Improvements in and connected with Shoes and Sock Plates for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1897-Accepted, 19th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Shoes and Sock Plates for
Horses and other Animals.
We MAXWELL EASTON of 26 Holly Terrace Harrow Road Leytonstone Engineer
and HENRY WILLIAM ELLIS of 32 Vidal Road Brixton Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable shoes for horses donkeys and other
animals to be readily attached to the hoofs without the use of nails.
Now according to this invention we provide a sock plate of steel or iron preferably
stamped or raised from sheet metal to which each shoe is attached. Each sock plate
which may be of any convenient width is turned up at the heel on one or both sides
and has also a turned up portion at the front thereof which is turned over at the top
to form a hook.
We turn up also a portion of the sock plate near the heels thereof one portion being
provided with a slot to receive a flexible metal band. The other turned up portion
near the opposite heel is formed with two pawls or catches which engage with a double
ratchet formed in one with or attached to the free end of the said metal band..
We may also turn up one or more portions of the sock plate between the front and
heel thereof. The front and intermediate turned up portions have points or spikes
raised on the inside thereof which are 'driven into the wall of the hoof and help to
retain the sock plate on the hoof.
The shoe may be secured to the sock plate by rivets screws or other suitable
fastenings.
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The shoe is attached to the sock plate and when the latter is in its proper
position on the hoof the flexible band is brought round the hoof under the hook
and pulled tight by means of a suitable lever and prevented from becoming slack
by means of the double ratchet at the end of the band.
Dated this 5th day of August 1896.
T. E. HALFORD,
11 Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in and connected with Shoes and Sock Plates for
Horses and other Animals.
We MAXWELL EASTON of 26 Holly Terrace Harrow Road Leytonstone Engineer
and HENRY WILLIAM ELLIS of 32 Vidal Road Brixton 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 :-
The object of this invention is to enable shoes for horses donkeys and other
animals to be readily attached to the hoofs without the use of nails.

page_text: Now according to this invention we provide a sock plate of steel or iron preferably
stamped or raised from sheet metal to which each shoe is attached. Each sock
plate which may be of any convenient width is turned up at the heel on one or
both sides and has also a turned up portion at the front thereof which is turned over
at the top to form a hook.
We turn up also a portion of the sock plate near the heels thereof one portion
being provided with a slot to receive a flexible metal hand. The other turned up
portion near the opposite heel is formed with two pawls or catches which engage
with a double ratchet formed in one with or attached to the free end of the said
metal band.
We may also turn up one or more portions of the sock plate between the front
and heel thereof. The front and intermediate turned up portions have points or
spikes raised on the inside thereof which are driven into the wall of the hoof and
help to retain the sock plate on the hoof.
The shoe may be secured to the sock plate by rivets screws or other suitable
fastenings.
The shoe is attached to the sock plate and when the latter is in its proper position
on the hoof the flexible band is brought round the hoof under the hook and pulled
tight by means of a suitable lever and prevented from becoming slack by means of
the double ratchet at the end of the band.
And in order that our said invention may be fully understood we will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1. represents front view of a sock plate and horseshoe constructed according to
this invention.
Fig. 2. is side view of same.
Fig. 3. is side view of a modified form of our invention..
Fig. 4 is plan of same.
Fig. 5 is a detail hereinafter referred to.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is the shoe of steel iron or any other suitable material this shoe is attached to a
sock plate b by screws or rivets or other suitable means.
The sock plate b is made from sheet metal or alloy preferably iron or steel the said
plate is preferably raised or stamped in suitable dies and has turned up portions e at
the heel thereof.
The said sock plate has a turned up portion d at the front thereof the top of the
portion d being bent downwards to form a hook f.
The sock plate has also turned up portions
flexible metal band i is attached.
not required.
near the heels thereof to which the
are turned portions which may be omitted if
The band of iron steel or other flexible metal is attached at one end to the
portion 9 and at the other end to a ratchet piece k which when the sock plate is in
position on the hoof engages with two pawls or catches 11 attached to or formed in
one with the piece h.
We may also turn up one or more portions of the sock plate to form spikes between
the front and heel thereof which spikes enter the hard part of the bottom of the hoof
and prevent the sock plate from slipping.
The turned up portions d. g h. have spikes m formed therein by 'stamping piercing
raising or otherwise which spikes are driven into the wall of the hoof and help to retain
the sock plate thereon.
The sock plates are fitted, to the hoofs and the shoes fitted and attached to the sock
plates. by rivets or otherwise, and the whole placed on the hoof and when in their
proper positions the flexible band i is brought round the hoof under the hook and
drawn tight by means of a suitable lever and prevented from becoming slack by means
of the ratchet piece k attached to the band and which engages with the catches lon
the sock plate.
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Before tightening the band a the spikes on the sock plate are driven into the hoof.

page_text: The spikes are of any convenient shape preferably bulged as shewn at Fig. 5. or
barbed so as to prevent them from leaving the hoof until the shoe is worn out.
According to the modified form of our invention shewn by Figs. 3 and 4 we
dispense with the band i and secure the sock plate to the hoof by means of the
spikes m on the turned up portions d g h and by the spikes n on the bottom of the
sock plate.
When the animal is to be shod suitable sock plates are selected the shoes attached
thereto the sock plates driven on to the hoof until they are in contact and the
portions dgh are then closed on to the hoof until the spikes m are firmly imbedded
in the wall thereof. The spikes on the sock plate are preferably shaped as herein before
described.
If the shoes are made of malleable cast iron or other similar material the sock
plates may be dispensed with and the spikes cast on the shoe itself.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A sock plate having turned up portions dgh whereof the portion d forms a
hook at the upper end thereof in combination with a flexible metal band i attached
to the portion at one end and having a ratchet piece at the other end adapted to
engage with catches 11 formed on the portion h substantially as hereinbefore specified
and for the purpose stated.
2. A sock plate having turned up portions dgh with spikes m on the inside of
the said portions and spikes n on the inside of the sole of the sock plate the said
spikes being formed by stamping piercing or raising from the metal forming the
sock plate and adapted to enter the bottom and wall of the hoof and hold the shoe
firmly thereto substantially as specified and for the purpose stated.
3. A sock plate having turned up portions gd hand spikes m n on the inside of the
said portions and sole of the sock plate in combination with a flexible metal band i
attached to the portion 9 at one end and furnished with a ratchet piece k at the
other end which ratchet piece is adapted to engage with catches 11 on the piece h all
substantially as hereinbefore specified and for the purpose stated.
4. The combination of a sock plate & having turned up portions d g h and furnished
with spikes m n with a shoe a secured to the said sock plate by screws rivets or other
suitable means substantially as bereinbefore specified.
5. Sock plates and shoes for horses and other animals constructed as shewn by the
accompanying drawings.
DL: WAL
CA 1907
T. E. HALFORD,
11 Furnival Street, Holborn, London, Agent for Applicants.