US147271A - Improvement in horseshoes - Google Patents

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. Horseshoes. N 147 27] g Patented Feb-10.1874.

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JOSEPH JOREY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,271, dated February 10, 1874; application filed November 14, 1873.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn J OBEY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements pertaining to Horse shoes, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 is a face view of a shoe embodying my said improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same on the dotted line as m. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the calk used. Fig. 4 is a view of what may be called the face of the calk. So far as the calk is concerned, it is the same one shown in Letters Patent No. 126,712, dated May 14, 1872, and the shoe is the one that was and is used with this calk.

The invention consists in the insertion of a piece of flat metal, softer than the iron or steel of the shoe and calk, between the neck of the calk and the body of the sh oe, .within the socket made in the shoe for the neck of the calk, for the purpose of enabling the neck of the calk to be driven tightly into its socket without the exertion of the great force which would be necessary if the calk and the shoe-of iron or steelcame in direct contact with each other; and for the further purpose of letting the wear, caused by the concussion of the calk upon the ground, expend itself on this piece of softer sheet metal, thus saving wear upon the calk and the shoe.

The letter a indicates the shoe; 1) 1) b the part of the calk intended to project from the shoe; 0 c, the neck of the calk, fitting into a corresponding socket in the shoe; and d, the nail attached to the calk. It is very desirable that the neck 0 0 shall fit tightly in the shoe, so that it cannot play backward and forward as the horse walks, this play of the calk tending to rapidly loosen the nail in the hoof. T0 attain this end, leaving the neck and the socket in direct contact at all points, unless very costly and fine fitting is made use of, requires the use of hard hammering on the calk, which has a very undesirable eifect on the horses hoof. To avoid this I insert a piece of metal softer than iron (indicated by the letter 0) between the neck of the calk and the side. of the calk-socket. I prefer for this use a piece of sheet metal commonly known as sheet-tin, consisting of sheet-iron coated with tin, because, first, it is cheap, and, second, while the tin upon the sides of the iron affords the softnessto allow of driving in the calk tightly, and at the same time easily, yet the iron under the tin affords a firm support to the tin. The insertion of this piece of sheet-tin, while apparently a very simple and trivial affair, yet serves important purposes, to wit: It enables the neck of the calk to be set tightly into its socket without the use of very hard blows, and the soft metal sustains the wearupon the parts, and saves wear upon the neck and socket, which would destroy the socket and the calk. So far as this invention is concerned, it is not necessary that the calk should have the nail attached to it, for it serves substantially the same purposes if the nail is left off the calk, and the calk is driven into the socket.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the calk with its neck, the shoe having a socket for the neck, and the plate of sheet metalsofter than ironplaced between the calk-neck and the socket, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

JOSEPH JOREY.

\Vitnesses WM. EDGAR SIMoNns, GEORGE G. SELL.

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