Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 29th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 29th Nov., 1887
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
1, CHARLES HOWIESON, of Dollar, in the County of Clackmannan, North Britain,
Blacksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows, that is
to say-
My said Invention has for its objects to diminish the injury to horses hoof's caused
by frequent reshoeing according to the ordinary system, and to provide for easily
adapting horses feet for frosty or open weather.
In carrying out my Invention I provide permanent inner shoes to be accurately
fitted to the hoofs and which should be fixed thereto as carefully as possible. These
permanent inner shoes are not to be subject to ordinary wear and will therefore last a
very long time during which the hoofs will not require to be touched for removing or
refixing the shoes. The outer surfaces of the inner shoes are made flat excepting
projections at the toes and calk parts; these projections are however not for wear but
to assist in confining outer wearing shoes which are provided and inade so as to fit.
against the inner permanent shoes and which are formed with the usual wearing calks
and toe points. The outer wearing shoes are fixed to the inner permanent shoes by
screw pins entered through holes in the outer shoes into screw-tapped holes in the
inner shoes. Two screw pins, one on each side, will in general be sufficient for fixing
the outer shoes but more may be used if found desirable.
For frosty weather outer shoes are provided with sharp calks and toe points, and are
substituted for the outer shoes having ordinary calks and toe points when required.
The outer shoes made with sharp calks and toe points may be used with ordinary
horse shoes if these are previously prepared by having screw-tapped holes formed in
them to receive the screw pins.
The improved shoes may be made of iron or steel or partly of iron and partly of
steel.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Horse Shoes...
1, CHARLES HOWIESON, of Dollar, in the County of Clackmannan, North Britain,
Blacksmith, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its objects to diminish the injury to horses hoofs caused
by frequent reshoeing according to the ordinary system, and to provide for easily
adapting horses feet for frosty or open weather.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing two modifications of my improvements.
Figures, 1, and, 2, on the accompanying drawings are respectively an inverted plan
and an edge view of a permanent inner shoo to be fixed to the hoof. Figures, 3, and 4,
are similar views of an outer wearing shoe; and figures 5, and 6, are respectively an
inverted plan and a section showing these twc shoes combined. Figures, 7, and, 8, are
similar views showing a sharpened outer shoe for frosty weather as combined with an
ordinary horse shoe. In these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark
the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my Invention I provide a permanent inner shoe 10, to be accurately
fitted to the hoof and which should be fixed thereto by nails in the ordinary way as
carefully as possible. This permanent inner shoo, 10, is not to be subject to ordinary
wear and will therefore last a very long time during which the hoof will not require to
be touched for removing or refixing the shoe. The outer surface of the inner shoe, 10,
is made flat excepting projections, 11, 12, at the too and calk parts; these projections
are however not for wear but to assist in confining an outer wearing shoe, 13, which
is provided and made so as to fit against the inner permanent shoe, 10, and which is
formed with the usual wearing calks, 14, and toe point, 15. The outer wearing
shoe, 13, is fixed to the inner permanent shoe, 10, by two screw pins, 16, entered
through holes, 17, in the outer shoe, 13, into screw-tapped holes, 18, in the inner
shoe, 10. Two screw pins, 16, one on each side will in general be sufficient for fixing
the outer shoe but more may be used if found desirable.
For frosty weather there is provided an outer wearing shoe mado of suitably
tempered steel and with sharp calks and toe points this shoe being substituted for the
outer wearing shoe, 13, having ordinary calks, 14, and toe point, 15, and being
fastened to the permanent inner shoe, 10, in a similar manner by the screw pins, 16.
In the modification shown in figures, 7, 8, which is also intended to be used in frosty
weather, an ordinary horse shoe, 19, is shown as having combined with it an outer
wearing shoe, 20, niade with sharp calks, 21, and toc point, 22, the horse shoe, 19,
being previously prepared by having screw-tapped holes (18) formed in it to receive
the screw pins, 16.

page_text: The improved shoes may be made of iron or steel or partly of iron and partly
of steel.
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 combination of permanent inner horse shoes and outer wearing shoes the
latter being made either with ordinary or sharp calks and toe points and fixed by simple
screw pins substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
2. The application of outer wearing shoes with sharp calks and toe points for frosty
weather to ordinary horse shoes the said outer wearing shoes being fixed by simple
screw pins substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty eighth day of October 1887.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.