Year: 1885

page_text: I, DAVID MEREDITH of the City of Syracuse, State of New York, one of the
United States of America, Blacksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention 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 a novel construction and combination of the constituent
parts of a horse-shoe pad designed to be readily applied to a horse's foot, and as
readily removed therefrom when desired to obtain access to the foot for cleaning
and taking care of the same on the arrival of the horse at the barn.
The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a
view of the underside of a horse's foot provided with my improved pad; Fig's. 2,
3 and 4 are transverse sections taken respectively on lines x-x, y-y and s―z in
Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a detached top view of the pad with a portion of the upper
leather cover broken away to better illustrate the construction and arrangement
of the subjacent plates of the pad.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
S represents the horse-shoe of the usual form. A is a solid metal plate formed
with a perimeter corresponding to the inner edge of the shoe and fitted to abut
against said edge. Upon the plate A lies a plate or disk B of leather or other
similarly elastic material and of the same size as the aforesaid plate.
Over the leather disk B is placed a metal rim or plate d, the outer edge of which
coincides with that of the plate A and abuts likewise against the inner edge of the
shoe as shown in Figures 3 and 4 of the drawing, and over the plate d lies another
leather disk f of the same size as the plate A and disk B. All of said plates A, B,
d and fare firmly united by rivets r r as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 of the drawing
and constitute the pad.
The leather disks affording an elastic bearing for the frog of the horse's foot, and
the rim d serves to reinforce the pad. Said rim is provided with a rigid lug a
which projects from the forward edge of the rim and is adapted to engage the top
of the forward portion of the shoe as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing.
On the upper side of the rear portion of the rim d are pivoted lugs or keys bb
the pivot of which passes through said rim and through the plate A on the
underside of which latter it is provided with a head e adapted for the application
of a wrench for turning the keys.

page_text: By turning said keys so as to cause them to project from the outer edge of the
rim d as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 5 of the drawing, the projecting
portion of the keys is made to engage with the top of the adjacent portion of the
shoe as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing.
It will thus be observed that by simply turning the keys b b so as to release
them from the shoe, the pad can be removed from the horse's foot by raising the
rear portion of the pad out of the shoe,.and then drawing the pad rearward to
withdraw the lug a from its engagement with the shoe.
The heads e of the keys b I elongate so that when the keys are turned to engage
the shoe, the elongation of the heads thereof stands parallel with a line drawn
from the centre of the toe calk through the centre of the frog as shown in Fig. 1
of the drawing.
Said disposition of the heads e tends to prevent their being accidentally turned
by their encounter with the road-bed during the travel of the horse.
C is a cross-bar fixed to the underside of the plate A near the rear portion thereof
and projecting over the bottom of the shoe so as to obtain a bearing thereon.
This bar is designed more particularly for use during the Summer season or when
the ground is bare.
It serves to brace the pad and to a great extent protect the frog of the foot
against excessive pressure of the pad. By placing the bar C in range with the
two heads e e of the keys b b and providing said bar with apertures n n
surrounding the aforesaid heads, the latter are very much protected from wear
and abrasion.
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
1. The improved horse-shoe-pad having its perimeter corresponding to the inner
edge of the shoe and composed of the metal plate A, leather-disk B, reinforcing
rim d provided with the lug a, the leather cover f and pivoted keys b b substan-
tially as described and shown.
2. In combination with a horse-shoe, the plates A B and d fitted to abut against
the inner edge of the shoe, the lug a, pivoted keys bb and the cross-bar C attached
to the underside of the plate A and projecting over the bottom of the shoe
substantially as described and shown.
3. In combination with the horse-shoe-pad having pivoted keys bb provided
with heads e as shown, the cross-bar C fixed to the underside of the pad and
having apertures n surrounding the heads e substantially as described and shown.
A
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DAVID MEREDITH.
By Herbert & Co., Agents,
67, Strand.