US340982A - Daniel cbuice - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

D. ORUIGE.

- HORSESHOE.

No. 340,982. Patented May 4, 1886.

INVHN TOR ATTGRNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL CRUIGE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES J. SLEVIN, OF

SAME PLACE.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,982, dated May 4-, 1886.

Application filed July 2.7, 1885. Serial No. 172,814. (No model.) 7

To all whom it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL Games, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Horseshoe, of

5 which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification, in which similarletters of reference indicate cor- ;o responding parts in all the figures.

Figure Us a perspective View of my new and improved horseshoe. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the same, showing both the heel and frog support in place.

1 5 Figs. 3 and 4 show, respectively, separate plan views of the heel and frog support.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

The horseshoe A is toe-weighted by the thickened portion a. The shoe is offset at its upper surface, as shown at b'b, so the whole lower face of the shoe is on the same plane. The thin heel portion (1 of the shoe, formed by 2 5 offsetting it at I), gives a heel spring action to the shoe and relieves the horses foot of all pressure at the heel, which is advantageous in many, if not all, cases where the foot is perfectly formed and healthy.

The lower surface of the shoe has the series of depressions or pockets 0 formed in it, that serve to lift a small quantity of earth or sand each time the horse lifts his foot in traveling, and which will be dislodged at the time the 3 horse lowers his foot to the pavement, so that the sand or dirt so dislodged will tend to pre vent the horse from slipping.

In case the foot to which the shoe is to be applied is deformed and needs supporting at 0 the heel, the shoe will be built up or thickened upon the rear thin portion, (1, by means of a heel'piece or support, B, of leather, rubber, felt, wood, iron, or other suitable material, applied as shown in Fig. 2.

One or more of the heel-pieces B may be used, as desired, and, if found necessary, it or they may be fastened to the shoe by rivets (one or more) passed through the holes e in the barf of the shoe, and through corresponding holes made in the heel-pieces.

In case the horses foot should be so formed as to require no support at the heel, but require supporting at the frog, the heel-pieceB will be dispensed with and the frog-support 0 used, the same being applied upon the bar 5 5 f, and held by rivets passed through the holes e and corresponding holes,e,n1ade in the frog support; and in case both the heel and frog of the foot should require supporting, both supports B G will be used together, the same being applied to the shoe as shown in Fig. 2.

In this manner the shoe is adapted both to well and variously-deformed hoofs or feet, and the shoe without the supports is in itself improved, and the supports B O, as mentioned, may be of leather, rubber, or felt, and they may be medicated, if desired, so that by them medicine may be conveniently and effectively applied to the foot for the cure of disease or for improving the shape of the foot. 7c

Having thusdesoribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A horseshoe formed with the thickened portion a at the toe and thin portion (1 at the 7 5 heel, the shoe being offset at its upper surface, substantially as described.

2. The shoe A, offset at b to form the thin portion (1 at the heel, in combination with heel and frog supports, (either or both,) substan- 8o tially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The horseshoe A, offset at b to form the thin heel portion (1, and formed with the holes 6, for seen ring frog and heel supports, substantially as and for the purposes described.

DANIEL CRUIGE.

Witnesses:

H. A. YVEsr, EDGAR TATE.

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