Horseshoeing Without Nails

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 4

Horseshoeing Without Nails

Til a recent issue of Iron, it is itated that an important and a progressive step is about to be realised ia connection with the art of farriery, T fie iCompagnie des Tramways made of Bessemer steel, which is fastened an tlte hoof cold, in a few minutes, without the employment of a single v nftii< • The shoe is similar to the ordinary iron kind; but possesses in front a bent lever, which attaches itself half-way up toe hinder wall of the hoof, without in any way corn - pressing it. A clamp, also of Bessemer'steel, then encloses the hoof, parting the two heels of the shoe, and supports itself on the top of the levery Which wholly sustains it and prevents it,, in consequence, from compressing any portion of the wall the hoof. The shoe is fitted with three small interior clamps, which penetrate the horn of the hoof and prevent displacement of the shoe without the preliminary raising of the ! clamp. In addition to the horses ol the Compagnie des Tramways, which, furnished wich these shoes, do their j twenty-onekilometres (thirteen miles) per day, several private Parisian iirms have experimented with the new shoes, with, it is said, perfect success. The latest form of horseshoe will, it is considered bj many in the French metropolis, sooner or latter, revolutionise the farrier's industry. .