US1037163A - Combined calk-plates and carrier. - Google Patents

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G. 's. MEYER. COMBINED GALK PLATES AND CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYB, 1912.

WAN 5/[6 A WITNESSES l/WEIVTUR I s M y r- 4 4 M ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

GEORGE s. MEYER, or aawaeaen, n w YORK.

COMBINED GALK-PLATES AND cAnnIER.

Application filed May a, 1912. Serial no. 695,849;

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, Gnoncn S. MEYER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident;

of Newburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented new and Improved Combined Calk-Plates and Carrier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to attachable calks and means for attaching the same to an or dinary horse shoe.

The present invention is specially designed as an improvement on the device forming the subject of my patent The present invention provides means to resist the tendency of the calk plates and granted February their carrying frames to bend and turn sidewise under the strain of service.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved calk plates and their carrying frame, showing the same applied to a hoof; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary transverse section, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved calk plates.

The calk plates comprise two side or drop plates 10 curved longitudinally to conform in general with the sides of an ordinary shoe, such as 11, said calk plates being pro;-

vided with a longitudinal series of calks12 arms 15 are formed at the front of the carrier frame, and shorter, inwardly curved clamp arms 16 are formed on the carrier frame at the rear end of the said frame. The upper end of one front arm 15 is formed Specification bf tame Patent.

Patented Aug. 2'7, 1912.

with an outwardly turned hook 15, which a may engage in a link 17 carried by the upper end 15 of the other arm, the said link connection having a length to fit the attachment to the size of the hoof. The rear arms are connected by any suitable chain 18 or other connecting means. A link 20 may connect the end 15 of one front arm with a tie strap 19 extending around the hoof and in turn said strap may connect with the fastener 18 of the rear arms by a wire link 21. The elements 18 and 21 form no part of the present invention. It should be explained that the calk plates 10 are drop plates, and drop into place on the top of the respective members 13 of the carrier frame, the calks 12 dropping through the corresponding holes 14 in the carrier frame.

Under very severe strains of service, the carrier frame 13 and the calk plates 10 tend to turn 'sidewise away from the shoe 11, and the present invention provides means to resist all turning tendency of both the carrier frame members and the call: plates. Thus, each plate 10 is provided with an. inwardly eXtending arm 25, 26, said arms preferably curving slightly forward and lying fiatwise,

against each other, and ranging in the horizontal plane; One of the said arms is provided wlth a curved slot 27, and the other arm carries at its inner end a guide stud 28 riveted or otherwise formed with an upper head 29 and a lower head 30. Preferably the heads 29, 30 are produced by upsetting the ends of the stud 28 and are integral with said stud. The preferred form is determined by the fact that the overlapping arms '25, 26, which are adjustable by reason of the slot 27 and stud 28, do not constitute in the illustrated form a tie bar between the calk plates 10, and in any case said arms do not primarily constitute a tie between the calk plates, their function being to resist not primarily a tensile strain, but turning or outward bending of the calk plates and carrier frame members, and therefore they are merely adjustable brace arms. Any tendency of the said plates to turn. outward from beneath the shoe is immediately resisted by the stud 28. and the contacting opposed faces of the arms 25, 26. The arrangement is such that the drop plates 10 carrying the calks may swing on the stud 28, and the two brace arms may slide relatively to each other so that the drop plates carrier frame members could not be readily take the position according to the width of the shoe, and drop into place on their respective carrier frame members 13.

With the described stud and slot connection between the brace arms of the calk plates, the side plates are adjustable without any manipulation of the brace arms and their connecting stud or equivalent device,

the adjustment being effected bytaking hold of the side plates and quickly moving themto such position as to permit their calks 12' to drop. vertically through the holes 14 of the carrier frame. It will'be observed also that by the simple device of'the brace arms,

I provide for resisting the turning of both the calk plates and the carrier frame members, said brace arms resisting directly the turning of the calk platesby reason of the direct connection therewith, and resisting very important result in that the said arms are thus removable from the carrier frame{ with the removal of the drop plates, and

thus the members 13 of the carrier frame may be swung outward, to turn the hook 15 out of engagement with the link 17 in removing the attachment and in applying it, whereas, were the arms 25', 26 formed on the carrier frame members, then obviously the so swung as to turn .the hook 15 out of the link 17. The making of the calks andthe brace arms on the drop plates instead of on the carrier frame members also gives the,

great merit that the elements subjected to .the greatest wear, and most liable to injury may be renewed at a trifling cost.

It is to be understood that although a plurality of calks on each calk plate 10, and a corresponding plurality of holes in the carrier frame are important in practice, the prime requisite perhaps is that but one calk on each plate be provided, and holes to correspond in the carrier.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent: j

1. A horse shoe attachment comprising calk-bearing drop plates provided each with a longitudinal series of calks on their under sides, and a'carrier frame consisting of side members having vertical holes corresponding in number and position with the calks, the carrier frame having suspending arms and means for securing said arms to'a hoof,

and the calk' plates having overlapping brace arms extending inwardly, said brace arms lying flatwise against each other, one

ofthe arms carrying a stud and the other having a curved slot, the stud having fixed heads at the top and bottom guiding the arms while permitting free sliding movement thereof 2. A horse shoe attachment comprising a carrier frame and calk-bearing plates, the carrier framecomprising two independent side members having each a longitudinal series of vertical holes, and means for suspending said carrier frame beneath the horse shoe, the calk plates being in the form of I drop plates and adapted to lie on top of the carrier frame members, and provided with calks adapted to drop through the holes in the carrier frame, the said calk plates being provided with inwardly extending brace arms and means for adjustably uniting said arms, the said brace arms serving to reslst turning of the calk plates and serving also to resist turning of the carrier frame members by the engagement of the calks with-the said i adjustably uniting said arms, the brace arms serving to resist turning of the calk plates by the direct connection'therewith and serving also to resist turning of the carrier frame members through the engagement of the calks with thesaid frame member.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification "1n the presence of two subscriblng witnesses.

V GEORGE s. MEYER.

Witnesses:

J. L. MCAULIFFE, T PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. i

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