US859495A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

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No. 859.495. PATENT'BD JULY 9, 1907. J. T. HBISLER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLIOATIOII FILED MAY 24, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN THEODORE HEISLER, OF YULE, NORTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO NELS PETERSON, OF YULE, NORTH DAKOTA, AND'ONE-THIRD TO JOHN H. OHRISTIANSEN, OF SENTINEL BUTTE, NORTH DAKOTA.

HORSE SHOE N0. 859,495. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 9, 1907, Application filed ay 24,1906. Serial No. 318,579.

To all whom it may concern: while the inner portions of the sole or seat where the Be it known that 1, JOHN THEODORE HEIsLER, a citileast strains occur tapers to a comparatively thin platezen of the United States, residing at Yule, in the like form. Thus the thinner portion of the sole or 45 County of Billings and State of North Dakota, have inseat will more readily adapt itself to the shape of the Vented a new and useful Horseshoe, of which the folhoof, and avoid cramping or straining the same, while lowing is a specification. the thicker outer edges offer the requisite resistance This invention relates to improvements in horse'- to prevent breakage or bending of the shoe under the shoes, and has for'its object to improve the construcsevere strains to which such devices are subjected. 50

tion and increase the efficiency and utility of devices The shoes are manufactured from bars rolled into the of this character, shape shown in Fig. 3 and then bent into the required With these and other objects in view which will apform without changing the transverse shape. The pear as the nature of the invention is better understood, shoes are thus of the same form throughout their entire the invention consists in certain novel features of conlengths, which equalizes the strains and distributes the 55 struction as hereafter fully described and claimed. pressure uniformly upon the hoofs.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this Having thus described the invention, what is claimed specification and in which corresponding parts are deis:- noted by like designating characters, is illustrated the A horse shoe consisting of a blank of uniform transpreferred form of the embodiment of the invention verse dimension and configuration throughout, said blank 60 having a plane upper side which constitutes a hoof-bearcapa-ble of ca1 lymg F Into plactlcal P- l ing surface and a plane lower side which is parallel to the In the dl'awlngs g 1 1s a bottom P VIEW and plane of the upper side and which constitutes a ground F ig. 2 is a top plan view of the improved article. Flg. engaging surface, the blank having an arcuate outer edge,

3 i a transverse Section enlarged on h li 3 3 f the arc of which is struck from a center midway of the Fig 1 said upper and lower plane surfaces, with a radius equal to the greater transverse dimension of the blank, the The improved horse shoe comprisesasole or seat porchord of Said are lying at a right angle to the parallel 25 tion 10 of uniform width thoughout and increasing in upper and lower sides of the blank, the inner edge of the thickness from the inner edge 11 o d h Outer d blank being right angles to the upper and lower sides, 12 and Witha continuous calk rib 13 dependino, from the blank having an inclined plane surface located under the upper side and having its higher edgev adjacent the inthe Sole poruon at Its Outer edge and consldembly ner edge of the blank, the blank having an inclined S111" thicker than the sole portion at itsjuncture therewith, face conforming to the curvature of the shoe and extend 30 and decreasing in thickness toward the bearing or gripi the lower edge of 11116 first Said inclined sulffl'ce p edge 14. The Outer face of the rib is substantially to the inner edge of the lower side of the shoe, said inclined surfaces being at an obtuse angle to each other, Vertlcal or at fight angles to the body of the Shoe and the blank being provided with nail perforations located in preferably slightly convex, to improve the appearanc the first said inclined surfaces and having their outer and with all the incline upon the inner face of the rib. edges alined with the p of the angle e e t w 35 By this means the tendency of the Shoe to enter the inclined surfaces, the sides of said perforations lying in planes which converge from the first said inclined sursoil or soft parts of the road is lessened, and the tendface to the upper Side of the blank ency of the shoe to adhere to portions of the material In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as my Own, I

of the road is likewise lessened, while at the same time have hereto affixed my signature in the presenceof two the inclined inner face of the rib, prevents material 40 from adhering to the hoof or within the shoe. By this Witnesses means the outer portion of the sole or seat where the FIELD,

' greatest strains occur is strengthened and stiffened, F. L. THOMPSON.

.TOHN THEODORE HEISLER.

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