IMPROVED SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS to be as follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: I ROBERT LONGDON of Wards Buildings Deansgate Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Insurance Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVED SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS to be as follows:-
"
The object of this invention is to produce a shoe for horses and other animals
which shall be light economical, easily fixed and removed, capable of expansion if
required, easily roughed or sharpened in frosty or snowy weather, and less injurious
than heretofore to the hoof of the animal.
I make the shoe in either malleable cast iron, or mild steel (preferably the
former) in one two or three parts or sections by preférence the latter namely a too
piece and two side pieces, and made with either square or. butt ends, or with a
knuckle, hinge or other joint either conical or otherwise so as to allow of the
expansion and contraction of the hoof if required.
On the inner face of each shoe or of each section (i,e, that next to the hoof)
I cast spikes and between each two spikes I cast or form a hole through the metal.
The shoes or sections are first fixed by driving the spikes into the hoof, and are
then further secured by means of nails or screws. I prefer to drive a nail into the
hoof through each alternate hole and to provide a sufficient number of square
headed screws, which when required, can be screwed into the intermediate holes
and the square heads left projecting will afford a firm foot-hold on ice or snow.
it be desired to fix the shoes or sections into the hoof with ordinary screws I cast
on the face thereof a circular projecting rim or boss round each hole and counter-
sink the head of the screws or nails deeply therein so that they are protected
thereby.
If
These projecting rims or bosses will not prevent the use of the square headed
screws for roughing or sharpening purposes.

page_text: COMILELE
SELVITICATION.
Improved Shoes for Horses and other Animals.
I ROBERT LONGDON of Wards Buildings Deansgate Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Insurance Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVED SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:--
The object of this invention is to produce a shoe for horses and other animals
which shall be light, economical, easily fixed and removed, capable of expansion (if
desired), not requiring to be roughed or sharpened in frosty or snowy weather and
less injurious than heretofore to the hoof of the animal.
The construction of the improved shoe will be readily understood on reference
to the accompanying drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a view of the upper side of the shoe or that placed next to the hoof
of the horse, or other animal. Fig. 2 is a view of the underside and Fig. 3 is a
front view of the same.
I make the shoe in either malleable cast iron, or mild steel and by preference in
two parts, (as shown on the drawing), it may however be made in three parts or
sections (if preferred) namely a toe piece and two side pieces, and when made in
two or three parts they may be made separate and with square or butt ends, but
I prefer to make them with a knuckle, hinge, or other joint so as to allow of the
expansion and contraction of the hoof, a rivetted hinge being preferred.
On the inner face of each shoe, or of each of the sections a a b, b (which are
hinged together at *) I cast spikes c, c (see Figs. 1. and 3) and between each two
spikes I cast or form a hole d, & through the metal.
The shoes or sections are first fixed by driving the spikes c, c into the hoof and
are then further secured by means of nails or screws or both nails and screws.
I may drive a nail into the hoof through each alternate hole and provide a
sufficient number of square headed screws c, e which when required, can be screwed
into the intermediate holes, and the square heads left projecting will afford a firm
foothold on ice or snow.
I prefer however to fix the shoes or sections onto the hoof with ordinary wood
screws and I cast on the face thereof a circular projecting rim or boss f. f round
each hole and I countersink the heads of the screws or nails deeply therein so that
they are protected thereby.
These projecting rims or bosses f, f serve for roughings but when worn down will
also admit of the use of the square headed screws for roughing or sharpening
purposes when required.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The combination (in shoes for horses and other animals) of two or more perforated
sections connected by a hinge joint or joints with cast spikes on the inner side, and
raised circular rims or bosses round the holes on the outer side, substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before particularly described and illustrated
by the drawings annexed.
Secondly. I claim two or more perforated sections hinged together, and having
raised circular rims or bosses round the holes (or round some of them) on the outer
side without the cast spikes on the inner side.