Improvements in and relating to Means for Preventing Horses and other Draught Animals from Slipping.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1889.
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Means for Preventing Horses and
other Draught Animals from Slipping.
I, JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT of 700 Holloway Road, Holloway in the County
of London, Bootmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to means for preventing horses and other draught aninials
from slipping upon smooth and frosty roads.
The method hitherto adopted by some in order to prevent horses from slipping has
been to roughen their shoes or to provide the shoes with one or more pads or pieces
of india rubber or other material. The great disadvantage of this method has been
that the shoes have had to be specially constructed. Others have employed pads of
india rubber or the like which have filled the inside of the shoe and been fixed on
therewith. This arrangement however has the disadvantage that the frog is covered
and so becomes heated.
The object of my invention is to provide means which can be used in conjunction
with an ordinary horse-shoe and which can be readily fixed and removed.
In carrying out my invention I provide a pad of india rubber or other suitable
material which is fitted inside the shoe, the inner side of the pad being shaped to fit
the frog and under side of the hoof while the outer side is caused to project slightly
beyond the wearing surface of the ordinary shoe, the said outer.side being preferably
formed with projections to roughen it.
Inside this pad is arranged a locking device comprising a number of bolts which
are preferably adapted to be shot simultaneously so as to project above the top side of
the shoe to hold the pad in position. In practice I find it advantageous to employ
three bolts one of which engages with the front of the shoe and the other two with
the sides. The lateral bolts are arranged to engage in notches in the sides of the
central bolt and to be held in position by springs so that the said bolts cannot become
accidentally displaced and thus allow the pad to fall out.
Any other suitable means may be employed for locking the pad in position instead
of those above described.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements, in and relating to Means for Preventing Horses and*
other Draught Animals from Slipping.
I, JOSEPH HAYWARD BORRETT, of 700 Holloway Road, Holloway in the County
of London, Bootmaker 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 :-
My invention relates to means for preventing horses and other draught animals
from slipping upon smooth and frosty roads.
The method hitherto adopted by some in order to prevent horses from slipping has
been to roughen their shoes, or to provide the shoes with one or more pads or
pieces of india-rubber or other material. The great disadvantage of this method has
been that the shoes have had to be specially constructed. Others have employed pads
of india-rubber or the like which have, filled the inside of the, shoe and been fixed on
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page_text: therewith. This arrangement however has the disadvantage that the frog is covered
and so becomes heated.
The object of my invention is to provide means which can be used in conjunction
with an ordinary horse-shoe, and which can be readily fixed and, removed.
According to one method of carrying out my invention, I provide a pad of india-
rubber, or other suitable material, which is fitted inside the shoe, the outer side is
cansed to project slightly beyond the wearing surface of the ordinary shoe, the said
outer side being preferably formed with projections to roughen it.
Inside this pad is arranged a locking device, comprising a number of bolts, which
are preferably adapted to be shot simultaneously so as to project above the top side of
the shoe, to hold the pad in position. In practice I find it advantageons to employ
three bolts, one of which engages with the front of the shoe and the other two with
the sides. The lateral bolts are arranged to engage in slots or notches in the central
bolt, and to be held in position by a spring or springs, so that the said bolts cannot
become accidentally displaced and thus allow the pad to fall out.
In the accompanying two sheets of drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan of the underside of a horse's hoof, fitted with an ordinary horse-shoe,
shewing my appliance affixed thereto.
Fig. 7, is a sectional elevation of the same through the line X X in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of the upper side of the said appliance
detached.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the underside of the apparatus for fixing the said pad, and
Figs. 5 and 6 are plans of the same with the cover removed shewing the parts in
different positions.
Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively plan and cross sectional elevation of a modified form
of my apparatus.
Similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout the drawings.
Referring to Figs. 1 to 7, A is the hoof, and B an ordinary shoe affixed thereto in
the usual manner, C is a pad of indian-rubber, or other suitable material, which fits
the inside of the shoc. This pad projects beyond the surface of the shoe, and is
formed with projections on the outer side to roughen it, as shown.
The locking device for securing the pad consists of a casing formed of two
plates D D¹, between which slide three bolts E E E. The long central bolt E
engages with the front of the shoe, and the short lateral bolts E¹ E², which work at
right-angles to the central bolt engage with the sides of the shoe. The inner ends of
the bolts EE are provided with pins F, which engage in slots H in the central.
bolt E so shaped that when the bolt E is pushed out or pulled' in, the bolts E! E are
simultaneously caused to project or are withdrawn. In Fig. 5 the bolts are shewn
projecting, and in Fig. 6 withdrawn. When the bolts are projected the pin J on the
spring K drops into a hole L in the bolt E, and thus locks all the bolts in such
position, and prevents the appliance from becoming accidentally displaced and falling
out of the shoe. In place of using a pin, the end of the spring K may drop into a
notch in the plate, to lock the bolts.
The appliance can be instantly slipped into the shoe and fixed by simply pushing in
the end of the central bolt, when the three bolts will project over the top of the shoe
as shewn by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. For removal, it is only necessary to insort a
little book or piece of bent rod into the hole L, which will push down the pin J, and
spring K, enabling the bolts to be drawn back by the same hook when the apparatus
will drop out of the shoe."
In the modified arrangement shewn in Figs. 8 and 9, no Indian-rubber pad is used,
but the under plate D is provided with extensions D² which come on the face of the
shoe B. A tapered metal stud M provided with a head M fits into a taper hole in
each such extension and is fixed securely in place by the head M' being gripped
between the shoe and the plate. A piece of indian-rubber, or other suitable elastic
material N, may be interposed to enable the apparatus to adapt itself to variations in
the thickness of the shoe. When the studs are worn down fresh ones can be readily

page_text: inserted. They take the place of the projections upon the pad C, or of the ordinary
roughening pieces fitted to horse shoes.
Although I have only shown three bolts for fixing the appliance, a greater number
may be employed if desired, and I do not confine myself to the specific arrangement
shewn and described for operating and locking the said bolts, thus, for example, the
end of the central bolt may be a fixed projection, the lateral bolts only being movable.
The pad C may be moulded and vulcanised around the locking apparatus, or the
said pad may be made in two or more parts and cemented together around the said
apparatus.
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 a pad of Indian-rubber, or other suitable, material, with a
device consisting of sliding bolts and a locking spring or springs, for securing the
said pad within a horse shoe, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The arrangement of three or more sliding bolts E E E², secured by a spring
catch J, or other suitable locking device, for fixing a pad C within a horse shoe,
substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
3. The apparatus for preventing horses and other draught animals from slipping,
constructed substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn, with
reference to Figs. 1 to 7 of the accompanying drawings.
4. The apparatus for attaching studs to the shoes of horses and other draught
animals, constructed substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn,
with reference to Figs. 8 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
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Dated this 24th day of June 1890.
AMBROSE MYALL,
21, Cockspur Street, S.W., Agent for the Applicant.