Year: 1887

page_text: I, HERMANN MÜLLER, Chief Farrier of the 2nd Field Artillery Guards Regt.,
Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, Blacksmith, 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 consists in providing a horse shoe with dove-tail shaped recesses
arranged obliquely and tapering inwards, such recesses being adapted to receive
cramps or studs (hereinafter called studs) the heads or parts of which correspond
in form with that of the recesses so as to well fit the same as hereinafter fully
described.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings
:-
Fig. 1 shows partly in plan or top view and partly in underside view a horse shoe
formed with recesses according to this invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of part of such a shoe.
Fig. 3 is an underside view, and
Figs. 4 and 5 elevations of the same at right angles to each other, of a stud adapted
for use with a horse shoe such as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 6 is a section on the line xx fig. 1.
a is one of the dove-tailed recesses of which two are used formed at the heel part of
the shoe. Each recess is dove-tailed at its sides and is of gradually decreasing width
and increasing depth as it proceeds towards the inner part of the shoe as shown.
d represents the inclined part or top of the recess.
b is a stud formed with a head or
part c adapted to fit tightly within the recess a.
Each stud is placed accurately into its recess from the outside of the horse shoe
and then tightened up; it may be by the blow of a hammer.
When a horse shod with shoes according to this invention puts each foot to the
ground each stud of the shoe on such foot has a tendency to slide upwards along the
inclined path d in the direction of the arrow and towards the inside of the shoe and
thus to wedge itself in more firmly.
By this construction the studs cannot be lost and can always be readily driven out
of the shoe by placing a suitable instrument against the foot.

page_text: My improved shoe has the following advantages over horse shoes as heretofore
usually made, viz.; that its studs can at all times be easily, readily, and quickly
sharpened that such studs may be allowed to wear away right up to the shoe, and
that the portion of the stud remaining in the shoe can be readily romoved.
The shoe may be always employed with the studs or only at certain times. In the
latter case the long edges of each recess may be chamfered off to prevent their being
burred when in use without the studs.
As the shoe wears a stud or studs can then be inserted into the shoe at the point or
points of wear without endangering the firmness of its seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved horse shoe formed with dove-tailed recesses (a) of gradually
decreasing width and increasing depth towards the inner part of the shoe and
provided with studs (c) having heads or parts adapted to fit tightly within tho said
recesses substantially as herein described.
2. My improved horse shoe with studs substantially as herein described with
reference to and shown in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 28th day of October 1887.