US3142A

US3142A - Hardt

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Publication number: US3142A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1843-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 1860-06-24

Description

T LEN CHAS. C. REINHARDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SPUR.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES C. REIN- r-mnnfr, of thecity of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in IIorsemens Spurs; and I do hereby declare that the following specication, the accompanying drawings making part of the same, is a full and exact description. l

In the drawing, Figure l represents the exterior of my spur, the same as that of the English improvement. a, c, is a square box that goes in the middle of the boot-heel, with the lugs o, Z), to receive the nails to confine it in the heel. c, Fig. 2, is a. main spring, fast at (l, to the neck c, or shank of the spur, so that the box is left in the boot and said spring may be repaired at any time. Fig.3 is the box detached from the shank of the spur, e. f' is `the head of a spiral spring in said box; by the torni of P, head of spring and its exactly fitting, and being connected with the spring, the spring and its head yield inward to let in the shank of P spur pass in and when P shank is withdrawn the head, by the exact fit and its reaction projects any dirt that might otherwise enter the box. Fig. at represents the box, and the spring taken out of it. j', is the head of said spring as seen at j, Fig. 3. g, is a small projection onthe spring head, corresponding with a downward projection in the box, at 7i, which prevents the spring head from protruding out at this end of the box, and t', is a small dovetail gate to inclose the spring and confine it in P box, the spring being introduced at this end; by this construction the spring may readily be introduced or withdrawn.` Fig. 5 shows the construction of the English spur; in which the spring is confined to the box as, a, 0r a, and consequently from this construction, gets out of order and can not be repaired, without taking the heel off, and taking the box out. The part of theheel below the box, as at a Fig 6, lia-sto be cut away,so as to suifer the part Z), or Z), of the spring to play, in introducing or withdrawing the shank e, or e. In this plan the box gets clogged with dirt under the spring and it breaks. In both forms it maybe seen that by means of the spring o, Fig. 2, or a., Fig. 5, and the corresponding parts f, and g as at Fig. 5, the spur is retained in the box. The spiral spring may be made of German silver or any other suitable material. In consequence of the cnt in the heel to receive the part b, Fig. 5 the heel is much defaced and has been a great objecetion; whereas my plan leaves a good linish, and can not be readily distinguished from the ordinary heel, besides the head of the spring fitting exact-ly the tube or box; as the shank of the spur is withdrawn from the box the head of spring keeps the dirt out of the box.

.Vhat I claim as my invention in the foregoing specitication, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the spiral spring, as before described, with the spring attached to the shank of the spuras represented at Fig. 2, and applied. to the horsemans spur all as before described, and for the purpose set fort-h.

CHARLES C. REINI-IARDT. Vitnesses:

JOHN W. Postr, FRANCIS POLLITT.