IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE- SHOES.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Adams, of Forest Hill, in the County of
Surrey, Son of the late Robert Adams, of the same Place, and
George Henry Greenwood, of Huddersfield, in the County of York,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-
SHOES. -Partly a communication from the late Robert Adams, of
Forest Hill, in the County of Surrey.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Adams and
George Henry Greenwood at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 26th October 1870.
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We, ROBERT ADAMS, of Forest Hill, in the County of Surrey, Son of
the late Robert Adams; of the same Place, and GEORGE HENRY GREEN-
WOOD, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
HORSE-SHOES," to be as follows:--
· Horse-shoes constructed in accordance with this Invention are formed
or constructed with a continuous ridge underneath the outer edge or

page_text: crust of the hoof. The continuous ridge is curved, tapered, or otherwise
reduced in sectional form down to the inner edge of the shoe, except at
the front and back ends, or at intervals around the shoe where enlarged.
wearing surfaces are formed. Perforated recesses are formed in or at
the back of the ridge through which the nails are driven, the recesses
being so formed as to admit of the nails being driven in the direction
desired, and also serving to protect the heads of the nails from contact
with the ground until the ridge or wearing surface of the shoe is
considerably worn down.
The ridge or wearing surface of horse-shoes constructed according
to these improvements in combination with the form of the recesses
for receiving the heads of the nails afford advantageous foothold to
horses shod therewith. The ridge or wearing surface of the shoe
does not extend to the extreme back ends, but curves or tapers off to
the surface upon which the hoof rests.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Adams and George Henry Greenwood in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
ADAMS, of Forest Hill, in the County of Surrey, Son of the late Robert
Adams, of the same Place, and GEORGE HENRY GREENWOOD, of Hudders-
field, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Robert Adams and George Henry
Greenwood, Her special licence that we, the said Robert Adams and
George Henry Greenwood, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Robert Adams and George Henry Greenwood,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

page_text: Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HORSE-SHOES," that the same is the
result partly of a communication made to us by the late Robert Adams,
of Forest Hill, in the County of Surrey, and partly of Invention and
discovery made by ourselves, upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Robert Adams and George Henry Greenwood, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,. should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months.
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Adams, on behalf of myself
and the said George Henry Greenwood, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
Horsc-shoes constructed in accordance with this Invention are formed
or constructed with a continuous ridge underneath the outer edge or
crust of the hoof. The continuous ridge is curved, tapered, or otherwise
reduced in sectional form down to the inner edge of the shoe, except at
the front and back ends, or at intervals around the shoe where enlarged
wearing surfaces are formed. Perforated recesses are formed in or at
the back of the ridge through which the nails are driven, the recesses
being so formed as to admit of the nail being driven in the direction
desired, and also serving to protect the heads of the nails from contact
with the ground until the ridge or wearing surface of the shoe is
considerably worn down.
The ridge or wearing surface of horse-shoes constructed according to
these improvements in combination with the form of the recesses for
receiving the heads of the nails afford advantageous foothold to horses
shod therewith. The ridge or wearing surface, of the shoe does not
extend to the extreme back ends, but curves and tapers off to the surfaces
upon which the hoof rests.
Having thus stated the nature of the Invention we will now proceed
to describe the manner in which the same is carried into practice,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed.
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page_text: Figure 1 is a plan or under side view shewing the wearing surface of
a horse-shoe constructed in accordance with our improvements; Figure 2
shows the other side of the shoe; Figure 3 is an edge view; Figure 4, a
section taken through the line 1, 1, of Figure 1; Figures 5 and 6 are
sections of the metal taken through the lines 2, 2, and 3, 3, of Figure 1;
and Figure 7 is a back end view of the shoe.
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a is a continuous ridge or wearing surface formed around the outer
edge of the shoe directly underneath the outer edge or crust of the hoof.
The inner edge of the ridge a slopes off at an angle or otherwise down
to the inner edge or surface of the shoe applied to the hoof, except.
at the parts a¹, a¹, where enlarged wearing surfaces are formed, which
protect the ridge a from being worn down too rapidly. The position
and number of the wearing surfaces or parts a¹, a¹, may be varied, and
the sectional form of the metal between them forming the continuous
ridge a may also be varied without departing from the nature of our
improvements. b, b, are recesses formed in or at the back of the ridge a,
the recess being so formed as to conduct the nails through the holes
in the right direction for passing through the hoof, the form of such
recesses serving to protect the heads of the nails from contact with the
ground until the ridge a or wearing surface is considerably worn down,
the amount or area of the wearing surface between the nail holes
increasing as the shoe is worn down. The ridge or wearing surface a
of the shoe is not continued to the extreme back ends thereof, but is
tapered off or reduced at a², a², as shown.
Horse-shoes constructed in accordance with our improvements may
be made from bars of iron or steel rolled into suitable sectional forms,
which are then stamped and bent to the required form by suitable
machinery, as is well understood in the manufacture of horse-shoes of
different descriptions.
What we claim is the improved construction of horse-shoes by
forming them with a continuous ridge a in combination with wearing
surfaces a. a² and recesses & for receiving and protecting the heads of

page_text: the nails, substantially in the manner herein described and shewn in the
Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, the said Robert Adams, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight-hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.
ROBT. ADAMS. (L.S.)