Improvements in Fixing Shoes to Horses and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing Shoes to Horses and the like.
We GEORGE COLLS of 28 Cristowe Road, Hurlingham, Fulham in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier, and FREDERICK JOHN TETLEY, of Yew Cottage, Thames
Ditton, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in fixing shoes to horses and the like has for its
object to securely fix shoes to the hoofs of horses or other animals without the use
of nails screws or the like and to construct the shoes in such manner that they can
readily be fixed by unskilled persons.
In a shoe constructed according to this invention, lateral motion of the shoe is
prevented by means of a toe piece and lugs at the heel which embrace the
hoof and also by means of short spikes projecting from the shoe and which enter
the hoof. The lugs are perforated to receive a narrow steel or iron band and at
intervals round the shoe at its upper and outer edge are loops also for receiving the
narrow steel or iron bands. In order to fix the shoe it is applied to the hoof in the
ordinary manner and forced in close contact therewith, the lugs and toe piece
embracing the hoof and the spikes entering the hoof. A steel or iron band is then
passed round the front of the hoof and the ends passed through the holes in the
lug and bent over on themselves to firmly secure the band in position. The band is
then forced or drawn down the hoof until perfectly tight and bands are then passed
round it and through the loops in the shoe and bent over so as to hold the shoe to
the hoof.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing Shoes to Horses and the like.
We, GEORGE COLLS of 28 Cristow Road, Hurlingham, Fulham, in the County
of Middlesex, Farrier, and FREDERICK JOHN TETLEY of Yew Cottage Thames
Ditton, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, 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 for improvements in fixing shoes to horses and the like has for its
object to securely fix shoes to the hoofs of horses or other animals without the use
of nails screws or the like and to construct the shoes in such manner that they
can readily be fixed by unskilled persons.
In a shoe constructed according to this invention, lateral motion of the shoe is
prevented by means of a toe piece and lugs at the heel which embrace the hoof and
also by means of short spikes projecting from the shoe and which enter the hoof.
The lugs are perforated to receive a narrow steel or iron band and at intervals
round the shoe at its upper and outer edge are loops, also for receiving narrow steel
or iron bands. In order to fix the shoe, it is applied to the hoof in the ordinary
manner and forced into close contact therewith, the lugs and toe piece embracing
the hoof. An encircling steel or iron band is then passed round the front of the
hoof, and its ends are passed through the holes in the lugs and bent over on the
band to firmly secure the band in position. This encircling band is then forced or
drawn down the hoof until perfectly tight, and depending bands are passed round
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page_text: it, and through the loops in the shoe, and their ends bent over so as to hold the shoe
to the hoof.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a hoof showing the method of fixing the shoe,
according to this invention, and
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the shoe and fixings.
The shoe is provided at the front with a toe piece band at the back with lugs
projecting upwards from the upper side of the shoe so as to embrace the hoof d and
prevent lateral motion. Spikes e also projecting upwards from the upper side of
the shoc assist in keeping the shoe in place. The lugs c are each perforated with
a narrow vertical slit f. Narrow slits are formed at intervals round the shoe, in
projections from the shoe, which projections also clip the hoof and assist in
preventing lateral motion of the shoe.
In fixing a shoe to a hoof according to this invention, the shoe a is applied to
the hoof and hammered or otherwise forced into firm contact with the hoof d, the
spikes e entering the hoof and the toe piece band lugs e embracing it. The
encircling steel band is then passed round the front of the hoof and its ends are
passed through the slits in the lugs and turned back on the band and secured
by the loops which slide on the encircling band and are passed over the ends as
clearly shown. The encircling band h is then forced down the hoof towards the
toe piece until perfectly tight and the ends of depending steel bands are passed
under the encircling band bent over and secured by the loops in sliding on the
depending bands and passed over their ends; and the other ends of the depending
bands are passed through the slits g pulled tight and bent over and secured by
the loops m.
It will readily be seen that the growth of the hoof itself will tend to further fix
the shoe whilst in use. One end of the band h is shown attached to its' lug c by a
screw passing through the lug c and screwing into a lug on the end of the band
so that it can be tightened or loosened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. A fixing for horse shoes consisting of an encircling band passed tightly round
the front of the hoof and secured at its ends to the back part of the shoe by passing
its ends through perforations in the shoe, bending the ends back on themselves and
securing them by loops sliding on the band, and of depending bands secured
at intervals to the encircling band and to the shoe substantially as described.
2. A fixing for horse shoes consisting of a toe piece and of perforated lugs
clipping the hoof, of an encircling band passed tightly round the front of the hoof
and secured in the back lugs, and of depending bands secured at intervals to
the encircling band by bending the upper ends over the encircling band and
securing them by sliding loops and to the shoe by passing the lower ends through
perforations in the lugs, bending the ends back on themselves and securing them by
sliding loops substantially as described.
3. A fixing for horse shoes consisting of a toe piece band perforated lugs e at
the back of the shoe, of the perforations g in lugs on the shoe, of the encircling
band and sliding loops i, and of the depending bands and sliding loops m and n
substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 1st day of July 1899
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.