Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horses.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 17th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horses.
I, HAY DOWNIE of Corstorphine in the County of Midlothian, Saddler, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to hoof pads for use in conjunction with ordinary horse
shoes and the improvements have for object to ensure proper ventilation of the foot
or under cavity of the hoof whilst providing an efficient cushion between the hoof
and hard ground as also when desired a suitable frog pad and means for preventing
slipping more particularly in frosty weather.
The improved hoof pad is composed of a flat flange or strip of rubber, rubber-
cloth or similar flexible material adapted to fit between the shoe and the hoof and
upon the inner edge of which is formed a ridge or web extending upwardly to fit
the cavity of the hoof in proximity to the shoe and downwardly to form a treading
surface that will wear with the shoe and serve to prevent slipping. On the surface
of the web that fits the hoof is formed a channel with a series of cross grooves or
corrugations communicating with orifices pierced in the web the said grooves
constituting ventilating spaces to which air is admitted through the orifices and said
grooves or corrugations may extend over the entire flange of the hoof pad. A
frog pad may be formed at the heel part of the hoof pad and be similarly ventilated
by grooves or fluting or by air holes pierced through it.
Dated this Seventeenth day of May 1892.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hoof Pads for Horses.
I, HAY DOWNIE of Corstorphine in the County of Midlothian, Saddler 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 hoof pads for use in conjunction with ordinary horse
shoes and the improvements have for object to ensure proper ventilation of the foot
or under cavity of the hoof whilst providing an efficient cushion between the hoof
and hard ground as also when desired a suitable frog pad and means for preventing
slipping more particularly in frosty weather.
The improved hoof pad which is represented in the accompanying drawings as
fitted to a horse shoe in plan at Figure 1 in inverted plan at Figure 2 and in side
elevation at Figure 3 is composed of a flat flange or strip A of rubber, rubber
cloth or similar flexible material adapted to fit between the shoe B and the hoof
and upon the inner edge of which is formed a ridge or web A' extending upwardly
to fit the cavity of the hoof in proximity to the shoe and downwardly at B₁ to form
a treading surface that will wear with the shoe and serve to prevent slipping. On
the surface of the web A¹ that fits the hoof is formed a channel a with a series of
cross grooves or corrugations a' communicating with orifices a pierced in the web
the said grooves constituting ventilating spaces to which air is admitted through the
orifices and said grooves or corrugations may extend over the entire flange of the
hoof pad. A frog pad may be formed at the heel part of the hoof pad and be
similarly ventilated by grooves or fluting or by air holes pierced through it.

page_text: 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 :-
A hoof pad for horses constructed and, furnished with means for ventilation of
the foot substantially as described.
Dated this 16th February 1893..
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.