Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
COMPLETEDIMUIMICARUN.
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
We, WILHELM BRAUN, of 18, Kyllmann Strasse, Grosslichterfelde near Berlin; in
the German Empire, merchant, and CARL MAY, of 6 & 7, Stralauer Platz, Berlin,
in the German Empire, mechanist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described. and, ascer-
tained-in and by the following statement :-
The horseshoes provided with exchangeable elastic inlays (hemp-ropes) are generally
known but very few employed in, practice as the inlays, are not adapted for being
easily attached to the shoe when any accident will require that in the street or during
marching. Moreover those inlays, are broken away from the shoe on each violent step
of the horse-and, being of a rather complicated construction, and therefore very
ponderous hinder the horse from easily walking.
All these inconveniencies are met at once by our improved horseshoe, represented in
the figs. 1 to 8 of the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters denote similar
parts throughout the different figures.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the shoe seen from the hoof-side,
Fig. 2 is a side-view,
Fig. 3 is a plan of the shoe seen from below,
Fig. 4 a longitudinal section through line,
Fig. 5 a view seen from the side where the sponges are placed,
Fig. 6 a side view of the elastic exchangeable inlay,
Fig. 7 a vertical section of the shoe through line y-d,
Fig. 8 a front view of the shoe provided with the inlay.
Our horse-shoe consists of two pieces one placed above the other, the upper piece a
of which is provided with conical holes for allowing it to be affixed to the hoof of
the horse by means of nails while the other piece has large slits o (Figs. 3 & 7) ·
adapted for receiving the elastic inlays c. We employ two inlays of elastic gum,
number and material may however be varied in any manner.
It is only necessary
that the material such as wood, cork, felt, is elastic enough for being a little com-
pressed by the weight of the horse. The inlays c having a conical shape correspond-
ing to the conical form of the slits of piece bare adapted for being pressed through
the slits on employing some power. The upper-piece a is provided with a projection e
of such length, as to touch the soil when the inlays by any cause are exceedingly
compressed. Moreover the same piece a has the well-known nose d.
Part m of pro-
jection e is jutting-out while part n of piece b is formed as a wedge so as to allow the
inlays c to be strongly attached to the shoe by firstly pressing them through slits o,
then pushing part n below part m and putting the slitted connecting-pipe ql of piece b
about the elevated connecting-piece of piece a, and finally introducing the spring-
key across q¹ and q. The bent brims of the elastic inlays are thus strongly
compressed between piece a and piece b.
By employing this improved horse-shoe anybody is enabled easily to attach the
piece with inlays to the shoe of the horse when the road is frozen, slippery, or on
driving a chariot about moistened asphaltic pavement a. s. f., and to remove the inlays
just as easily by pulling out the spring-key.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is:
1. A horse-shoe of two parts, with exchangeable elastic inlays chaving conical
sides and being affixed to the shoe by pressing them through conical slits of the under
piece b, by pulling the wedge-shaped part n of the latter below nose m, by putting
the slitted connecting-piece 9 of 6 about the elevated connecting-piece q of a, and by
introducing a spring key through q and q¹.

page_text: 2. A horse-shoe of two parts with exchangeable elastic inlays c affixed to the shoe
by pressing them through slits of the under piece b, hy pulling the wedge-shaped
part n of the latter below nose m, by putting the slitted connecting-piece q¹ of b about
the elevated connecting piece g of a, and by introducing a spring-keyf' through q and gỗ,
for the purpose as described.
3. In horse-shoes of two parts with elastic inlays, a projection e attached to the
upper piece a and being of such length, as to touch earth not before the inlays should.
be exceedingly compressed.
1ated G015 20th day of April 1
WILHELM BRAUN...
CARL MAY.
By Rayner & Cassell,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.