US100618A - Improvement in elastic protector for horses feet - Google Patents

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. WLLIAM n. HALL, or; Bos'rou, Assicuon yTo vHIM-senrAND Josnrnw.

HSKINS,OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS. Y y

"Leners Pam'N 1co,61s, daad March s, 1870.

The Schedule ,referred to inthese Letters Patent and making part of titre-'esamey To lll whom "t'may concern :V y

Be it known that I,\' W1LLIAM H. HALL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts,

have invented au Improved Elastic Protector for t Horses Feet,` of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making tion, in which- Figure-1 lepre'asents my improved protector applied part of this specificaf- 'to the 'foot of a horse.

vFigure 2 is apcrspective view .of my improved protector detached.

Figure 3 'is a-horzontal section through the same. Figure 4 is a` section through the same on the line InV shoeing vided with a spring, and secured-in place by catches,

as described in Letters Patent-of the United States granted to J ohn Hazeltiuef andUharles L. Wheeler, on the '21st day o f Septemper, A. D.'1869; but this cushion was expensive and required'to be made of a. size and'shape to it the interior of the shoe 4to which v A. leather pad, provided with a web `which covered .the frog, hasalso been secured to the shoe bya spring; but this pad was objectionable, as it required to be made'of a certain size and shape, to exactly tit the interior ot' the shoe, while the dirt wouldgetbetween the web andtheiioot and canse the pad to fall on.

My iuventicnhas for its object to overcon'ie'these diiiiculties and objections, and to furnish an exceedingly'cheap and simple protector, lwhich will eii'ectually prevent balling, and the entrance `of snow or dirt between the shoe andthe hoof, and may be read'- i ily applied to any shoe without regard to its size -c'r shape; and l f My inventionv consists in a' tube or cuslnon, com,-

"posed of rubber or other suitable material, within which is placedl a wire, extending longitudinally through it, which will retain the tubein any'shape into which it may be bent, to conform tothe shape of the. inner edgeof the shoe to which it is' to be appied, the protector being held Securelyin place by portions of the wire which project out and iit under the inner upper edge of the shoe.

To enable others skilled iu horses, a rubber pad or cushion is often 7^ 'placed between the shoe and the hoof, to exclude suonr the art to understand I auduse my invention, I'will proceeelto describe the manner in which 'I have carried it out'.

' In the said drawingsto conform to the shape of' the inner edge of the shoe to which it is to be applied, as seen in g. l.v

This wire b extends out through the tube near ,the centenvforming aloop or projection, c, while the ends d of the wire Vextend beyond theends of the tube, and are bent round, as seen in gs. 2 and 3. These projecting portions c l of the wire fit under the inner upper edge ofthe shoe, as-secn in dotted lines in fig.

1, the` projecting lends d of the Wire being heldin place by the elasticity of the rubber tube,'which causes its ends to spring tightly against the inside of the shoe. s The tube'A is thus held firmly in place, and'when secured ingthis position', it serves to effectu- -ally prevent dirt or snow ,from getting. between the shoe and the foot, and also prevents balling. The tube A, instead of being composed of rubber, may be of leather or other suitable material, and instead of the ends cl of the Wire being bent, as shown, they may be made to project straight out from the ends of the tube; and after the latter is sprung 'into place, may

-be bent underthe ends of the shoe and up against the hoot`, the ends of the tube A, in either case, being held down firmly in place bythe projecting portions of the'wire.

The above-described protector may be readily applied or removed,'without disturbingthe shoe, does not `heat the foot, and may be furnished at a triiling cost, while its peculiar constructionenables it toV be readily-bent to lit' a shoe of any size or shape, advantages not possessed by pads or protectors as heretofore constructed, which require to be made of a certain size and-shape to i't'V each particular shoe.

. Claim.. What I claim as my invention7 anddesire to Secure by Letters Patent, is-` The within-described protector for horscs feet, consisting of an elastic tube or cushion, A, provided with -a Wire, b, extending through. it longitudinally and projecting out, so as to form catches or `stantially as set forth.

Witness my hand' this 12th day oflFebruary, A. D. 1870,.v

fastenings, sube t WILLIAM H. HALL.

Witnessesz l. E. Tnscnnamcnnn, W. J.: CAMBRIDGE.-

Ais a-,rubbe'r tube or cushion, within which is placed 'y .a thick wire, 7),'ivhich iss-annealed, so thatit will set and retain the tube in anyform into which itmaybe bent

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