Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1899
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, HENRY OWEN ROBERTS, of 245, Broadway, New York City (Borough of Man-
hattan), in the County and State of New York, United States of America,
Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to so construct a horse shoe capable of being
fitted hot to the hoof that rubber pads may form a part of the shoe the said
pads being removable and provided with side calks. A further object of the
invention is to so construct the shoe that the pads will lie snugly in panels made in
the bottom face of the shoe between the heel and toe calks and will be held in
position by the nails driven through the shoe, and furthermore to provide eye-
lets in the rubber pads where the nails are to pass through, to prevent the pads
from becoming lacerated by the rails in the event of their accidentally working
loose.
According to this invention the shoe is provided with heel and toe calks and
also with inner and outer marginal flanges extending below the body portion of
the shoe from the heel to the toe calk forming thereby a channel in the bottom.
face of the shoe the said channel preferably having straight side portions. The
usual openings are made in the body of the shoe for the nails and each channel
is adapted to receive a pad of rubber or other elastic material fitted to the said
channels and completely filling them. Each pad upon its outer face is provided
with projections forming side elastic calks for the shoe, these elastic calks being
preferably located one at each end of a pad and a third calk at or near the centre
of the pad. The elastic pads are provided with eyelet blocks which are secured
therein in the formation of the pads, by casting the rubber around the eyelet
blocks which are so placed that when the pads are in position upon the shoe the
eyelets will register with the nail openings. These eyelet blocks are preferably
made with the upper face wider than the lower face and the ends inclined while
the opening in each block is made to taper from the narrow end in direction
of the wider end of the block so that the larger end of an opening is at the lower
or outer end of the block. When these blocks are placed in the pads their outer
and their inner faces are flush with corresponding surfaces of the pad to which
they are applied and the tapering opening admits of a nail being driven with
proper inclination and the nail heads will be received readily within the open-
ings of the eyelet blocks.
As hitherto stated the shoe is one which is adapted to be fitted when heated on
the hoof and can therefore be given any necessary shape, in fact can be handled
in the same manner as an ordinary hand-forged shoe. It is evident that in the
event of the rubber pads becoming worn, by removing the shoe other pads may
be substituted.

page_text: Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, HENRY OWEN ROBERTS (Accountant), of 245, Broadway, in the City of New
York (Borough of Manhattan), in the County and State of New York, United
States of America, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 so construct a horse shoe, capable of being
fitted hot to the hoof, that rubber pads may form a part of the shoe, the said
pads being removable and provided with side calks. A further object of the
invention is to so construct the shoe that the pads will lie snugly in panels made
in the bottom face of the shoe between the heel and toe calks, and will be held in
position by the nails driven through the shoe, and furthermore to provide eye-
lets in the rubber pads where the nails are to pass through, which eyelets serve
to prevent the pads from becoming lacerated by the nails in the event of their
accidentally working loose.
The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several
parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the improved shoe, a part of one of the pads
being broken away;
Figure 2 is a transverse section through the shoe, taken substantially on the
line 2-2 of Figure 1; and
Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the eyelets for the pads.
The shoe A is provided with heel calks 10 and with a toe calk 11, and the shoe
is further provided with inner and outer marginal flanges 12, extending below
the body portion of the shoe from the heel to the toe calk, forming thereby a
channel 13 in the bottom face of the shoe, the said channel preferably having
straight side portions, as illustrated in Figure 2. The usual openings 14 are
made in the body of the shoe for the passage of the nails, and each channel 13
is adapted to receive a pad 15 of rubber, or other elastic material, the pads being
fitted to the said channels and completely filling them. Each pad upon its outer
face is provided with projections 16, forming side elastic calks for the shoe, and
these elastic calks are preferably located one at each end of a pad, and a third
calk at or near the centre of the pad.
The elastic pads are provided with eyelet blocks 17 secured therein; in fact,
in the formation of the pads the rubber is cast around the eyelet blocks. These
eyelet blocks are so placed that when the pads are in position upon the shoe the
eyelets will register with the nail openings 14 of the shoe. These eyelet blocks
are preferably made as shown in Figure 3, in which the upper face is wider than
the lower face, and the ends are inclined, while the opening 18 in each block is
made to taper from the narrow end in the direction of the wider end of the block.
so that the larger end of an opening 18 is at the lower or outer end of the block.
When these blocks are placed in the pads their outer and their inner faces are
flush with corresponding surfaces of the pad to which they are applied, and the
tapering opening 18 admits of a nail being driven with proper inclination, and
the nail heads will be received readily within the openings of the eyelet blocks.
As before stated, the shoe is one which is adapted to be fitted when heated on
the hoof, and can therefore be given any necessary shape; in fact can be handled

page_text: in-the-same-manner as an ordinary_hand-forged shoe. It is evident that in the
event of the rubber pads becoming worn, by removing the shoe, other pads may
be substituted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A horse shoe constructed substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A horse shoe provided with heel and toe calks, and inner and outer flanges
extending from the heel calks to the toe calk, and a pad of rubber fitted in the
channel of the shoe formed by the flanges and the calks, the shoe being adapted
to be fitted in a heated state to the hoof, substantially as described.
3. A horse shoe provided with heel calks and a toe calk, and an inner and an
outer marginal flange extending from the heel calks to the toe calk, and elastic
pads fitted in the channel of the shoe formed by the flanges and the calks, the
said elastic pads being provided with elastic calks at intervals, as and for the
purpose specified.
4. In a horse shoe, the combination, with a shoe adapted to be fitted to the hoof
in a heated state, the shoe being provided with heel calks and with a toc calk,
and with an inner and an outer marginal flange extending from the heel calks to
the toe calk, and elastic pads fitted in the channels of the shoe formed by the
calks and the flanges thereof, the said pads being provided with elastic calks,
and eyelet blocks fitted in the material of the said pads between its elastic calks,
the said eyelet blocks being adapted to register with the nail openings in the
shoe, for the purpose specified.
5. In a horse shoe, the combination, with a shoe adapted to be fitted to the
hoof in a heated state, the shoe being provided with heel calks and with a toe
calk, and with an inner and an outer marginal flange extending from the heel
calks to the toe calk, and elastic pads fitted in the channels of the shoe formed by
the calks and the flanges thereof, the said pads being provided with elastic calks,
and metal eyelet blocks fitted in the material of the said pads between its elastic
calks, the said eyelet blocks being adapted to register with the nail openings in
the shoe, each eyelet block having its outer surface wider than its inner surface
and its ends inclined, each eyelet block being further provided with an opening
extending through from its outer to its inner side surface, the said opening being
a tapering one and being widest at the outer surface of the block, for the purpose
specified.
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A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.