GB172511A - Improvements in or relating to shoes for horses and similarly shod animals - Google Patents

Abstract

172,511. Bryan, S. Nov. 24, 1920 Hoof-pads.-In shoes for animals of the kind in which a resilient slipping-preventing and jarminimizing pad is arranged at the toe end of the shoe, the pad f, Figs. 6 and 10, is secured to an ordinary shoe d, Fig. 2, so as to be readily removable without removal of the shoe frcm the hoof, by means of a metallic cross-bar e permanently or detachably secured to the shoe, arranged preferably nearer the toe than the heels of the shoe, and engaging a lip or flange f<2> at tha rear edge of the pad f, the front and sides of the pad being held in position by the engagement of the curved and inclined front edge f<1> of the pad with the recessed inner wall of the shoe as shown in Fig. 2. The flange f<2> on the pad may be plain as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, or recessed at f<3>, Fig. 10, to accommodate the bar e, and may be provided with a central recess f', Fig. 6, to facilitate removal of the pad by a lever. The hoof may be recessed to receive the ends of the bar e, or the ends may be recessed into the upper surface of the shoe.