An Improved Device for Use in Connection with Horse Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 13th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Use in Connection with Horse Shoes.
I ALBERT ALLSOP of Nos. 83 and 84 Windmill Lane Stratford in the County of.
Essex Cab and Fly Proprietor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
1. The Novelty consists in introducing a Moulded Piece of India rubber with a
flange and a half round Edge tapering from the toe of the Shoe to the heel nailed
through between the Iron Shoe of the horse and its hoof which effectually prevents
cutting the other legs by the Shoe.
It is claimed for this Novelty that the invention will do away with the present
appliances now in use for the prevention of cutting being more effectual and much
neater than boots rings &c. known in the trade.
That the piece of India rubber so fixed acts as a buffer and prevents injury to
the other leg in cases where horses are prone to cut one leg by the Shoe of
the other.
It is also claimed that the farrier by using this invention on horses that cut them-
selves will not require to cut and rasp the feet away and draw in the heels of the
Shoe of the horse (as now done) which cause horses feet to contract and often leads
to lameness.
ALBERT ALLSOP,
83 & 84, Windmill Lane, Stratford, E.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Use in Connection with Horse Shoes.
I, ALBERT ALLSOP, of Nos. 83 and 84 Windmill Lane, Stratford, in the County of
Essex, Cab and Fly Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 is intended to be applied to horses which cut one leg with the hoof or shoe
of the other and is for the purpose of preventing horses damaging themselves in this
manner. The essential feature of novelty in my invention consists in the application
to the hoof of a protector consisting of a fillet which extends round, or part of the
way round, the hoof and a flange by which it is attached and which flange is placed
between the iron shoe and the hoof and nailed through and secured by the nails which
attach the shoe.
In the drawings hereunto annexed and forming part of this my specification Fig. 1,
is a front elevation of a horse's hoof to which one of my protectors is applied. Fig. 2,
is a plan of the under side of the same. Fig. 3, is a plan of my said protector, and
Fig. 4, is a transverse section through the same."
A is the horse's hoof, B is the usual iron shoe attached by the nails b, b; C, is the
fillet of my protector extending preferably about half round the hoof on that side
which is next the adjacent leg and D is a flange which is to be inserted between the
shoe B and the hoof A. The whole may be made of vulcanized india rubber either
with or without a strengthening layer of canvas in the flange and extending into the
fillet. In actual use however I find that india rubber alone or combined with canvas
is not sufficiently strong to bear the rough wear to which it is subject for so long a
time as is desirable and I have therefore tried many other substances and combinations
and I find that a really durable protector may be made of woodite or of woodite
combined with an indiarubber fillet, but I prefer woodite by itself. The woodite
which I have employed for this purpose I have obtained from the Woodite Company

page_text: Limited of Delabay Street, Great George Street, Westminster who are able to so
manufacture the woodite that the protector lasts approximately as long as the iron shoe
with which it is associated.
The flange may conveniently be made thickest at the heel or back of the hoof and
thinner towards the front, so as to allow the iron shoe to lie evenly and bed itself
properly, and I prefer to make the fillet taper off towards the front end.
My Invention is intended to supersede appliances now commonly in use for the same
purpose and is more effectual and far neater.
A further advantage in connection with the use of my protectors is that the farrier
has not to cut and rasp the hoof away and draw in the heels of the shoe as
hitherto whereby the hoofs are caused to contract and lameness sometimes
produced.
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. Constructing protectors for horses substantially as and for the purpose described
and set forth.
2. Constructing protectors for horses as described of indiarubber, indiarubber
and canvas, woodite, or woodite and india rubber substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this Thirteenth day of June 1889.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.