Improvements in Horse-shoes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse-shoes.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE of 702, High Street, Newark, in the County of
Essex and State of New Jersey, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to horse-shoes and consists in the novel arrangement and
combination of parts and also in making the parts of certain materials as herein-
after described and specifically pointed out in the claims.
The main object of my invention is to produce a horse-shoe which will have all
the substantial qualities of iron shoes heretofore made and which at the same time
will be very light in weight and can be produced at little cost. A second object of
my invention is to produce a horse-shoe the wearing face or parts of which can be
readily removed and replaced by a roughened wearing face or one having sharper
or blunter calke, or no calks at all, or by one of greater or less weight, without
removing the nails from the horse's hoof."
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, in which
Figure 1 is a bottom view of the fastening plate of one form of my improved
horse-shoe.
Figure 2 is a bottom view of one form of a complete shoe made in accordance with
my invention.
Figure 3 is a similar view of the same with parts broken away.
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Figure 4 is a longitudinal section of a shoe, on line 4-4 Figure 2, the shoë
however being in place on a horse's foot.
Figure 5 is a part transverse section of a shoe, on line 5-5 Figure 2, before the
sections are joined but with the shoe attached to a horse's foot.
Figure 6 is a like view of the same after the sections are joined.
Figure 7 is a bottom view of another form of horse-shoe made in accordance with
my invention.
Figure 8 is a side view of the same, and
Figure 9 is a transverse section on line 9-9, Figure 7.
In Figures 1 to 6, A represents a horse-shoe shaped fastening plate or section
which is preferably made of aluminium and is provided with nail-holes (see
Figure 1) through which pass the nails to secure the section A to the horse's hoof.
a, a, are downward projections or lugs carried by and extending from the section A,
preferably on the inner and outer edges thereof.
B is a horse-shoe shaped wearing plate forming the body of the horse-shoe, which
is made of any suitable hard material, such as steel, and is provided with bevelled
kerfs or notches b corresponding in location to that of the lugs a on the section A.
These kerfs or notches are deepest at the wearing face of the plate B for purposes
which will be hereinafter described.
C is a horse-shoe shaped packing which may be of any flexible or elastic material
such as leather, paper, rubber, asbestos, etc., and which is placed between the two
sections A and B to serve as a cushion between them and to prevent the trans-
mission of heat.
The parts A, B, and C, are of the same outline and extent, horizontally considered,
but may be of different thicknesses.
In order to put the shoe, as illustrated in Figures 1 to 6, into use it is necessary
to first attach the section A to the hoof of the horse by nailing as described, leaving
the fastening lugs a still unbent as shewn in Figure 5. The packing C is then

page_text: applied upon the under side of the section A and the wearing plate or section B is
next placed upon the under side of the packing in such manner that the lugs or
projections a will fit within the bevelled kerfs or notches 6 of said section B. The
fugs a of section A are then bent over so as to engage the bevelled walls of the kerfs
or notches b, as shewn in Figure 6, thus uniting the two sections A and B and
holding the packing C tightly between them.
When it is desired to substitute a new wearing plate B for an old one or to
remove the wearing plate for any purpose whatever, it is merely necessary to bend
the fastening lugs a out of contact with the bevelled walls of the kerfs 6 when the
wearing plate can be removed.
It will be observed that by constructing the bevelled kerfs or notches b with the
deepest portion lowermost or at the wearing face of the plate B and bending the
lugs a therein, the two sections A and B are clamped and always held securely
together, irrespective of the amount of wear upon the shoe (plate B). It is evident
that in this construction of shoe the lugs a or some of them may be on the plate B
or that other contrivances for securing the parts may be employed.
By the construction of horse-shoe shewn in Figures 1 to 6 I am enabled to sub-
stitute one character of wearing plate B for another without the necessity of
employing a shoeing-smith and without removing the nails.
In Figures 7, 8, and 9, is illustrated another form of my improved horse-shoe
having the same advantages as to lightness and as to wearing surface as the con-
struction first described. In said figures D represents the main body or section,
which is made of aluminium and corresponds to section A illustrated in Figures 1
to 6. Embedded in this aluminium shoe-body D in the process of casting, is the
wearing plate or body E which may or may not be provided with suitable heel and
toe calks. The wearing plate E may be of any suitable shape in cross-section that
will enable a portion of it to be embedded and held within the aluminium body D
BO as to leave a wearing face projecting therefrom. It will be seen that this
wearing plate E (which is preferably of steel) corresponds to the wearing plate B
shewn in Figure 4, except that it is not removable.
By this form of my invention I not only produce a shoe which will be light in
weight and yet have all the substantial qualities of-heavy iron shoes but at the
same time I am enabled to produce the shoe at little cost, much time and labor
being saved by casting the shoes instead of making them by the old process of
forging.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is-
1. An aluminium horse-shoe body with a hardened wearing plate or body attached
thereto, substantially as described.
2. An aluminium horse-shoe body with a hardened wearing plate or body
partially embedded therein, substantially as described.
3. An aluminium horse-shoe with a steel wearing plate provided with heel and
toe calks partially embedded therein, substantially as described.
4. As a new article of manufacture, a horse-shoe constructed of an upper plate
adapted to be fastened to the hoof, a lower wearing plate carried by said upper
plate, and an intermediate packing, substantially as described.
5. A horse-shoe constructed with an upper plate adapted to be fastened to the
hoof and a lower removable plate carried by said upper plate, substantially as
described.
6. A horse-shoe constructed with an upper aluminium plate adapted to be
fastened to the hoof and a hard wearing plate removably carried by said upper
aluminium plate, substantially as described.
7. A horse-shoe made in two superposed sections, fastening lugs carried by one
of said sections, and bevelled, kerfs formed in the other of said sections, by which
lugs and kerfs the two sections are united, substantially as described.

page_text: 8. A horse-shoe made in two sections A, B, said section A being made of
aluminium and said section B being made of steel, fastening lugs a carried by said
aluminium section A, bevelled kerfs b formed on the other of said sections, and
packing C interposed between the two, substantially as and for the purposes
described.
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1000
Led this 7th day
W. C. EDGE,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.