Improvements in connection with Horse-shoes and Nails therefor.
Year: 1898

page_text: I, HENRY BARTZ, of 12 CII, Rosinenstrasse, Charlottenburg, Germany, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to horse-shoes fixed on the hoof of the horse
by means of special nails, presenting from the point to the head thereof, a uni-
form square channel or V section and the lower part of which, being chamfered,
forms the head.
The peculiar section of the nail allows the latter to have a minimum thick-
ness of 0.25 millimetre or about 0.01 inch.
At the shocing the nail is guided in a perforation made in the horse-shoe and
all torsion and Hexion of the nail in the horse-shoe and the hoof of the horse is
thus rendered impossible.
The said perforation of the horse-shoe is widened towards the lower part to
receive the head of the nail.
In order to secure the nail in position, that end thereof, passing into the hoof,
is slit at its edges and suitably turned aside.
This shoeing by means of profiled nails prevents all wound at the foot of the
horse and also all rent of the hoof.
These horse-shoes are further provided with removable claws, which according
to the nature of the soil and to the weather, may be easily removed or fixed.
These claws have an extension in the shape of a clasp with a conical stumped
part, driven into a corresponding perforation of the horse-shoe. By one stroke
with a hammer upon the cramp, the claw can again be removed very easily.
Dated this 21st day of April 1898.
L. DUVINAGE,
Patent Agent, S, Rue des Princes, Brussels, Belgium.
Improvements in connection with Horse-shoes and Nails therefor.
I, HENRY BARTZ, of 12 CII, Rosinenstrasse, Charlottenburg, Germany, Engineer,
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 present invention relates to improvements in horse-shoes and fastening
devices therefor, the object being to provide a horse-shoe and improved devices
by means of which horse-shoes may be readily fastened or secured to the hoof,
without injuring the latter, as might otherwise occur.

page_text: I attain the desired object by the construction and combination of parts
fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the appended claims.
And in order that this my invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a horse-shoe constructed in accordance with my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line y-y of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line - of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 shows a longitudinal and a cross-section of an I-shaped nail.
Fig. 5 shows a longitudinal and a cross-section of a V-shaped nail.
Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the nail shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 7 is a similar view of the nail shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 8 shows a front view and cross-section of a U- or square channel-shaped
nail; and
Fig. 9 is a front elevation of the detached calk hereinafter referred to.
In the drawings, like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.
In carrying out my invention, I construct nails a, b or e, the shank of which
is preferably of a U-, square channel-, V-, or I-shape in cross-section and pro-
vided with a wedge-shaped head c. This peculiar cross-section of the nails allows
of making the same very thin. The horse-shoe (Fig. 1) will be bored with
correspondingly shaped perforations d, dor d², which securely guide the nails
as the latter are driven into the hoof, and prevent them from bending or rotat-
ing, as might occur with ordinary nails.
Said perforations d, d'or 2 are enlarged toward the outer surface of the
horse-shoe, so that the heads of the nails may be perfectly fitted into said
enlarged perforations.
By reason of the thinness of the nails constructed as above described, the pres-
sure or tension usually produced on the tender parts of the foot are comple
avoided.
Another feature of my invention consists in providing removable calks which
may be easily and readily secured to and removed from the horse-shoe as
required. My improved calk has a clasp-like extension h which may be readily
driven into and withdrawn from a correspondingly-shaped opening in the horse-
shoe. The calk may thus be secured to and removed from the latter without
removing the horse-shoe from the hoof as it was required hitherto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. An improved horse-shoe and fastening devices therefor, the latter con-
sisting of U-, square channel-, V-, or I-shaped nails having wedge-shaped heads
fitting into corresponding perforations d, di or d² provided in the horse-shoe,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In combination with the improved horse-shoe, removable calks therefor
having clasp-like extensions h fitting into corresponding openings made in the
horse-shoe, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1899.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc.M.I.C.E.; M.I.Mech.E.,
Charterod Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.