IMPROVED SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
SPRINGALL, of Oulton, in the County of Suffolk, Iron Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirty-first day of Janúary, in the seventh year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Springall, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Springall, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Springall, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations, abroad, my Invention of "IMPROVED SHOES FOR
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that I, the said John Springall, shall cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Springall, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: inch thick, shaped as here shewn, by any ordinary means, before it is stamped.
Figure 5 is the plan of one of the faces of this same piece of metal after it has
been stamped in dies into the form here shewn, and thus formed into a shoe
to give strength to it; and e, e, e, a concave arc, stamped in the shoe in order
to rise a convex are on the opposite side, which serves as a bed for the wall
of the foot to rest on, while it adds strength to the shoe. Figure 6 is a plan
of the opposite face of the same shoe, shewing the convex side of the
arc e, e, e. d, d, d, d, d, d, nail holes. Figure 7 is a perspective view of the
shoe, showing more closely than could be shewn in plan the sides a, a, a, a, a, a,
turned up by the stamp, as has been before described, in order to give strength
to the shoe and to secure the outer sole. Figure 8 is a plan of the false toe
and heel pieces for filling up. Figure 7, c, c, c, c, key holes, which fasten in
by keys, Figure 14, at h, h, h, h, which pass through both and clinch inside at
h, h, at Figure 7. Figure 9 represents Figure 8 as placed in Figure 7, which
are the outer soles or wearing part of the shoe, and can be renewed at leisure
as often as required. i, i, i, i, key holes to receive Figure 14. Figure 10 is
another plan of the outer sole, and may be fastened in the same way as
Figure 8 is in Figure 9, only in one whole piece, or it can be fastened with
four screws, as shewn at Figure 11, with a square hole through the centre
of it for to receive the screw turner instead of a scotch d, at Figure 13,
which will last as long as there is a thread on the screw, without wearing
out. Figure 12 is a representation of the shoe fastened to the wall of the foot
by screws where the horn is thick and strong. 9, 9, two nuts screwed into
the wall, with two holes through them to admit the small screw through it, as
shewn at Figure 13 and Figure 15. (0) the nut, and (P) the screw. 13, the
flat view, and 15, the side view. n, n, in Figure 13, are notches for to turn
the screw into the horn of the foot, Figure 12. a, a, the keys, and b, b, b, the

page_text: outer sole or wearing part of the shoe. (H,H) the shoe, and may be fastened
to the foot in the ordinary way by nails or screws without the nuts, as here
shewn.
Figure 3 is a plan of the matrix or lower and stationary die; and Figure 2,
a view of the stamping or other die used to form the shoe, herein-before
described at Figure 5; the face or under side of the upper die representing
exactly the same surface as that shewn at Figure 6, which is here supposed to
have been created by it. k is a key slot for fixing the dies either for stamping
or pressing. Figure 16 is a section of the top and bottom die fixed in the
press, Figure 1, in the position to receive blank, Figure 4, for pressing into
a shoe, as shewn at Figure 5, which should in all cases be made red hot
for the operation of stamping or pressing. Figure 1 represents the press.
Having thus described a pair of dies suitable to form a shoe for a horse, as
shewn at Figure 7 in the Drawing, I would remark, that on the size and form
of the shoes will depend the size and form of the dies; and it will be evident
that dies capable of producing similar effect may be constructed in various
ways. I do not confine my Invention to the use of dies constructed precisely
in the manner here shewn, but intend to avail myself of such variations as
will suit the varied forms of shoes desired, always keeping in mind the chief
property of my Invention, that of making the concave shoes for horses or
oxen, and after to be filled up with iron, steel, lead, leather, or any such
suitable material as the case may require. I have found from experience, on
some roads horses have to go on, when shoes have been made of all steel
they have not lasted so long as soft iron, in consequence of the friction they
are liable to; the roads and streets being constructed with so many different
artificial materials, so ought the horse's shoe. To prevent friction as much
as possible I have in many instances adopted the plan of filling up the hollow
or concave parts of my shoes with lead, leather, iron, and steel, but it wholly
depends on the nature of the soil they work on.
Now whereas I claim as my Invention the manufacturing and filling up the
concave parts in horses' shoes, as before described, stamped or pressed into the
form required by means of dies and presses, or stamps, or by rollers or any
like suitable machinery, or malleable cast metal, and afterwards to be filled up
with any suitable material to suit the different roads and streets, as the case
may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Springall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
JOHN (L.S.) SPRINGALL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid John Springall came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-seven.