AU620059B2 - A horse shoe section - Google Patents

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Steven Mark Lowings 43 Vincennes Avenue Tregear New South Wales 2770

AUSTRALIA

Jeffrey Robert Rogers, Steven Mark Lowings Spruson Ferguson, Patent Attorneys, Level 33 St Martins Tower, 31 Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000, Australia Actual Inventor: Address for Service: Comp lete Specification for the invention entitled: I 1 2zas A Horse Shoe Section The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us 5815 /2 1 The present invention relates to horse shoes and methods for the formation thereof.

Horse shoes have traditionally been manufactured from metal rod of generally rectangular transverse cross-section. However some horse shoes have been cast. It has been the task of the farrier to tailor the shoe to the horse. For example, where a horse has a tender or sore hoof, the shoe may need to be formed with a relief surface. In such instances the farrier would deform the shoe to provide the relief surface. This problem is particular exacerbated in the horse racing industry where shoes are often changed, particularly when aluminium shoes are fitted.

The above discussed methods have the disadvantage that they are generally time consuming and therefore expensive.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome or substantially ameliorate the above disadvantages.

There is disclosed herein a metal bar to be used in the manufacture of horse shoes, said bar having a cross-section providing a major face to form a ground engaging surface of a horse shoe, a secondary face being shorter than the major face and generally parallel thereto and which provides the horse shoe with a hoof engaging surface, a leading face joining the major and secondary faces, a relief face extending from the secondary face toward the major face and defining an acute angle with respect to the major face, and a rear face joining the relief face with the major face.

There is further disclosed herein a method of manufacturing a horse shoe, the method includes providing a metal bar as described in the above paragraph, cutting the bar to an appropriate length and forming the cut length to a horse shoe configuration.

A preferred form of the present invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein: /29141 7/

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S r -2- Figure 1 is a schematic sectioned side elevation of a metal bar to be used in the manufacture of horse shoes; Figure 2 is a schematic sectioned side elevation of an alternative bar to that of Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a schematic sectioned side elevation of a still further bar to that shown in Figures 1 and 2.

In the accompanying drawings there is schematically depicted metal bars 10, 11 and 12 which may be used in the manufacture of horse shoes.

For example, the bar may be formed of steel or aluminium if so required.

Each of the bars 10, 11 and 12 has a major surface 13 which in use t t rovides the horse shoe with a ground engaging surface. Each bar 10, 11 and 12 further has a secondary surface 14 which in the horse shoe provides the hoof engaging surface. One longitudinally extending surface 15 of each of the bars 10, 11 and 12 provides the horse shoe with its leading surface.

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15 The surface 15 may be curved or flat if so required.

Extending rearwardly from the surfaceAA is a relief surface 16 which St extends towards the major surface 13 and defines an acute angle with respect thereto. For example, the surface 16 may be inclined between i and 30 degrees to the surface 13. In Figure 1 the surface 16 is inclined relative to the surface 13 by 22 degrees. In Figure 2 the surface 16 is inclined to the surface 13 by 27 degress while in Figure 3, the surface 16 is inclined to the surface 13 by 10 degrees.

In Figures 1 and 2, the surface 14 has approximately half the width of the surface 13. The surface 13 has a width approximately 0.6 inches.

In Figure 3, the surface 14 is approximately a third of the width of the surface 13. The surface 13 has a width approximately one inch.

The rear face 17 is inclined to the surface 13 by an angle approximately 90 degrees (slightly less).

LWhen manufacturing a horse shoe using one of the bars 10, 11 or 12,

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Claims (9)

1. A metal bar to be used in the manufacture of horse shoes, said bar having a cross-section providing a major face to form a ground engaging surface of a horse shoe, a secondary face being shorter than the major face and generally parallel thereto and which provides the horse shoe with a hoof engaging surface, a leading face joining the major and secondary faces, a relief face extending from the secondary face toward the major face and defining an acute angle with respect to the major face, and a rear face joining the relief face with the major face.

2. The bar of Claim 1 wherein said leading surface is generally arcuate.

3. The bar of Claim 1 or 2 wherein said rear face is inclined to said ground engaging surface by approximately 90 degrees.

4. The bar of Claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said ground engaging surface has a width extending transverse of the bar, which is approximately twice the width of the hoof engaging surface. The bar of Claim 4 wherein the width of said ground engaging C surface is approximately 0.6 inches. S6. The bar of Claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein said hoof engaging surface 0 20 has a width transverse of the bar which is approximately a third of the width of said ground engaging surface.

7. The bar of Claim 6 wherein said ground engaging surface has a 'width of approximately an inch.

8. A method of manufacturing a horse shoe, said method including providing a metal bar according to any one of Claims 1 to 7, cutting the bar to an appropriate length, and forming the separate portion of the bar into the configuration of a horse shoe.

9. A horse shoe when formed by the method of Claim 8. A metal bar substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

11. A method of manufacturing a horse shoe substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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