Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 24th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Apr., 1887.
I, JOSEPH NEUSS, senior, of Aix-la-chapelle, Kingdom of Prussia, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to removable calkins of horse-shoes, or slip-calkins, adapted to
be inserted with their upper end, which is tapering, into holes of the horse-shoes; and
the object of the invention is to so construct the said calkins that they will hold more
firmly in the said holes.
For this purpose I provide the calkins on each of two opposite sides with a groove
running from end to end, and having such width as to leave narrow ledges on either
side of the same. By means of these ledges the calkins adjust themselves more closely
to the inner faces of the holes provided for their reception, so that they are less apt to
become loose than otherwise.

page_text: I, JOSEPH NEUSs, senior, of Aix-la-Chapelle, Kingdom of Prussia, Gentleman, 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
My invention rolates to removable calks of horse-shoes, adapted to be inserted with
their upper end, which is tapering, into holes of the horse-shoes; and the object of
the invention is to so construct the said calks that they will hold more firmly in the
said holes.
For this purpose I provide the calks on each of two opposite sides with a groove
extending from end to end and having such width as fo leave narrow ledges or
projecting portions on either side of the same.
On the annexed sheet of drawings are represented different kinds of calks con-
structed according to my invention. Figs. and 2 are two side-views, at a right
angle to each other, and Fig. 3 a top-view of a calk the tapered upper end whereof is
square. Figs. 4 and 5 show a calk with round upper end. These calks, after having
been slipped with their tapered end into a hole of the horse-shoe (a portion whereof is
shown in Figs. 1 and 2) are retained therein by friction. Fig. 6 represents a calk
whose tapered and round end is screw-threaded, and which, therefore, has to be screwed
into a hole having corresponding threads.
The said calks are provided on two opposite sides with the grooves a, whereby on
the body of the calks are formed the ledges or projecting portions b. By means of
these ledges or projections the calks adjust themselves more closely to the inner faces,
of the holes serving for their reception, so that they are less apt to become loose than
otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention.
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
The combination, with a horse-shoe, of a removable calk the upper end whereof is
tapered, and which is provided on two opposite sides with grooves a extending from
end to end of the calk, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this Twenty-first day of February 1887.
Dated this Twenty-first day of February 1887.
JOSEPH NEUSS, Senior.
By his Agent, Carl Pieper.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Building, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.