Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd June, 1897-Accepted, 28th Aug., 1897
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I, WALTER BRANDRETH BROMLEY Civil Engineer of 29 Augusta Gardens
Folkestone Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
To effect improvements in horse shoes, for minimising concussion and slipping,
by a combination of metal with India rubber.
I make the metal shoe of the ordinary shape, with four or more slots cut through
about the centre of its width-the outer or nailing edge I make about inch
thicker than the rest and of just sufficient width to enable the usual groove for the
nails being formed--this leaves about inch space between the sole of the foot and
the inner portion of the metal shoe for about 3rds the width of shoe. I make a
rubber pad to fill this space, upon which projections of rubber are moulded to
correspond with the slots in the metal shoe, the said projections being made to
extend about a tinch beyond the ground surface of the metal shoe.
The rubber pad will be all in one piece and may be made with or without a rubber
cross bar over the frog or heel; and if required may be moulded on to the metal
shoe in which case the projections could be made larger on the head-like a rivet
head, so as to give greater bearing surface.
The metal shoe may be made in two half plates, jointed or not-to allow of the
free expansion of the foot.
The nails will be of the ordinary description, the metal shoe-with the rubber pad
inserted in its place-being nailed onto the foot in the usual manner.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1896,
W. B. BROMLEY.
I, WALTER BRANDRETH BROMLEY, C.E. of 29 Augusta Gardens, Folkestone, Kent
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention refers to horseshoes in which the concussion and risk of slipping are
greatly minimised. The shoes are what may be called compound shoes, that is to say
they are not entirely made of metal but partly of metal and partly of india rubber or
some such resilient material,

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings represents in plan the metal part
of a shoe.
Figure 1 is a section thereof on the line a-a Figure 1.
Figure 1 is a section on the line b-b Figure 1.
Figure 2 is an inverted plan of the india rubber part of the shoe.
Figure 2A is a section on the line a a Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a section on the line bb Figure 2.
Figure 3 is an inverted plan of the complete shoe.
Figure 3 is a section on the line a a Figure 3.
Figure 3 is a section on the line Figure 3 and
Figure 4 is a side elevation of the complete shoc.
I make the metal part d of the shoe of the ordinary shape as shewn more particu-
larly in Figures 1, 14 and 1 with say six slots d cut through about the centre
of its width, but there may only he four or five slots if desired or there may even be
more than six. The outer or nailing edge d2 is made thicker than and is chamfered
off towards the inner part and it is further of sufficient width to support the wall of
the animals hoof and to permit of a fuller or groove for the nails underneath.
The fact of making the outer edge of the shoe thicker than the inner edge as shewn
creates a space in the present instance about two thirds of the width of the shoe.
A rubber pad e, see Figures 2, 24 and 2, is made to fit into this space upon
which pad projections of rubber are moulded, made or otherwise attached to
correspond with the slots d in the metal part d of the shoe as shown in Figure 3, the
said projections being made to extend about an eighth of an inch or slightly more or
less beyond the ground or under surface of the metal part of the shoe. The rubber
pad is made of such a thickness see Figures 3AA and 3BB as to extend say a sixteenth
of an inch above the level of the thickened part 2 of the shoe so as to bed on the
wall and sole of the animal's foot, at or about the line all round where the wall and the
sole join in order that the pad shall not move up and down and that the projections e¹
shall present as firm a surface as possible consistent with the elasticity or resiliency
of the material of which the said pad and the projections are made. If desired all
the corners and edges of the slots may be slightly rounded so as to prevent the
cutting of the india rubber pad and its projections.
The nails may be of usual construction and after the metal part of the shoe has
been fitted to the animal's foot, the pad is inserted in its place and the shoe is nailed
to the wall of the hoof in the ordinary manner.
Figure 4 represents the complete shoe on the animal's foot.
It is of the utmost importance that there should be no yielding material between
the shoe and the wall of the hoof where the nailing is effected, as, if such be the case
it has been found that the metal part of the shoe works each time the animal puts
its foot down with the result that the nails speedily become loosened if indeed a
serious accident do not occur by the shoe becoming partially or wholly detached
owing to the nails being drawn out or broken off.
My object throughout is to form a yielding and rigid combination shoe so that
when the animal puts its foot to the ground, the rubber projections will reduce the
force of concussion and prevent slipping while both the rubber and metal parts will
come into play. If the projections were extended too far beyond the lower surface
of the metal part of the shoe the foothold afforded would not be satisfactory, and for
this reason it is not intended that these projections should extend beyond such lower
surface more than is absolutely necessary.
As a general rule shoes constructed according to this my invention are very suitable
for applying to the fore feet but they may also if desired be applied equally well to
the hind feet although there is not usually so much concussion in the case of the
hind feet as there is in the case of the fore feet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what inanner the same is to be performed I declare that I am
aware that it has already been proposed to construct horse shoes partly of metal and

page_text: partly of indiarubber and I do not therefore broadly claim a shoe thus constructed
but what I do claim is :-
1. A horseshoe consisting of a metal part d with slots d and having a thickened
edge for supporting the wall of the hoof and containing the holes for the nails pro-
vided with a pad e of india rubber or other suitable yielding material intended to be
in contact with the inner part of the wall and sole of the hoof and having a number
of projections el extending through the slots and projecting beyond the lower
surface of the metal part of the shoe substantially as described and shown.
2. The construction of horseshoe shown on the drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1897.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.