. ^ Fig. 73.—Smith's Expansion Shoe seen from'its Ground Surface AND FROM THE SiDE. a, The screw, with a fine-cut thread ; h, nut which travels along it; c, a hollow thimble into which the screw passes at one end, the other being cut out V-shapcd to catch into a slot {(/) on the shoe ; e, c, the grip* for the bars, the length and direction of which depend upon the shape of the foot; /,/, the counter-sunk rivets forming the hinge (/'); i/, the counter- sunk rivet of the expanding piece. ever, Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Smith was the first English veterinarian to use a shoe of his own devising, and
. ^ Fig. 73.—Smith's Expansion Shoe seen from'its Ground Surface AND FROM THE SiDE. a, The screw, with a fine-cut thread ; h, nut which travels along it; c, a hollow thimble into which the screw passes at one end, the other being cut out V-shapcd to catch into a slot {(/) on the shoe ; e, c, the grip* for the bars, the length and direction of which depend upon the shape of the foot; /,/, the counter-sunk rivets forming the hinge (/'); i/, the counter- sunk rivet of the expanding piece. ever, Lieutenant-Colonel Fred Smith was the first English veterinarian to use a shoe of his own devising, and to report on its effects. This shoe we will, therefore, give first mention. The above figure, with its accompanying letterpress, sufficiently explains the nature of the shoe. In fitting the * The inventor of this shoe uses the word ' grip ' to denote what, in describing other expansion shoes, we term the ' clip ' (H. C. E.).
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1906
