along the screw bolt; then lift the horse's foot,
place the apparatus upon the shoc in such a manner that the clamps
or catches come under its inside edge, where it is beveled to case the
hoof, and by screwing up the nut the ends of tho branches will be forced
apart and the clamps thereby tightened under the ordinary horse-shoo
as firmly as may be required. To remove the apparatus it is only
necessary to loosen the nut, a key being provided for the tightening
and loosening.
If on the contrary the clamps or catches are placed on the outer edgo
of the apparatus the nut will be outside the branch, and the branches
will be forced apart to place the apparatus and brought closer together
to press it against the outer edge of the ordinary shoc. If additional
security be desired these clamps might riso some distance up the horses
hoof, but in such case care must be had not to apply a degree of
pressuro likely to interfere with the proper play of the hoof.