US1470101A - Horseshoe attachment - Google Patents

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Patented oet. e, 1923.

yALEXA'NDER PRITCHARDV, OF EVERGREEN, NEWYOVRK.

HORSESHOE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed October 14, 1920. Serialiltld 416,398.

To .//Z H'ioin 'if may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER PRrroH- Ann. a citizen of the United ltates,v and resident of Evergreen.. in the countyV of Kings and State of New York, have. in-

vented certain new and useful Improvements in Horses-hoc Attachments, 'of .which the folle 7ing is a specification.

T his 'invention relates to attachments for l horseshoes, and has for its principal object the provision of means for preventing a horse from slipping on icy or other smooth surfaces; further objects being to provide a device of this -character which may be securely and quickly attached to a horseshoe, and whichscomprises few parts of simple, durable and inexpensive construction.

.In carrying out my invention I employ a clamping device which may be readily at- 2" tached to and removed from a horseshoe,

and which comprises a rear clamping inem-- her having transversely extended heel-calk,

a detachable toe-calk, and novel means for adjusting the device, all as hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings for-ming part of this speciiication, Figure 1 is a planA view of an embodiment of my invention 51" showing its correlation, with a horseshoe,

said shoe being shown by dotted lines;

Fig. 'is a side view; and f Fig. 3 is a rear view of one of the clamping` members.

In the example of my invention illustrated by the drawings, 1 indicates a forward clamping member and 2 a rearward clamping member. y

The forward member 1 constitutes a malleable metal plate 3, having integrallyformed forwardly-extended tapered prongs 4. which are adapted, when the device is atached to' a horseshoe, to be bent upwardly over the toe ofthe shoe and against the horses hoof, as shown by dotted lines 4a, Fig. 2` whereby said clamping member may he .securely retained.

On the bottom of the plate 3'isV a dovetailed groove Vformed by means of trans-VV versely extended parallel flanges 6, which are made. integral with the plate 2;.and ezveuded through this. groove and transversely across the plate 2 is a detachable toecalli 7, which may be removed and replaced byv a new calk when worn down to impracticable proportion.

The rearward clamping member 2 embodiesfastiut 8 and Ya heel-calkQwhich i tends transversely across the bottom ofthe shoe. said. strut being provided-'with end recessesl() for. engaging the end parts of the heel of the'shoe, as shownby Fig. 1.V

As a means for connecting the members 1V and 2, I employ a rod 11, having on its forward end an approximately S-shaped coupling 12, which' passes through a slot 14 of the plate 3, the lower loop 13 of said coupling engaging` beneath the plate 3 and partly around its rounded rearward end, and the upper member 15 bearingV over the rearward part of. the toefof the horseshoe.

The rear end of the rod 11 is "screwthreaded and it passes through van opening 16 of the strut 8 and is fixed. thereto by means of adjustable nuts 17 and 18, which are in threaded engagement with the rod 11, whereby the devicemay be securely adjusted to a horseshoe and maintained in proper fixed relation therewith. l Y

In the operation and use of the invention` the clamping members 1 and 2 are spaced apart and brought into clamping engagement with a horseshoe (shownin dotted outline in Figs. 1 and 2). the nuts 17 and A18 are then adjusted to/fiX'the parts in proper correlation, after which the prongs' 4 are bent upwardly until they contact over the toc of the horseshoe and the front of theV horses hoof` thus securely Xing'the fon ward clamping member to prevent its accidental downward swing; and when it is desired to remove the device from the h0rseshoe the` prongs 4c may be straightened or flattened out, whereby thefront clamping member may be swung downwardly on the curved lower loop of the coupling 12.

Itis manifest that my improveddevice.V

may be readily attached to and detached from a horseshoe, and it constitutes an eiii-l cient non-slipping kdevice which is suscep tible of attachment tohorseshoes of various proportions.

I do not wish to be'understood as confining j; myself to -the specific detailsV of merev f Vmechanical construction and form of the parts as disclosed bythe embodiment of Vmy improvements hereinV shownand described, as under thcspiritjand scope of my 'inven tion I believe that I am entitled to employ slight variations ot construction.

Irlavirg thus described myrinventijon, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: f

l. An antiskid attachment or horseshoes, comprising a strut having end recesses, a transverse opening7 and a heel-calli? and a front clamping member constituting a malleable plate having a. toe-calli, forwardly extended prongs, and a lateral slot, and a rod having at its forward end a hooli'for engaging said slot, said rodat its rear end engaging through the opening of said strutiy and means for adjustably fastening said rod to said strut. c Y

2. An antislid attachment for horseshoes,

comprising a struthaving endfrecesses, a`

transverse opening leading therethrough, and a heel-calk on the bottom thereof, and a iront clamping member constituting a malleable plate having a dovetailed groove in its bottom, and a detachable toe-calli withinrsaid groove7 said plate having tapered prongs extending forwardly therefrom and va laterai slot in its rearward end part, and a rod having at its forward end an approximately S-sliaped coupling. said coupling en-k raging through said slot, said rod having serewthreaded rear anchy and nut-s engaging said threaded part and adapted to 'iiXsaid rod to said strut. n Y 'Y Signed `at Ridgewood` Vin the county ot Queens and State of New York7 this 27th day of Sept., A. D. `1920l ALEXANDER. Parrot-man

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