Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
I, MARY EMILY POUPARE, of Cambrian House, West Norwood, in the County
of Surrey, Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to shoes for horses or other hoofed animals and consists in
applying shoes to the hoofs in sections inter-locking with one another and at the
same time capable of movement to one another to follow the expansion and
contraction of the hoof, whilst at the same time the sections are so formed and of
such small relative size adapting to the contour of any hoof that they can be
cheaply produced by stamping or otherwise from material which would otherwise
be scrap or waste and the wear and tear of usage would from the form of
inter-locking adopted, tend to consolidate the shoe.
To carry this invention into effect small sections are used fitting into one another
with under-cut or splayed elbow and socket inter-locking contacts which admit of
free movement of the hoof and the compound shoe together, thus no contraction of
the hoof by attachment can take place, and the hoof remains, and is free to play as
in a state of nature.
The interlocking contacts employed between sections, may be male semi-circular
elbows preferably undercut, extending in succession from a toe-piece on either side
to the rear of the hoof engaging with female semi-circular recesses preferably
over-cut, thus each section giving an interlocking engagement to each adjoining
section, serving to retain the sections on the hoof with the assistance of nails
clenched as usual through the hoof.
But the undercutting and overcutting may be dispensed with if desired, and if
required the overcutting can be reversed, so that any section intermediate between
two other sections, may be retained in place by the adjoining sections without the
use of nails in that section.
Or in place of the said semicircular male and female sockets, angular male and
female sockets may be employed, the female socket being of larger angularity than
the male one, to admit of lateral adjustment to contour or play for expansion and
contraction.
Owing to the number of sections employed in this compound shoe, sections of
harder or anti-slipping material may be used in any part of the shoe to suit the
various irregularities of wear or tread of the shoe to suit the animal.
The parts also may be made interchangeable for ready repair, and from the
number of sections employed, fixed standard may be made to adapt themselves to
various contours of hoofs with good external appearance.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shoes for Horses or other Hoofed Animals.
I, MARY EMILY POUPARD of Cambrian House, West Norwood in the County
of Surrey, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to shoes for horses, and other hoofed animals, and consists
of a sectional shoe of not less than three but preferably of many sections, inter-
locking with one another, preventing displaceinent when fixed on the hoof, but
without connecting joints, and adapted to be capable of movement to one another,
before and after application to the hoof, so as readily to follow the contour of many
various sized & shaped hoofs, without cutting of the hoof, or forging of the shoe;
to admit of the natural expansion and contraction of the hoof; to be readily
changed from a complete to a for fractional shoe; parts subject to wear such as
the toe piece to be replaced without disturbance of the other sections; and to be
cheaply produced by stamping in small sections from material which would be
characterized as scrap or waste.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same in reference to the drawings hereto annexed, and to the figures
and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is an underview and side view of my improved sectional shoe in five
sections.
Figure 2 is an underview of same shoe, reduced on one side to form a three quarter
shoe.
Figures 3, 4, & 5 are under and side views respectively of my sectional shoe
with modifications in the obliquity and forms of abutments, between sections and
as to the placing of nails.
In Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, the sections fit into one another by the ends A of
sections, towards the heel, being terminated with a convex abutment, struck out
with a suitable radius and the ends B of the side sections towards the toe, having
a concavity of similar radius, so as to admit of easy radial movement of the
sections one to another. But the order of the convex abutments and concavities
may be reversed from heels to toe.
The surfaces of the said abutments A, B, are preferably cut obliquely or inclined
to the plane of the shoe, so that in Figure 1 each section from the toe piece C,
to the heel pieces E, laps over the adjoining section, with what may be termed a
scarfing, and thus serves to keep the adjoining section in place on the hoof.
The toe piéce C, which most liable to wear, can be removed and replaced
without disturbing the other sections of the shoe.
The sections are also secured to the hoof by the usual nails clinched over
the hoof.
In Figure 2 the intermediate section D has been dispensed with upon one side,
and the heel piece E on that side; brought up to the toe piece, to make a shoe;
which is often required to suit certain horses.
In Figure 3, the obliquity of the abutment between the intermediate piece D
and the heel piece E is reversed, as regards. Figure 1, so that the intermediate
piece D is locked into position on the hoof by the toe and heel pieces C and E,
without nail attachments if desired.
This intermediate piece D may be conveniently formed of special material, other
than metal, to prevent slipping.
In Figure 4, the obliquity of the abutment between the toe piece C and its
adjoining intermediate section D, is reversed, as regards Figure 1, thus causing the
intermediate section D to overlap and thus especially secure the toe piece C, and

page_text: upon the HOOL the sections being in this case secured by clinched
nails to the hoof.
In Figure 5, the abbutting faces of the sections are modified in the form of a
projecting tongue on one section, engaging with an angular recess of the adjoining
section, the angle of the recess being more obtuse than the angle of the projecting
abutment, to allow of free radial play of the sections one to another.
The obliquity of the abutment faces in this modification may be varied as herein
above described in reference to former figures.
I may obivously make the abutment faces of the various sections, as herein
above described, with their contact faces perpendicular to the plane of the shoe,
whilst at the same time the sections are mutually interlocked as regards lateral
displacement, and each section is capable of radial movement to its adjoining
section, as before described.
A hoof when thus shod, is free to have its natural play, and expansion or
contraction after shoeing; there can be no contracting pressure upon the heel of a
cracked or sore hoof, and the shoe can be exactly adapted to the contour of any
hoof, or be reduced to a or other fractional shoe, without cutting or paring the
hoof, and without forging work upon the shoe, whilst parts of the shoe showing
particular wear can be renewed separately, without replacing the remaining
sections, which may not be worn.
And further where an animal catches a part of its shoe in an obstruction,
which in case of an ordinary shoe or one with fixed sectional joints would cause
the shoe to be completely torn off, an animal shod as above described would lose
only a section of the shoe, and could travel some days on rough roads with the
remainder of my sectional shoe attached, without injury to the hoof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
.1st. A sectional shoe for horses or other hoofed animals, comprising three or
more sectional parts, abutting upon one another by contact faces without pins
adapted to admit of the radial movement of one section to another, and that one
section may laterally interlock with its adjoining section.
2nd. In a sectional shoe for horses or other hoofed animals, the combination of
a separate toe piece, two heel pieces, and intermediate sections, all abutting upon
one another by contact faces without pins, adapted to admit of radial movement
of one section to another and to interlock one section laterally with its adjoining
section.
3rd. In a sectional shoe for horses or other hoofed animals, the combination of a
toe piece, a pair of heel pieces and one or more intermediate sections between said
toe and heel pieces with pivotal contact faces, the front ends of the heel pieces and
intermediate sections being alike, whereby the shoe is adapted to be converted
into a or fractional shoe by the omission of one or more intermediate sections,
substantially as described.
4th. The arrangement and combination of parts forming a sectional shoe for
horses or other hoofed animals, substantially as described and illustrated
herewith.
Dated this 5th dev of Mouch 1901
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.