IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND IN MACHINERY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND IN
MACHINERY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE SAME." A communication from
abroad by John Douglas Billings, of New York, United States of America.
Sealed the 2nd November 1877, and dated the 4th June 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith Brewer
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th June 1877.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND IN MACHINERY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE
SAME." (A communication from abroad by John Douglas Billings, of New York,
United States of America.)
According to this Invention horse-shoe blanks are formed in iron or steel by
pressure, whether in a hot or cold state.
The machine consists of rollers provided with grooves or recesses to mould or press
the metallic bars into curve-linear wedge-shaped blanks preparatory to being bent
into the form of a horse-shoe by any other suitable machinery.
The Invention further consists in the production of horse-shoes by machinery for
pressing the same into shape, said shoes having concave wedge-shaped "calk"
extending round the entire shoe, and a toe flange extending around the outer
periphery of the top of the said shoe.
The forming rollers in the machine are provided with forming recesses so as to
press the bars into the required concave wedge-shaped form by means of any
suitable gearing operated by suitable power to produce the blanks by pressure.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a section of a blank after having been
passed through the forming machine, said section represents the tread or bottom of
the shoe turned upward, with the toe flange or lip n and foot surface downward.
Figure 2 is also a section of the same blank or bar, having the foot surface and toe
flange or upward projecting lip n right side upward. The concave wedge-shaped
bars are cut off in lengths to form the different size shoes. After having passed

page_text: through the forming rollers each sectional blank is bent into shape by any suitable
mechanical device until it assumes the shape of a horse-shoe.
Figures 3, 4, and 5 are transverse sections of the different weights of horse-shoe
blanks. A shoe formed from a blank, shown, for example, at Fig. 5, has the toe
flange n bottom wedge-shaped calk or tread passing around the entire bottom of
the shoe, thus forming one single concave wedge-shaped bearing in lieu of the
ordinary sectional "calks" now in common use. Shoes constructed according to this
Invention are provided with the usual nail holes, and when a shoe is secured to the
hoof in the usual way the toe flange n on the upper outer periphery of the shoe
prevents the hoof from spreading or growing over the edge of the shoe.
A horse-shoe when constructed and secured to the hoof as above set forth is
claimed by the Inventor to be more flexible and co-operative-with-the spring of the
-hoof and less liable to become loose, as well as being less injurious and more com-
fortable to the animal than shoes of the ordinary construction, also being fashioned
with a broad level-foot surface or top, and provided with a flange n; 'can be applied
while in a cold state to the animal's hoof without the application of heat, thus
avoiding the many bad results and serious lameness so often produced by burning
the hoof preparatory to nailing on the shoe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
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the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
December 1877.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES AND IN MACHINERY EOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE
SAME. A communication from abroad by John Douglas Billings, of New York,
United States of America.
According to this Invention horse-shoe blanks are formed in iron or steel by
pressure whether in a hot or cold state, and the Invention will be best understood
by reference to the accompanying Drawings, of which
Figure 1 is a side or front elevation of this inachine for forming horse-shoe blanks
by pressure, whether in a hot or cold state, of either iron or steel. A, A1, A", is the
supporting framework; B, B¹, shew sections of the metallic blanks or bars in the
act of passing through-the-forming rollers 1,1, and 2. "These rollers are provided
with forming recesses_d,-d-d-and-FF to press the bars B, B', into the
required concave wedge-shaped form, by means of any suitable gearing G, operated
by any well known power at P to produce the blanks B, B, by-pressure,
Figure-2-is-n-section of a blank B after having been passed through the forming
machine as shown at B, Figure-1-Said section represents the tread or bottom of
the shoe turned upwards with the toe flange or lip n and foot surface downward:
Figure 3 is also a section of the same blank or bar B¹ having the foot surface
and toe flange or upward projecting lip n right side upwards; the sanie is shewn in
the act of passing through the forming rollers in an opposite direction to blank B at
Figure 1. These concave wedge-shaped bars are cut off in lengths to form the
different size shoes, after having passed through the forming rollers, each sectional
blank is bent into shape by any suitable mechanical device, until it assumés. the
*shape of a horse-shoe shown at Figurė 8;-

page_text: Figures 5, 6, and 7 are transverse sections of the different weights of shoe
blanks.
Figure 8 shews a shoe formed of a blank shewn at Figure 7; having the toe flange
n bottom wedge-shaped calk or treeds passing around the entire bottom of the
shoe, thus forming one single concave wedge-shaped bearing in lieu of the ordinary
sectional calks now in common use.
Figure is a longitudinal view of a blank ready for bending.
This shoe is provided with the usual nail holes, and when it is secured to the
hoof in the usual way the toe flange n on the upper outer periphery of the shoe
prevents the hoof from spreading or growing over the edge of the shoe.
A horse-shoe when constructed and secured to the hoof as above sot forth is
claimed by the Inventor to be more flexible and co-operative with the spring of the
hoof and less liable to become loose, as well as being less injurious and more com-
fortable to the horse.
This shoe being fashioned with a broad level foot surface or top, and provided
with a flange n, can be applied (while in a cold state) to the horse's hoof without
the application of heat, thus avoiding the many bad results and serious lameness so
often produced by burning the hoof preparatory to nailing on the shoe.
The novelty of the improvement consists in the construction of a machine
provided with rollers 1, 1, and 2, having recesses d, d², d", dl, and F to press
the bars B into the concave wedge-shape, as shewn in the drawings, also a shoe
provided with one single wedge-shaped calks and top toe flange n constructed by
means of suitable machinery arranged for the purpose set forth.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the aforesaid improvements in
horse-shoes and in machinery for the production of the same-
First. The construction and employment of a machine consisting of rollers 1, 11,
and 2, provided with grooves or recesses d, d³, d", d, and F, F, to mould or press
the metallic bars B, B, into curvilinear wedge-shaped blanks preparatory to being
bent into the form of a horse-shoe by any other suitable machinery arranged and
operating for the purpose set forth.
Secondly. Horse-shoes produced by machinery for pressing the same into shape,
said shoes having a concave wedge-shaped calk & extending round the entire shoe,
and a toe flange n extending round the outer periphery of the top of said shoe, in
the manner and for the purpose substantially as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
nonian
E. G. BREWE
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(L.S.)