US1134074A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

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B. COURLAENDER, J11.

HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 5, 1916.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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WITNESSES:

ii STAT BERNARD COUBLAENDER, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD T0 MORRIS ROSENBAUM AND QNE-THIRD TO JAMES A. MURPHEY, BOTH OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed January 5, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BERNARD COURLAEN- DER, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention may be employed with particular advantage in the construction of horseshoes which may be drop forged or cast or otherwise be ready made, by successive casting and forging processes so as to minimize the amount of farrier work required to fit and apply them.

It is the object of my invention to provide a horseshoe with means to prevent sliping thereof, so constructed and arranged as to afford an auxiliary wearing surface at the regions of the shoe which are subjected to the most attrition.

As hereinafter described, my invention provides a horseshoe with a toe calk forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road; thus affording a frictional bearing surface within said frame.

tice that such hollow calks were worn away of the shoe and also at the side of the front Specification of Letters Patent.

I found in practhan the metal surface of said calk.

gcalk is reinforced at the front edge of its frame, at the medial longitudinal line 8, by

Patented Mar. 30?, 1915.

Serial No. 577.

upon that side so as to give the shoe a tendency to roll upon that side which is opposite to the side which is caused to roll by the action of the horse; so that, in the most complex form of my invention, the tendency to maximum wear upon one side of the toe of the shoe is counteracted both by the con struction and arrangement of the toe call: and by the construction and arrangement of the heel calks in cooperative relation therewith.

My invention includes the various novel features of construction and arrangement hereinafter more definitely specified.

In the drawing; Figure I is an inverted plan view of a horseshoe embodying my invention. Fig. II is a rear elevation of said shoe. Fig. III is a central sectional view of said shoe taken on the line III, III in Fig. I.

In said figures; the horseshoe 1 is provided with fullering 2 and nail holes 3 in its quarters and has at its toe the hollow oalk 5 extending as a continuous frame around the recess 6 which acts as a receptacle for grit from the road, affording a surrface with a greater coeflicient of friction Said the projection 9 extending inwardly with respect to said recess 6 and affording apof the calk which is given a rolling scrapproximately double the width of wearing ing movement by the action of the horse. Therefore, I provide such a hollow calk with an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly, from the inner margin of said frame so as to afford a wearing surface at that region approximately double the width, from front 11 to rear, of the other portions of the front of said frame, and extend said frame laterally upon the side which is subjected to the rolling action so as to not only afford a wearing surface there approximately double the width of the narrower portions of the frame but project said lateral surface laterally beyond the normal contour of the shoe so as to bring such lateral wearing surface in longitudinal alinement with a calk upon the heel of the shoe at that side; the opposite heel of the shoe being also provided with a calk, but the latter being out of longitudinal alinement with the edge of the front calk surface afforded by the adjoining front portions of siid frame; such proportions being determined by the fact that it is' desirable to have said recess 6 of the greatest area possible with the continued maintenance of the call: frame surrounding it during the wear to which the shoe is subjected by use. Said hollow calk 5 is also extended laterally at 11 so as to project beyond the normal conifiguration of the shoe indicated by the efdotted line 12, at that side of the shoe toe which is subjected to rolling attrition by the action of the horse; and said calk is also extended longitudinally at said side, as injdicated at 14, so as to afford an auxiliary wearing surface at that side, of approximately double the width of the adjoining portions of the call: frame. The heels 15 and 16 of said shoe are respectively provided with calks 18 and 19, preferably pointed both at their front and rear ends which is caused to roll by the action of the horse, while affording additional support tending to prevent the latter rolling action. It may be observedthat if either of the calks 18 or 19 were omitted there would be a greater freedom for the shoe to respond to V the rolling action of the horse, and that the greatest maximum of distance to such action is afiorded by the described action of the heel calks in cooperative relation with the toe calk.

Although I prefer to form the heel calks with the rhombic configuration shown; it is to be understood that they may be otherwise shaped, for instance, either or both of them may be formed with a recess to receive and hold grit from the road, like the toe calk. Moreover, although I have shown a shoe with an auxiliary projection of the toe calk toward the left hand side thereof, when the shoe is in wearing position, it is, of course, to be understood that shoes may be provided with such projections toward either side.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise details of construction and arrangement of my invention herein set forth, as it is obvious that various modifications may be made therein without departing from the essential features thereof as defined in the appended claims.

I claim 1. In a horseshoe, the combination with a around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, affording a wearing surface at that region approximately double the width, from front to rear, of the other portions of the front of said frame, and having an auxiliary wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof so as to afford a wearin surface, at that side, approximately double the width of the narrower portions of the frame and projecting laterally beyond the normal contour of the shoe; of a call: upon the heel of the shoe, at that side, in longitudinal alinement with sa1d lateral wearing surface; and a calk upon the opposite heel of the shoe; the latter call: being out of longitudinal alinement with the edge of the front calk upon that side; whereby the shoe has a tendency to roll upon that side of the toe opposite to the'side which is caused to roll by the action of the horse, so that the tendency to maximum wear upon one side of the toe of the shoe, by the rolling action of the horse, is counteracted both by the construction and arrangement of the toe calk and by the construction and arrangement of the heel calks in cooperative relation therewith. r e

2. In a horseshoe, the combination with a toe callr forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted-to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, and having an auxlhary wearing surface of sa1d 7 frame extending laterally upon one side thereof projecting laterally beyond'the norency to maximum wear upon one side of the toe of the shoe, by the rolling action of the horse, is counteracted both by the construction and arrangement of the toe calk and by the construction and arrangement of the heel I calks in cooperative relation therewith.

3. In a horseshoe, the combination with'a toe call; forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, and 7 having an auxiliary wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof projecting laterally beyond the nor mal contour of the shoe; of a calk upon the heel of the shoe, at that side,in longitudinal alinement with said lateral wearing surface; whereby the shoe has a tendency to roll upon that side of the toe opposite to the side which is caused to roll by the action of the horse, so that the tendency to maximum wear upon one side of the toe of the shoe, by the rolling action of the horse, is counteracted both by the construction and arrangement of the toe calk and by the construction and arrange having an auxiliary Wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof projecting laterally beyond the nor mal contour of the shoe; of a calk upon the heel of the shoe, upon the side opposite said lateral projection; said heel calk being out of longitudinal alinement with the edge of the toe calk upon that side; whereby the shoe has a tendency to roll upon that side of the toe opposite to the side which is caused to roll by the action. of the horse, so that the tendency to maximum Wear upon one side of the toe of the shoe, by the rolling action of the horse, is counteracted both by the construction and arrangement of the toe calk and by the construction and arrangement of the heel calk in cooperative relation therewith.

5. In a horseshoe, the combination With a toe calk forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, affording a wearing surface at that region approximately double the Width, from front to rear, of the other portions of the front of said frame, and having an auxiliary wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof so as to afford a wearing surface, at that side, approximately double the width of the narrower portions of the frame and projecting laterally beyond the normal contour of the shoe.

6. A horseshoe having a toe calk forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary Wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, and having an auxiliary wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof projecting laterally beyond the normal contour of the shoe.

7 A horseshoe having a toe calk forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary Wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess, and having an auxiliary Wearing surface of said frame extending laterally upon one side thereof.

8. A horseshoe having a toe calk forming a continuous annular frame around a recess adapted to receive and hold grit from the road, and having an auxiliary wearing surface on the medial line of the shoe extending inwardly from the inner margin of said frame, in said recess.

9. A horseshoe having a projection upon one side of its toe, forming an auxiliary Wearing surface extending laterally beyond the normal contour of the shoe, and a recess in. said toe, extending in said auxiliary wearing surface, adapted to receive and hold grit from the road.

10. A horseshoe having a recess in its wearing surface, at its toe, adapted to receive and hold grit from the road and extending laterally more upon one side than the other of the longitudinal medial line of the shoe.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this thirtieth day of December, 1914.

BERNARD COURLAENDER, JR.

Witnesses:

E1). BEERY, JOHN J. SHEA.

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