US148916A - Improvement in the manufacture of horseshoes - Google Patents

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R. AUSTIN.

Manufacture of Horseshues.

No 148 916 Patented March 24,18@

UNITED STATES EEroEo RICHARD AUSTIN, OF SING SING, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HGRSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,916, dated March :24, 1874; application filed January 24, 1874. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD AUSTIN, of Sing Sing, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in the Manufacture of IIorseshoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters andgures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a' representation of a bottom view of a horseshoe, showing my device. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same.

This invention has relation to the manufacture of horseshoes; and it consists in rst welding lugs of steel to the toe and heel por-4 tions of a shoe; then, after allowing these lugs to cool gradually, iling them so as to leave transverse grooves terminating in sharp edges; and then, as a final process, tempering the calks, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following is a description of my invention:

In the annexed drawingsA designates a horseshoe of the well-known form, and B B B are the toe and heel calks. These calks I make of steel, and arrange them as shown iu Fig. l--that is to say, the calk is at right augles to the length of the shoe, and the heelcalks stand at an angle thereto.

I first weld to the sole of the shoe three ob long lugs or blanks, and allow them to cool slowly, so as to leave them soft and easily tiled. I then file grooves into them iu a direction with their length, and form sharp edges a a, with a deep groove between them. I nally temper the calks, and thus render them hard and durable.

Galks thus constructed and applied to shoes will take a very rm hold into ice or snow, and they are not liable to become detached under the roughest usage.

NVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method herein described of iirst attaching the calks to the shoe by welding; secondly, tiling the calks to the shape substantially as shown and described, and then tempering them, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD AUSTIN. Vitnesses HENRY C. NELSON, sAAc B. NoxoN.

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