US1180706A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

Description

|. D. EWER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 30. I913.

Patented Apr. 25,1916.

it'll l i ii HORSESHOE.

Applicationfi-led- October 30, 1913;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC D. EWER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hilton, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art vention has reference, more particularly, to

a light, strong and eflicient construction of horse-shoewhich is adapted for use upon racing, trotting and carriage horses.

The present invention has for'its principal object to provide alight but strong steel horseshoe, the same being constructed in such a manner that dirt, stones, snow, ice and the like cannot ball or pack on the bottom of the horses hoof, or around the shoe; and, furthermore, the same being so constructed as to prevent the backward fling of dirt, gravel and the like when the horse is traveling at high speeds.

A further object of the present invention is to provide in connection with a horseshoe of the character above mentioned, a novel construction and arrangement of calks whereby slipping of the horse upon smooth pavements, or icy driveways is prevented.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects ofthe present invention in view the same consists, primarily, in the novel construction of horse-shoe hereinafter set forth; and, furthermore, this invention consists in the novel arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction thereof, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and then finally embodied in the clause of the claim which is appended to and which forms an essential part of this specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a top face view of the novel horse-shoe; Fig. 2 is a bottom face view of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

SerialNo: 798,185.

thesame; Fig.3 is a side edge view or elevation of the same; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the same taken on line H in said Fig. 1 and Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the same taken on line 5-5 in said Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow as, the three last described views being drawn onan enlarged scale.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the hereinabove described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the several drawings the reference character 1 indicates the complete horseshoe, made according to and embodying the principles of the present invention, the same comprising a main horse-shoe shaped body having a fiat top" side 2. The underside or bottom of said main body is beveled or inclined upwardly from the outer circumferential edge to the inner circumferential edge of the same, thus providing a fiat inclined surface 3, which provides sharp tapered edges 4 and 5 at the respective inner and outer'circu-inferential edges of said main body, thus eliminating flat bearing-surfaces at the toe and around the greater portion of the main body of the shoe. This flat inclined surface 3 meets the hoof in such a manner as to eliminate sharp angles and concaved surfaces in which dirt, stones, snow or ice can accumulate and ball or pack; and, furthermore, this construction provides a surface from which the dirt, gravel, snow, etc., slips easily away from the shoe, without any backward fling whereby such material is thrown upward into the face of the driver of the horse.

The extreme ends of the heel-points 6 of the main-body are provided on their under side with fiat-bearing portions or surfaces 7, the same serving to reinforce and straighten the shoe at the heel-points 6 by consequence of the thickening of the metal at that point to provide said fiat-bearing surface.

The reference character 8 indicates a toecalk which extends transversely along the under side of said main-body, at the toe thereof. The said toe-calk 8 is of tapering construction and is preferably slightly inclined or curved rearwardly, as shown.

The reference character 9 indicates heelcalks which project from the flat-bearing portions or surfaces 7 at each heel-point 6. These heel-calks are of tapered construction providing a sharp edge at their free ends, and the same are set at an angle or inclination, in such a manner as to flare or incline from end to end toward the outer circumferential edge 5 of said main-body. The.

said toe-calk and heel-calks provide a properly disposed means on the bottom of the shoe, for firmly gripping the surface upon which the horse treads, and rendering secure the footing of the horse. Arranged in said inclined or concave surface 3 of the bottom of the shoe, and adjacent to its outer circumferential edge 5, and extending between the toe-calk 8 and heel-calk 9, on each side of the shoe, are channeled grooves or creases 10, from the bottom of Which extend upwardly throughsaid main body of the shoe the nailholes 11, through which are passed the horseshoe nails for securing the shoe to the horse's hoof. Said channeled grooves or creases 10 serve to receive the heads of said nails so that thesame are countersunk therein, and do not project beyond the said inclined surface 3.

It will be understood that in my novel construction of horse-shoe I obviate the flatrim or fall at the outer marginal edge of th .shoe, and consequently all flat surfaces at the bottom of the shoe, and all angles which will hold dirt or the like, and cause i the same to ball or pack in the underside of the horses hoof. At the same time my novel construction of horse-shoe provides the maxsurface extending upwardly from the outer circumferential edge to the inner circumferential edge, said inclined surface meeting the upper and outer surfaces of the body sharply at acute angles to provide sharp outer and sharp inner marginal edges to eliminate points of purchase for snow, dirt,

and the like whereby the same would be permitted to pack in the open inner space of the body and beneath the hoof, and calks projecting from the under surface of said body comprising a laterally extending toe-call: having a rearward inclination or pitch, flat heel surfaces at the rear extremities of said shoe, and obliquely set heel-calks having an inward inclination or pitch projecting from said flat heel surfaces.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this twenty fifth day of October 1913.

ISAAC D. EIVER.

itnesses ADoLrrr DOCTOR, HoLcoMBn Roonnoon.

copies of this patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

, Washington, D. 0.

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