AN IMPROVED COVERING OR CUSHION FOR HORSES' FEET
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine; of the "International Patent
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COVERING
OR CUSHION FOR HORSES' FEET."-A communication from abroad by
Samuel Adlam, junior, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th February 1867.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, South-
ampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED COVERING OR CUSHION FOR HORSES' FEET," (a communication,) to be as
follows:-
The said Invention consists in a cushion made of caoutchouc or india-
rubber, or a compound thereof, and vulcanized in a shape to conform to the
general form of the foot of the horse and the metal shoe applied thereto; the
object of the said Invention being not only to interpose a soft yielding bed or

page_text: cushion between the shoe and the hoof, but to have this cushion so formed as
to fit the surface of the foot to which it is applied, and in such manner as to
entirely prevent the foot from "balling" with snow. The rubber or rubber
compound is moulded or vulcanized to the shape of the foot, and has formed
integral with it a roll or ridge, against a shoulder of which the inner edge of
the shoe fits when the shoe and cushion are applied; the upper surface of
the said roll extends up and fits closely against the under surface of the hoof,
and thus effectually prevents any admission of snow between the hoof and tho
shoe, and the "balling" of the foot consequent upon the adhesion of snow
thereto. To render the cushion more enduring under lateral strain without
detracting from its elasticity in the direction of its thickness, strips of woven
fabric may be vulcanized in the surface of the cushion, or pressed or imbedded
into the same when the rubber is in a soft condition.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton Build-
ings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,. send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Haseltine, Her special licence that I, the said George
Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said George Haseltine, my 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
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "AN IM-
PROVED COVERING OR CUSHION FOR HORSES' FEET," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Haseltine, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under. my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: and advantageously carried into practice, I claim, a cushion or protector for
horses' feet made of caoutchouc or india-rubber, or a compound. thereof, and
fitted to the foot, for the purposes and substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of August,. in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)