US336154A

US336154A - Horseshoe

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Publication number: US336154A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-02-16
Anticipated expiration: 1903-02-16

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(N0 ModeL) T. PHILLIPS, E. BOUOHARD & T. GHARBONNEAU.

HQRSESHOE. I No. 336,154. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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THOMAS PHILLIPS, ELI BOUOHARD, AND TREFFLE OHARBONNEAU, OF IVORGESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,154, dated February 16, 1886.

Application filed January 6, 1886. Serial No. 187,756.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS PHILLIPS, ELI BOUCHARD, and TREEELE CHARBONNEAU, all residents of the city and county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Horseshoe, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention belongs to that class of shoes having removable calks capable of being renewed without removing the shoe from the foot of the horse.

Its nature and principles of construction and operation are fully shown in the following description of the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a shoe embodying our invention.

In said drawings, Figurel is a plan or view ofthe bottom ofthe shoe with the calks in place. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view, as indicated by the arrow 1), of one of the heels with itsscrew and calk removed; and Fig. 3 is a View of the front or toe calk, as indicated by the arrow a, with its screw removed and calk lifted.

The same letters indicate the same parts wherever they occur.

A is the shoe; B, the toe-caik; C U, the heelcalks; e e 6, heads of bolts or screws holding the ealks to the shoe.

At the toe of the shoe we make a recess as long as it is desirable to have the toe-calk, cutting it about onehalf the thickness of the shoe, as shown in Fig. 3, and leave a boss or thimble, D, long enough to reach nearly through the base of the toecalk, and having a threaded hole extending through it and the shoe, in which the bolt or screw is fitted to hold the calk in place. In this recess we also make two holes near its front and ends, as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3. The ealk, which may be of any of the common forms in use, has a base attached, fitted to fill (No model.)

the abovedescribed recess, and with a hole fitting the thimble D, and also two studs fitting the holes in the shoe, as shown in Fig. 3.

E is the screw or bolt, fitted to the thimble D, and having its head 6 large enough to bear onthe base of the calk around the thimble. The heel-ealks are similarly fitted in their re eesses,excepting that one stud is deemed sufficient, as shown in Fig. 2, though two might be used, and the toe-call; might be fitted with two thimbles and screws, if desirable, for large shoes.-

The body of the shoe is made in any of the common forms designed to be fastened to the horses foot, the calks being removable by loosening their screws, so thatlong sharp calks can be easily put on for an icy time,and short or smoother ones for pavements or summer wear be easily substituted when desired.

The use of the thimble gives a long held for the screw, and its sides with the studs and ends of the recesses to which the base of the calk is well fitted all insure a firm solid union when the bolt is tightened.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to patent, 1s

The removable-call; shoe described, having its calks fitting in recesses, and provided with one or more studs fitting holes in the shoe, and an opening fitting over the thimble or nut on the shoe, with a bolt or screw holding them firmly in place, all constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes as above set forth.

THOMAS PHILLIPS. ELI BOUGHARD. TREFELE OI-IARBONNEAU.

IVitnesses:

O. H. ARNOLD, J. GREENE.