IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE ADAPTED TO HORSE-SHOES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHAT IS TERMED ROUGHING."
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Holder, of Westbourne Road, Barnsbury,
and George Dover, of George's Road, Holloway, both in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE ADAPTED
TO HORSE-SHOES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHAT IS TERMED ROUGHING.""
Sealed the 4th June 1869, and dated the 11th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Holder and
George Dover at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 11th December 1868.
We, THOMAS HOLDER, of Westbourne Road, Barnsbury, and GEORGE
DOVER, of George's Road, Holloway, both in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
APPLIANCES TO BE ADAPTED TO HORSE-SHOES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHAT IS TERMED
"ROUGHING,'" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in adapting a clip-shaped piece of metal or
appliance to the front part of a horse-shoe when fixed to a horse's foot
by nails in the usual way; also in placing roughing pieces or points of
steel loosely in such said clip piece, so that they can only be removed

page_text: or withdrawn when the clip is taken off or removed from the shoe, when
the roughing points are worn down or otherwise rendered useless.
The following is an example of the construction of the aforesaid
clip piece, and the manner of connecting it and the roughing pieces to
the shoe of a horse, that is to say, the clip is formed of a flat piece of
metal, one edge of which is formed with two prongs bent or turned up
so as to embrace and fit against the front of the horse's foot, and on the
other edge and midway of its length a screwed pin is formed to receive
and hold an inverted L-shaped piece of metal, the under and horizontal
surface whereof is intended to rest on and clip the top side of the horse-
shoe at its inner edge. The aforesaid clip piece has two holes formed
therein near its ends, into which pointed pieces of steel are inserted with
their points downwards; in this condition the clip is ready for use, and
may be attached to the shoe on a horse's foot by means of a screwed nut
placed on the before-mentioned screwed pin of the pronged clip, so that
by tightening such said nut the L-shaped clip and pronged clip will
be drawn towards each other, and thus securely connect them and the
roughing pieces to the horse's foot, the shoe keeping the said roughing
pieces firmly in their places.
We propose to use the aforesaid roughened clips either alone or in
combination with roughing pieces or points fixed into holes formed in
the horse-shoe near the ends thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Holder and George Dover in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 11th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wе, THOMAS
HOLDER, of Westbourne Road, Barnsbury, and GEORGE DOVER, of
George's Road, Holloway, both in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Holder and George Dover,

page_text: Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Holder and George Dover,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Thomas Holder and George Dover, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE ADAPTED
TO HORSE-SHOES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHAT IS TERMED ROUGHING,' upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Holder and
George Dover, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
999
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Holder and George
Dover, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in adapting a clip-shaped picce of metal or
appliance to the front part of a horse-shoe when fixed to a horse's foot
by nails in the usual way; also in placing roughing pieces or points
of steel loosely in such said clip piece, so that they can only be removed
or withdrawn when the clip is taken off or removed from the shoe, when
the roughing points are worn down or otherwise rendered useless.
The following is an example of the construction of the aforesaid clip
piece, and the manner of connecting it and the roughing pieces to the
shoe of a horse, that is to say, the clip is formed of a flat piece of metal,
one edge of which is formed with two prongs bent or turned up so as to
embrace and fit against the front of the horse's foot, and on the other
edge and midway of its length a screwed pin is formed to receive and hold
an inverted L-shaped piece of metal, the under and horizontal surface
whereof is intended to rest on and clip the top side of the horse-shoe
at its inner edge. The aforesaid clip piece has two holes formed therein
near its ends, into which pointed pieces of steel are inserted with their
points downwards; in this condition the clip is ready for use, and may
be attached to the shoe on a horse's foot by means of a screwed nut

page_text: placed on the before-mentioned screwed pin of the pronged clip, so that
by tightening such said nut the L-shaped clip and pronged clip will
be drawn towards each other, and thus securely connect them and the
roughing pieces to the horse's foot, the shoe keeping the said roughing
pieces firmly in their places.
We propose to use the aforesaid roughened clips either alone or in
combination with roughing pieces or points fixed into holes formed in
the horse-shoe near the ends thereof.
And in order to explain this Invention more completely we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative
Sheet of Drawings accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a plan view of a horse's foot and shoe, representing our
improved appliances adapted thereto; Figure 2 is a transverse and
vertical section through the line A, B, at Figure 1; Figures 3, 4, and 5,
shew detached parts herein-after particularly described and referred to.
At each of the foregoing Figures we employ similar letters of reference
to denote corresponding parts in so far as such parts appear or can be
seen at each of such said Figures respectively.
A marks a clip of metal formed with prongs at B, which embrace the
front part of the horse's foot; C marks a screwed pin formed on the
back edge of the clip A; over this pin a hook-shaped piece of metal D
(shewn at Figure 5) is passed and employed to clip the horse's shoe,
which may be effected by passing the bent prongs a, a, of the piece D
over the upper surface of the horse's shoe, and then screwing the
piece D by means of the nut b and leather washer c tightly against the
edge of the shoe, thus holding the clip A firmly on the foot, and enabling
it to be readily and easily removed when required. E, E, are taper
prongs or roughing pieces of steel passed through square taper holes
in the piece A before the clip is fixed on the horse's foot, the shoe
keeping the pieces E, E, firmly in their places.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
our said Invention for "Improved Appliances to be adapted to Horse-
shoes as a Substitute for what is termed Roughing," we would remark.

page_text: in conclusion that what we claim as our Invention intended to be
secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, an
appliance of the construction above described with reference to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings for the purpose above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Holder, one of the parties
hereto, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.
THOMAS HOLDER. (L.S.)
THOMAS HOLDER. (L.S.)