US9173A - Improved elastic horseshoe - Google Patents

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.tenu o. JONES, orr NEWTON, MASSAcHUsnTfrs.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9, E23, dated August 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, IOHN O. J ONES, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, .have invented an Improvement in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and use of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- A Figure H is a view of the upper surface of the top plate; Fig. VI is a side View of the double plates, showing the interposed sheet of indiarubber and the position of the washer.

It is well known that the hoofs of horses are liable to injury, and that many of the diseases or their feet are caused by the blows of the non-elastic iron shoe upon hard roads or stone pavements. My improvement is designed to prevent these injuries by the use otindiarubber or other elastic substance so combined with an iron shoe as to prevent the hoof of the horse from receiving so violent a blow as it does when the common liron shoe is used.

My improved elastic shoe consists of two plates, which may be made of malleable or of wrought iron, one plate being placed above the other and having a sheet of vulcanized india-rubber interposed.

Fig. Il represents the upper surface of the top plate, which is placed in contact with the hoof of the horse and fastened to it by nails, which pass through the holes J .Tin'the usual manner. ,Holes in this plate are tapped to receive the ends of screws which enter them after passing through corresponding holes in the bottom plate. I lacc a sheet of indiarubber, S, having the same outline as the shoe, between the two plates, as represented in ig. V. I secure the bottom plate, T, to the upper plate, U, by a screw, V, one or more screws beingr placed upon 'each side of the shoe and nearly under the middle of the hoof A The head of this screw is eountersunk in screw passes upward through a washer, W,.

the shoe was divided in some cases into sevf l eral parts, which were-placed .end to end around the hoof. This plan cannot be practically applied to advantage, for whenever the elastic substance is compressed the nails n will either move in the shoe or in the `hoot` and becomev loose. in a sh01.t-.time. By the use of the double plates herein described this is prevented, for the upper plate is held fast to the foot by nails applied in the usual manner, while the yielding parts are below this plate.

When the elastic sheet is to be renewed, the

lower plate only is taken 01T, a new sheet is inserted, and the` lower plate secured to the n upper one as before. Another advantage attending the use of my double plate consists in this: that shoes having diverse forms upon the lower surface may be applied in a few minutes, according -to the state of the roads, or a winter shoe substitutedfor a summer shoe, thus preventing injury to the hoof by frequently drawing and driving the nails.

What l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-y` The shoe formed with two plates, between which a sheet of vulcanized rubbcrlor other elastic substance is interposed in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

JOHN O. JONES.' [.L. su] In presence ot- A SAML. Byroumnna, Jr.,

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