NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maurice Bauer, Ingénieur civil, of the firm M. Bauer &
Co Paris, Boulevard Magenta 30 for an Invention of NEW AND USEFUL
IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES Communicated to him from abroad by
Mr José Ramon Cancio, of Pol, Province of Lugo, and Kingdom of Spain
(now) residing in New York County and State of New York. U.S.A.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maurice Bauer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th July 1882.
MAURICE BAUER, Ingénieur civil, of the firm M. Bauer & Co. Paris, Boulevard
Magenta 30 NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE SHOES, a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Mr José Ramon Cancio of Pol, Province of Lugo
and kingdom of Spain (now) residing in New York, County and State of New
York U.S.A.
This invention relates to that class of horse shoes which are applied to the hoof
by means of fastening bands without the use of nails, driven into the same and the
invention consists of a horse shoe, having fixed or detachable side-straps, which are
secured to recesses of the shoe and applied by articulated fastening bands or links
to the body of the hoof. The front strap is connected with the fastening bands by
a screw-bolt passing through the strap and two screw nuts pivoted to the ends of
the front straps.
The fastening bands are made of two parts pivoted together, so to be adaptable
to different shapes of hoofs, the parts of each band forming an obtuse angle with
each other, when applied to the hoof. The bands are provided at their outer ends
with slotted eyes by which they are applied to projecting studs of the side straps.
The front strap and side straps have T shaped or dove tailed ends by which they
are set into sockets of the shoe.
The shoe may also be provided with fixed pointed pins which are driven into the
hoof, also with fixed side-straps, made in one piece with the body of the shoe, if it
be desired to simplify the construction of the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Maurice Bauer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th January
1883.
MAURICE BAUER, Ingénieur civil, of the firm of M. Bauer & Co, Paris, Boulevard
Magenta 30, "NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN HORSE-SHOES," a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Mr José Ramon Cancio of Pol, Province of Lugo
and kingdom of Spain (now) residing in New-York, County and State of New-
York U.S.A.
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This invention relates to that class of horse-shoes, which are applied to the hoof
by means of fastening bands without the use of nails, driven into the same, and the
invention consists of a horse-shoe having fixed or detachable side-straps, which are
secured to recesses of the shoe and applied by articulated fastening bands or links
to the body of the hoof. The front-strap is connected with the fastening bands by
a screw-bolt passing through the strap and two screw-nuts pivoted to the ends of
the links or bands. In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1. represents a side elevation
of a horse's hoof with the improved horse-shoe attached thereto. Fig. 2. is a front
view of the same. Fig 3 and 4 are detail vertical transverse sections respectively
on line x. x. Fig. 2 and y y Fig. 1.-Figs 5, 6 and 7 are respectively detail per-
spective views of a front and a side strap, and a detail top-view showing the
connection of the bands with the front-straps. Figs. 8, 9 and 10 respectively are a
bottom view, a side view and a top-view of a modified construction. Similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. Referring to the drawings, A
represents the horse-shoe and B B the angular bands which extend from the front-
strap C towards the shorter side-straps D.
The fastening bands B B are made of two parts pivoted together, so as to be
adaptable to different shapes of hoofs, the parts of each band forming an obtuse
angle with each-other, when applied to the hoof. The bands B B are provided at
their outer ends with slotted eyes 6 by which they are applied to projecting studs d
b
of the side straps D. The front-strap C is connected to links e of the bands B B
by means of a transverse screw bolt f, which passes through a socket-hole fat the
upper end of the front-strap C. The screw eyes e are pivoted to the bent up
front-ends of the bands B B, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 7. The front strap
and side straps have T shaped or dove-tailed ends g, by which they are set into
sockets g' of the shoe A, as shown clearly in Figs 3 and 4.
The straps C and D may also be provided with dove-tailed lower ends, which
are set into tapering and dove-tailed recesses of the shoe, as shown in Figs. 8, 9
and 10. The shoe may also be provided with fixed side-straps made in one piece
with the body of the shoe, if it be desired to simplify the construction of
the same.
In this manner the shoes are firmly and reliably attached to the hoofs without
nails, and worn out shoes may be readily replaced without difficulty by loosening
the transverse-screw-bolt and detaching the bands and straps from the shoe after
which a new shoe is applied again in reverse order.
Having thus described this invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by
Letters Patent,
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1. The combination, of a shoe A having front and-side straps C, D with
articulated bands B B which are detachably connected to the straps, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. The combination of the shoe A having socket-recesses g¹, detachable front and
side-straps CD and articulated fastening bands B B, the latter being connected

page_text: with said front-strap by a transverse screw-bolt and pivot-eyes, substantially
as set forth.
3. The combination, of the shoe A having socket-recesses g', detachable front
and side straps CD having enlarged lower ends, and fastening bands BB, each
formed by two pivoted parts, and connected at one end by slotted eyes to headed
studs of the side-straps D and at the opposite end by a pivot-eye and transverse
screw-bolt to the front-strap C, substantially as described
In witness whereof I, the said Maurice Bauer have hereunto set my hand
and seal this thirtieth day of December A D. 1882. .