US815399A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

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'PATENTED MAR. 20, 1906.

A. ANDERSON HORSESHOE. APPLICATION FILED 00'I.1B, 1905.

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, P 1 UNITED srATEs PAT NT OFF-Ion." if AUGUST ANDERSON, OF'BIRMI GHAM, ALAB MA.

' oRsEsHoE. 3 l A Specification of Letters Patent, Application A1511 October-13,1905. Serial No. 283.290.;

Patented March 2o, 1906.

TOIO/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,*AUeUsTANDERsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing-at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and tate" of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following'is a specification.

My invention pertains to hor'seshoes; and

it consists in the peculiar and advantageoussoft-tread horseshoe hereinafter described, and particularly pended.

-Inthe accompanying drawings, forming pointed out in the claim appart of this specification, Figure 1 is an inv vention.

verted plan view of the shoe constituting the present and preferred embodiment of my in- Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section illustrating the shoe as properly applied to a horse s hoof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same, and Fig. 4' is a perspective view of the pad of the shoe removed.

7 Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which j A is the body of the horseshoe constituting the present and preferred embodiment of my invention. The said body is shaped to fit a hoof and is of channel form 1n crosssection i. 6., comprises a top wall a, side flanges I), depending from said top wall, and end flanges or walls '0, also depending from the top wall.

In its top Wall a the body A is provided with holes d for the passage of nails B, hereinafter referred to.

lar in shape to the body A and is of a size tov snugly occupy the channel of said body.

D is a wear-plate of the same shape in outline as the body A and the pad C; The said plate fits between the 'side'flanges b of the body and against the under side of the pad and extends below the lower edges of the said side flanges b, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The forward portion of the'plate is provided with holes 6 at intervals for the passage of the nails B, through the medium of which the wear-plate, the pad, and the body are conneoted together and .to the hoof. The rear portions of'said plate may be left free, as

shown, or may be provided with holes e and connected with the hoof by nails B in the same manner as the forward portion, as desired. At its foremost point the wear-plate hassimilar calks F.

In the practical use of my novel shoe the body A, pad C, and wear-plate D are assembled and arranged on a horses hoof in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3, after which the nails'B': are driven through the forward portions of the wear-plate, the cushion, and

readily apparent, the shoe as a whole will be apparent that while the nails. strongly connect the Wear-plate D, the pad C, and the bodyA together and to the hoof the body holds the wear-plate and the pad against lateral movement and in that way avoids the imposition of lateral strain on the nails, with the result that the shoe as a whole is strong and durable. g

By virtue, of the interposition of the pad 0 between the wear-plate and the body observed that the shoe is provided with a soft tread throughout its length, and yet the wear-plate D, dlsposed below the pad, prevents uick Wear of the latter. Y 1

It W'lll be readily gathered fromthe foregoicpg that my novel-shoe takes up the shock an ment and efiectually prevents the same from injuring the hoof. 1

a body of channel form in cross-section, hav 'ing nail-holes in its top wall, a pad arranged in and extending throughout the length of the channel of said body, and held against lateral movement by the body, a wear-plate resting in the channel of the body, below the movement, and depending fromthe body and having a horses hoof in such manner as to permit of movement of the wear-plate with respect to the body.

nesses. p v g V I AUGUST ANDERSON. Witnesses:

A. LEO OBERDORFER. I

J. D. MoDoNALD.

securely attached to the hoof. It will also be 'pad, whereby it is also held against lateral D is provided with a calk E, and at its ends it the body and into the hoof, when, as will be A throughout the length of the shoe it will be jar lncident to travel over a hard pave- The herein-described horseshoe comprising calks, and nails extending through and connecting the wear-plate, pad and body and arranged to attach the horseshoe as awhole to In testimony whereof Ih ave hereunto set w my hand in presence of two subscribing wit-

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