US1130834A - Horseshoe. - Google Patents

Description

M. G. NOLAN.

HOBSESHOE.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1914.

1,1 30,834. Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

Application filed July 11, 1914. Serial No. 850,303.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MICHAEL CHARLES NOLAN, gentleman, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at The Cliife, Alcester road, Bromsgrove, l/Vorcestershire, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to horse shoes and is directed to improve the grip on slippery surfaces and prevent slipping particularly on tarmac roads.

My improved horse shoe is formed from a cross grooved and ribbed steel or other Inetallic bar, the crossribs being so shaped as hereinafter described as to form a plurality of teeth on the undersurface of the shoe extending across the shoe from side to side and continuous from heel to heel one side of each of the said teeth being substantially at right angles to the surface of the shoe and the other side of each of the said teeth being inclined and concaved from the surface to the base of the substantially right angled side of the adjoining tooth.

The short length of rolled steel or other metallic bar for forming one of my improved horse shoes has on one face of it the alternate cross grooves and cross ribs which are formed in the act of rolling the bar by the rolls which are correspondingly cross grooved or ribbed, or the alternate cross grooves and ribs are formed on the bar by other means such as by milling. The said bar is heated and bent into the shape of the shoe and it follows that the teeth on the finished shoe will be of substantially the same shape and size all round the shoe from heel to heel and the right angled or nearly right angled sides will on one side of the shoe be toward the heel and on the other side of the shoe will be toward the toe thus being equally eifective in preventing the horses foot from slipping forward or backward or sidewise.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings of which Figure 1 illustrates my improved horse shoe; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of the same taken on line X X of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a piece of ribbed bar for forming the said horse shoe.

The cross grooves a and ribs 72 extend right across the underside of the shoe from side to side and each of the ribs 6 between the cross grooves is of the form above stated, that is to say, each rib has one side 1 made at right angles or nearly at right angles to the face of the shoe and the other side 2 is inclined to the face of the bar and is made slightly concave and extends to the bottom of the right angled or nearly right angled side 1 of the next rib b and the tips 3 of the teeth are flattened forming two sharp edges 4, 5 where they join the sides 1, 2.

It is to be understood that the teeth are of the same shape and size all round the shoe from one heel to the other and it will be seen that they afford a good foot hold and effectually prevent the horses foot slipping either backward or forward or sidewise and this will continue until the teeth are nearly worn away as owing to their shape as aforesaid, the edges 4, 5 of the teeth remain sharp as they wear.

It is to be understood that my improved shoes are made from a short length of rolled or milled bar of which a portion is shown in Fig. 3, having the said alternate ribs 6 and grooves a extending all along the same from end to end.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A horse shoe formed from a cross grooved and ribbed steel or other metallic bar the cross ribs forming a plurality of teeth on the under-surface of the shoe extending across the shoe from side to side and continuous from heel to heel one side of each of the said teeth being substantially at right angles to the surface of the shoe and the other side of each of the said teeth being inclined and concaved from the surface to the base of the substantially right angled side of the adjoining tooth, the right angled side of the teeth of one side of the shoe facing toward the heel and the right angled side of the teeth of the other side of the shoe facin toward the too.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL CHARLES NOLAN.

Witnesses:

HENRY THOMAS SMITH, J r., CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G."

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