IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES EMPLOYED IN THE PROTECTION OF THE FEET OR HOOFS OF HORSES, ASSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Edward Yates; of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES EMPLOYED IN THE PROTECTION OF THE FEET OR
HOOFS OF HORSES, ASSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS.".
Sealed, the 30th October 1874, and dated the 17th July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Edward Yates
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th July 1874.
I, WALTER EDWARD YATES, of Manchester, in the County of
5 Lancaster, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES EMPLOYED IN THE PROTECTION OF
THE FEET OR HOOPS OF HORSES, ASSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as
follows:-
M.. Tuzantion volatos to the shoes which are attached to the hoofs of

page_text: horses, ponies, asses, and other draught animals, and animals employed
in the conveyance of burdens.
Previously to my said Invention such shoes have ordinarily been made
entirely of metal, and have therefore been more or less rigid, and as a
consequence the jar or concussion arising when the shoe has struck the
ground has to some extent had an injurious effect upon the hoof and
adjacent parts, and also such shoes have been liable to slip upon asphalt
and other pavements.
The object of my said Invention is to remedy the said defects, and
to this end I form the said shoes entirely or partially of untanned:
animal hide, such for example as the material well known as buffalo
hide.
In forming the said shoes I prefer to cut the hide into strips and to
fold a strip so as to double or increase its thickness, and to bend the said
folded strip into the required form, the folded edge being outwards.
Additional strips may be inserted within the folds of the first-named
strip if required or considered to be necessary or suitable. The folds or
layers may be stitched, riveted, or cemented, or otherwise secured
together. The shoes may then be subjected to compression within or
between dies suitably formed to impart the desired shape and size 2
to the said shoes, and also to impart a more finished appearance
thereto.
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If it be considered desirable to render the shoes more impervious to
moisture the said shoes or the hides or strips from which they are formed
may be treated with oil or other substance or liquid calculated to have 2
the desired effect.
I believe that shoes formed of the said material will not be so liable
to become loose as when formed of iron, and that the use of the said
shoes will be attended with other advantages than those herein.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Walter Edward Yates in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
EDWARD YATES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Mechanical
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Seventeenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Walter Edward Yates,
Her special license that I, the said Walter Edward Yates, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Walter Edward Yates, my executors, administrators, and assigns;
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES EMPLOYED IN THE PRO-
TECTION OF THE FEET OR HOOFS OF HORSES, ASSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon
the condition, amongst others, that I, the said Walter Edward Yates,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Edward Yates, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to the shoes which are attached to the hoofs of
horses, ponics, asses, and other draught animals, and animals employed
in the conveyance of burdens.

page_text: Previously to my said Invention such shoes have ordinarily been made
entirely of metal, and have therefore been more or less rigid, and as a
consequence the jar or concussion arising when the shoe has struck the
ground has to some extent had an injurious effect upon the hoof and
adjacent parts, and also such shoes have been liable to slip upon "asphalt"
and other pavements.
The object of my said Invention is to remedy the said defects, and to
this end I form the sail shoes entirely or partially of untanned animal
hide, such for example as the material well known as buffalo hide.
In forming the said shoes I prefer to employ the said buffalo hide and
to cut the hide into strips, and to fold a strip so as to double or increase
its thickness, and to bend the said folded strip into the required form,
the folded edge being outwards and the two cut edges of the folded strip
inwards. Additional strips may be inserted within the folds of the first-
named strip so as to increase the thickness of the shoe if required or
considered to be necessary or suitable. The folds or layers may be
stitched, riveted, or cemented, or otherwise secured together, as for
example, copper rivets or copper wires, inserted and secured in a similar
manner as wlien making leather strapping, may be employed, the
stitching rivets or fasteners passing through the several thicknesses of
hide in a line somewhat near the inner cut edges thereof. The shoes
may then be subjected to compression within or between dies suitably
formed to impart the desired shape and size to the said shoes, and also
to impart a more finished appearance thereto.
If it be considered desirable to render the shoes more impervious to
moisture the said shoes or the hide or strips from which they are formed
may be treated with oil or other substance or liquid calculated to have
the desired effect. In case the hide be of sufficient thickness without
doubling I may dispense with the doubling, but this I do not profer
to do.
I believe that shoes formed of the said material will not be so liable
to become loose as when formed of iron, and that the use of the said
shoes will be attended with other advantages than those herein
indicated.
Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of my said
Invention and the manner in which I carry the same into practical

page_text: effect, I would have it to be understood that I claim the manufacturing
of shoes of the kind herein indicated from the material and, in the
manner substantially as herein-before set forth and indicated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Edward Yates, have hicre-
unto set my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fivc.
WALTER EDW³. YATES. (L.S.)
Signed and scaled by the
said Walter Edward Yates,
in the presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent to the Patentec,
3, Princess Street,
Albert Square,
Manchester.