An Improved Hock Boot, and Method of Fastening same, for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
An Improved Hock Boot, and Method of Fastening same, for Horses
and other Animals.
FRANK ELLIOTT Harness Maker 45 Beauchamp Place Kensington St. Mary
Abbotts County of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improved hock boot and method of fastening same for horses and other
animals. This invention has for its objects a more secure way of fastening the
boot and allowing greater ease and freedom to the leg.
The said boot is first made in, the usual way excepting the fastening and of any
suitable materiels, but instead of fastening going all round outside the boot or other
ways in use, I provide an opening through the boot on either side above the hock
or upper part of boot and a suitable distance from the back edge of boot through
which opening the fasteing or strap pass from one side to the other the fastening
thereby coming directly upon the back part of the animals leg inside the back
part of boot, or may if desirid pass through between the outer part of boot and
the lining of same, the whole of the other part of strap or fastening from the
openings forward will come round outside the boot in usual manner.
Dated this 14th day of January 1896.
An Improved Hock Boot, and Method of Fastening same, for Horses
and other Animals.
FRANK ELLIOTT Saddler and Harness Maker 45 Beauchamp Place Kensington
St. Mary Abbotts County of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention
aud in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a more secure way of fastening the boot and
allowing greater ease and freedom to the leg.
The said boot is first made in the usual way excepting the fastening Fig. 1 and
of any suitable materials, instead of the fastening going all round outside the
boot Fig. 2 or other ways in use I provide an opening & through the boot on
either side above the hock or upper part of boot, and a suitable distance from the
back seam or edge of boot, through which openings the fastening Fig. 1 or strap
pass from one side to the other and coming directly upon the back part of the
animals leg inside the back part of boot 4 or may if desired pass through between
the outer part of boot and the lining of same, the whole of the other part of strap
or fastening 1, 2, 3 from the opening forward will come round outside the boot.

page_text: Fig. 1. strap or fastening.
Fig. 2 boot fitted up, shewing out side view. A. loop or tab removed to shew
opening G in boot.
Fig. 3 inside view of boot, 5, piece of lining of boot removed to shew fastening 4
and openings G. G.
The strap or fastening may be of any one or more suitable materials, but one of
leather with a rubber spring center 4 and provided with a buckle at one end
prefered, viz. A rubber spring 4 is made about 1 inch wide, about inch thick
and about 5 inchs long or it may be a band of rubber inch thick 1 inch
wide and about 5 inchs long on the double, at either end of this said spring
is fixed a metal square or dee No. 3, now is provided a strap of leather No. 2
about 5 inchs long by about 1 inch wide, to one end of this strap is fixed a
buckle No.1 the other end of same is fixed to the metal square No. 3 in the said
rubber spring, to the metal square No. 3 at the other end of spring is fixed a
leather strap No. 2 about 10 inchs long by about 1 inch wide in which are
holes punched suitable for buckleing the said strap, this forming a complete
fastening as Fig. 1.
Having now particular discribed 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,
An hock boot for horses and other animals, the strap or fastening of which
instead of continuing all round outside of boot as is usual, is passed through
to the inside of boot and out again at the opposite side, the fastening thereby
taking a more direct bearing upon the back part of the animals leg.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1896.
FRANK ELLIOTT.