US416579A - Horse-boot - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

M. DEBATIN.

HORSE BOOT.

No. 416,579. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL DEBATIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HORSE-BOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,579, dated December 3, 1889.

Serial No. 312,336. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IVIICHAEL DEBATIN, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Device to Prevent Interfering in Horses, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

This is a device to prevent horses striking the hoof against the fetlock. It consists of a padded strap surrounding the leg above the fetlock and having a horizontal flexible projection. I

The drawing is a perspective view of the device, showing it applied to the leg of a horse, the position of the leg being indicated by broken lines.

The strap is seen at 1, having a buckle 2, beneath which is a pad 3, which is shown to be made of felt. The strap passes between two pieces of leather and 5, connected by stitching all around the margin, except in the places where the strap 1 passes through. To the innerpiece 4 is secured a pad 6, which rests against the inner side of the leg, while the pad 3 rests against the opposite or outer side of the leg. To the'outer piece 5 is secured the projection or tender 7, which projects directly inward from the leg. The

fender has an outer piece 8, bent in a U form, and whose ends 9 are turned outward and lie flat on the face of the part 5, to which they are firmly attached by rivets 10. Within the piece 8 is a straight piece 11, serving to stiffen the tender and secured in position by rivets 12, as shown,passing through the fender, or by stitching, or both. The tender has sufficient stiffness to retain its position, except when struck by the foot or leg of the horse, at which time it bends and allows the leg to pass without shock or injury, at once regaining its natural posit-ion.

There is nothing to cause any noise or to strike the leg with violence, or to lap around the leg, so that it maybe used upon the most timid or fractious horse without causing fear or excitement.

The fender may be formed wholly of rubber, or the part or piece 11 be formed of rubber while the part or piece 8 is of leather.

I claim as my invention- 1. The device to prevent interfering in horses, having a strap 1, and a fender consisting of a bent outer piece 8, secured to strap 1, and a stiffening-piece 11 within it, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the strap 1, the pieces 4 5, secured together, between Which the strap passes, the pads 3 and 6, and the flexible fender projecting horizontally from the padded base of part 5, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MICHAEL DEBATIN.

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