Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse-shoes.
I, ROBERT ABELL of Elm Tree House, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby in the
County of Derby, Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide an improved means or device for
preventing horses slipping and in order that the said invention may be the more.
readily understood I have caused to be annexed to this Specification a sheet of
drawings which will be hereinafter referred to :-
Figure 1 is a plan of a horse shoe with one of my improved devices attached.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the same on line "a" "a" of Figure 1.
In carrying out my said invention I provide a piece of steel or other suitable-
elastic metal, material or composition, carrying studs, bars, teeth, spikes or the like
technically known as calkings," adapted to come into contact with the ground or
other surface to be trodden upon, the said piece of steel or the like being also
provided with suitable means, as hereinafter described, of clipping the inside of the
said shoe, the heels or sides of the said device being sprung together inside the
horse-shoe and upon being released it recoils and firmly grips the inside of the said
shoe.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of. drawings:- cast, cut, stamp or
otherwise form a piece of steel or other suitable metal, material or composition A
in the manner shewn on Figures 1 and 2 (partly by dotted lines on Figure 1) and
turn the inner portion A' of the same upwards as shewn to clip the bevilled or
splayed inside edge C of the shoe D, other parts E1 turn downwards and form
into suitable studs, spikes or "calkings"; it is evident that I may employ any kind of
projection on the lower surface of the device best calculated to prevent slipping,.
that may be cut, stamped or otherwise formed out of the same piece of metal.
The front "calking" E' is only required to be turned down for hind shoes and
in the case of fore shoes it may be carried straight out as shewn by dotted line ]
if desired.
Any suitable tool or device may be used for springing the sides or heels of the
device together when fixing or releasing the spring ring A A¹ with calkings E, E'..
The said calkings may also be placed in any convenient position and may be of any
convenient number.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means or device for preventing horses slipping consisting of
spikes, studs, teeth, bars, projections or "calkings" E, E₁ carried by a plate or
other suitably formed piece of metal, material or composition A whose inner
edge A¹ is turned upwards and adapted to engage or clip on to the splayed or
bevilled inside edge of the shoe D when sprung inwards and released substantially
as described and illustrated.
Dated this 16th day of January 1895.
. W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant..