An improved Horse-snoe.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
An improved Horse-snoe.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18 Bucking-
ham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Fritz Pax, of Nostizstrasse 44
Berlin, in the Empire of Germany Builder, and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention consists in an improved horse-shoe designed to avoid percussion
on the hoof, to prevent the hoof from slipping and to provide a cheap shoe with
extremely light weight.
This invention is illustrated by the annexed drawing in which
Fig. 1 shows an upper plan view of the shoe. Fig. 2 a side view and Fig. 3 a
cross section view on the line -y Fig. 1.
This improved horse-shoe consists of a properly shaped iron plate or band a
and several layers of correspondingly shaped leather plates or bands b, c and d.
In order to prevent too quick wear and tear the leather plates are impregnated
with any suitable resinous substance and fixed one upon the other by means of
cement and screws, pins or the like, so as to form a solid whole. The iron
plate a may be connected by screws e, such as are used for wood, with the
leather plates, and the shoe made in this way is fixed on the hoof in the usual
manner by means of nails, so that the iron plate lies immediately to the hoof
and the leather surfaces to the ground, so that consequently no hard material
comes in contact with the ground.
As the leather is elastic to a certain extent it will yield a little on impact with
the ground and consequently prevent percussion of the hoof, and as furthermore the
shoe leaves in the interior of the shoe a free space f, from which on treading
the air escapes, or in which space also materials may be placed to prevent slipping,
the suction of air in connection with the leather will provide a tolerably sure means
of prevention of slipping.
Only the leather bands or layers are subject to wear, while the iron bands, on
changing or renewing the shoe, can be used again.
Instead of the leather bands or layers correspondingly prepared layers of
rubber or any other suitable material may be used with the same effect; also
the free space ƒ may be dispensed with, the important feature being that a
more or less elastic material is used on the outer surfaces over the whole expanse
of the shoe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An improved horse-shoe consisting of a combination of a number of rubber
or leather, etc., layers impregnated with a resinous substance, with an iron band or
plate, all shaped so as to form a complete horse-shoe when put together; the iron
plate being fixed against the hoof and the treading surface being of elastic material
on its whole expanse.
2. In the construction of shoe aforesaid the provision of a space ſ, left free in

page_text: the latter, to receive any specially suitable material to prevent slipping or serving
to produce a suction within the continuous surrounding surface, substantially as
set forth.
R. HADDAN.