US109055A - Improvement in horseshoes - Google Patents

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ennuh ittta sind To all whom it Amay concern:

JOHN S. ROBERTSON, OF WOOD END, NEAR OATHOART, SCOTLAND.

Letters Patent No. 109,055, dated November 8, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT INA HORSESHCES.

he Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that l, JOHN S. ROBERTSON, ot' Wood End, near Oatbcart, in Scotland, have invented a new -and useful Improvement in Horseshocs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable 'others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference Abeing had to the accompanying drawing forming part.

of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an appliance by means Of which horses may in a few minutes be fitted for encountering icc and snow, and by means of which the foot will be protected; and

It consists in aimetallic plate attached to the ordinary horseshoe, as hereinafter more full y described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 represents my improvement as applied to the horses hoof.

Figure 2 is a top view of the plate connected with the horseshoe.

-k Figure 3 is a vertical section of fig.'2 on the line Similar' letters of reference indicate correspiniding parts.

-horse, as seen in tig. 1.

tached to the plate, and buckled over the instep of the The plate is kept in place bythe. common blunt calks of the shoe at heel and toe, between which the plate is designed to lit, as seen in iig. 2. i

The clks C and l) on the plate may be formed thereon, or he made detachable, sothat they can be renewed without renewing the plate.

This plate entirely shields the frog and hollow of the llorses foot, and prevents his balling7 in the snow, and the entrance of stones and dirt, as well as injury to the. foot in various ways, as, for instance, stepping upon nails, spikes, or any sharp O1' pointed instrument or material. p

A layer of Indiarubber or other elastic material may be placed between the plate-and the shoe, and the strap, by which the pla-te is fastened at the heel, may be of more elustie material than leather, itl desired..

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 'lhe plate-B, provided with the toe and heel-calks G and D, and secured in place by meansrof the hook E, and strap l", substantially as shown and described. rlhe above specification of' my invention signed by me this 9th day of August, 1870.

JOHN S. ROBERTSON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT HUs'rnn, JAMES HUNTER.

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