US1127562A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

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DORAH S. WILT AND VICTOR O. WILLIAMS, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. d, 1915.

Application filed November 11, 1914;. Serial No. 871,640.

To al whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DORAH S. l/VILT and VICTOR O. WILLIAMS, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and comprehensive specification and exposition, the same being such as will enable others who are familiar with the art to which it pertains to make and install the same with exactitude.

Broadly speaking our invention relates to metal shoes for horses or other animals, and particularly to removable and interchangeable calks for such shoes, there being removable calks provided both for the toe and the heels of the shoe. The particular object of this invention being to provide a smooth face horseshoe having means whereby either blunt or sharpened calks may be attached thereto, or removed therefrom, without the necessity of removing the shoe from the animals hoof, and Without the necessity of resorting to a blacksmith in order to make the desired changes, the only tool required being a wrench for operating the tap-bolts employed therewith.

Other minor objects and particular advantages of our invention will present themselves in the course of the following description, and that which is new will be presented in the appended claims which term} nate this specification.

The preferred construction for exemplifying our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings. forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan or face view of a plain horseshoe, the same being shown as provided with means whereby our detachable calks may be attached thereto. Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1 except that the horseshoe is shown with detachable calks attached thereto. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the toe calk alone, showing the same with a sharpened edge or tread. Fig. 4 is a per spective view of one of the heel calks, showing the same with a sharpened edge or tread. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the heel calks, showing the same with a blunt end or tread. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the re taining plate for the toe calk shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a perspective View of one of the retaining plates for the heel calks shown in Figs. 4: and 5. And Fig. 8 is a detail cross section, as taken on line 88 of Fig. 2.

mals hoof, and also provided with the following instrumentalities which distinguish it from an ordinary stock shoe, all of which instrumentalities are formed in the face of the shoe: the threaded a ertures l and 2 formed near the respective heels 2') and 0.

Located some distance, toward the toe a,

from the apertures l and 2, are the corre sponding threaded apertures 3 and 4. Numeral 5 denotes a socket located. between and in alinement with the apertures l and 3, and the same is located nearer the aperture 1 than it is to aperture 3. Numeral 6 denotes a socket located between and in alinement with the apertures 2 and l, and the same is located nearer the aperture 2 than it is to aperture 4. Numerals 7 and 8 denote two threaded apertures which are spaced apart and they are located an eoual distance from and on each side of the toe a, that is the center of the shoe. Numerals 9 and 10 denote two sockets which are located between the apertures 7 and 8, and they are spaced apart and are located an equal distance from and on each side of the toe c, or the center of the shoe, all substantially as shown in Fig. 1. Numeral 11 denotes an elongated retainng plate for the toe calk, the said plate having the ears (Z and e at its termini, with apertures f and 9 formed throughthe respective ears, as in Fig. 6. Formed longitudinally of and extending through the said plate 11 is the large slot B; and formed around said slot is the channel C, which is L-shaped in cross section, the said channel being on the back of said plate, that is next the body of the shoe A. The apertures f and g are the same distance apart as are the apertures 7 and 8, whereby when the plate 11 is placed in position, as in Fig. 2, the apertures f and 7 will register with each other, as will the apertures g and 8 register with each other. The plate 11 is adapted to be secured to the shoe bv the tap'bolts l2 and 13, respectively entering the apertures f7 and g8.

Numeral 14 denotes the toe-calk, whose face, or tread, may be either sharpened or blunt, and it is adapted to fit in the aperture B; A flange D extends out entirely around the base of the calk 14, and this flange is adapted to fit in the channel C whereby the base of the calk and its flange will rest on the face of the shoe, with the greater portion of the calk protruding out through the slot B, the flange D retaining the calk in place, that is from sliding out.

In order to make the calk more secure there are two lugs, E and F extending from the base of the calk, which lugs fit in the respective sockets 9 and 10, and they relieve the plate of part of the strain.

Numerals 15 and 16 denote the two retaining plates for the respective heel calks 17 and 18. The said plates 15 and 16 are identical with each other, each having a slot H centrally thereof extending longitudinally therethrough, as in Fig. 7, and formed aroundthe slot H are the channels I, which are L-shaped in cross-section, the said channels I being on the backs of said plates, that is next the body of the shoe A, as shown in Fig. 8.

In the rear ends of each of the plates 15 and 16 is formed an aperture, as the aperture :0 shown in Fig. 7, which register with the apertures 1 and 2 to receive the respective tapbolts 19 and 20, as in Fig. 2. In the forward ends of the plates 15 and 16 are formed the slot-like apertures, or notches, y and 2, which register with the respective apertures 3 and 1, to receive the respective tap- bolts 21 and 22, as in Fig. 2.

Extending out from around the base of each of the calks 17 and 18 is the respective flanges M and N which fit in their respective channels I, with the calks extending through the slots H, all as shown in F ig. 8, with the base of the calks and their flanges resting on the face of the shoe A, the flanges preventing the calks from sliding out through their apertures H, and holding the calks solidly in position.

In order to make the calks more secure We provide each of the calks with a lug, R and S respectively, which project from the inner faces of the calks and they are located near their rear ends. The said lugs R and S fit in the respective sockets 5 and 6, as shown in Fig. 8, and they contribute to holding the calks solidly in position.

We have shown the calks 1 1 and 17 as formed with sharp treads or faces, and the calk 18 with a blunt or flat tread or face, but we would have it understood that our invention contemplates that all or a part of the calks may have sharpened treads or faces,

or they may all or a part of them may have blunt treads or faces, as desired.

It should be noticed that our shoe may be used plain or smooth, as in Fig. 1, and then without removing the shoe from the hoof of the animal one or more of the calks, either with sharp or blunt treads, may be quickly attached thereto, and they may be as quickly detached therefrom when the occasion for their use has passed. It should also be observed that when either sharp or blunt calks are in place on the heel portions of the shoe that they may be changed with out removing the bolts 21 and 22, but simply loosening said bolts, then by removing the bolts 19 and 20 the rear ends of the plates and the calks may he slid back, the bolts 21 and 22 passing through the slots 2 and 2.

Having now fully shown and described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A horseshoe having means for securing a plate thereto, a plate adapted to be detachably secured to the face of the shoe, there being a slot formed through said plate and a channel formed around said slct on the contact face of the plate, a calk adapted to fit in and pro ect out through said slot in the plate with the base of the calk in contact with the face of the shoe, a flange extending out from around the base of the calk and fitting in said channel to hold the calk solidly in position, and lugs projecting from the contact face of the calk and each fitting in a socket formed therefor in the face of the shoe, all substantially as shown and described.

2. In a horseshoe, a plate having a slot therethrough, means for 'detachably securing the plate to the face of the shoe, a calk adapted to fit in said slot in the plate with its base in C(JltflCt' with the face of the shoe, a flange extending out from around the base of the calk and fitting in a channel formed around said slot in the plate, a lug projecting from the contact face of the base of the calk and fitting in a socket formed in the face of the shoe, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DORAI-I S. \VILT. VICTOR O. WILLIAISIS. Vfitnesses:

R. E. RANDLE, RoB'r. W. HANDLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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