Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horse Shoes,
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr.. 1893
Complete Specification Left 15th Jan. 1894-Accepted. 17th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horse Shoes,
I, JOSEPH STARSMORE, of 119, Horton Lane, Bradford, in the County of York,
Coachman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in that type of hoof pad for horse shoes
consisting of a piece or layer of india-rubber placed between the shoe and the horse's
hoof and its object is to provide an anti-slipping pad reaching to the lower face of
the shoe without covering the frog.
For this purpose I make the pad horse-shoe shape but I allow it to project
beyond the inner periphery of the shoe and upon this inner projecting rim I form a
raised bead, rib or projection of india rubber which reaches to or projects beyond
the lower face of the shoe.
In this arrangement the face of this bead or projecting rib of india-rubber is flush
with or extends slightly beyond the shoe and thus deadens the concussion with the
road or pavement and also reduces the liability to slip.
Dated this 12th day of April 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horse Shoes.
I, JOSEPH STARSMORE, of 119, Horton Lane Bradford, in the County of York,
Coachman, 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 relates to improvements in that type of hoof pad for horse shoes
consisting of a piece or layer of india-rubber placed between the shoe and the horse's
hoof and its object is to provide an anti-slipping pad reaching to the lower face of
the shoe without covering the frog.
For this purpose I make the pad horse-shoe shape but I allow it to project
beyond the inner periphery of the shoe and upon this inner projecting rim I form a
raised bead, rib or projection of india rubber which reaches to or projects beyond
the lower face of the shoe.
In this arrangement the face of this bead or projecting rib of india-rubber is flush
with or extends slightly beyond the shoe and thus deadens the concussion with the
road or pavement and also reduces the liability to slip.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of a horse's hoof with my improved form of pad
in position thereon.
Figure 2, represents a separate underside view of the pad.
Figure 3, is an end view of the same.
Figure 4, is a sectional view on the line a, b Figure 2.
The pad A is horse-shoe shape and is placed in the usual way between the horse's
hoof Rand the sho
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page_text: shoe but it projects inward beyond the inner periphery of the shoe and upon this
ioner projecting portion I form a bead or projection D of india-rubber which
is adapted to project more or less below the face of the shoe as shown in Figure 1.
The whole of the pad may be formed of india-rubber, or canvas or the like may
be introduced in any ordinary way to strengthen it..
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 :
A hoof pad for horses, adapted to be fixed between the hoof and the shoe and
extend below the face of the shoe without covering the frog, substantially as herein
shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of January 1894
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.