Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I HENRY BILES of Roam Villa, Willesden Lane, Willesden Green in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to horse shoes having rubber inserted therein and consists
in the improved methods of arranging the rubber cushions as hereinafter described.
The metal of the shoe is grooved and this groove is made deeper near the heels
and the rubber is let into this groove or the inetal may be made with grooves only
at the heels, and rubber let in at the heels.
A bar shoe may be also grooved and rubber let in, but the bar is of rubber
projecting downwards beyond the face of the shoe and so preventing slipping as
well as acting as a bar shoe to protect tendons &c. from concussion and so suitable
for all kinds of lameness. The bar may be made of metal sandwiched between
rubber to prevent tearing away from the shoe.
The rubber heel calks may be fastened with a pin or pins or dovetailed in.
The improved shoes are named the "Eclipse Horse Shoes."
This 16th day of June 1892
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, HENRY BILES of Roam Villa, Willesden Lane, Willesden Green in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier, 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 horse shoes having rubber inserted therein and consists
in the improved methods of arranging the rubber cushions as hereinafter described.
The accompanying drawings will assist in illustrating this invention and the
method of carrying the same into practice,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the underside of one of the improved shoes and Fig. 2 is
a side elevation thereof.
Fig. 3 is a similar plan view of the underside of another form of this invention
and Fig. 4 a side elevation thereof.
Fig. 5 is a plau view of the underside of a third form of shoe and Fig. 6 a side
view thereof.
In Figs. 1 and 2, the shoe is provided near the beels with two cross cut
recesses a a the one in line with the other and extending entirely across each
branch of the shoe on the face which is in contact with the hoof. These recesses
whose depth may be about half the depth of the shoe serve to receive the ends of
the cross bar b of rubber. This bar at the ends is of the same thickness as the
grooves aforesaid in depth and its intermediate part is of greater thickness so that
it projects below the road face of the shoe on one side and is flush with the hoof
face of the shoe on the other side. It may be broadened towards the middle
towards the centre of the shoe and at the same time bevelled off from its upper and
lower face where thus broadened as at c Fig. 1. The ends of the bar may be
secured in the shoe by pins as at d d.
In the alternative form of shoe shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the bar b is replaced by

page_text: two heel blocks ee held in cross grooves on the ground face of the shoe and retained
therein partly by the screws ff, partly by the rising flanges g g before and behind
the block as shown in Fig. 4. This shoe is shown to be gradually thinned from the
toe to the first rising flange g so that the latter rising almost abruptly is of about
the same depth as the toe measured through the thickness of the shoe. The
flanges gg might be caused to approach towards each other so as to form a dovetail
groove for reception of these heel blocks or calks.
A third form of this invention is shown in Figs. 5 and 6. In this form the
groove which runs completely round the ground face of the shoe is deeper at the
heels and serves to receive the rubber filling k. This filling secured in the groove
by pins is rounded on its projecting face except at the heel ends which are flat
and project to the same distance as the centre of the curve of the rounded portion
forming the remainder of the filling.
The barb may also be made of metal sandwiched between rubber to prevent
tearing away from the shoe.
The bar shoe may also be provided with a surrounding groove similar to the shoe
shown in Figs. 5 and 6 to receive a similar rubber filling.
The so-called rubber may be made of any of the usual compositions of or
containing india rubber or gutta percha or any substitute employed in place of
these materials, and vulcanized in the usual way.
Having now particularly described the nature of this said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1). A horse shoe having a bar of rubber composition or of metal incased in
rubber composition attached and connected to the shoe substantially as described.
2). A horse shoe having heel blocks or calks of rubber composition inserted in
cross grooves and held therein substantially as described.
3). A horse shoe having a continuously running groove on the ground face
thereof, the same being deeper at the heels and provided with a rubber filling sub-
stantially as herein described.
Dated thin 15th day of Anuil 1000
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.