CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOES, AND IN SHOES USED FOR THE SHOEING OF HOOFED ANIMALS
Year: 1855

page_text: (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the
application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed
by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Gardner at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th February
1855.
I, HENRY GARDNER, of No. 7, Arthur Street, Old Kent Road, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOES,
AND IN SHOES USED FOR THE SHOEING OF HOOFED ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
The shoe is to be made of the ordinary shape, but without the groove at
the bottom, and to contain six (more or less) small nail holes, to permit of the
shoe being fastened on the hoof in the present known method of shoeing. On
the bottom surface five holes (more or less) are to be drilled in an upright or
slanting position, with worms for the admission of screws, herein-after described;
or the said holes may be without worms, and made of any shape or size to
admit of any other implement in lieu of screws, and for any fastening, by
spring or otherwise, not a screw. On the exposed or outer surface of the
shoe a circular cavity is to be sunk round each hole, for the partial admission
of the head of the screw, or other implement in lieu of screws.
other implement in licu thereof to fit each hole containing the worm or other
fastening is to be made with a square, triangular, or other shaped head, of
sufficient depth when screwed or forced in to project beyond the under or
exposed surface of the shoe, and thereby raise it from the ground when in usc.

page_text: For the purpose of applying the screws or other implements in lieu of screws
to the shoe, a key, spanner; or other instrument constructed to fit the head of
the screws or other implements in lieu of screws is to be used. Any suitable
material to be used for making the screws or other implements in lieu of
screws, shoe key, spanner, or other instrument, and the shape, size, and
number of the holes, screws, screw heads, implements in lieu of screws, keys,
spanners, or other instruments to be entirely unlimited. The end and
objects are,-
First, economy in the preservation of the shoe from wear and tear.
Second, additional safety, by affording a good foot-hold on all kinds of ground
and pavement, and in frosty or any other description of weather preventing
loss of time, inconvenience, and expense in roughing the shoe, relieving the
horse or other animal from all danger of tripping, from the hoof being thrown
too forward, as is at present the case with ordinary roughing.
Third, preservation of the hoof from too frequent shoeing, and enabling
unskilful hands in emergencies or otherwise to shoe a horse or any other
animal without danger of causing lameness.
Fourth, increasing the speed, decreasing the labor, and improving the
condition of the horse or other animal by affording at every step a firmer foot-
hold, and permitting to the horse or other animal the comfort of resting while
standing in the stable in the natural flat position of the hoof, which ordinary
roughing does not admit of.