An Elastic Horse Shoe.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Elastic Horse Shoe.
Wo, ELLERY COWING DAVIS, HALVOR STEENERSON, THOMAS GEORGE "THOMPSON,
IVER KROBN, and GEORGE VINE, all of Crookston, Minnesota, United States of
America, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and' by the
following statement:―
This Invention relates to the construction of an elastic. horse shoe.
Streets are usually paved either with stone, ashphalt, or similar hard materials,
which while they are smooth and very easy to travel over, are, on account of their
extreme hardness and non-elasticity, very hard for the horses feet.
According to this invention a shoe is provided which is elastic or cushioned so
that it takes the jars or deadens the shock resulting from the impact of the horses.
foot on the road bed enabling a horse to travel over the hardest roads with the
same ease, and with the same freedom from jars or shocks on his feet, that he has
in travelling over comparatively soft roads.
The shoe is also made with sufficient lateral elasticity to permit it to expand
laterally, after it has been nailed on the hoof, to compensate for and adapt itself to
the growth of the hoof, a feature which is very important in shoeing, young .and
growing horses.
The preferred form of this invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings
in which, like letters refer to like parts.
Figure 1 is a perspective, looking at the under face of a horse shoe constructed
in accordance with this invention..
Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section, taken on the line of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section, taken on the line, x²x² of Figure 1 and
Figure 4 is a perspective of one of the metallic linings or channel pieces which
are placed in the fullerings or nail creases.
a indicates the body of the horse shoe, which is constructed preferably of rubber,
or of some compound containing sufficient rubber to give the desired elasticity.
The shoe is provided with heel calks b, and with a toe chalk c, preferably made with
roughened striking surfaces b' and c¹ respectively. The quarters of the shoe are
provided with fullerings or nail grooves a' which are, in this construction considerably
larger and deeper than the fullerings of an ordinary shoe. In these fullerings are
placed metallic linings, preferably in the form of channel pieces d, bent to the form
of the fullering a', and provided with nail holes d'. The fullerings a¹ are of such
depth that when the metallic linings d are in them, they do not reach the face of
the shoe, as best shown in Figure 3. This prevents the metallic channel pieces d from
striking the road-bed.
These metallic pieces & serve to prevent the heads of the nails from being drawn
into or through the shoe, and act as draw-plates to clamp, the flexible shoe against
the horse's hoof under the drawing action of the nails; they also serve to stiffen
the shoe, permitting at the same time the quarters of the same to spring laterally
towards and from each other.
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This latter feature, as already pointed out, permits the shoe to adapt itself to the
growing hoof and it also permits the ready and easy adjustment of the shoe to the

page_text: particular foot to which it is to be applied, in case the shoe should be a little too
wide or too narrow.
This lateral adjustment of the quarters of the shoe is made easy by constructing
the linings d in two independent pieces, as shown in the drawings. It is to be
understood however that various alterations may be made in the details of
construction shown, without departing from the character of the invention.
For instance in the ordinary calkless shoe, in which the calks are dispensed with,
a simple continuous metallic lining might be placed in a continuous fullering or
nail crease; in which case, the metallic lining should be made sufficiently yielding,
or with sufficient spring, to permit the desired lateral flexibility. With a calkless
shoe the under or striking face of the shoe would preferably be roughened
as shown.
Though in Figure 3 the shoe a is shown as provided with nail holes a²; in practice,
the shoe being made of rubber or flexible material can be perforated by the passage
of the nail in the act of shoeing.
The shoes would' naturally be manufactured in different sizes, and for each size
corresponding and properly formed linings would be furnished: For the rubber
calks when worn away, may be substituted new calks which may be cemented to the
shoe on the horse's foot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in ven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is-
1. A horse shoe having its body constructed of rubber, or similar elastic material,
having a nail fullering, and provided with a metallic piece formed with nail holes,
and constituting a lining for the fullering or nail holo crease, substantially as
described.
2. In a horse shoe, the combination with the elastic body portion a, provided
with the calks 6 and the fullerings a', of the metallic channel pieces d formed with
nail holos d¹ and constituting linings for said fullerings a', substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.