IMPROVEMENTS IN FROST AND SNOW SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOSEPH JOHN SNOOK, of 239 Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FROST AND SNOW SHOES FOR HORSES OR OTHER ANIMALS" to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to frost and snow shoes for horses or other animals,
that is to say, to shoes intended to be temporarily' fixed to the foot over the
ordinary shoe during frost to prevent the horse slipping or during snow to
prevent balling.
The improved shoe is composed of two plates or half shoes hinged together at
the toe so that their distance apart can be regulated or adjusted according to the
size of the ordinary shoe to which they are to be fitted. Each of these plates or
half shoes is formed at its outer edge with a vertical flange and the upper edge of
the flange is turned inwards in the form of a beveled flange to fit over the edge of
the upper face of the ordinary shoe. The two plates or half shoes have calks fixed
to them at suitable positions to form a "roughing" for the shoe; these calks are
preferably screwed into threaded holes made in the plates for the purpose; they are
inserted from the lower face, and in order to allow of the stem being readily
removed in the event of a calk breaking off, the inner end of the stem is nicked
like the head of a screw. Each of the two plates or half shoes is formed with a
screw threaded aperture at the heel to receive the corresponding thread of a right
and left handed adjusting screw which connects the heels of the two plates. This
screw is square or polygonal at the middle to enable it to be rotated by means of a
spanner.
The frost shoe constructed as above described is fixed over the ordinary shoe by
simply placing it around the latter and then giving one or more turns to the right

page_text: and left handed screw so as to draw the two plates or half shoes tightly against
the quarters of the ordinary shoe.
The shoe above described constitutes a frost shoe; when however snow is on the
ground this would be liable to ball. To prevent this a plate is used to cover the
space between the "quarters" of the frost shoe. This snow plate is preferably
convex or inclined from the middle to the sides so as to throw off the snow; it has
holes corresponding with the calks of the shoe and is secured to the shoe by the
calks themselves which for this purpose are removed to allow the snow plate to be
placed against the shoe and are then screwed back into place.
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page_text: I, JOSEPH JOHN SNOOK of 239 Oxford Street in the County of Middlesex;
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
from abroad by Philippe Emmanuel René Laffon de Ladébat of 163 Boulevard
Malesherbes Paris, France, Gentleman,) and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention has reference to frost and snow shoes for horses or other animals,
that is to say, to shoes intended to be temporarily fixed to the foot over the
ordinary shoe during frost to prevent the horse slipping or during snow to prevent
balling.
The drawings on Sheet 1 represent the improved frost shoe, Figure 1 being a
view of the top of the shoe and Figure 2 a view of the underside; Figure 3 is a
section on the line X X of Figure 1 and shows also the ordinary shoe and the
horse's hoof.
The improved frost shoe is composed of two half shoes hinged together at the
toe b so that their distance apart can be regulated or adjusted according to the
size of the ordinary shoe to which they are to be fitted. Each of these half shoes
is shown in these figures as formed of a plate a having at its outer edge a vertical
flange cc, the upper edge of this flange being turned inwards in the form of a
beveled flange d to fit over the edge of the upper face of the ordinary shoe. The
two plates or half shoes a a have calks es fixed to them at suitable positions to
form a "roughing" for the shoe; these calks are preferably screwed into threaded
holes made in the plates a a for the purpose; they are inserted from the lower
face and in order to allow of the stem being readily removed in the event of a calk
breaking off, the inner end of the stem is nicked like the head of a screw (see
Figure 1). Each of the two plates or balf shoes is formed with a screw threaded
aperture at the heel to receive the corresponding thread of a right and left handed
adjusting screw f which connects the heels of the two plates. This screw is square
or polygonal at the middle g to enable it to be rotated by means of a spanner (such
as that shown at Figure 4 Sheet 2). The frost shoe constructed as above described
is fixed over the ordinary shoe by simply placing it around the latter and then
giving one or more turns to the right and left handed screw f so as to draw the
two half shoes a a tightly against the "quarters" of the ordinary shoe.
Figures 1, 2 and 3, Sheet 2, represent a shoe which differs from that shown in
Sheet 1 only in that instead of the plates a a being continuous from the heel to
the toe there are lugs or flat portions a a at intervals to receive the calks e e, and
that instead of the beveled flanges d d being continuous from the heel to the toe
there are beveled projections or flanges d d at intervals only. The parts in
Sheet 2 corresponding with those in Sheet 1 are marked with the same letters.

page_text: The shoe above described constitutes a frost shoe; when however snow is on the
ground this would be liable to ball. To prevent this a plate is used to cover the
space between the "quarters" of the frost shoe. This snow plate is preferably
convex or inclined from the middle to the sides so as to throw off the snow; it
has holes corresponding with the calks ee of the shoe and is secured to the shoe
by the calks themselves which for this purpose are temporarily removed to allow
the snow plate to be placed against the shoe and are then screwed back into place.
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 I do not
claim broadly a. frost shoe made in halves that are jointed at the toe and are
caused to clip the sides or "quarters" of the ordinary shoe, but what I claim is :-
1. The frost shoe constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and repre-
sented in the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination with a frost shoe of the character of that herein described
of a snow plate secured to the said shoe by means of the calks, substantially as
set forth.