Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Feb., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
I, NAUNTON WINGFIELD DAVIES, of Cae Dre House, Bridgend, in the County
of Glamorgan, Physician and Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a form of horse-shoe for preventing
lameness from corns and injury from "brushing," and to give relief in navicular
disease.
According to this invention I make a shoe yielding or elastic in those parts
placed beneath the situation of the corns, so that it may absorb and counteract the
effects of concussion which cause and aggravate corns.
By providing a shoe with a lateral projection of soft yielding material on its
inner side and also making it thicker on one side or the other according to the
defects of the foot and movement of the joint so that the foot is thrown into its
normal line of motion, "brushing" may often be cured, while injury from this defect
may always be prevented.
By providing a shoe with spring or yielding heels the jarring of the hoof over
hard roads is minimised and navicular disease checked and relieved.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, I separate the material of a
portion of the shoe into two parts or flattened prongs or plates by means of a
horizontal saw-cut or slot. Into this slot or saw-cut I introduce a pad of india-
rubber or other elastic material which will absorb concussion as will also the partly
separated spring-like portion of the heel of the shoe when the same is made in steel.
This india-rubber pad preferably consists of a flat band, the edges of which are
thickened to form ribs, the inner sides of which lie within the recesses formed for
their reception at the edges of the shoe.
The outer edge of the clastic pad is made to project beyond the hoof so as to
prevent injury from "brushing" as already described.
By having the spring and the india-rubber pad between the plates of the spring,
as already described under both sides of the heel, great relief to navicular disease
and corns may be obtained.
Dated this 19th day of September 1892.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Horse-shoes.
I, NAUNTON WINGFIELD DAVIES Cae Dre House Bridgend Glamorganshire
Doctor of Medicine, 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 forming a slot in the prongs of a horse shoe and
inserting indiarubber or the like therein for the purpose of reducing the concussion
upon the hoof, and the same is carried out in the following manner reference being
made to the annexed drawing in which
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of a horse shoe fitted according to my invention.
a is the shoe which is split at a' as shown. b is the rubber or like material
inserted between the two surfaces. This indiarubber may project from the shoe if
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page_text: desired in order to prevent the animal from hurting itself. It will be seen that
concussion to the hoof is prevented. The indiarubber is kept in position by
beadings c formed on the retaining surfaces and also by the ordinary nails
employed in retaining the shoe on the hoof. The holes in that part of the shoe
which is next the upper portion are of such a size as will allow them free play on
the said nails. The position & extent of the split portion of the shoe may be varied
to suit the various cases in which the shoe is used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The combination & construction of the parts substantially as described.
2. In horse shoes, a split or opening formed therein, in which opening or split,
indiarubber or such like material is placed and retained by beading or grooves
therein substantially as described.
01 dow of Fohm 1802
E. EATON,
Patent Agent.