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Show Paper Horieinoei The need of a more or less clastio horseshoe has led to many trials and experiments, which, not resulting in anything satisfactory, has kept the farrier's art in the same old rut of olden days. A new horseshoe has been made in Germany, and it is constructed con-structed of parchment paper or a paper prepared by a saturation of oil, turpentine, etc., and impenetrable to dampness or moisture. Thin layers of such paper are glued together until un-til the desired thickness necessary for the horseshoo is attained by un ag-glutinant ag-glutinant which is indifferent to the action of moisture, and which will not get brittle when dry (especially casein gum, chrome gelatine, copper chromate, ammonia, or a mixture of Venetian turpentine). The leaves of such prepared paper can first be cut to the desired form, and holes for nailing on the shoe be stamped through, and the leaves glued together, to-gether, one on top of another. Then the shoe has to undergo a very strong pressure, perhaps by a hydraulic press, is dried, and lastly rasped and planed. The holes can be bored in by boring machines similar to those used for brushes, instead of being stamped out The fastening of these shoes can bo done by nailing through the holes bored or stamped, a& Hbove described, or by gluing with bitumen, caoutchouc, or a mixture of gum ammonia, emulsion, emul-sion, one part; gutta pereha, two parts. The fact of its getting rough makes the paper horseshoe a great advantage ad-vantage In preventing tho slipping of tho horse on smooth and slippery places. The Age of Steel. |