IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHOES FOR BEASTS OF DRAUGHT AND BURDEN, AND IN THE MACHINERY OD ADDADAMIC MO DE HOOD IN MANORACTURE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Dawes, of Compton, in the County of Staf-
ford, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF METAL SHOES FOR BEASTS OF DRAUGHT AND BURDEN, AND IN THE MACHINERY
OD ADDADAMIC MO DE HOOD IN MANORACTURE
"
Scaled the 13th July 1860, and dated the 19th January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Dawes, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th January 1860.
I, WILLIAM DAWES, of Compton, in the County of Stafford, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHOES FOR BEASTS OF DRAUGHT AND BURDEN, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE," to be as follows,
that is to say:
I use in the first place, when necessary, a punch or press, and dies for pro-
ducing the blank from the bar or sheet of metal from which the shoe is to be
formed. I then employ steel, iron, or other metal dies, between which the
blank is placed either cold or heated as the case may require, and where it is
subjected to either blows or pressure, or both, for the production of the final
shape or configuration required, the blows or pressure necessary to which may
be given by any of the usual methods, or, machines employed for other pur-
poses, and the formation of the shoo may be obtained either entirely by these

page_text: means, or partially only; in the latter case, the outer edges of the shoe being
formed by hammering them into a groove between the dies or by rollers,
the dies being either stationary, or made to revolve with the shoe for the
purpose, as the particular case or kind of shoe may require.
My second improvement consists in the application of case-hardening, or
converting the external or wearing surfaces of iron shoes for any kind of animal-
into steel; and. also when necessary, the heads of the nails used for fixing the
shoes. This may be effected by any of the usual methods and materials used
in case-hardening other articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Dawes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DAWES, of Compton, in the County of Stafford, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Dawes, Her special licence that I, the said William Dawes, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Dawes, 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, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,-the-Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS-IN-THE-MANU-
PACTURE OF METAL SHOES FOR BEASTS OF DRAUGHT AND BURDEN, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Dawes, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Dawes, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in the first place, of an improved method of and
5 arrangement of machinery for manufacturing metal shoes, so as to facilitate
their production, by the use of simpler machinery than the elaborate and costly
description hitherto employed for this purpose. And my improvements are
more especially applicable to the description of shoes termed "plate " or entire
shoes used in several foreign countries.
And in the second place, my Invention consists of an improvement in all
kinds of iron shoes used for any animal, and this is the application of case-
hardening, or the converting of the external or wearing surfaces of iron shoes
into hard or hardened steel, so as to increase their durability, whilst by the
additional strength thus imparted to them, the weight of metal hitherto used
for the same purpose may be much reduced.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents the face or under side of shoe; Figure 2, cross section
of the same; Figure 3, a longitudinal section of the same; Figure 4, side
elevation of a pair of dies; Figure 5, front elevation of a pair of dies; Figure 6,
back elevation of a pair of dies; Figure 7, plan of a pair of dies.
In the production of shoes by my Invention, I use, in the first place, a
punch or press of the ordinary description, and dies of any requisite form to
produce the blank from the bar or sheet of metal of which the shoe is to be
formed. The blank thus produced is then placed (either in a cold or heated
state as the case may require), between a pair of steel, iron, or other metal
dies (a, b, Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7), and there subjected to either blows or
pressure, or both, by which the shape or configuration of the shoe is obtained.
The blows or pressure necessary for this operation may be given by any of
the usual methods, or by machines employed for other similar purposes;
namely, by steam friction or die sinkers, hammers, screw, or other presses, and
the formation of the shoe may be obtained either entirely by these means, or
partially only, in the latter case the ridged or outer edges (c, c,) of the shoe
may be formed or thrown up by hammering them into a groove (d) between
the upper and lower die, or the same effect may be gained by a roller or
rollers arranged to work round the dies, and press the edges of the metal into
the said groove (d), or the roller or rollers may be stationary, and the dies
(a, b,) made to revolve simultaneously with the shoe against the rollers to

page_text: obtain the same result, in each and all the before-named cases, the blank must
be held securely between the dies whilst undergoing the operation last
described.
The second part of my Invention, namely, the application of case-hardening
to the shoes of all kinds of animals of draught and burden, may be effected by
any of the usual methods and materials used in case-hardening other like
articles; but I prefer employing horse-hoof parings, bone dust, potash, and
salt and water.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I claim the improvements I have described in
-the manufacture of metal shoes for beasts of draught and burden, by making
them under the process and in manner substantially as herein more fully set
forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Dawes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
BENJ. T. BECK,
2, Cleveland Street,
Wolverhampton.
WILLIAM DAWES. (L.S.)