Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
I ALEXANDER PEARSALL, Hotel Keeper, of Locust Valley, in the County of
Queens, and State of New York U.S.A. 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 an improvement in horse shoes; the object thereof
being to supply an article of this character adapted for automatically spreading
the heel of a horse's hoof and preventing the same from contracting. The device
comprises few and simple parts and it is durable and inexpensive; it does not
weigh any more than an ordinary horse shoe, and it is adaptable for attachment to
the horse's hoof by the ordinary process of nailing.
The invention will be hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in the
annexed claims.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification:
Fig. 1 is an inverted plan view of my improved horse shoe, showing the same in
position that it will assume when it is attached to a horse's hoof; and
Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the normal position of the shoe before it is
attached to the hoof.
In the practice of my invention, I provide a shoe comprising three sections A, B
and C. Of these three sections, the section A comprises a front or toe portion of
the shoe and it is of a segmental contour in plan. The two other sections B and C
comprise the heel portion of the shoe and they are hinged to the section A by
means of pivots E, which said pivots are preferably riveted, whereby the parts
are securely maintained in connection with each other while at the same time,
the sections B and C are adapted for swinging motion, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of
the drawings.
The section A of the shoe is provided with a cross brace A', which said brace
preferably forms an integral part of the said forward portion A of the shoe.
Attached to this said brace by a screw, rivet or other suitable means a, is a plate
spring F of a normal semi-elliptical contour. The two ends of this said spring
engage respectively with recesses b and c of the swinging arms or sections B and C
comprising the heel portion of the shoe.
C
In the operation and use of the device, the toe portion A of the shoe will first
be nailed to the horse's hoof, the side portions will then be pressed toward each
other and also nailed to the hoof, and in as much as the act of pressing the two
portions together compresses the spring F, the tendency thereof will be to force
the sections B and C of the shoe apart, whereby the heel of the horse's hoof will
be prevented from contracting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is :
1. A horse shoe comprising a segmental front section and two swinging side
sections, the said side sections being pivoted to the two ends of the said segmental
front portion, and means for normally spreading the two said side sections,
substantially as shown and described.
2. In a horse shoe, the combination of a segmental front portion and swinging
side portions pivotally attached to the said front portion, and a spring for normally
spreading the two said side portions, substantially as shown and described.

page_text: 3. In a horse shoe, the combination of a front segmental portion having a brace
forming part thereof and two swinging side portions pivotally attached to the said
front portion, the side portion having recesses therein for engagement with the
ends of a semi-elliptical spring, which spring is attached to the brace of the said
front portion of the shoe, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 21st day of September 1896.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.