Improvements in connection with Horse-shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec.,.
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Horse-shoes.
We JOHN BENNETT of 161 Cannhall Road Leytonstone, Boot Maker, JOSEPH
MINCHER of Clarissa Villa West Street Leytonstone Boot Maker do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
A small casting of metal fastening inside the shoe in the ball of the horses foot
made to fit tight impossibble to get out of place. Three castings to one shoe held
in position by two or three screws according to size of shoe.
Prevents wear of horse shoes and stops horses slipping, constitutes great saving.
The castings are made with a mortise or groove that fits the inside rim of the
horse-shoe, the plates of castings laying flat on each other form a covering across
the ball of the foot. The plates have four holes for screws to keep them in
position each screw passing through all the plates fixing them squarely & tightly
together to the inside rim of the shoe. The parts of castings in wear are roughed.
The whole is formed by taking square from centre of horse-shoe. For shape of
castings take three inches outside rim of shoe and two inches inside forms the wear
plate. The plate from the inside rim of shoe that covers the ball of foot is
one eighth of an inch thick and two inches wide two three or four holes are cast in
each plate. The bottom plate is made with a thread to each hole the screws pass
through the first two plates and draw them together fixing securely.
The four screw holes form a square on the centre of the horses shoe.
4th February 1805
JOHN BENNETT.
JOSEPH MINCHER.
JOHN BENNETT 161 Cannhall Road Leytonstone Boot Maker and JOSEPH
MINCHER Clarissa Villa West Street Leytonstone Boot Maker 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:-
A small casting of metal fastening inside the horse shoe in the ball of the horses
foot made to fit tight impossibble to get out of place, three castings to one horse
shoe held in position by a bolt in the shape of the letter T with threads and nuts..
The castings are made with a mortise or groove and fit to the inside rim of horse.
shoe. The castings have a bole in the centre of the groove to allow the bolts to
pass through. A casting is put over each bolt or thread and the nuts press them
into their places. For shape of castings take one and half inches outside rim of
horse shoe & one inch inside forms the wear plate which is roughed marked thus, a,.
in drawing.
The part of casting between the wear plate and part that holds to the rim.
between the hoof & shoe is almost square and marked thus b in drawing has a hole
through the centre passing into the groove marked thus c in drawing. The part
of casting between the hoof and shoe is sharp and about a quarter of inch broad and
Pin Q17

page_text: marked thus fin drawing. The groove between a and fmarked thus E in drawing.
The part of casting between E and b and marked thus d in drawing. The bolt in
shape of the letter T marked thus G in drawing has three threads marked thus H
in drawing and three nuts marked thus I in drawing.
1st. The novelty of this contrivance is that it prevents wear of horse shoes and
is non slipping.
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2nd. It can be taken off or put on by merely turning the nuts backward or
forward. The castings all being the same shape can be removed one at a
time by turning back the nut from the one you want to remove. For instance
the toe of the horse shoe being most in wear the casting over that part can be
worn. almost to the horse shoe when it can be removed by turning the nut back
and another casting put on, then the nut is turned forward and presses the casting
into its place.
3rd. By reason of this the horse shoe need not be removed from the horses
foot until such time that the hoof requires paring out. The unworn shoe can
be put on again and is still in its first state of preservation.
This stops the
pulling out of nails from the horses hoof and allows the hoof to grow without
being torn.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The T-piece G carrying three castings a. d. f for attachment to horse-shoes
substantially as herein before described.
JOHN BENNETT.
JOSEPH MINCHER.