US24380A - Improved horse-racket - Google Patents

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AUNITED STATES Ario-RAGE B. DAVIS, or' LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Y IMPRovED HoRsE-RAcKET.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,380, dated J une 14,1859.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern: l

Beit known that I, HORACE B. DAVIS, of

i Lexington, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved mode of attaching the horseracket to the foot of the animal, avoiding a1- together the galling of the fetlock or ankle by straps of leather, or the compression of the hoof by clamps of Wood, iron, or other hard substances acting directly upon the hoof, which galling and'compression of the foot is often very injurious, producing lameness in the limb; and l do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

making a part of this specification, in Which-,-

Figure lis the ground-floor or bottom of the racket; Fig. 2, a front elevation; Fig. 3, a back View of the racket; Fig. 4, a side View, and Fig. 5 a View of the transverse section.

K K represents the elevated part ofthe front of the racket, which answers the threefold purpose of strengthening the bottom or floor of the racket, supporting and confining the front of the foot, and of receiving and sustaining the rod which acts upon the heel of the shoe.

and round the heel or hinder `part ofthe foot. The space inclosed by this rod may be enlarged or contracted to the size of different feet by the thumb-screws A A, the aperture or mortise F allowing the movement of that part of the rod backward or forward for that purpose.

E E represents a small iron rod, the ends of p which lpass through the front elevation,K K,

G represents the heel-bolt, which is attached to the rod E E, and passes through the mortise F, and is by the nut and screw H H to be drawn down, so as to bring the rod E E upon the heel part of the shoe I I, and thus attach C the foot iirmly'to the racket in the rear, while the toe of the shoe is held firmly by the hollow in the central part of the front elevation, K K, which hollow is represented by D in the drawings.

The heel-bolt G may either ypass round the rod E E, as shown in Design 1 in the drawings, and be held by the nut and screw. H H on the lower side of floor; or the rod may be elon-v gated, as shown in Design 2, in which case the heel-bolt willl pass through the elongated portion of the rod, and the nut and screw H H may be placed upon the upper side of the floor of the racket.

Ido not claim horse-rackets-now extensively used to enable farmers to cultivate their moist swampy lands; but 1 I claim"h l.. The improved mode of fastening and conning it to the foot by having the pointsV of attachment'bear directly upon the shoe, so as not to injure the ankle or fetlock by galling or the hoof by compression.

2. The machinery by which the racket is adjusted to the size of the'foot, and held more firmly and securely than by any other mode of attachment now known.

HORACE B. DAVIS.

vInfpresence of- L. J. LIVERMORE, M. B. HUDSON.-`

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