Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
I, MARY EMILY POUPARD, of Cambrian House West Norwood in the County
of Surrey, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of shoes for horses or other hoofed
animals in segments & to the means of attachment of the shoes to the hoof, & the
interlocking of the segments one to another, and is designed to provide a shoe in
several segments which shall thereby be adapted to many sizes and contour of
hoofs, which shall readily yield when in use to the expansion or contraction of the
hoof and in which any part may be readily removed and replaced without disturbance
of the remainder. I divide the above into not less than three but into any larger
number of segments which thus enable them to be combined to form a shoe to suit
various sizes and shapes of hoofs.
In order to interlock these segments together a recess is pierced into the ends of
each segment adjoining one another preferably of semi-circular shape but form
any
of recess may be employed so that when two segments are placed in position a
circular or other shaped hole is left between each pair of segments half being in
one segment and half in the other. These recesses or holes through the ends of the
segments may be made taper, so that the diameter of the hole at the face of the shoe
away from the hoof is larger than at the hoof.
Or these recesses or holes through the ends of the segments may be formed with
perpendicular walls but with a step therein the recess towards the hoof being of
smaller size or diameter than that part of the recess or hole towards the under face
of the shoe.
Through these holes or recesses between segments, nails or screws are driven,
provided with specially large collars, or inserted through loose surrounding collars,
the collars being adapted in external shape to fill the holes or recesses between the
segments.
In a taper hole the collar of the nail or screw will be a cone of the same taper
as the hole or recess, which thus acts as a counter sink and the segments will be
thrust apart by the wedge action of the cone and be locked to one another and to
the hoof by the said coned collars and nails clinched over the hoof or screws.
Where the holes are with perpendicular walls but with a step or shoulder making
the underpart of the hole away from the hoof of larger diameter than the inner part
towards the hoof, the collar or neck of the nail or screw is made with a step of
two sizes to fit the said hole or recess.
I may add if desired further nails or screws securing the segments to the hoof in
any position in the said segments and this will especially be required in the tail
pieces towards the heel of the shoe, as they are only secured at one end by the nails
or screws between segments as above described.
Should it be necessary to further guard against lateral movement or twist of the
segments upon the hoof, I may adapt to the segments of any segmental shoe, studs
upon the surface between the shoe or hoof or upon the outer or inner edges of the
segments, or I may so form the lower edges of the collars about the nails or screws
whether, between segments or through the bodies of segments that the said collars

page_text: may enter to some extent into the horn of the hoof and thus form a grip between
the segments and hoof to prevent lateral movement.
Dated this 31st day of August 1893.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
I MARY EMILY POUPARD, of Cambrian House, West Norwood, in the County
of Surrey, Gentlewoman, 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 the construction of shoes for horses, or other hoofed
animals, in unattached segments, and consists in wedged keys or plugs, which inter-
lock the various segments one to another as regards lateral slipping, hold them up
to the hoof, and cause the segments to abut solidly upon one another, but which at
the same time may admit of the segments pivotting upon the key or plug between
the segments, to enable the segments to be adapted to various sizes and contours
of hoofs, to readily yield, when in use, to the expansion and contraction of the
hoof, and also to enable one part to be readily removed and replaced without
disturbance of the remainder.
The shoe may be divided into three or any larger number of sections, which
thus will enable them to be combined to form a shoe to suit various sizes and
shapes of boofs.
Figures 1 and 2 show a plan of the under tread, and a side elevation respectively,
of a segmental shoe in three pieces, with my improved plug-keys.
Figures 3 and 4 show a plan of the under tread and a side elevation respectively,
of a segmental shoe in five pieces, with my improved plug keys.
Figure 5 is a sectional detail of a plug key detached, with a nail hole pierced
therethrough.
Figure 6 is a modified form of plug.
A is the shoe, which may be divided into any number of segments, the ends of
the segments adjoining being pierced with a recess, preferably of semi-circular
section, and of conical shape, into which a plug B is inserted from below, and held
in position by a nail C, through the centre of the plugs, driven into the hoof, and
clenched over outside the hoof, or by a screw; or the upper point of the plug may
be screwed for insertion into the hoof.
The size of the plug and respective recesses may be so proportioned, that when
the plug fills the recesses, the ends of the shoulders of the segments do not abut,
allowing pivotal play of the segments about the plugs B.
The shape of the plug B may be modified as shown in Figure 6 to fit recesses
with stepped shoulders D D.
The usual nails F may be used to further secure the segments to the hoof, or
additional plugs B may be driven, through holes pierced in the shoe, at other parts
of the segments than their abutting ends, as at the ends of the tail pieces Figure 1
to further secure the shoe and prevent lateral slip.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1st. The combination with a segmental shoe for horses or other hoofed animals
of plugs inserted in recesses between the adjoining ends of segments; a nail or

page_text: screw passing therethrough; or the end of the plug screwed and adapted by their
conical or shouldered form to keep up the segments to the hoof, and by their
circular form to admit of pivotal movement of segments about them.
Dated this 29th day of May 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.