US877577A - Horseshoe-creaser. - Google Patents

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No. s77 ,5v7.- PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908.

JOSEPH OURRAN LOOKE, OF WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC, CANADA.

HORSESHOE-CREASER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1908.

Application filed December 23. 1906- Serial No. 349-814.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH CURRAN LocKE, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at VVestmount, county of I-Iochelaga, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe-Creasers; and I do hereby declare that the following is 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. 4

My invention relates to horseshoe-creasers the object of my invention is to provide a device of this character with a plurality of removable creasing elements; a further object is to provide means for solidly fixing the creasing elements on an annular member adapted to be keyed on a roll or shaft a further object is to provide on the device means for marking a bar of horseshoe iron into proper length for cutting with relation to the creases which are formed by the creasing elements; and, my invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as herein illustrated, described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, I have illustrated one form of embodiment of my invention, in which drawings similar reference characters designate corresponding parts, and in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section on line 1 1 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow; Fig. 2 is an edge plan view; Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 1

In the art it has been usual to form devices of this character from a single piece of metal, and to work the metal down to leave projecting therefrom the creasing and marking members. hen one of these members became worn and broken from use, it was necessary to replace the entire structure. By my invention, should any creasing element become worn or broken, it may be readily replaced at a small expense.

In carrying my invention into effect, I provide an annular member 1, adapted to be inserted over a shaft or roll of a horseshoe machine, and adapted to be used in connection with the usual housings on each side. Formed in one vertical face from the periphery towards the center of the annular member, are dove-tailed slots 2, the side walls 3 of which diverge inwardly. Rem'ovably disposed in the slots 2 are creasing elements 4, the side walls 5 of which diverge inwardly and coincide in shape and size to the side walls 3 of the slots 2, so that in plan the side walls 5 of the creasing elements 4 are beveled, as best shown at 6 in Fig. 2. The outer end of each of the creasing elements 4, is provided with a raised die 7, adapted to form the crease in the upper face ofthe bar of horseshoe iron as it is passed beneath the device. Each die 7 is provided with a plurality of integral teeth 8, adapted to form a depression in the bar of iron in the crease which is formed by the die 7. The teeth 8 are formed on the inner vertical faces of the die 7, because the strain is greatest in the direction of the arrow 9 of Fig. 3, so that the strain on the dies 7 is taken up by the adjacent faces of the slots 2.

The annular member 1 is provided with an inwardly projecting annu ar flange 10, against which is disposed a locking ring 11, the outer surface of which lies beneath the inner ends of the creasing elements 4, and firmly locks the same against movement inward, when the ring 11 and member 1 are disposed on a roll or shaft. T o lock the member 1 and the ring 10 on a shaft or roll, a key-way 12 is provided through the inner edges thereof.

Intermediate of the creasing elements 4 on two sides of the annular member 1, there is provided an integral tooth 13, which does not project as far as the teeth 8 on the dies 7. The object of these teeth 13 is to mark the point at which the horse shoe bar is to be cut to form the horse shoe, which is afterwards bent into proper shape and otherwise finished. Each half revolution of the device described forms the two creases necessary to complete one finished shoe, and the teeth 18 mark the places at which the bar should be cut.

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

In a device of the character described, the combination of an annular member, outwardly-converging slots extending across the side face of said member, each of said slots being formed with under-cut walls, removable elements formed with a taper corresponding to the convergence of said slots and removable elements, substantially as derovided with inclined side Walls for interscribed. ocking With the under-cut Walls of said In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my slots, dies on the outer ends of said elements, hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

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