IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSESHOES, AND IN APPLYING SHOES TO HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
WATNEY, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send-greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Third day of November, in the ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Watney, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Alfred
Watney, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alfred Watney, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HORSESHOES, AND IN
APPLYING SHOES TO HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that I, the said Alfred Watney; shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date.of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alfred Watney, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the Figures and letters marked thereon,
(that is to say):-
The first part of my Invention relates to the mode of manufacturing shoes
for horses and other animals by so piling steel with iron that the steel may be
at those parts of the surfaces most liable to wear when the piles of steel and
iron are rolled out into bars suitable for horses and other animals.
Figure 1 is a section of a pile, shewing the bars of iron A, A, A, and bar of
steel B piled with the iron. The pile is then heated to a welding heat, and
passed between suitable grooved rollers, and formed into a bar suitable for
making the shoes for horses and other animals, in like manner to what is
ordinarily practised when pipes of iron only are used for such bars. I affect
this by another method shewn at Figure 4, where C, C, is a box or mould of
iron or other material of the size required for the bloom for rolling into bars.
This mould or box is open on one side, provided with a cover D secured by
cramps or bolts to the mould. The bloom is forged with a groove under the
hammer to the form shewn A, A, filling the mould, with the exception of the
space or groove B. The bloom is then heated to nearly a white heat, and
placed in the mould, when the cover D is secured. I then run fluid cast steel
into the space, which becomes perfectly and securely united with the iron. By
removing the cover or side D the bloom is easily removed. The pile is then
reheated, and passes through the necessary grooved rollers, as before described,
forming the bars as shewn in section Figure 2 and plan Figure 3, but with the
surfaces of cast steel, which I consider more durable and better suited for the
purpose.
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The piling of iron and steel to make shoes for horses and other animals may
be accomplished in various ways. I do not, therefore, confino myself to any
particular arrangement of the parts of a pile, so long as iron and steel are piled
together and rolled into bars for shoes for horses or other animals.
It will be evident that when the piles shewn at Figures 1 and 4 have been
heated to a welling heat, and passed through suitable rollers, the steel will be
well welded to and incorporated amongst the iron, and forming the wearing
surface when made into the shoe, and the whole will be so combined that there
will be no probability of the steel and iron separating when in use.
In manufacturing the bars for horseshoes I have found that the lower

page_text: qualities of blistered and cast steel may be used to the best advantage. 'At the
same time I do not confine myself to the use of any particular quality of steel.
I would remark, that I am aware that steel and iron have been piled and
rolled together for various purposes, and that horseshoes have also had pieces
of steel applied to them by the smith in his process of forging the shoe. I am
also well aware that steel shoes have been used. I do not, therefore, claim the
combination of steel with iron in shoes for horses .and other animals, nor do I
claim the rolling of steel and iron together when not converted into shoes for
horses and other animals.
The third part of my Invention relates to the application of what is called
vulcanized india rubber (and which is manufactured by Messieurs Macintosh
and Company under an English Patent, granted to Mr. Thomas Hancock,
which manufacture is a preparation of india rubber by means of high tempera-
tures when the india rubber is combined or in contact with sulphur,) between
the shoe and hoof of the animal, as in ordinary cases of using leather (both as
a sole covering the entire foot, also as an elastic medium simply between the
shoe and hoof corresponding to the shape of the shoe, with which all farriers
and veterinary surgeons are familiar. The vulcanized india rubber is un-
affected by change of temperatures, by morstun, or other causes to which
other substances are liable, preserving its clasticity, and thus absorbing con-
cussion and effectually relieving the animal. The vulcanized india rubber may
be used either by itself or as a coating to leather, felt, or woven fabric.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the best method I
am acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, I would have it under-
stood that what I claim is,-
First, the mode of manufacturing shoes for horses and other animals from
iron and steel piled together and rolled into bars, in such a manner that the
steel may come to the wearing surface, as above described.
Second, I claim the method described of running fluid cast steel into a
mould against a hot bloom of iron prepared to receive it, thus forming a pile
of steel and iron, to be subsequently rolled into bars for the shoes.
Third, I claim the application of vulcanized india rubber between the shoe
and hoof in any form that may be found desirable.
In witness wbercof, I, the said Alfred Watney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-six.
ALFRED (L.S.). WATNEY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of April, in .the
year of our Lord 1846, the aforesaid Alfred Watney came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified; in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.