Improvements in Horse Shoes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1897-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1997
Improvements in Horse Shoes.
We, DANIEL BRINKERHOFF VAN HORN, JOHN BALDWIN LOZIER, both of the
Township of Etna, (Post Office address: Etna, New Jersey) County of Bergen and
State of New Jersey, and ALFRED GARTNER, of 152 Market Street, in the City of
Paterson, County of Passaic and State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Gentlemen, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide horse-shoes, of simple, strong and
durable construction, and which prevent a horse from slipping even when going
at high speed, over icy or slippery ground.
The invention consists in the improved horse-shoe and in the combination and
arrangement of the various parts thereof, substantially as will be hereinafter more
fully described and finally embodied in the clauses of the claims.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, in which like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts in each of the figures; Fig. 1 is a plan view of the lower face
of my improved horse-shoe, and Fig. 2 a detail perspective view of one of the heels
thereof.
In said drawing a represents a metallic horse-shoe provided on its lower face with
the usual fullering 6 wherein are arranged the nail holes c in the ordinary and well
known manner. Near the toe of said shoe a and on the lower face thereof is the
curved toe calk d 1 substantially parallel with the curve of the toe d.
The L-shaped heel calks e 1 and f1, near the heels e and f respectively, are
arranged so that the longer arms g and h of the L's are substantially parallel with
the outer edges and point toward the quarters of said shoe, while the shorter arms g 1
and 1 terminate on the inner edges and near their respective heels e and f, all as
clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.
The said calks d 1, e1, f1 are preferably integral with the shoe a and are triangular
in cross section, springing directly from the lower face of the shoe, and forming
substantially knife-edged projections at different angles to each other, but terminate
substantially in one and the same horizontal plane, when the shoe is in use.
It will be observed, that the calks extend neither to the extreme toe or heels of the
shoe, but are arranged at or a short distance from these points, which arrangement
imparts a certain amount of spring to the shoe, gives it a more solid bearing on frozen
or otherwise slippery ground and greatly lessens the danger of the horse calking
bimself, as will be manifest.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is:
1. A horse-shoe consisting of a metallic body, a curved calk projecting from the
lower face of the toe of said body, and of an L-shaped calk projecting from the lower
face of each of the heels and having their longer extremities approximately parallel
with the outer edges of the said heels, substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. A horse shoe, consisting of a metallic body, a curved calk, triangular in cross
section, projecting from the lower face of the toe of said body and substantially

page_text: parallel with the outer edge thereof, and of an L-shaped calk, also triangular in
cross section, projecting from the lower face of each of the heels and having their
longer extremities approximately parallel with the outer edges of the said heels, and
their shorter extremities at right angles thereto, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 21st day of January 1897.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.