IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF SHOES WITHOUT NAILS TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND CERTAIN OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO, WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PERCIVALL, of Knightsbridge, in the County of Middlesex, Veterinary Surgeon,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of January, in the eighth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William. Percivall, His special licence that I, the said William
Percivall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Percivall, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION
OF SHOES WITHOUT NAILS TO THE FEET OF HORSES AND CERTAIN OTHER ANIMALS;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
William Percivall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled
in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Percivall, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in the addition of such loops and eyes to the ordinary frog bar shoe
as will enable me to bind the shoe to the foot, in manner heretofore unused,
and which shoe when so applied I call a horse sandal; and in further com-
pliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Percivall, do hereby describe
the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed, by the following
description thereof, reference being had to the Drawings annexed, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In the Drawing marked No. 1, Figure 1 is a view of the upper side of
a frog bar shoe, or the side which goes next to the foot of the animal. A is a
toe clasp turning on a hinge joint r, and furnished with a double loop in
front, not shown in this Drawing. B, B, are two double eyes of strong iron
wire, passing through the heel clips C, C, the use of which will be explained
bereafter. Figure 2 is a ligature G, made of web, with a strap and buckle;
and Figure is another ligature R of the same kind, but furnished with
the pads D and E. The mode of applying these ligatures will be shewn
hereafter.
The Drawing marked No. 2 represents a perspective view of 2 horse's foot
with the patent horse sandal applied.
The Drawing marked No. 3 represents the mode of binding on the
sandal with the ligatures G and R, before described. A is the toe clasp,
turning on the hinge joint r, and furnished with the double loop I. J, which
keeps the two parts of the ligature G separate from each other, and prevents
their slipping either up or down. This ligature G is passed through the
lower part of the double eye B, at the other side of the foot, in exactly the same
manner as at the side here shown, then drawn tight and buckled. The
ligature, R is then passed through the upper part of the double eye B, where
it is held better to its position by means of the loose loop S, and the pad D is
brought over the heels to the other side of the foot; the ligature then passes
through the upper part of the double eye and a loose loop on that side exactly
similar to the manner here shown, and is brought round the pastern, drawn
tight, and buckled over the pad E, as here represented.
Now whereas it is evident these sandals may be equally well applied in s
the same manner to the feet of mules and asses, and I claim as my
Invention,―
First, the addition of the double loops I, J, on the hinge clasp A, and the
double eyes B, B, to a frog bar shoe; and,

page_text: Secondly, my mode of applying the same to the foot of the animal, by the
position of ligatures and pads herein-before explained.
And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief
entirely new, and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my
said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained, wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and
priviledge to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Percivall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and twants niche