US242352A

US242352A - Horseshoe

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Publication number: US242352A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-05-31
Anticipated expiration: 1898-05-31

Description

(No Model.)

- .8. K. MINTON.

Horseshoe.

Patented May 31,1881.

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ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES Niren States Patent Fries,

SEBASTIAN K. MINTON, OF DES MOINES, IOVA.

HORSES'HOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,352, dated May 31, 1881.

' Application filed March 17, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEBASTIAN KIRBY MIN- TON, of Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Horseshoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an inverted plan View of my improved shoe. Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing beveled inner edge. Fig. 3 is a rear view, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a toe-calk.

My invention relates to improvements in horseshoes; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the horseshoe, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents one half of my improved horseshoe, provided at its toe end with a rounded projecting flange or piece, a, which fits into a corresponding recess, b, in the toe end of the other half, B, of the horseshoe. O is a rivet passing through holes registering with each other in the toe ends of the half-shoes, whereby the two halfshoes are pivoted together-at thctoeof the shoe.

My invention is intended to be applied to horses having contracted feet or sand-cracks, and to this end the upper face of the shoe is beveled inward or made concave from near its outer edge entirely around the inner portion of the shoe, as shown in shaded lines, leaving a narrow bearing, r, for the horses foot along the outside edge of the shoe, which brings the bearing of the shoe on the outside of the foot and tends to spread the foot.

D is a toe-calk, provided with a hofe, d, for the insertion of a screw passing into a hole in the horseshoe, and having a slot, 6, for the pas- (No model.)

sage of a second screw, by means of which the hinge may be opened or closed, as desired.

F represents a plate, having a wide bearing at its middle for the support of the frog of the horses foot, and provided with a hole, a, at one end for the passage of a screw inserted therein, and thence into the shoe, the plate F being provided at its opposite end with a longitudinal slot having a screwinserted therein, and thence into the shoe, whereby the heel ends of the shoe can be spread apart or brought together, turning on the toe-hinge and secured in any desired position.

H H represent heel-calks secured to the shoe, and provided with right and left screw-holes S S for the passage of the right and left screwbolts 25 t, secured on each end of the block 19.

In practice the shoe is secured to the contracted foot by nails, in the usual manner, and when needed a wrench is applied to the block 12, opening the heel ends of the shoe, as desired, thereby relieving the contraction of the foot.

What I claim as new, is-

The combination, with the halves A B of a horseshoe hinged together at the toe and having their upper faces beveled inward, leaving the bearing 0 near the outside edge of the shoe, of the toe-call; D, having hole 0 and slot (1, plate F, having screw-hole a and slot m, heelcalks H, having right and left screw-threaded holes, and bloekp, having right-and-left screwbolts t, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

SEBASTIAN KIRBY MINTON.

Witnesses:

O. J. MOULENAHAN, JosIAH MAY.