US787446A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR.18, 1905.

F.' HERZOG. HORSESHOE.v

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2B, 1903.

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Attorney- UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

HOHSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,446, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed November 28, 1903. Serial No. 183,077.

To all whmn it may concern.-

of the United States of America, and a resident of Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe provided with my improved calks; Fig. 2, a similar view inverted with the calks removed. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective of one of the heel-calks removed. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the toe-calk. Fig. 5 is a similar view of another form of toe-calks, and Figs. 6 and 7 detail sections through the heel and toe calks.

The object of this invention is to provide a construction that will permit the calks to be changed without the intervention of skilled labor and without removing the shoe from the animals foot, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

The shoe proper is constructed in the usual manner except that at each heel and at the toe portion it is provided with a substantially rectangular integral projection a on its wearing-face. The projection on each heel part is substantially the width of the shoe and is provided with a hole through it, the hole extending from the front to the-rear face of the projection and tapering slightly forwardly.

Each heel-call: consists of a wearing:block b, which is flat on its upper surface to adapt it to fit squarely against the enlargement a, and is provided at its rear upper edge with an upward-extending part c, which bears flat against the rear end of the shoe. Formed integral with this upper projecting part c and projecting forwardly from it is a tapering pin (Z, which nicely fits the hole in the projecting part a and is long enough to extend beyond the forward face thereof. This pin (Z is provided with a transverse hole 0, through which a split pin or a nail or a piece of wire may be passed to lock the calk to the shoe, this lockpin bearing directly against the forward face of the projection a. These calks may be sharpened, as shown in Fig. 3, or made blunt on their wearing-faces, as shown in Fig. 6. The toe-calk is constructed in substantially the same manner, it consisting of 1 Be ltknown that I, FRITZ HERZOG, a citizen a wearlng portion f, an upward-extending part g at the forward edge of the wearing part midway between its ends, and an integral rearwardly-projecting pin It, adapted to'fit a tapering hole formed in the projection a at the toe of the shoe. The projection a is re cessed at its forward end to receive the part g, this recess dividing the part a into two bearing parts a, one at each side of the projection g. This toe-calk may be sharpened,

as shown in Fig. 4, or made blunt, as shown in Fig. 5. The pin it is provided with a transverse hole 2', through which a suitable locking-pin is passed to removably lock the toecalk in place.

With the foregoing construction it Will be obvious that the calks may be readily changed from one kind to the other by simply removing the lock-pins, and it is obvious that this may be done without removing the shoe from the horse or employing skilled labor. This shoe is not intended for use without calks. It will at all times be used with either one form of calk or the other, according to the weather conditions.

An important feature lies in providing at each heel and at the toe portion an integral projection on the shoe adapted to receive the pins and take up the shock and strain, relieving the shoe proper of such shock and strains and providing a broad solid bearing for the calks.

Another feature lies in forming the pins (Z and lb integral with upward-projecting lugs on the calks, thus avoiding the use of bolts and the weakening of the upward-projecting lugs.

Still another feature of importance lies in extending the upward-extending parts 0 and 9 far enough to bear against the body of the shoe, so as to thereby not only brace the calks, but relieve the projections a from part of the strain and shocks.

It will be observed that each of the calksupporting projections consists of a single solid part having a continuous flat bearingsurface of substantially the width of the shoe, thereby not only affording a substantial support for the calk, but also providing a support for the lock-pin without weakening the body of the shoe, the holes for the lock-pin being extended entirely through the projections at points below the wearing-face of the shoe proper, so that their projecting ends shall lie just back of the calk-supports and close to the wearing-face of the shoe, where they will be out of the way and sufiiciently protected.

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

1. A horseshoe provided at each heel part and the toe part with an integral depending calk-support substantially the Width of the shoe and having a flat unbroken bearing-face, each calk-support being provided with a lockpin hole through it at a'point below the wearing-face of the shoe, a call; bearing upon and covering said flat under surface of each calksupport and having an upwardsextending part bearing against one side of the calk-support, and a lock-pin attached to said upward-extending part of each calk and passing through the lock-pin hole in the calk-support, for the purposes set forth.

2. A horseshoe provided with a removable toe-calk and a depending integral calk-support at each heel portion, each of these calksupports being of substantially the same width as the shoe and provided with a lock-pin hole through it at a point below the wearing-face of the shoe, a call; bearing upon and covering the under surface of each calk-support and having an upward-extending part bearing against the rear face of the calk-support and the end of the shoe proper, and a lock-pin attached to said upward-extending part of each calk and passing through said lock-pin hole and terminating beyond the front wall of the calk-support just under the wearing-face ot' the shoe, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 25th day of November, 1903.

FRITZ I-IERZOG.

Witnesses:

U. D. DAVIS, EDWIN L. YEWELL.

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