An Improved Horse Shoe and Appliances to be Used in Connection therewith.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1885.
Specification Accepted, 1st Feb., 1887.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Horse Shoe and Appliances to be Used in Connection
therewith.
I THOMAS HARDWICK of "Crow Trees House," Lower Bentham in the County of
York, Schoolmaster 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 consists in improvements in the method of fixing a horse shoe to
the hoof of a horse, and also in appliances to be attached to such shoes whereby
they are caused to wear longer than the shoes hitherto in use, and consequently the
horses hoof is less damaged than when the shoes frequently require to be renewed or
removed.
To carry out my invention I form side pieces, which are attached to the sides of
the shoe, projecting upwards and clasping the sides of the hoof and a toe piece which
fits to the front of the hoof.
These side and toe pieces support and protect the hoof and help to hold the shoe
in its proper position. The shoe is fixed by means of small bolts passing nearly
vertically through the side of the hoof and having broad heads resting upon the side
Round cross-cut or
of the hoof, and a nut under the shoe tightened up and rivetted.
spiked studs are screwed into suitable holes bored and tapped in the shoes and these
studs bear the wear and tear and can be renewed thereby causing the shoe to lasť
longer.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood, I will proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a horses hoof to which is fixed one of my
improved shoes and the appliances in connection therewith.
Figure 2 represents a view of the underside of the same as Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents elevations of the special form of screw-bolt which I use for
securing the shoes to the hoof.
Figure 4 is a strong and heavy toepiece to be fixed by means of three screws such
as D (for which purpose the shoe is bored specially) in front of the shoe of a dray or
cart horse instead of the three studs.

page_text: Figure 5 and 6 represent flat headed and spike headed studs respectively for the
purpose of screwing into the shoes in the manner to be described.
Figure 7 represents my improved shoe with side and toe pieces as it may be secured
to a horses hoof's without nailing by means of a screw clutch.
Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the drawings.
The side plate B and C at either side of the shoe A, project upwards and are caused
to fit in inch recesses formed in the bottom edge only of the horses foot and in like
manner the toe-piece D fits in a recess formed in the front of the hoof.
These side and toe pieces, together with the two specially formed bolts J, which have
heads H by preference spiked inside, resting upon the side of the hoof, and secured
under the shoe by means of the screwed nuts G, hold the shoe in position.
To fix these bolts J, holes must be very carefully bored in an almost vertical direction
through the side of the hoof, taking care not to touch the sensative lamina just within
the horses hoof.
The nuts G are then placed upon the bolts, and screwed up and may be rivetted if
necessary.
Small screws may be passed through the side and toc plates to hold them more
firmly in their places as shewn at L.
By removing these small screws last referred to, and taking off the nuts G, the
shoe may at any time be renewed, or replaced by an unskilled person.
The studs Figures 5 and 6 are for use in ordinary or in frosty weather respectively,
and are screwed into the shoes, by means of suitable shanks until the heads rest firmly
on the shoe.
In Figure 7 the screw clutch represented at K (which has right and left handed
screws) when adjusted; holds the shoe upon the horses hoof by the side and toe plates
and without the spiked headed bolts hereinbefore referred to.
When the shoc plates hereinbefore described are made of steel, they may be thinner
and lighter than when made of iron, and the studs for use therewith of a length
suitable to these thinner shoe plates.
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. The horse shoe A in combination with the side plates B and the toe plate D all
substantially as described and represented.
2. The horse shoc A. in combination with the side plates B the toe plates D and the
bolts J with spikes inside their heads H all substantially as represented and described.
3. The horse shoe A combined with the side and toe plates and the bolts J, H, and
the studs E, as represented in figures 5 and 6, all substantially as described and
represented.
4. The horse shoe and side and toe pieces combined with the screw clutch K
substantially as described and represented in the accompanying drawings.
WM. JAS. BAKER,
Town Hall Chambers, Bradford,
Agent for the Applicant.