Improvements in connection with Appliances to Horse Shoes to Prevent Slipping and for other purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug.. 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Appliances to Horse Shoes to
Prevent Slipping and for other purposes.
I, HENRY STEVENSON DADE, the Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, in
the City of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide horse shoes (i.e. shoes for horses
or other like shoes) with appliances of a simple durable and easily applied and
easily adjustable character designed to prevent slipping relieve jarring and con-
cussion on hard pavements and having other advantages both in the wear of the
shoes and in beneficial results to the horses' feet wearing same.
Now I am well aware that numerous attempts have been made to use rubber, cork,
and other materials in conjunction with horse shoes-but horse shoes constructed in
such manner or with the addition of appliances such as have heretofore been tried
have only partially succeeded and often utterly failed-the chief cause of failure
having been the impracticable nature of the inventions and unsuitability and
inability to withstand the hard wear and tear to which horse shoes are subjected as
well as in some cases such appliances having actually caused harm or injury to the
horse's hoof.
Now my present invention is especially designed to overcome these difficulties
and drawbacks and has also special features and advantages in construction and in
wear and is as follows:-
The horse shoe proper-i.e. the horse shoe of any ordinary or suitable construc-
tion-is used and applied and fixed to the horse's hoof in the usual manner.
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A pad or "sole" of cork or other suitable material or composition is applied and
mounted towards the "toe or front part of the shoe and extends backwards and
across the hoof between the inner walls of the ordinary horse shoe where it is held
and there secured in the following manner :-
A plate of thin sheet metal is laid in between the horse shoe and the hoof of the
horse (either with or without a padding of flexible material) while the back edge
of this plate is cut out or formed with a recess in a circular or V-shaped or other
suitable shape and the edges of this recess are turned over (away from the side of
the plate which lays next the horse's hoof) at about right angles thereto and forms
a wall or abutment either vertical or curved to assist in keeping the cork in position
―or this abutment or wall around the said recess may be made separately and
mounted, or otherwise formed in any suitable manner.
By means of this recess the " frog" or back part of the hoof is left free and
uncovered and the ventilation of the hoof is not interfered with.
I will first describe a plate with a curved or crescent shaped recess formed at the
back end thereof.
Such plate is formed all in one piece and the back curved edge thereof turned
up or formed in any suitable manner so that a strong wall or abutment is pro-
vided of a crescent shape and the top edge of said wall may advantageously be
curved towards the toe part (and either serrated or not) so as thereby to enter the
back edge of the cork or other pad (which is curved to correspond) and thus
prevent such pad or "sole" from coming off the plate at this curved part around
the heel or back end of the said plate.
The block of cork or other non-slipping material forming the "sole"-is cut or
formed to coincide with the shape formed by the inside walls of the horse shoe in
conjunction with the said crescent-shaped wall or abutment on the metal plate and
said block is forced tightly against the said wall (and any suitable spikes or

page_text: projecting part or parts or rims thereon) and is then fastened securely to said
metal plate at or near the "toe part thereof or at any other convenient point
or points so as thus to securely combine the block and plate together ready to be
applied to the horse's hoof in connection with the horse shoe.
Said block (of cork etc.) may be secured to said plate in any suitable manner-
for instance by headed pins rivetted to said plate or by spikes struck up out of the
substance of said plate or separately attached thereto or in other convenient
manner.
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I will now describe the construction of a V-shaped recess at the back
The two diverging ends of the turned up flanges of the said V-shaped recess are
laid back still further and are then rivetted clamped or otherwise secured to the
plate itself while the two converging ends of said V-shaped flange or wall may be
strengthed by a clamping piece or strenthening piece of metal securely con-
necting same together-thus providing a strong wall or abutment to resist the
pressure exerted thereon by the cork or other pad when in use.
The top edge of the said flange may with advantage be formed with serrations
or teeth to enter the cork.
Out of the substance of the said metal plate (at as many points as desired) I cut
out or stamp up spikes or projections of a barbed or other suitable form or if
desired these spikes or projections may be formed separately and rivetted or other-
wise secured to the said metal plate.
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The "toe or front part of the said metal plate may be cut away a little and also
down the sides to the better enable the farrier to punch the necessary holes in the
plate to correspond with the holes in the shoe and to also make the same sized plate
suitable for use with several sizes of horse shoes and the variations in shape thereof.
Thus according to my present invention the cork is held in a kind of socket
formed of the walls of the horse shoe proper and the said recess at the back of the
plate the bottom of which socket is formed by the said plate-so that the cork
cannot be pushed out of place.
Also the said metal plate passing across the horse's hoof and held by the nails
fixing same and the shoe itself cannot be brought into contact with the hollow or
sole of the hoof which moreover it serves to protect-especially against picking up
nails in the tender part of the hoof.
I would remark that for facility of description I have more particularly described
cork throughout-nevertheless my invention is equally applicable with any other
suitable material or composition capable of use in this way.
Dated this 16th day of August 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Appliances to Horse Shoes to
Prevent Slipping and for other purposes.
I, HENRY STEVENSON DADE, the Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street in
the City of London, Gentleman, 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 (for horses and other animals such as
mules) and has for its object to provide means of securely fixing and holding
within the inner wall of the ordinary metal horse shoe any suitable material of a
non-slipping or other character so that the construction of the ordinary horse
shoe is not required to be modified or altered in the least, in applying my improve-
ments thereto.

page_text: According to my present invention the me of the ora
and concussion on hard roads are reduced and a firm foothold for the animal is
obtained in the varying conditions of greasiness or slipperiness of the roadway-
while my improvements can be readily applied and are easily and economically
produced, consisting simply of a holding plate of special form (arranged and
secured between the ordinary shoe and the hoof) a recess at the back end or
heel of said plate, a wall round said recess, a strengthening piece across the
back or head of said plate (if required) and a block (or pieces) of suitable non-
slipping elastic or the like material held in position on said back plate and having
other features and advantages all of which will be fully described hereinafter and
finally pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a plan of the back of the horse shoe i with a plate m applied thereto
and in the position in which such plate would lie between the horse shoe and the
horse's hoof.
Figure 2 is a cross section on the line 1-1 Figure 1. looking in the direction of
the arrow 2.
Figure 3 is a plan of the wearing side of a horse shoe having the non-slipping
block or pad attached and fixed in position according to my invention.
m is a plate of metal with a recess (to permit ventilation of the hoof-especially
the "frog") cut out or formed at the heel or back end of said plate of a curved or
crescent shape.
n is the surrounding wall or abutment around said curve or crescent.
i is the ordinary metal horse shoe.
o is the block or pad of cork formed crescent shape at the back end thereof to
correspond with n and held in position between the wall n and the surrounding
inner wall of the horse shoe i.
The plate m is formed from suitable sheet metal to about the shape shown in
Figure 1 with sufficient metal in the curve at the back end thereof to be turned
up (by pressing hammering or otherwise) to form the curved or crescent shaped
wall n Figures 1, 2 and 3.
The said wall n is formed advantageously with the edge thereof turned inwards
a little towards the "toe" part of the shoe so that the curved heel end of the block o
can be forced on to this edge and such edge entering into the substance of the
said block o (and the block being prevented from slipping back on the plate m
by any suitable means as hereinafter explained) thus prevents the heel part or
back end of the block o from rising off the plate m.
To secure the fore part of the block o to plate m-I may use any suitable
means such as a headed pin passed through the block o and then rivetted to the
plate m.
Or I may cut or strike up a tongue or projection out of the plate m as shown at
Fig. 1 and force same into the block o and there clinch same by any suitable tool-
if desired.
The essential feature of the invention as illustrated is the formation of the
attaching plate m all in one part and having a curved or crescent shaped wall or
flange such as n beaten up or formed out of the substance of and integrally with
said plate m or formed in any other suitable manner.
The essential feature of my whole invention is the formation of the attaching
plate all in one part adapted to be laid between the ordinary horse shoe and the
hoof and there secured (through nail holes provided for this purpose) by the same
nails as used for nailing the shoe itself and having a suitable wall flange or barrier
across the back or heel end of said plate-which in conjunction with the inner wall
of the ordinary horse shoe-keeps the block of non-slipping elastic or the like
material in position on the hoof.
I would remark that by my present invention as herein set forth I provide the
interior space within a horse shoe with a large single block of cork or other non-
slipping elastic or the like material of about two-thirds the superficial area of

page_text: such space inside the ordinary horse shoe-without interfering with the necessary
ventilation of the hoof; but I would have it distinctly understood that I do not
limit myself to any precise size of the block of non-slipping material.
A great advantage obtained by the attaching plate being all in one part and
supported at each side of the hoof as aforesaid is that the block of non-slipping
material is thereby prevented from being forced into the hollow of the hoof and
consequently becoming inoperative through the cork not touching the roadway
properly but a further advantage arises from said plate by reason of its being
impossible (from the construction and mounting of said plate) for same to be
forced into the hollow of the hoof and lame the animal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination of a horse shoe i with the metal plate m holding a pad of cork
or other non-slipping elastic or the like material, the said plate m being particularly
formed with the edge turned in at n so as to hold the pad in place and to form a
curved resisting flange of great strength-all substantially as described and
illustrated.
T: ond dow of Databon 1900
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.