IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Upton, of Tunstall, in the County of Stafford,
Blacksmith, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Upton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th August 1876.
JOHN UPTON, of Tunstall, in the County of Stafford, Blacksmith.
MENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of shoe designed to be fitted and
retained in place without nailing, as ordinarily practised.
To this end the shoe is according to my Invention made in parts of peculiar form,
so jointed together as to be capable of adjustment to the foot of the animal to
which the shoe is attached by means of a strip of metal in conjunction with a thin
bolt or screwed pin or rod.
The under part of the shoe, in other words, that which corresponds to the ordi-
nary shoc, and which I will call the sole, is in two parts, jointed together by a
vertical hinge pin. To the upper part of the front of the sole is jointed a plate
arranged to lie against the front of the animal's hoof.
The rearward extremities of the sole are formed with projections, to which is
jointed a strap or strip of metal arranged to pass around the upper portion of the
hoof, and the rearward extremities of the sole are (when the shoe is in its place)
drawn towards each other so as to tighten and hold the shoe on the animal's foot
by means of the tightening bolt, pin, or rod.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Upton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th January
1877.
JOIN UPTON, of Tunstall, in the County of Stafford, Blacksmith.
MENTS IN SHOES FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANTMALS."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of shoo designed to be fitted and
retained in place without nailing, as ordinarily practised.
Price d

page_text: To this end the shoe is according to my Invention made in parts of peculiar form,
so jointed together as to be capable of adjustment to the foot of the animal to
which the shoe is attached by means of a strip of metal in conjunction with a thin
bolt or screwed pin or rod.
The under part of the shoe, in other words, that which corresponds to the ordi-
nary shoe, and which I will call the sole, is in two parts, jointed together by a
vertical hinge pin. To the upper part of the front of the sole is jointed a plate
arranged to lie against the front of the animal's hoof.
The rearward extremities of the sole are formed with projections, to which is
jointed a strap or strip of metal arranged to pass around the upper portion of the
hoof, and the rearward extremities of the sole are (when the shoc is in its place)
drawn towards each other so as to tighten and hold the shoe on the animal's foot
by means of the tightening bolt, pin, or rod.
The under part of the shoe, in other words, that which corresponds to the ordi-
nary shoe, and which I will call the sole, is in two parts, jointed together by a
vertical hinge pin. To the upper part of the front of the sole is jointed a plate
arranged to lie against the front of the animal's hoof.
The rearward extremities of the sole are formed with projections, to which is
jointed a strap or strip of metal arranged to pass around the upper portion of the
hoof, and the rearward extremities of the sole are (when the shoc is in its place)
drawn towards each other so as to tighten and hold the shoe on the animal's foot
by means of the tightening bolt, pin, or rod.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews in side elevation my improved shoe as fixed to a horso's hoof;
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a top plan without the hoof; Fig. 4 is a back elevation without the
hoof; and
Fig. 5 is a plan of the under side of the shoe.
is the hoof; b is the main body or sole of the shoe made of the best iron, upon
which the hoof rests, and which is formed in two parts jointed together at b₁; c arc
projections formed upon the sole b, to which projections is jointed a strap or strip
of inetal & made of the best iron, which embraces the front part of the hoof, takes
the pressure, and is kept in position by means of a projection e fixed upon the
plate f which lies against the front of the hoof and is hinged at g to the top part
of the sole b, or it may be made without a hinge; are heels or projections made
of steel fixed on to the hinder parts of the sole by means of rivets i, or it
by means of screws and rivets combined; these are intended for use in the winter
be
may
season on account of sharpening, but for the summer they will be dispensed with ;
is the tightening bolt made of the best iron and half rounded so as to protect the
frog of the foot. The screwed end passes through one end of the sole, the other
end of the bolt is jointed to the other end of the sole, and by means of the nut
the two sule ends are drawn closer together so that the projections c fit tightly
against the horse's hoof and fix the shoe securely thereon; m is the toe piece made
of steel and secured firmly in a dovetailed groove in the sole by one or more
screws; n, n, are two small lips or projections formed on the sole to keep the shoe
in its proper place on the foot.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and having explained
the manner of carrying it into practical effect, 1 hereby declare that what I con-
sider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me
by the hercin-before in part recited Letters Tatent, is the combination of parts con-
stituting the improved shoe for horses and other animals constructed and arranged
as shewn in and described with reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
so as to be retained in place without nailing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Upton, have hereunto set my hand and 4
seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
cight hundred and seventy-seven.
JOHN UPTON. (L.S.)