Improvements in Horse-shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1899 -Accepted, 25th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Horse-shoes.
We, ELMER POWELL, Blacksmith, and LOUISA MAKLEY, Proprietor of a Black-
smith's Shop, both of 112, E. Fourth Street, Dayton, Ohio, United States of
America, 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 relates to new and useful improvements in horse shoes, and
contains the novel features hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1, is a view of the lower side of a horse shoe made in accordance with
my invention.
Figure 2, is a view of one of the heels with the calk detached.
Figure 3, a section on the line a-a Fig. 1.
Figure 4, a view of the toe with the calks removed.
Figure 5, a section on the line b-b Fig. 4.
Figures 6 and 7, lower side and end elevations of the toe calk.
As is apparent from the drawings, in carrying out my invention I use two toc
calks 1 and 2 which have dovetail slots 3 in their lower sides with an intervening
wall 4. The slots 3 extend through to the inner end of the calk, but on the
other end said slots terminate so as to leave an end wall 5 which conceals the
connection of the calks with the shoe and serves to limit the inward movement
of the calks when placing them in position on the tapering elongated flanges 6--6
These flanges provide a dove-tail recess or slot 7 and are integral with the shoe.
When the shoe is made there is left at the points where these flanges are to be
formed, a sufficient thickness of metal to plane down to form said flanges. It
will be observed that there are two sets of said flanges 6-6 with an intervening
space between their inner ends in the center of the toe of the shoe. Over
and into this space 7¹ the two toe calks project and form practically one calk
at the toe. This is an important feature of the invention as it is well known
that in fitting shoes to horses it becomes necessary to contract or expand the shoe
to a greater or less extent to accommodate the feet of different horses. This,
in cases where a single toe calk is used at the toe, renders it difficult or impossible
to place said single calk. Such difficulty is overcome by providing a dove-tail
slot on each side of the center of the toe, and placing two calks, one in each
slot, and extending them across the toe of the shoe, but being free to move when
the shoe is contracted or expanded in fitting it to a horse's foot. One of the
calks has a rounded projection 8 on its inner end extending throughout its depth,
while the other has a recess 9 corresponding to said projection, which fit one
in the other and form a turning point for the calks when the shoe is being
contracted or expanded as above indicated. When the calks are in position, the
flanges 6-6 fit into the slots 3-3 in the calks and thus become closed on both
sides of the walls 10 and 4, and the connection is such as to make it impossible
for the calks to become detached from pressure exerted thereon against
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page_text: either side. In order to secure said calks against endwise movement
in the slots, the flanges 6--6 are provided with recesses 11 extending into their
edges; a pin 12 is passed through an opening in each calks and lies in the
recess 11. In detaching a calk to be replaced by a new one, this pin 12
is driven through and the calk is forced out of position endwise. The above
description refers mainly to the toe calks, but it will be seen that the heel calks
are formed and attached in substantially the same manner, the only. difference
being in the single calk at each heel. The flanges 6-6 are cut in the heels in
the same manner. The calks may be attached to the shoe before it is put on the
horse, and the operation of putting the shoe on the horse does not necessitate
a removal of the calks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1 In a horse shoe, the combination with the toe of the shoe, of flanges on
each side of the center of said toe, forming dove-tail slots, and a detachable toe
calk having slots therein for attachment with said dove tail slots, the slots in
said calk being inclosed at one end and extending entirely through to the other end.
2-In a horse shoe, the combination with a horse shoe having two dovetail
slots formed in the toe with an intervening space between the inner ends of
said slots, of two toe calks engaging with said slots and filling the space between
them.
3A horse shoe having formed at its toe two dove-tail slots with an inter-
vening space between their inner ends, a similar dove-tail slot in each of the
heels of the shoe, and calks adapted to fit said slots.
1000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicants, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.