US518863A - Combination rubber and steel horseshoe - Google Patents

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7 E. 0. SGRIBNER. GOMBINATION RUBBER AND STEEL HORSBSYHOE.

No. 518,863. Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rmon.

ELMER O. SORIBNER,'OF NEVERSINK, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION RUBBER AND STEEL HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,863, dated April 24, 1894.

Application filed February 26. 1894. Serial No. 501,595. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

l 3e it known that I, ELMER O. SORIBNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Neversink, 1n the county of Sullivan and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Rubber and Steel Horseshoes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Th1s 1nvention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combination rubber and steel shoes which are adj ustable, and which can be adjusted to difierent sized hoofs, without the usual heating and welding of the metalhc shoe so as to conform to the shape of the hoof when trimmed down as much as is deslred in readiness for the shoe to be nailed thereto. j

A further object of this invention is to protallic portion being adjusted to difierent sized hoofs and nailed thereto.

To these ends and to such others as the invent on may pertain, the same consists further 1n the novel construction, combination and adaptation of the parts, as will be herelnafter more fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the annexed drawings, which form a part of this speclfication, in which drawings similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, and in which' Figure 1, is a plan view, hoof side, of my combination shoe. Figs.2 and 3 are detail views of the metal portion of the shoe, in part, and the entire rubber portion separated B, are the calks which are moderately thin so as to wear down uniformly with the rubber shoe 0, which is secured to the pivoted sectional metallic plate by being vulcanized to its lower or calked surface, the .calks protruding through the apertures in the rubber shoe provided therefor.

D, D, are a series of holes in the rubber shoe which register with the holes D, D, in the metallic shoe, and nailsof a particular construction are designed to be embedded in the rubber portion with their heads bearing against the metallic surface, or they may engage a thin layer of the rubber between their heads and the metallic surface, as an extra security in holding the rubber shoe to the metallic portion, and by this arrangement it will be seen that the rubber can gradually wear down towardthe surface of the metallic surface without any interference from the nail heads, and the calks being of a thin metal, Will wear gradually away with the flexible portion. On the lower surface of the rubber shoe are the corrugations F, which serve to prevent the horse from slipping when traveling on slippery pavements or ice.

It will be seen that the rubber portion, although vulcanized to the sectional metallic portion A, will be capable of adjustment to hoofs of different sizes, owing to the elasticity of the rubber and pivotal movements of the metallic base portion.

I am aware that it is not new to vulcanize a rubber shoe to a horse shoe between the metallic portion and the hoof, by which arrangeloosened. I am also aware that it is old to vment the nails are very likely to become construct metallic shoes in sections, and hence I do not claim these broadly.

What I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A horse shoe comprising in combination a compound shoe being capable of adjustment to metallic base portion made up of two or more sections pivoted together with two free ends tapering as described, a rubber shoe vulcanized to the lower or calked surface of the metallic portion, apertures in the rubber portion for the reception of the calks, nail-holes which register with holes in the metallic portions, rubber corrugations as shown, the said to hoofs of difierent sizes, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ELMER G. SGRIBNER. Witnesses:

HARVEY J. SARLES, WILIBER G. KRUM.

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