AN IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOES BY CONSTRUCTING THE SHOES IN SUCH MANNER AS THAT THE HORSE CAN IMMEDIATELY BE ROUGHED BY THE PERSON USING IT WITHOUT THE SHOES BEING REMOVED FROM THE FEET OF THE HORSE, AND WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF HAVING RECOURSE TO ANY SMITH OR FARRIER FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND THAT EVEN WHILE THE HORSE IS IN ACTUAL USE ON PAID OR OTHERWISE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Lancaster Lucena, of Windmill Hill,
Enfield, in the County of Middlesex, Solicitor, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOES BY CONSTRUCTING THE SHOES IN SUCH
MANNER AS THAT THE HORSE CAN IMMEDIATELY BE ROUGHED BY THE PERSON
USING IT WITHOUT THE SHOES BEING REMOVED FROM THE FEET OF THE HORSE,
AND WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF HAVING RECOURSE TO ANY SMITH OR FARRIER
FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND THAT EVEN WHILE THE HORSE IS IN ACTUAL USE ON
PAID OR OTHERWISE
Sealed the 24th May 1867, and dated the 5th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Lancaster Lucena
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th February 1867.
I, the said STEPHEN LANCASTER LUCENA, of Windmill Hill, Enfield, in the
County of Middlesex, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOES BY CONSTRUCTING THE SHORS IN SUCH
MANNER AS THAT THE HORSE CAN IMMEDIATELY BE ROUGHED BY THE PERSON USING
IT WITHOUT THE SHOES BEING REMOVED FROM THE FEET OF THE HORSE AND WITHOUT
THE NECESSITY OF HAVING RECOURSE TO ANY SMITH OR FARRIER FOR THAT PURPOSE,
AND THAT EVEN WHILE THE HORSE IS IN ACTUAL USE ON THE ROAD OR OTHERWISE,"
to be as follows:-
For this purpose I make a socket in the heels of the horse-shoe, with a
groove on each side of such socket, and another groove at the end of each

page_text: socket, and a rough is constructed so as to fit tightly into the groove on each
side and at the end of each such socket, which rough is further secured by a
screw, by the unscrewing of which the rough can be removed in an instant
when desired.
For roughing the toe of the horse-shoe, I form a similar socket in the
centre of the toe of the horse-shoe, from the front to the back of the toe
of such shoe, and insert therein the rough, formed so as to lie tightly in such
socket, and which is secured by a screw, and which rough is further secured
by its extending from the front to the back of the toe of the horse-shoe, and
clipping it tightly round the back of it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stephen Lancaster Lucena in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
LANCASTER LUCENA, of Windmill Hill, Enfield, in the County of Middlesex,
Solicitor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself; Her heirs and successors; give and grant unto me, the said
Stephen Lancaster Lucena, Her special licence that I, the said Stephen
Lancaster Lucena, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the, said Stephen Lancaster Lucena, my 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOES BY CONSTRUCTING THE SHOES
IN SUCH MANNER AS THAT THE HORSE CAN IMMEDIATELY BE ROUGHED BY THE
PERSON USING IT WITHOUT THE SHOES BEING REMOVED FROM THE FEET OF THE
HORSE, AND WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF HAVING RECOURSE TO ANY SMITH OR FARRIER
FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND THAT EVEN WHILE THE HORSE IS IN ACTUAL USE ON THE
ROAD OR OTHERWISE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Stephen Lancaster Lucena, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stephen Lancaster Lucena, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
For this purpose I make à socket in the heels of the horse-shoe with a
groove on each side of such socket, and another groove at the end of each
socket, and a rough is constructed so as to fit tightly into the groove at each
side, and at the end of each such socket, which rough is further secured by a
screw, by the unscrewing of which the rough can be removed in an instant
when desired.
For roughing the toe. of the horse-shoe. I form a similar socket in the
centre of the toe of the shoe from the front to the back. part of the toe of
such shoe and insert therein a rough, formed so as to lie tightly in such
socket, and which is secured also by a screw, and which rough is further
secured by its extending from the front to the back of the toe of the horse-
shoe, and clipping tightly round the back of it.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Lancaster Lucena, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.