US579782A

US579782A - Horseshoe

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Publication number: US579782A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-03-30
Anticipated expiration: 1914-03-30

Description

(No Model.)

D. B. VAN HORN.

I HORSESHOE. No. 579,782. Patented Mar. 30, 1897.

WITNESSES: INVENTUR #27144? J mm BY ATTY'S.

NITED STATES DANIEL B. VAN HORN, OF ETNA, NEW JERSEY.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,782, dated March 30, 1897.

' A li atio fil d December 4, 1896. Serial No. 614,405. (No model.)

scription 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 letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide,

horseshoes of simple, strong, and durable construction and which prevent a horse from slipping, even when going at high speed over icy or slippery ground.

The invention consists in the improved horseshoe and in the combination and arrangement of the various parts thereof, substantially as will be hereinafter more fully described, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 is a plan view of the lower face of my improved horseshoe, and Fig. 2 a detail perspective view of one of the heels thereof.

In said drawings, 0. represents a metallic horseshoe provided on its lower face with the usual fullering b, wherein are arranged the nail-holes c in the ordinary and well-known manner. Near the toe of said shoe a and on the lower face thereof is the curved toe-call: 61, substantially parallel with the curve of the toe d. The independent L-shaped heelcalks e and f, near the heels 6 and f, respectively, are arranged so that the longer arms 9 and h of the Us are substantially parallel with the outer edges and point toward the quarters of said shoe, while the shorter arms g and h terminate on the inner edges and near their respective heels e and f, all as clearlyshown in Fig. l of the drawings. The said calks d e f are preferably integral with the shoe ct and are triangular in cross-section,

springing directly from the lower face of theshoe and forming substantially knife-edged projections at different angles to each other,

but terminate substantially in one and the same horizontal plane when the shoe is in use.

It will be observed that the calks extend neither to the extreme toe or heels of the shoe, but are arranged at or a short distance from these points,which arrangement imparts a certain amount of spring to the shoe, gives it, as the lines of resistance of the several calks merge nearby the center of the shoe, a more solid bearing on frozen or otherwise slippery ground, and greatly lessens the danger of the horse calking himself, as will be manifest.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I 1. Ahorseshoe consistingofametallicbody, a curved calk projecting from the lower face of the toe of said body, and an independent L-shaped calk projecting from the lower face of each of the heels and having their longer extremities approximately parallel with the.

outer edges of the said heels whereby the lines of resistance of the several calks merge nearby the center of the shoe, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A horseshoe consisting of a metallic body, a curved calk, triangular in cross-section, projecting from the lower face of the toe of said body and substantially parallel with the outer edge thereof, and an independent L- shaped calk, also triangular in cross-section, projecting from the lower face of each of the heels and having their longer extremities approximately parallel with the outer edges of the said heels, and their shorter extremities at right angles thereto whereby the lines of resistance of the several calks merge nearby the center of the shoe, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of November, 1896.

DANIEL B. VAN HORN.

W'itnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, WM. D. BELL.