US884855A - Means for making horseshoes. - Google Patents

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it l PATENTED APR.14, 190a. M. s. REIGH. MEANS FOR MAKING HORSESHOBS.

' I APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1, 1907.

Wll/VASSES MARTIN S. REIGH, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR MAKING HORSESHOES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. REIGH, a citizen of the United siding at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Making Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for making horse shoes, and the invention has for its object the provision of novel means whereby horse shoes can be easily and economically made by hand in considerable less time, and with much less labor than is required in the making of horse shoes by hand in the usual manner.

A further object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive attachment for anvils to facilitate the forming of horse shoes from metal bars.

The present application is in lieu of an abandoned application filed by me March 18, 1905, Ser. No. 250,717.

The invention consists in thenovel construetion, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating this invention, 1* igure 1 is a perspective view of an anvil equipped with my improved attachment, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment detached from the anvil.

The anvil 1 is of the usual form excepting that a socket or cavity 16 is formed in the upper face thereof, the anvil being rovided with the usual horn 2, and a suitab e base 3 resting on a suitable foundation and secured as by spikes 3 or in any other desired manner. The upper face of an anvil horn is usually flat or substantially so at the inner end of such face, and upon this flat face I arrange an upper clamp plate 4, the anvil horn being engaged on the underneath face by a lower clam plate 6, curved intermediate its ends to conform to the lower face of the anvil horn, these two clamp plates being connected together by bolts 5, one of which passes through a slot 4 in the upper clamp plate, as clearly seen in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The u per clamp plate carries a small horn 7 extending from the clam plate over the main face of the anvil, and at a slight angle thereto. This upper clamp plate 4 also carries a small horn 8 so located on the clamp plate 4 as to extend along side the main horn Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 1, 1907. Serial No. 360,080.

States of America, re-' Patented April 14., 1908.

2 at a slight angle to the surface thereof, and in the opposite direction to the horn 7. Pivotally-mounted upon one of the vertical bolts 5 is a rearwardly extending strap 9 to the free end of which is riveted or otherwise secured as at 10 an inverted-channel shaped punch bed or plate 11, preferably made of soft metal, such, for instance as co per. The plate 1 1 is used as a punch bed and is adapted to fit over the top of the anvil 1, as clearly seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings. To assist in holding this late 11 on the anvil face, it is provided with an opening 12 which receives a headed pin 14, the opening 12 registering with the usual hardy hole in an anvil, so that the pin 14, when passed through the opening 12 will also enter said hardy hole.

Suitably secured to the strap 9 adjacent to the punch bed or plate 11 is a bracket 14*, carrying a pin 15 adapted to fit in the rectangular opening 16 heretofore referred to as being provided in the upper face of the anvil 1. The bracket 14 in the present instance is shown as substantially U-shaped, the pin 15 being formed with a shank to be welded onto one arm or leg of the bracket 14, the other arm or leg of this bracket being suitably secured as by riveting to the strap 9. It will be evident that the bracket 14 and the pin 15 may be formed in one piece if desired. The bracket 14 lies on top of the anvil, the shank of the pin 15 and the inner arm or leg of the bracket entering the recess or cavity 16.

The in 15 is employed for holding the horse s 0e While the nail holes are being punched therein, the bend in the shoe being placed around pin 15 with the parts of the shoe in which the nail holes are to be punched lying upon the punch bed or plate 11.

As the under surface of the main horn 2 of the anvil is usually inclined upwardly towards the point of the horn, the tendency of the clam member 6 Would be to become loosened by the severe strains to which the clamp member 4 is subjected when using the horns 7 and 8 carried by said clamp member 4. The object therefore in providing the bracket 14 to overlie the anvil and have a part seating in the cavity 16 is to provide means for tying the clam members securely in osition on the anvil This is accomplis ed by use of the bar 9, being connected at its one end to one of the bolts 5, and being connected also to the bracket 14 and the punch bed 11. Should the pin 14 be removed at any time in order to make use of the hole 12 in the punch bed, the clamp mem bers are justas securely held on the anvil by reason of the strap 9 connecting them to the bracket 14.

The manner of using the attachment in the making of horse shoes is as follows: Assuming that a bar of metal is to be bent, sha ed and punched, the said bar is first laid'e gewise across the top of theanvil in under the horn 7, and the bar bent by striking with a hammer, the horn 7 during this operation serving to hold the blank firmly in position when it is being struck, and preventing its opposite end from flying upwardly. The bar is now placed over the edge of the main horn 2 and struck with a hammer so as to cause it to bend around the anvil horn, the blank or bar in this position being held between the main horn 2 and the small horn 8 at a slight angle to the longitudinal axis of the horns, and bent around the horn so as to form the curved portion of the horse shoe. The supplementary horns 7 and 8 it will therefore be observed are used to maintain the blank firmly in position while the blank or bar is being operated upon to curve the same into the shoe blank. These horns are of special value, as they greatly reduce the labor of holding the blank in proper position upon the anvil while imparting thereto the desired curvature to obtain the shoe blank. The spaces between the surface of the horns 7 and 8 and the adjacent surfaces of the anvil horn are tapered, so that blanks of any required width may be inserted in these spaces, and firmly held by the horns 7 and 8 while said blanks are being operated upon.

In forming the nail holes, the shoe blank is placed on the punch bed 11 with the bend of the shoe around the pin 15 and the holes are then punched in the ordinary manner, the said p ate or punch bed 11 being, as heretofore stated of a soft metal, prevents the punch from striking the anvil and being injured thereby. By connecting the pin 15 to the bracket 14, the said pin can not be arred from the anvil during the forming of the shoe blank, and is therefore always in position and ready for use when desired in connection with punching the nail holes in the shoe. The attachment may be readily removed from the anvil at any time desired by simply unscrewing the nuts which hold bolts 55, and the clamp members, it will be observed may be used independently of the punch bed and pin if desired, and also the punch bed and pin may be used independently of the clamp members, should it be so desired.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An anvil provided with a main horn at one end, a plate disposed transversely of said anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends and provided with oppositely-extend ing supplementary horns, one of said sup lementary horns extending over the main ace of the anvil and the other sup lementary horn extending alongside the anvi horn, and means for securing said plate upon said anvil.

2. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate mounted u on said horn and having two supplemental orns projecting therefrom in opposite directions, and means for securing said plate upon said horn.

3. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate disposed transversely of the anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends, a supplemental horn carried by said plate and extending over the main face of the anvil, and means for securing said plate upon said anvil.

4. In an attachment for making horse shoes, the combination with an anvil having a main horn at one end, and having a recess in its upper face near the other end, of clamp members secured to the main horn, a bracket carrying a pin engaging in said recess in the anvil, a punch bed engaging the upper face of the anvil, and a strap connecting the said punch bed and the bracket to said clamp members.

5. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate disposed transversely of the anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends, a supplemental horn carried by said plate and extending along the anvil horn, and means for securing said plate upon said anvil.

6. The combinationwith an anvil having a main horn, of a plate resting on top of the main horn at the base thereof, means for attaching said plate to said main horn, two supplementary horns projecting from said plate, one extending over the top of the anvil and the other extending alongside the main horn of the anvil, the spaces between the underneath face of the supplementary horns and the adjacent surface of the anvil decreasing in depth towards the base of the supplementary horns.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN S. REIGH.

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