IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SHARPENING THE CALKS ON HORSE-SHOES ALSO APPLICABLE FOR GROOMING HORSES AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake of the firm of Haseltine, Lake,
"
& Co, Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings London for an invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SHARPENING THE CALKS ON HORSE-SHOES
ALSO APPLICABLE FOR GROOMING HORSES AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Communicated to him from abroad by Frederick Augustus Roe of the City
and State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th October 1882.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR SHARPENING
THE CALKS ON HORSE-SHOES ALSO APPLICABLE FOR GROOMING HORSES AND FOR
ANALOGOUS PURPOSES "-Communicated to me from abroad by Frederick Augustus
Roe of the City and State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman
•
This invention relates to machines for sharpening calks without having to
remove the shoes from the horses feet, and also applicable for use in grooming
horses and for other purposes. The said invention consists in the combination of
devices hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing
According to this invention I provide a portable stand or framework A, in the
sides of which are bearings a. b for the shafts upon which revolve the band
wheels B and C. The wheel B is operated by hand by means of the crank, or it
may be operated by power applied in any convenient manner. The wheel B is
connected with a small pulley e on the shaft b by the band D, and by means of
this band motion is imparted to the said pulley, and through it and the shaft b, to
the wheel C. The wheel C also carries a band which connects with a small
pulley d on a short shaft E, by means of which the said shaft is rotated. The.
shaft E has bearings in the bifurcated arm F projecting froin the frame A as shown
in the drawing. By this arrangement a person can with ease and convenience
operate or rotate the shaft E. To the shaft E I attach a convenient length of any

page_text: well known flexible shafting e', and on the outer end of the said flexible shafting I
secure the emery wheel F' for sharpening the calks, or a revolving brush when it
is desired to groom a horse. Over the flexible shafting, and near its outer end, I
place a loose sleeve G by means of which the shaft is held by the man who
operates the emery-wheel, or brush.
By this construction I secure a machine cheap and simple in its nature, and one
easily handled for the purposes intended, and it may be used for other purposes
than those above mentioned.
Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim -
First. The portable stand A provided with the bifurcated arm F and the
bearings a, b, in combination with the wheels B, C, the small pulleys c, d, the short
shaft E and flexible shaft e' provided with the loose sleeve G, and the emery
wheel F, all constructed to operate substantially as, and for the purposo, set forth.
Second. The portable stand A provided with the bifurcated arm F and the
bearings a, b, in combination with the wheels B, C, the pulleys e, d, the short
shaft E and the flexible shaft e provided with the loose sleeve G, for the purpose
herein specified.
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Fourth day of October in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.